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1 root 1.458 a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
2     kinship term she'd ever heard.
3    
4     [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
5     %
6     > I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
7     > the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
8     > an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
9    
10     I don't agree.
11    
12     > The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
13     > accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
14     > is not as clear as it could be.
15    
16     As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
17     trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
18     to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
19     applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
20     is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
21    
22     [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
23     [darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
24     %
25     > that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
26    
27     That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
28     else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
29     other conventions exist for a very long time.
30    
31     [https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
32     %
33     static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
34    
35     [minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
36     %
37 root 1.457 However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
38     you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
39     and government agency portal.
40    
41     [wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
42     agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
43    
44     [https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
45     %
46     Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
47    
48     [hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
49     %
50     The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
51     as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
52     smashing into each other, sooner or later.
53    
54     [aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
55     %
56     Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
57     Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
58     Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
59     Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
60     Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
61     %
62 root 1.456 Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
63     to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
64     surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
65     where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
66     to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
67     penalty. This makes really a difference.
68    
69     [http://antirez.com/news/122]
70     %
71     "MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
72     Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
73    
74     [https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
75     %
76 root 1.455 Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
77    
78     [BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
79     %
80 root 1.454 [supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
81    
82     # We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
83     # they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
84    
85     # We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
86     # unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
87     # a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
88    
89     # We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
90     # tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
91    
92     [https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
93     %
94 root 1.453 [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
95    
96     Vim 15.2%
97     Emacs 3.8%
98    
99     [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
100    
101     Vim 26.1%
102     Emacs 5.2%
103     %
104 root 1.452 Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
105    
106     Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
107    
108     R! /dir/.* destroys root.
109    
110     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?"
111    
112     Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
113    
114     Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
115    
116     Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
117    
118     Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
119    
120     'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
121    
122     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."
123    
124     'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
125    
126     [https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
127     %
128     [raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
129    
130     >>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
131     >>> their own servers.
132     >>
133     >> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
134     >
135     > No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
136    
137     [https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
138     %
139 root 1.451 The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
140    
141     [from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
142     them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
143     %
144 root 1.450 Chronology of Significant Events
145     ================================
146    
147 root 1.449 November 2002
148    
149     Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
150     hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
151     treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
152    
153     ---
154    
155     Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
156     dehydration and fatigue.
157    
158     ---
159    
160     Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
161     interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
162    
163     ---
164    
165     Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
166    
167     November 19 2200 hrs
168     guard check - Rahman is alive.
169    
170     2300 hrs
171     guard check - Rahman is alive.
172    
173     November 20 0400 hrs
174     guard check - Rahman is alive.
175    
176     0800 hrs
177     guard check - Rahman is alive.
178    
179     1000 hrs
180     guard check - Rahman is dead.
181    
182     [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
183     %
184 root 1.448 In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
185     when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
186     the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
187     intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
188     through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
189     proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
190     music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
191     another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
192     be a better place.
193    
194     [E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
195     %
196 root 1.447 > Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
197     > always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
198     > computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
199     > like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
200     > really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
201     > in technology.
202    
203     -P
204     Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
205    
206     [http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
207     %
208     > Simon Cooke wrote:
209     > *shrugs* I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
210    
211     I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
212    
213     [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
214     %
215 root 1.446 Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
216     for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
217     number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
218     of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
219     55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
220    
221     [https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
222     %
223 root 1.445 Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
224     anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
225     the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
226     hashtag #sexualassault.
227    
228     [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
229     %
230 root 1.444 From: Linus Torvalds
231    
232     And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
233     trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
234    
235     [https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
236     %
237     > How is the old way a problem?
238    
239     That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
240     things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
241     it's smarter than you.
242    
243     [https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
244     %
245 root 1.443 Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
246     dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
247     better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
248     less lethal.
249    
250     [https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
251     %
252 root 1.442 From: Richard Stallman
253    
254     [...]
255    
256     > then that sounds like a layering violation.
257    
258     The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
259     If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
260     we won't let "layering" get in the way.
261     %
262 root 1.441 "Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
263     "Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
264     "Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
265     "also now legal names for the UK.
266    
267     [Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
268     %
269     From: Russ Allbery
270     To: tz@iana.org
271     Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
272    
273     > Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
274     > existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
275     > in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
276     > document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
277     > with the documentation on change impact including budget,
278     > authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
279     > changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
280    
281     A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
282     and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
283    
284     It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
285     any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
286     contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
287     Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
288     jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
289    
290     It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
291     project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
292     project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
293     form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
294     private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
295     adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
296     (or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
297     entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
298     certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
299    
300     Some companies don't *want* to spend that money, and try to do it on the
301     cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
302     software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
303     maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
304     carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
305     weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
306     software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
307     far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
308     whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
309     maintainer.
310     %
311 root 1.440 [About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
312    
313     They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
314     such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
315     an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
316     "BST", but no:
317     http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
318     %
319     To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
320     Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
321    
322     Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
323     > When can we expect the updated version
324    
325     About three weeks ago.
326     %
327 root 1.439 [...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
328     not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
329     %
330     [...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
331    
332     [http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
333     %
334 root 1.438 Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
335     was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
336     neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
337    
338     [http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
339     %
340     From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
341    
342     Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
343    
344     > From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
345     [http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
346    
347     | The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
348     | the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
349     | the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
350    
351     Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
352     full day per year.
353     %
354 root 1.437 Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
355     de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
356     [I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
357     %
358     File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
359     -- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
360     %
361     Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
362     storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
363     me - lately?".
364     -- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
365     Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
366    
367     [http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
368     %
369     I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
370     fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
371     arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
372     variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
373    
374     I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
375     because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
376     because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
377     your lives be a living hell.
378    
379     [Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
380     %
381 root 1.436 Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
382     [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
383     %
384     Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
385     for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
386     out with a problem I'm having?
387    
388     Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
389    
390     Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
391    
392     Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
393     want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
394     from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
395     doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
396    
397     Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
398    
399     Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
400    
401     Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
402    
403     Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
404     [http://c2.com/]
405     %
406     Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
407     controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
408     right-parenthesis.
409     [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
410     %
411     Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
412     yourself?
413     Software development is the career for you!
414    
415     [https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
416     %
417 root 1.435 [...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
418     -- Richard Dawkins
419     %
420     There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
421     choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
422     and security.
423    
424     [http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
425     %
426     [In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
427    
428     We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
429     used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
430     -— National Security Agency, June 1992
431     %
432     In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
433     exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
434     known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
435     this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
436     they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
437     undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
438    
439     [http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
440     %
441     tiny hsv2rgb
442     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;}
443    
444     vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
445     return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)*6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)*v;
446     }
447     %
448     Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
449     Only Java makes it possible!
450    
451     [http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
452     %
453     'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
454     generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
455     extremely poettering''
456     %
457     "There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
458     -- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
459     %
460     "I drank what?!"
461     -- Socrates
462     %
463     It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
464     implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
465     400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
466    
467     Jon Callas in
468     http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
469     %
470     "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
471     -- Conway's Law
472     %
473     The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
474     (this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
475     of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
476     because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
477     to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
478     have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
479     untangling this mess right now so).
480    
481     [http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
482     %
483     Option "NoPM" "boolean"
484     Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
485     enabled on platforms that support it.
486     [xorg.conf(5)]
487     %
488     > Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
489     > Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
490     > would work on code.
491    
492     Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
493     like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
494     and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
495     [87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
496     %
497 root 1.434 [and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
498     As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
499     hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
500     the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
501     option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
502     a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
503     that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
504     there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
505     the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
506     %
507     Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
508     acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
509     sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
510     work around *your* bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
511     very beginning.
512     [Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
513     %
514     systemd creates user session information in
515     /run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
516     only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
517     that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
518     allowed one session per user.
519     [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
520     %
521 root 1.433 > Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
522     > about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
523     > about anything else.
524     >
525     > Why is it like that?
526    
527     Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
528    
529     [http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
530     %
531     [from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
532    
533     >> However, there are a number of serious problems:
534     >>
535     >> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
536     >> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
537     >> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
538     >> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
539     >
540     > I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
541    
542     That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
543     The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
544     %
545     (partial) Beaufort Table
546     Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
547     Calm 0 0 0
548     Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
549     Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
550     Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
551     Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
552     Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
553     Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
554     Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
555     Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
556     Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
557     %
558     "I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
559     - random imdb forum quote excerpt
560     %
561     "Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
562     sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
563     %
564     The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
565     profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
566     suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
567     on the cards.
568     %
569     [random comment from amule sources]
570     // trust noone ;-)
571     // lol, useless comment but made me lmao
572     // wtf you guys are weird.
573     %
574 root 1.432 Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
575     - Kin Hubbard
576     %
577     [random .sig]
578     I'm a muslim.
579    
580     No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
581     %
582     [...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
583     of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
584     before.
585    
586     [Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
587     %
588     <imho>
589    
590     BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
591     Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
592     Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
593     Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
594    
595     ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
596     Java - public static void not fun.
597     C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
598     C - usually not fun.
599    
600     What about modern scripting languages?
601    
602     JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
603     Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
604     Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
605    
606     </imho>
607    
608     [http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
609     %
610     "Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
611     Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
612     %
613    
614     * GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
615     *
616     * This routine sets the specified display mode.
617    
618     n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
619     [plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
620     %
621     # The user is always right.
622     if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
623     [autoconf]
624     %
625     from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
626    
627     /*
628     * We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
629     * not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
630     * extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
631     * file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
632     * more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
633     * fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
634     * but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
635     * and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
636     * FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
637     * deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
638     * scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
639     * tables and this condition does not arise without those.
640     */
641     %
642     Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
643     was new to me:
644    
645     switch(c)
646     {
647     case 'x': base=16; type |= 4; if(0) {
648     case 'o': base= 8; type |= 4; } if(0) {
649     case 'u': base=10; type |= 4; } if(0) {
650     case 'd': base=-10; }
651     switch(type)
652     {
653     case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
654     case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
655     case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
656     case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
657     case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
658     case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
659     default:val=0; break;
660     }
661     cp = __numout(val,base);
662     if(0) {
663     case 's':
664     cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
665     }
666     %
667     Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
668     is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
669     timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
670     at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
671     extra second and see how far you get :-)
672     [Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
673     %
674     > > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
675     > > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
676     > > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
677     > > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
678     >
679     > Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
680     > set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
681    
682     It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
683     infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
684    
685     [from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
686     %
687     It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
688     should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
689     heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
690    
691     Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
692    
693     http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
694     %
695     (i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
696     whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
697     know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
698     beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
699     nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
700     settings)
701    
702     http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
703     %
704     How do I deal with memory leaks?
705    
706     By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
707    
708     [From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
709     %
710     This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
711     ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
712    
713     http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
714     %
715     The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
716     recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
717     hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
718     Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
719    
720     The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
721     public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
722     justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
723     children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
724     Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
725     rewarded for their creativity.
726    
727     Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
728     will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
729     that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
730     librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
731     would never have made it in the first place.
732    
733     http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
734     %
735     "I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
736     future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
737     %
738     Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
739     it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
740     Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
741     capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
742     to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
743    
744     http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
745     %
746     "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
747     Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
748     - Mohandas Gandhi
749     %
750     "And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
751     the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
752     handiwork of the Lord."
753     - Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
754     %
755     Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
756    
757     I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
758     Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
759     must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
760    
761     Scientific scrutiny works like this:
762     Scientist A publishes results.
763    
764     Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
765     and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
766     x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
767    
768     A: x, y, and z are such and such.
769     B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
770     sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
771     A: ...
772     B: You fraud!
773    
774     Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
775    
776     A publishes results.
777    
778     B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
779     Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
780     A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
781     article. Did you have something specific in mind?
782     B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
783     experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
784    
785     -- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
786     [http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
787     %
788     [regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
789     them because they need the money to operate]
790    
791     "The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
792     readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
793     readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
794     site or its bottom line."
795     %
796     "..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
797     the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
798     who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
799     enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
800     that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
801     adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
802     contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
803     being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
804     their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
805     are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
806     Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
807     – Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
808     %
809     Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
810    
811     Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
812    
813     Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
814     %
815     ["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
816    
817     >>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
818     >>>> and the beating of children?
819     >>>
820     >>> Subjugation of women...
821     >>
822     >> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
823     >> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
824     >> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
825     >> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
826     >> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
827     >> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
828     >> shake partner.
829     >
830     > Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
831     >
832     > He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
833     > on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
834     > humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
835     > choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
836     >
837    
838     As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
839     was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
840     traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
841     of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
842     really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
843     those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
844     and your wife.
845     %
846     Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
847     cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
848     still kill you. - arestheblue
849     %
850     Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
851     abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
852     specifications for GSS-API.
853    
854     It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
855     the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
856    
857     There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
858     Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
859    
860     [http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
861     %
862     [from the minix 3 users guide]
863    
864     ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
865     %
866     [Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
867    
868     During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
869     [...]
870     You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
871     complaintant to guess this is true.
872     %
873     "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
874     - Ken Thompson.
875     %
876     http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
877    
878     "Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
879    
880     Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
881     universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
882     source code excerpt:
883    
884     int sn()
885     {
886     char pwr;
887    
888     int input1 = 0;
889     double output1 = 0;
890    
891     system("clear");
892     cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
893     cin>>input1;
894     output1 = (sin(input1));
895     cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
896     cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
897     cin>>pwr;
898     if(pwr == 'a')
899     sq();
900     if(pwr == 'm')
901     system("pause");
902    
903     }
904     %
905     It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
906     full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
907    
908     [mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
909    
910     http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
911     %
912     From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
913     app for me" department:
914    
915     From: Evan LeCompte
916    
917     Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
918     Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
919     developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
920     %
921     "I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
922     a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
923     indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
924    
925     http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
926     %
927     "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
928     Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
929     – Steve Jobs[47]
930    
931     "We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
932     – Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
933     the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
934     %
935     The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
936     -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
937     %
938     Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
939     From: Patrick Horgan
940     Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
941     To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
942    
943     Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
944     writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
945     documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
946     by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
947     posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
948     the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
949    
950     [...]
951     %
952 root 1.431 "Logic has made me hated among men"
953     — Peter Abelard
954     %
955     A man said to the universe:
956     "Sir I exist!"
957     "However," replied the universe,
958     "The fact has not created in me
959 root 1.432 A sense of obligation."
960     - Steven Crane
961 root 1.431 %
962     He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
963    
964     He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
965    
966     He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
967    
968     He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
969    
970     – Sanskrit Saying
971     %
972     [anonymised discussion]
973     AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
974     Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
975     %
976     [http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
977    
978 root 1.432 Additions to the WGL Specification
979 root 1.431
980     First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
981     existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
982     appear.
983     %
984     "All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
985     sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
986     - Douglas Adams
987     %
988     I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
989     [http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
990     %
991     “A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
992     lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
993     %
994     "This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
995     in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
996     - footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
997     http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
998     %
999     Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1000     %
1001     "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1002     - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1003     President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1004     Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1005     Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1006     %
1007     It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1008     programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1009     or her career.
1010     [http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1011     %
1012     It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1013     as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1014     Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1015     %
1016     I LOVE YOU
1017     ["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1018     %
1019     General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1020     the air impeller.
1021    
1022     Alan Cox
1023     %
1024     "I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1025     with a minimum computer science background."
1026     %
1027     From: Eric Sosman
1028     Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1029     Subject: Re: about graphics
1030    
1031     prince wrote:
1032     > how to get command over graphics in c language?
1033    
1034     #include <stdio.h>
1035     int main(void) {
1036     puts("graphics\rcommand");
1037     return 0;
1038     }
1039     %
1040     I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1041     amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1042     wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1043     detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1044     %
1045     [Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1046    
1047     While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
1048     it still is a constant-time attack.
1049     %
1050     "Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1051     -- Karl Joseph Simrock
1052     %
1053     From: David Damerell
1054    
1055     Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1056     >Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1057     >caps to make it different.
1058    
1059     Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1060     painful but will take less typing.
1061     %
1062     Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1063     of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1064     compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1065    
1066     Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1067     %
1068     From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1069    
1070     > The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1071     > free than the BSD.
1072     >
1073     > Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1074    
1075     The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1076     by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1077     %
1078     [C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1079    
1080     State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
1081     struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1082     from incompatible pointer type
1083     State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
1084     struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1085     makes pointer from integer without a cast
1086     State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *,
1087     struct CV *, struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1088     %
1089     The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1090     people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1091     convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1092     rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1093     not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1094     by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1095    
1096     [Chandon Seldon]
1097     %
1098     [Wikipedia]
1099     Differences between vi and Emacs
1100    
1101     The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1102     %
1103     [lost the reference]
1104     Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1105     bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1106     %
1107     "Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1108     to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1109     elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1110     %
1111     [aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1112    
1113     Subject: Re: fcrack help
1114     From: puezalb024@aol.com
1115     Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1116     To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1117     X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1118    
1119     well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1120     ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1121     have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1122     working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1123     your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1124     yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1125     piss on your leg.
1126    
1127     ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1128     maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1129     spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1130    
1131     [then, a day later]
1132    
1133     Subject: Re: fcrack help
1134     From: puezalb024@aol.com
1135     Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1136     To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1137     X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1138    
1139     just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1140     aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1141     your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1142     previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1143     all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1144     quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1145     response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1146     fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1147     copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1148    
1149    
1150     -----Original Message-----
1151     From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1152     To: puezalb024@aol.com
1153     Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1154     Subject: Re: fcrack help
1155    
1156    
1157    
1158     On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1159 root 1.432 >
1160 root 1.431 > ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1161    
1162     I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1163    
1164     Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1165     I hope you don't object :)
1166     %
1167     >Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1168     >dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1169    
1170     You made my day
1171     %
1172     [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1173    
1174     Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1175     implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1176     the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1177    
1178     Linus
1179     %
1180     The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1181    
1182     From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1183    
1184     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 ...
1185    
1186     [lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1187    
1188     As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1189     emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1190     when sending emails to other people:
1191     http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1192    
1193     [which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1194    
1195     [mail quoted with permission btw.]
1196     %
1197     * k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1198     <k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1199     <brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1200     <k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1201     <brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1202     %
1203     I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1204     be used if run as administrator in windows.
1205    
1206     Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1207     %
1208     [on italy]
1209    
1210     #24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1211    
1212     @youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1213     majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1214     wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1215     only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1216    
1217     Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1218     corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1219     by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1220     funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1221     suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1222     on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1223    
1224     http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1225    
1226     Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1227     during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1228     1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1229     from fascism period.
1230    
1231     We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1232     cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1233     them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1234     author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1235     song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1236     created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1237     royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1238     they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1239     SIAE.
1240    
1241     We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1242     code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1243     you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1244     elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1245     explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1246     explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1247     your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1248     electronic ones
1249    
1250     #25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1251    
1252     Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1253     don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1254     (on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1255     CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1256     based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1257     western country.
1258    
1259     I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1260     very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1261     but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1262     elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1263     deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1264     Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1265     laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1266     innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1267     also the governments of "center-left".
1268    
1269     Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1270    
1271     If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1272     great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1273     without any restriction.
1274    
1275     Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1276     and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1277     world.
1278    
1279     Long life to the Bay, forever.
1280     Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1281     Thank you for reading.
1282     %
1283     > > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1284     >
1285     > don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1286    
1287     How very ironic.
1288     %
1289     With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1290     evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1291     takes religion."
1292    
1293     --Steve Weinberg
1294     %
1295     http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1296     %
1297     [Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1298     [Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1299     [if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1300    
1301     "I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1302     solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1303     solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1304     %
1305     [From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1306     The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1307     the right tool for me.
1308     %
1309     [deliantra]
1310     02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1311     %
1312     I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1313     %
1314     cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1315     /wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1316     Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1317     %
1318     From the CFA633 datasheet:
1319    
1320     * Do not eat the LCD panel.
1321     %
1322     >> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1323     >> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1324    
1325     It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1326     actually tells you it's *American*.
1327     %
1328     [better do not hire this programmer]
1329     From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1330     Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1331     Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1332    
1333     Hi
1334    
1335     I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1336     someone here can advise me.
1337    
1338     I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1339     that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1340     wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1341     dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1342     happens with the customer looking on!!).
1343    
1344     I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1345     like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1346     on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1347     Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1348     exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1349     corresponding thing in C?
1350    
1351     Thanks!
1352     %
1353     [from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1354    
1355     // See bug 53763.
1356     nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1357     nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1358     if (shell) {
1359     kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1360     %
1361     [the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1362     amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1363    
1364     0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1365     0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1366     0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1367     0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1368     0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1369     %
1370     (A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1371     zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1372     error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1373     must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1374     “display quality too high”).
1375    
1376     [http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1377     %
1378     Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1379    
1380 root 1.432 > I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1381 root 1.431 > mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1382    
1383     Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1384    
1385     x / y * z
1386    
1387     and
1388    
1389     x / y * z
1390    
1391     That'll *never* cause problems, right? :)
1392    
1393     (To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1394     design decisions.)
1395     %
1396     endergt:
1397     > snoofle:
1398     > > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1399     > > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1400     > > you understand what you are doing...
1401     >
1402 root 1.432 > Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1403 root 1.431
1404 root 1.432 debug
1405 root 1.431 %
1406     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%.
1407    
1408     Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1409     %
1410     Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1411     are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1412     for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1413    
1414     Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1415     pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1416     6 Decompilation
1417    
1418     1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1419     reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1420     of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1421     necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1422     computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1423     conditions are met: [...]"
1424     %
1425     http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1426     %
1427     Why Linux Sux ?
1428    
1429     Easy .
1430     Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1431     Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1432     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 .
1433     Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1434     GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1435     Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1436     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! ) .
1437     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 .
1438     Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1439    
1440     You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1441     no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1442     working ones . Screw linux users .
1443     %
1444     19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1445     19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1446     19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1447     %
1448     > The Dell 30"...
1449    
1450     It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1451     the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1452     %
1453 root 1.432 Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1454 root 1.431
1455     > > 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".
1456 root 1.432 >
1457 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!
1458 root 1.432 >
1459 root 1.431 > your welcome, pinhead!
1460 root 1.432
1461 root 1.431 Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a *beep* during ww2 I will respond.
1462    
1463     1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1464     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.
1465     3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1466 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.
1467 root 1.431 %
1468     [discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1469     Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1470     public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1471     %
1472     ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1473    
1474     Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1475     es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1476     dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1477    
1478     Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1479     anderen betriebssystemen.
1480    
1481     Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1482     auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1483    
1484     habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1485     Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1486     Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1487     Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1488     einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1489    
1490     Frage?
1491     Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1492     Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1493     Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1494    
1495     Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1496     %
1497     "In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1498     Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1499     of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1500     religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1501     has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1502     and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1503     %
1504     19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1505     19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1506     19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1507     19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1508     %
1509     What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1510     reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1511    
1512     God bless the re-inventers
1513    
1514     Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1515     what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1516    
1517 root 1.432 Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1518 root 1.431
1519     The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1520     one.
1521     %
1522     [rfc2665]
1523     The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1524     Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1525     useful in theory than in practice.
1526     %
1527     15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1528 root 1.432 15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1529 root 1.431 mit windows zu tun
1530     15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1531     15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1532     15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1533     15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1534     15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1535 root 1.432 15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1536 root 1.431 geaendert haben :->
1537     15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1538 root 1.432 15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1539 root 1.431 15:30
1540     15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1541     15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1542     %
1543     [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1544     The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1545     If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1546     %
1547     http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1548    
1549     Strictly for beginners
1550    
1551     Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1552     [...]
1553     %
1554     http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1555     %
1556     17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1557     17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1558     17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1559     17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1560     17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1561     17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1562     17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1563     17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1564     17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1565     17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1566     17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1567     17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1568     17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1569     17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1570     17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1571     17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1572     17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1573     17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1574     17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1575     17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1576     17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1577     17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1578     17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1579     17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1580     17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1581     %
1582     [A Gentoo User]
1583     First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1584     distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1585     doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1586     [...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1587     Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1588     environment and think LFS is to much work.
1589     [http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1590     %
1591     20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1592     20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1593     20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1594     20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1595     20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1596 root 1.432 20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1597     least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1598 root 1.431 can do
1599     20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1600     20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1601     20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1602     20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1603     20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1604     20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1605     %
1606     23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1607 root 1.432 23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1608     between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1609     processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1610 root 1.431 times before) and (idiots)
1611     23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1612 root 1.432 23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1613     general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1614 root 1.431 out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1615     %
1616     [http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1617     Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1618     %
1619     [http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1620    
1621     Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1622     to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1623     be slow in Windows 2000"
1624    
1625     In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1626     upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1627     that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1628     %
1629     [so much for type-safety]
1630     List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1631     lst.add(null);
1632     int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1633     %
1634     [just for reference]
1635     Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1636     kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1637     einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1638     dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1639     weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1640     es nicht.
1641    
1642     Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1643     lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1644     einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1645     letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1646     hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1647     wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1648    
1649     Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1650     war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1651     das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1652     Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1653     Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1654     Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1655     die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1656     mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1657     regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1658     Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1659     man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1660     Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1661     Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1662     verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1663    
1664     Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1665     Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1666     anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1667     in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1668     tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1669     verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1670     nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1671    
1672     Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1673     mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1674     soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1675     letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1676     krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1677     nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1678     Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1679     Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1680     mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1681     oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1682     leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1683     Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1684     alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1685     anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1686     für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1687     slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1688     alternativ' Idioten!
1689    
1690     Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1691     Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1692     bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1693     euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1694     war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1695     dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1696     Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1697     ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1698     lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1699     brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1700     Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1701     damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1702     niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1703     Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1704    
1705     Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1706     nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1707     Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1708    
1709     Ich will R A C H E !
1710    
1711     Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1712     gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1713     Dinge zu sagen:
1714    
1715     1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1716    
1717     Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1718     unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1719     welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1720     diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1721     anfange.
1722    
1723     2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1724     denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1725     haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1726     dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1727     dieser verdammten schule!
1728    
1729     Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1730     die Welt zu bieten hat!
1731    
1732     S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1733    
1734     Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1735     was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1736     Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1737     Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1738     allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1739     oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1740     eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1741     Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1742     Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1743     können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1744    
1745     S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1746     Einschulung.
1747    
1748     Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1749     wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1750     Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1751     und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1752     Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1753     wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1754     zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1755     wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1756     Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1757     herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1758    
1759     WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1760     SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1761    
1762     Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1763     Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1764     müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1765     sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1766     zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1767     sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1768     Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1769     Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1770    
1771     Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1772     sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1773     benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1774     Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1775     weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1776     Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1777     Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1778     NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1779    
1780     Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1781     ihr dafür bezahlen!
1782    
1783     Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1784     einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1785     Hand genommen.
1786    
1787     Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1788     gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1789    
1790     Ich bin weg...
1791     %
1792     01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1793     01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1794     %
1795 root 1.432 19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1796     kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1797     wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1798     die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1799 root 1.431 abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1800     19:19 <schmorp> *rofl*
1801     19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1802     19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1803     19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1804     19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1805     19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1806     %
1807     http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1808     %
1809     [http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1810     [The reason I left Perl 6]
1811    
1812     The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1813     worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1814     bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1815     considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1816     better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1817     %
1818     http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1819     %
1820     00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1821     00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1822     00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1823     %
1824     [very funny read]
1825     Hack-a-Bike
1826     USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1827     %
1828     Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1829     be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1830     Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1831     still can.
1832    
1833     http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1834     %
1835 root 1.432 23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1836     Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1837 root 1.431 Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1838     %
1839     [without words]
1840     http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1841     %
1842     [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1843     We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1844     a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1845     with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1846     actual kid in an actual bath.
1847     %
1848     Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1849     today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1850     makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1851     may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1852     absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1853     government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1854     what happened to you.
1855     %
1856 root 1.432 --
1857 root 1.431 Markus Schulz
1858    
1859     A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1860     Q: Why is top posting bad?
1861     %
1862     On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1863 root 1.432 > 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1864     > due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1865 root 1.431 > important difference.)
1866    
1867     Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1868     you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1869     implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1870     instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1871     just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1872    
1873     - Ted
1874     %
1875     [http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1876     "I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1877     Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1878     as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1879     Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1880     me, but we have the truth!"
1881     %
1882     [Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1883     (22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1884     (22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1885     (22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1886     %
1887     [nethack extinctionist faq]
1888     The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1889     tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1890     didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1891     monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1892     other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1893     in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1894     genociding every monster.
1895    
1896     I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1897     genocide them for good measure!
1898     %%
1899     [nethack instadeath faq]
1900    
1901     * eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1902    
1903     Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1904     %
1905     17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1906     17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1907 root 1.432 17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1908 root 1.431 Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1909     17:58 <Murch> lol
1910     %
1911     22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1912     %
1913     [Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1914     http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1915     %
1916     http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1917     %
1918     http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1919    
1920     There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1921     or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1922     adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1923     %
1924     http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1925    
1926     At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1927     announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1928     into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1929     the Eastern Time Zone.
1930     [...]
1931     Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1932     sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1933     allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1934     daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1935     %
1936     Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1937    
1938     _dl_profile_output
1939     = &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1940     %
1941     [CRYPTO-GRAM]
1942     By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1943     a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1944     watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1945     security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1946     can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1947     that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1948    
1949     http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1950     %
1951     [famous last words]
1952     11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by *plonk*?
1953     %
1954     What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1955    
1956     "We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1957    
1958     "They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1959    
1960     --
1961     Jay Hennigan
1962     %
1963     http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1964     %
1965     [latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1966     held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1967     of homeland security]
1968     http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1969     %
1970     "Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1971 root 1.432 seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1972 root 1.431 Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1973     version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1974     are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1975     range of spyware available to us?"
1976    
1977     [http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1978     %
1979     [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1980     00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1981     00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1982     %
1983 root 1.432 <Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1984 root 1.431 to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1985     %
1986     The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1987     http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1988     %
1989     Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1990     did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1991     I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1992     shooter.
1993    
1994     The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1995     done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1996     to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1997     they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1998     opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1999     puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2000    
2001     Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2002     in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2003     Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2004     apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2005     way.
2006    
2007     And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2008     bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2009     key graphic good. Make me happy."
2010    
2011     *shrugs* But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2012     %
2013     > So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2014     > D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2015     > out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2016     > above comment about Hitler).
2017    
2018     I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2019     mention Hitler loses.
2020     %
2021     [siggraph '99 course 12]
2022     Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2023     introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2024     your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2025     can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2026     program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2027     UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2028     including <windows.h>.
2029     [...]
2030     Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2031     but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2032     gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2033     wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2034     programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2035     coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2036     extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2037     environments.
2038     %
2039     http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2040     %
2041     [http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2042     "It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2043     %
2044     [CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2045     [...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2046     computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2047     do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2048     use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2049     advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2050     software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2051     their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2052     companies want to own your computer.
2053    
2054     Some examples:
2055    
2056     1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2057     distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2058     software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2059     secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2060     Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2061     Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2062     software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2063     an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2064     wanting to own its customers' machines.
2065 root 1.432
2066 root 1.431 2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2067     Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2068     security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2069     because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2070     software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2071    
2072     3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2073     addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2074     trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2075     from Microsoft? You can't.
2076    
2077     4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2078     the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2079     blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2080     useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2081     just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2082     isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2083     adversely affect its business partners.
2084    
2085     5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2086     computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2087     their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2088     about your behavior.
2089    
2090     6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2091     try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2092     security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2093     disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2094     presumed infractions.
2095    
2096     Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2097     examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2098     Computing will only make the problem worse.
2099    
2100     There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2101     people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2102     legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2103     invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2104     user's device against him.
2105     [...]
2106     You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2107     respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2108     their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2109     like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2110     owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2111     back-room marketing deals.
2112     %
2113     [John Carmack on Java]
2114     Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2115     platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2116     the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2117     (often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2118     performance.
2119     %
2120     [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2121    
2122     "Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2123     ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2124     und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2125     Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2126     %
2127     http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2128     %
2129     "Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2130     once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2131     a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2132     http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2133     %
2134     http://funroll-loops.org/
2135     %
2136     [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2137     When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2138     initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2139     goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2140     a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2141     to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2142     of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2143     it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2144     celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2145     Fahrenheit documentation.
2146     %
2147     [Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2148     the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2149     sure its much slower than CVS]
2150     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2151     svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2152     svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2153 root 1.432 [Exit 1]
2154 root 1.431 cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2155     svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2156 root 1.432 [Exit 1]
2157 root 1.431 cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2158     svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2159 root 1.432 [Exit 1]
2160 root 1.431 [Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2161     humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2162     %
2163 root 1.430 [http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2164    
2165     ... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2166     role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2167 root 1.431 %
2168 root 1.429 Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2169    
2170     > Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2171     > systems ?
2172    
2173     Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2174     probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2175    
2176     Jesper
2177     %
2178 root 1.428 [http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2179    
2180     "As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2181     YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2182    
2183 root 1.432 ~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2184 root 1.429 %
2185 root 1.427 http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2186     %
2187 root 1.426 [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2188    
2189     You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2190     like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2191     evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2192     measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2193     direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2194     into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2195     but that's the truth.
2196     %
2197 root 1.424 [de.alt.ufo]
2198    
2199     Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2200    
2201 root 1.432 > 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2202     > Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2203     > Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2204     > Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2205 root 1.424
2206     Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2207 root 1.425 einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2208     ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2209 root 1.424 gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2210    
2211     Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2212     was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2213 root 1.425 der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2214 root 1.424 gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2215     in Richtung Boden.
2216    
2217     [...]
2218    
2219 root 1.432 > Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2220 root 1.425 > Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2221 root 1.424
2222     Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2223 root 1.425 da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2224 root 1.424 Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2225    
2226     [...]
2227    
2228     > 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2229 root 1.432 > Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2230 root 1.425 > Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2231 root 1.424
2232     Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2233 root 1.425 mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2234     schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2235     die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2236 root 1.424 Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2237     sofort.
2238     %
2239 root 1.423 [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2240     By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2241     like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2242     software from Microsoft.)
2243 root 1.424 %
2244 root 1.422 http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2245 root 1.424 %
2246 root 1.421 > BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2247    
2248     Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2249     gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2250     afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2251     much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2252 root 1.424 %
2253 root 1.420 http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2254 root 1.419 http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2255 root 1.424 %
2256 root 1.418 Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2257     From: Rodrigo Severo
2258     Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2259     To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2260    
2261     On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2262    
2263     "David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2264     It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2265     obviously-broken regulations like this.
2266    
2267     I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2268     isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2269     brazilian ;)
2270     Rodrigo Severo
2271 root 1.424 %
2272 root 1.431 [Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2273 root 1.417
2274     http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2275 root 1.424 %
2276 root 1.416 [Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2277    
2278     I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2279    
2280     Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2281    
2282     Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2283     squid (in mostly default debian config).
2284    
2285     *sigh*
2286 root 1.424 %
2287 root 1.415 A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2288     By Bertrand Russell
2289    
2290     Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2291     decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2292     it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2293     might be set forth as follows:
2294    
2295     1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2296    
2297     2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2298     evidence is sure to come to light.
2299    
2300     3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2301    
2302     4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2303     or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2304     authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2305    
2306     5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2307     contrary authorities to be found.
2308    
2309     6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2310     do the opinions will suppress you.
2311    
2312     7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2313     was once eccentric.
2314    
2315     8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2316     for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2317     agreement than the latter.
2318    
2319     9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2320     more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2321    
2322     10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2323     paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2324    
2325     "A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2326     Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2327 root 1.424 %
2328 root 1.413 [http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2329 root 1.412 John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2330     the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2331     Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2332    
2333     "Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2334     that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2335     purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2336     European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2337     or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2338     United States."
2339 root 1.413 ---
2340     It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2341     outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2342     communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2343 root 1.414 ---
2344     "You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2345     discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2346     quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2347     street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2348     $1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2349    
2350     This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2351     play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2352 root 1.424 %
2353 root 1.411 [gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2354     Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2355 root 1.424 %
2356 root 1.410 [http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2357    
2358     Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2359     almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2360    
2361     Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2362     set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2363    
2364     Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2365    
2366     [...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2367     believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2368 root 1.424 %
2369 root 1.409 [Copyright History - US view]
2370     http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2371 root 1.424 %
2372 root 1.408 [I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2373     X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2374     tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2375     the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2376     to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2377     656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2378 root 1.424 %
2379 root 1.406 [Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2380    
2381     "Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2382     they care about it?"
2383     -- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2384 root 1.407
2385     [see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2386 root 1.424 %
2387 root 1.405 Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2388     -- Gregory Chaitin
2389 root 1.424 %
2390 root 1.432 13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2391 root 1.404 gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2392     13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2393     [...]
2394 root 1.432 13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2395     wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2396 root 1.404 wieder alles groß
2397 root 1.424 %
2398 root 1.403 [man perlsub]
2399     That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2400     having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2401     for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2402     those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2403     sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2404 root 1.424 %
2405 root 1.402 [glibc's bits/socket.h]
2406    
2407     if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2408 root 1.432 /* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2409     return 0;
2410 root 1.424 %
2411 root 1.400 http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2412 root 1.401
2413     > Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2414     > Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2415     > entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2416     > unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2417     > die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2418     > wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2419     > Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2420     > und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2421     > transparent.
2422    
2423     Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2424     der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2425     die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2426     Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2427 root 1.424 %
2428 root 1.399 Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2429     aber falsche Lösungen.
2430 root 1.424 %
2431 root 1.398 A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2432     and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2433     as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2434     is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2435 root 1.424 %
2436 root 1.397 On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2437     >
2438     > Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2439     > listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2440     > listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2441     > than useful to the user.
2442    
2443     I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2444    
2445     This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2446     Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2447     use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2448     since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2449    
2450     Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2451    
2452     Linus
2453 root 1.424 %
2454 root 1.396 Move 80, Node 81
2455     theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2456     setzer [?]: what about 9d
2457     theodore [22k?]: they control it
2458 root 1.424 %
2459 root 1.395 [Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2460     Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2461    
2462 root 1.398 Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2463 root 1.395 als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2464     --
2465     Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2466    
2467     Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2468 root 1.424 %
2469 root 1.393 [Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2470     I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2471    
2472     Person: What do you do?
2473     Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2474     Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2475    
2476     If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2477     agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2478     exactly getting off on the right foot.
2479 root 1.394
2480     [And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2481     http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2482 root 1.424 %
2483 root 1.392 "The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2484     extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2485     illegal downloaders."
2486    
2487     Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2488    
2489     "If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2490     profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2491     liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2492     to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2493     have to emerge."
2494    
2495     http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2496 root 1.424 %
2497 root 1.425 >Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2498 root 1.391 >einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2499    
2500     Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2501     immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2502    
2503     Bye, Andy
2504 root 1.424 %
2505 root 1.398 [ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2506 root 1.425 >einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2507 root 1.390 >Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2508 root 1.425 >Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2509 root 1.390
2510     Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2511     Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2512     System, die das wegstrippen :(
2513     Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2514     halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2515     wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2516     Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2517     - und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2518     Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2519     ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2520     alle Benutzer.
2521     Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2522     Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2523     irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2524     probieren (bis es knallt)?
2525     Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2526     der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2527     Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2528     Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2529     Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2530     insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2531     es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2532 root 1.424 %
2533 root 1.389 [subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2534    
2535     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2536     svn: Working copy '.' locked
2537     svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2538     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2539     svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2540     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2541     svn: Working copy '.' locked
2542     svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2543     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2544     cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2545     unfinished operations, etc.
2546     usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2547    
2548     Valid options:
2549     --diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2550     --config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2551    
2552     [Thanks for the details. Not.]
2553 root 1.424 %
2554 root 1.388 But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2555     ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2556     _much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2557     to provide.
2558     - perl6-language - michele dondi
2559 root 1.424 %
2560 root 1.386 [From: perl6-language]
2561    
2562     The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2563     alarm people more.
2564    
2565     -Nate
2566    
2567     [...]
2568    
2569     My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2570     Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2571     image of the language that is created here.
2572    
2573     Juerd
2574    
2575     [...]
2576    
2577     (Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2578     'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2579     perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2580    
2581 root 1.432 --
2582 root 1.386 H.Merijn Brand
2583 root 1.387 %
2584 root 1.385 Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2585 root 1.388 dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2586 root 1.385 Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2587     Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2588 root 1.387 %
2589 root 1.384 [Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2590     http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2591 root 1.387 %
2592 root 1.383 [Priceless :)]
2593     http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2594 root 1.387 %
2595 root 1.382 [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2596     >> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2597     [...]
2598     > Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2599     "Windows is broken."
2600 root 1.387 %
2601 root 1.381 [Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2602     Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2603     is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2604 root 1.387 %
2605 root 1.380 [Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2606     on being able to kill their children legally]
2607     http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2608 root 1.387 %
2609 root 1.379 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2610     The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2611     whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2612 root 1.387 %
2613 root 1.377 [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2614     "They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2615     that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2616     the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2617     personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2618     by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2619 root 1.378 --
2620     "What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2621     administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2622     war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2623     rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2624     reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2625     DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2626     wasteful government spending."
2627 root 1.387 %
2628 root 1.376 [Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2629     http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2630 root 1.387 %
2631 root 1.375 [Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2632     http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2633 root 1.387 %
2634 root 1.375 ["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2635     http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2636 root 1.387 %
2637 root 1.374 [Pencil Carving]
2638     http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2639 root 1.387 %
2640 root 1.374 [Copyright]
2641 root 1.373 http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2642 root 1.387 %
2643 root 1.372 [Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2644     http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2645 root 1.387 %
2646 root 1.432 23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2647     captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2648 root 1.371 nation from terrorist attacks.
2649 root 1.432 23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2650     necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2651 root 1.371 States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2652 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
2653     consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2654 root 1.387 %
2655 root 1.370 [Looks extreme]
2656     http://www.counterpunch.org/
2657 root 1.387 %
2658 root 1.369 [Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2659     "As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2660     foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2661     their weapons over our heads."
2662     http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2663 root 1.387 %
2664 root 1.368 [Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2665     http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2666 root 1.387 %
2667 root 1.367 [http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2668     Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2669     about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2670     space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2671     sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2672 root 1.387 %
2673 root 1.366 [http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2674 root 1.387 %
2675 root 1.366 The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2676     several requests for clarification.
2677    
2678     Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2679     not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2680     unter TCG definitions.
2681 root 1.387 %
2682 root 1.366 But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2683     force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2684     policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2685     do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2686 root 1.387 %
2687 root 1.366 It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2688     terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2689     get people on board.
2690     %
2691 root 1.365 To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2692     patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2693     accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2694     DRM.
2695    
2696     The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2697     injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2698 root 1.387 %
2699 root 1.364 [http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2700     switch ($decade) {
2701     case "the 50's":
2702     s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2703     break;
2704     case "the 60's":
2705     s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2706     break;
2707     case "the 70's":
2708     s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2709     break;
2710     case "the 80's":
2711     s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2712     break;
2713     case "the 90's":
2714     s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2715     break;
2716     case "the 00's":
2717     s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2718     break;
2719     }
2720 root 1.387 %
2721 root 1.363 http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2722    
2723     "How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2724     in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2725     assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2726     suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2727    
2728     "Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2729     at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2730     thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2731    
2732     ""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2733     why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2734     fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2735     that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2736     is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2737     sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2738     latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2739     question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2740     I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2741     plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2742 root 1.387 %
2743 root 1.362 "The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2744     that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2745     married or unmarried."
2746    
2747     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2748     http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2749     http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2750     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2751     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2752 root 1.387 %
2753 root 1.362 http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2754    
2755     [I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2756     Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2757     to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2758     watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2759     are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2760     conditioning.
2761    
2762     [And this is religion at its best:]
2763     Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2764     Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2765     this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2766 root 1.387 %
2767 root 1.361 [Racism]
2768     http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2769 root 1.387 %
2770 root 1.360 [A link, just a link]
2771     http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2772 root 1.387 %
2773 root 1.359 As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2774     the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2775    
2776     I apologise for this.
2777    
2778     If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2779     me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2780 root 1.387 %
2781 root 1.358 PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2782     induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2783     el says: ich kenn da wen
2784     el says: bei dem wars so
2785     [...]
2786     PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2787     el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2788     el says: gehirntumor auch
2789     el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2790 root 1.387 %
2791 root 1.357 wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2792 root 1.387 %
2793 root 1.356 [in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2794     no sense in the kernel]
2795     From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2796    
2797     [...]
2798    
2799     Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2800     models.
2801    
2802     In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2803     models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2804     they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2805 root 1.387 %
2806 root 1.354 [such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2807     There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2808     contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2809     --
2810     Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2811 root 1.355 --
2812     This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2813     you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2814     like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2815     jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2816 root 1.387 %
2817 root 1.353 An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2818     Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2819     1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2820     attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2821     strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2822     forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2823     <http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2824     [From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2825 root 1.387 %
2826 root 1.352 [If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2827     which you currently do not posess]
2828     http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2829 root 1.387 %
2830 root 1.388 Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2831     Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2832 root 1.351 [Nach: Time Bandits]
2833 root 1.387 %
2834 root 1.350 http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2835 root 1.387 %
2836 root 1.349 Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2837     a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2838 root 1.387 %
2839 root 1.432 Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2840     is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2841     paragraphs.
2842 root 1.387 %
2843 root 1.347 [the average IQ seems to be declining]
2844     http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2845     http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2846 root 1.387 %
2847 root 1.346 [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2848     > If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2849    
2850     Most catholics aren't American.
2851 root 1.387 %
2852 root 1.345 [Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2853    
2854     [http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2855     In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2856     Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2857     against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2858     fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2859    
2860     [http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2861     How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2862 root 1.387 %
2863 root 1.344 [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2864     Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2865     replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2866     because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2867     civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2868     criminals."
2869 root 1.387 %
2870 root 1.343 The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2871     [http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2872 root 1.387 %
2873 root 1.342 To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2874     than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2875 root 1.387 %
2876 root 1.341 [There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2877     http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2878 root 1.387 %
2879 root 1.340 The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2880     I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2881     card (They went up in flames).
2882 root 1.387 %
2883 root 1.432 05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2884     it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2885     higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2886     was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2887 root 1.338 white flag factories, disabling their military.
2888 root 1.432 05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2889 root 1.339 http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2890 root 1.387 %
2891 root 1.337 [The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2892     we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2893     by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2894    
2895     "The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2896    
2897     [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2898 root 1.387 %
2899 root 1.336 [http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2900     Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2901     the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2902     application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2903     violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2904     elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2905     but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2906     a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2907     of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2908     --
2909     Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2910     of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2911     people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2912     but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2913     the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2914     explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2915 root 1.387 %
2916 root 1.335 http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2917     The Obfuscated V contest
2918 root 1.387 %
2919 root 1.335 Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2920     soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2921     shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2922     cigarette lighters."
2923     http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2924 root 1.387 %
2925 root 1.334 <http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2926     Does it run under Windows ?
2927     - Who cares?
2928 root 1.387 %
2929 root 1.333 [Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2930 root 1.332 http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2931 root 1.387 %
2932 root 1.331 http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2933     Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2934     [...]
2935     Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2936     [...]
2937     Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2938     to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2939     is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2940 root 1.387 %
2941 root 1.329 [de.alt.ufo]
2942 root 1.432 > Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2943     > wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2944     > Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2945 root 1.388 > Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2946 root 1.330 > www.ufo-finder.de
2947 root 1.432 > Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2948 root 1.330 > mehr!
2949     > richy.
2950    
2951     Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2952 root 1.387 %
2953 root 1.330 [de.alt.ufo]
2954 root 1.329 > Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2955     > zugetragen hat?
2956    
2957     Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2958     warum behauptest Du es dann?
2959 root 1.388 [später]
2960     > Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2961 root 1.329
2962     Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2963     Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2964     naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2965     ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2966     aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2967    
2968     Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2969    
2970     Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2971     von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2972     ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2973 root 1.387 %
2974 root 1.388 [de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2975 root 1.328 Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2976     dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2977 root 1.387 %
2978 root 1.327 [res_nsend.c]
2979     /* give the hook another try */
2980     if (++loops < 42) /*doug adams*/
2981     break;
2982 root 1.387 %
2983 root 1.326 [sr_port/mdq.h]
2984 root 1.432 /* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2985 root 1.326 in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2986     #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))
2987 root 1.387 %
2988 root 1.325 Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2989 root 1.387 %
2990 root 1.324 * Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2991 root 1.432 > No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2992 root 1.324 > current settings of the list.
2993 root 1.432 >
2994     > There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2995     > the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2996 root 1.324 > the original sender, not the list.
2997 root 1.432 >
2998     > The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2999     > All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3000 root 1.324 > as TO).
3001 root 1.432 >
3002 root 1.324 > Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3003    
3004     Your *mail* client is *not* being blamed. It is *your*
3005     responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3006     *is* your responsibility to see that *your* posts are properly
3007     addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3008     being discourteous to.
3009    
3010     The *fault* is *all* yours. It is/was your choice.
3011     --
3012     Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3013 root 1.387 %
3014 root 1.323 [http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3015 root 1.388 "Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3016 root 1.387 %
3017 root 1.322 An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3018     software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3019     http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3020     http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3021     http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3022 root 1.387 %
3023 root 1.322 [http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3024     "They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3025     what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3026     you don't have any'."
3027 root 1.323
3028     [I also am very fond of this quote:]
3029     "My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3030     would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3031     [Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3032 root 1.387 %
3033 root 1.321 [http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3034     Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3035     3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3036     Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3037 root 1.387 %
3038 root 1.319 [http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3039     The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3040     execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3041     should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3042     Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3043     reason will not win many fans.
3044    
3045     [http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3046     documents in the algorithm section]
3047 root 1.387 %
3048 root 1.318 ["Blue in the Face"]
3049     Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3050     irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3051     und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3052     die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3053    
3054     Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3055 root 1.387 %
3056 root 1.317 And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3057     Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3058     that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3059 root 1.388 of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3060 root 1.317 Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3061     [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3062 root 1.387 %
3063 root 1.316 [Better know what they actually do...]
3064 root 1.388 [Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3065 root 1.316 http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3066 root 1.315 [RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3067     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3068 root 1.387 %
3069 root 1.314 [rfc4096]
3070     The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3071     amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3072     or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3073     the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3074     Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3075 root 1.387 %
3076 root 1.313 [just a really nice md5sum]
3077     99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3078 root 1.387 %
3079 root 1.312 [a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3080 root 1.432 * For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3081 root 1.312 * WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3082     * at their price list.
3083 root 1.387 %
3084 root 1.311 [http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3085     You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3086     time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3087     wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3088     had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3089     terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3090     level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3091 root 1.387 %
3092 root 1.309 21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3093     21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3094 root 1.387 %
3095 root 1.308 03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3096     03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3097     03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3098     03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3099 root 1.387 %
3100 root 1.319 [ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3101 root 1.307 http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3102 root 1.387 %
3103 root 1.306 [some SPAM]
3104     Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3105 root 1.387 %
3106 root 1.305 cowsay -f head-in oink | cowthink -n -f sodomized
3107 root 1.387 %
3108 root 1.304 [star wars episode guide]
3109     1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3110     2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3111     3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3112     4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3113     5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3114     6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3115     [http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3116 root 1.387 %
3117 root 1.300 [God knows his enemies]
3118     http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3119 root 1.302 [Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3120 root 1.303 http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3121 root 1.387 %
3122 root 1.299 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3123 root 1.301 [Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3124 root 1.387 %
3125 root 1.298 [http://www.bildblog.de/]
3126 root 1.388 Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3127     rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3128     hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3129 root 1.298 Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3130    
3131     Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3132    
3133     Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3134     Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3135 root 1.388 ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3136 root 1.298 Zigarette sucht.
3137    
3138     Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3139    
3140     [usw.]
3141    
3142     Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3143 root 1.388 geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3144 root 1.298 bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3145    
3146     Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3147     brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3148     Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3149     Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3150     der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3151 root 1.387 %
3152 root 1.388 [schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3153 root 1.297 http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3154     http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3155 root 1.387 %
3156 root 1.296 [http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3157     Which fanboy are you?
3158    
3159     1. Windows
3160    
3161     You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3162     would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3163     in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3164     in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3165     MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3166     to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3167     about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3168     "The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3169     dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3170    
3171     2. Apple
3172    
3173     You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3174     in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3175     next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3176     is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3177     would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3178     Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3179     they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3180     you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3181    
3182     3. Linspire
3183    
3184     You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3185     too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3186     pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3187     continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3188     installed Linspire on your machine.
3189    
3190     4. Umbongo
3191    
3192     You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3193     multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3194     operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3195     knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3196     houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3197     such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3198     very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3199     never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3200     themselves.
3201    
3202     5. Gentoy
3203    
3204     You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3205     yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3206     Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3207     from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3208     matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3209     to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3210     law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3211     read those complicated regulatory documents.
3212    
3213     6. Linux From Scratch
3214    
3215     Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3216     sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3217     matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3218     matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3219     because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3220     alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3221     and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3222 root 1.387 %
3223 root 1.295 [/usr/bin/cowsay]
3224     if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3225 root 1.387 %
3226 root 1.294 [A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3227    
3228     In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3229     in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3230    
3231     Coda 6.0.10 is out
3232 root 1.387 %
3233 root 1.293 <opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3234    
3235     > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3236 root 1.432 >
3237 root 1.388 > > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3238 root 1.293 > > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3239 root 1.388 > > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3240     > > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3241     > > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3242 root 1.432 >
3243     > What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3244 root 1.293 > smell attracting flies of course...
3245 root 1.432 >
3246 root 1.293 I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3247     request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3248 root 1.388 cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3249 root 1.387 %
3250 root 1.432 00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3251 root 1.387 %
3252 root 1.291 War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3253 root 1.387 %
3254 root 1.290 98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3255 root 1.387 %
3256 root 1.289 [Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3257     show "Correspondent"]
3258 root 1.288
3259     [...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3260     years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3261    
3262     [so know we know who creates reality now]
3263     %
3264 root 1.287 [from wordnet]
3265     cock sucking, blowjob
3266     => fellatio, fellation
3267     => oral sex, head
3268     => perversion, sexual perversion
3269     => sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3270     => bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3271     => organic process, biological process
3272     => process
3273     => phenomenon
3274 root 1.387 %
3275 root 1.286 10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3276     10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3277 root 1.387 %
3278 root 1.285 [SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3279     [slightly edited]
3280     Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3281     (in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3282     than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3283     that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3284    
3285     About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3286     sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3287     laws on terrorism and drugs.
3288    
3289     Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3290     told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3291 root 1.387 %
3292 root 1.284 "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3293     (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3294 root 1.387 %
3295 root 1.283 Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3296 root 1.282 advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3297 root 1.387 %
3298 root 1.281 A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3299 root 1.432 I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3300     realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3301 root 1.281 - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3302 root 1.387 %
3303 root 1.279 "parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3304     - oesi
3305 root 1.387 %
3306 root 1.278 [US, Metric]
3307     http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3308 root 1.387 %
3309 root 1.432 [http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3310 root 1.277 [I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3311 root 1.275 Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3312     Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments | #23269 ]
3313    
3314     It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3315     started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3316     important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3317     increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3318     to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3319     post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3320     to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3321     that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3322     spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3323     have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3324     your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3325     seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3326     truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3327     days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3328     their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3329     more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3330     few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3331     yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3332     for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3333     Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3334     servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3335     becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3336     ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3337     petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3338    
3339     This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3340     rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3341     fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3342     more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3343     repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3344    
3345     Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3346     tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3347     basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3348     appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3349     subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3350     question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3351     as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3352     and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3353     not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3354     perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3355     the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3356    
3357     In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3358     programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3359     some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3360     their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3361     myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3362     student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3363     of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3364     trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3365     of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3366     everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3367     unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3368     sovereign nation.
3369    
3370     While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3371     jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3372     hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3373     sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3374     test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3375     CSPAN, don't post here.
3376    
3377     -scott
3378 root 1.387 %
3379 root 1.274 But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3380     University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3381     capacity to feel pain.
3382    
3383     "It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3384     as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3385 root 1.387 %
3386 root 1.273 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3387     From: Sven Neumann
3388    
3389     Hi,
3390    
3391 root 1.388 Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3392 root 1.432 > I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3393 root 1.273
3394     Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3395     that
3396    
3397     ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3398    
3399     does not do what you would expect it to do.
3400 root 1.387 %
3401 root 1.271 http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3402 root 1.272 the original comment says:
3403     This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3404     Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3405 root 1.387 %
3406 root 1.271 {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3407     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3408     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3409     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3410     {Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3411     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3412 root 1.387 %
3413 root 1.275 [Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3414 root 1.270 interesting read]
3415     http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3416 root 1.387 %
3417 root 1.269 [Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3418     http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3419     http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3420 root 1.387 %
3421 root 1.268 In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3422     gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3423     various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3424     linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3425     the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3426     locks can open the gate.
3427    
3428     This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3429     simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3430     with different locks in parallel and in series.
3431 root 1.387 %
3432 root 1.267 http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3433     Safecracking for the computer scientist
3434 root 1.387 %
3435 root 1.265 Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3436    
3437     Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3438    
3439     Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3440     species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3441     and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3442     'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3443     explanation of this.
3444    
3445     Theory: An explanation of an observation
3446    
3447     Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3448     which explains why the hammer falls.
3449    
3450     Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3451     how a population's genome can change over time.
3452    
3453 root 1.266 Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3454     mathematical relationship between two values.
3455 root 1.265
3456     Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3457     brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3458    
3459     Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3460     acceleration.
3461    
3462     Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3463     of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3464     evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3465     evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3466     evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3467     useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3468     longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3469     high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3470     false.
3471    
3472     [by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3473 root 1.387 %
3474 root 1.388 [Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3475 root 1.264 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3476    
3477     Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3478     Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3479 root 1.388 sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3480     Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3481     und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3482 root 1.264 und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3483    
3484 root 1.388 Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3485     Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3486     außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3487     sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3488     sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3489     Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3490     risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3491 root 1.264
3492     Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3493 root 1.388 Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3494     (Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3495     umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3496     fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3497 root 1.264 sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3498 root 1.388 Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3499 root 1.264 sportlich.
3500    
3501 root 1.388 Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3502     Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3503     ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3504     wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3505     Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3506 root 1.264
3507 root 1.388 Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3508 root 1.264 Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3509 root 1.388 Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3510     während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3511 root 1.264 vorzuweisen hat.
3512    
3513     "Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3514     Forscher.
3515 root 1.387 %
3516 root 1.263 [Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3517     the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3518     EULA-style license]
3519 root 1.262 http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3520 root 1.387 %
3521 root 1.261 The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3522     a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3523     cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3524     pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3525     Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3526     in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3527     of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3528 root 1.387 %
3529 root 1.260 Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3530 root 1.387 %
3531 root 1.259 [Happy New Year]
3532     23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3533     Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3534     00:24 <schmorp> re
3535 root 1.387 %
3536 root 1.258 [http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3537 root 1.388 Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3538     liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3539 root 1.258 sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3540     wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3541 root 1.387 %
3542 root 1.257 [funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3543     bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3544     proponents of such theories.]
3545     http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3546     "On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3547     evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3548     took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3549     `solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3550     spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3551     procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3552     University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3553     it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3554     intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3555     (below, right)."
3556 root 1.387 %
3557 root 1.256 [wonderful info...]
3558     http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3559     [useful info...]
3560     http://www.snopes.com/
3561 root 1.387 %
3562 root 1.253 Computer analyst to programmer:
3563     "You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3564 root 1.387 %
3565 root 1.252 [Fun!]
3566     http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3567 root 1.387 %
3568 root 1.388 [Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3569 root 1.251 "Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3570     Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3571 root 1.387 %
3572 root 1.250 [in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3573     ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3574     #!/usr/bin/sh
3575     # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3576     # All Rights Reserved
3577    
3578     # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3579     # The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3580     # actual or intended publication of such source code.
3581    
3582     #ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3583 root 1.432 ddev5:~$
3584 root 1.387 %
3585 root 1.249 22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3586     22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3587     22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3588 root 1.387 %
3589 root 1.248 [Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3590     # win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3591     # Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3592     # so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3593     # and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3594     # the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3595     #
3596     # say it with me: "i hate win32."
3597 root 1.387 %
3598 root 1.388 Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3599 root 1.247 Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3600     worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3601     -- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3602 root 1.387 %
3603 root 1.246 http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3604 root 1.387 %
3605 root 1.245 [http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3606 root 1.388 Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3607     gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3608 root 1.387 %
3609 root 1.244 http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3610     [I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3611     are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3612 root 1.387 %
3613 root 1.243 http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3614 root 1.387 %
3615 root 1.243 [From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3616     Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3617     Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3618     that you have a problem.)
3619     <http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3620 root 1.387 %
3621 root 1.242 [top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3622     PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3623 root 1.247 25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3624 root 1.242 26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3625    
3626     [I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3627     and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3628 root 1.387 %
3629 root 1.241 That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3630     sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3631    
3632     Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3633     declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3634     etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3635     exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3636     programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3637     because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3638     code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3639     it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3640     less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3641     themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3642     namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3643     techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3644     that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3645     got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3646    
3647     Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3648     "C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3649     paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3650     create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3651     programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3652     hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3653     MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3654 root 1.387 %
3655 root 1.240 [On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3656 root 1.239
3657     Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you *only*
3658     have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3659     doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3660 root 1.387 %
3661 root 1.238 [http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3662     "The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3663     knows this, and it's true for software too.
3664 root 1.387 %
3665 root 1.237 > think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3666    
3667     ... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3668     ;)
3669 root 1.387 %
3670 root 1.235 [this is not a blogggggg]
3671     One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3672     having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3673     proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3674    
3675     NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3676    
3677 root 1.236 Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3678     framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3679 root 1.387 %
3680 root 1.234 [taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3681     using so many abbreviations...]
3682    
3683     Hi Volker -
3684    
3685     alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3686 root 1.388 Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3687     spät ...
3688 root 1.234
3689     Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3690    
3691     Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3692    
3693 root 1.388 schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3694     nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3695 root 1.234
3696 root 1.388 herzliche Grüsse
3697 root 1.234
3698     tom
3699 root 1.247
3700 root 1.234 PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3701 root 1.388 'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3702 root 1.234 ... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3703 root 1.388 Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3704 root 1.234 schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3705 root 1.387 %
3706 root 1.233 From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3707     Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3708     Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3709    
3710     On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3711 root 1.247 > How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3712     > oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3713 root 1.233 > someone else?
3714    
3715     Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3716     ===================================================================
3717     --- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3718     +++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3719     @@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3720     S: 79098 Freiburg
3721     S: Germany
3722    
3723     +N: Hans Reiser
3724     +E: reiser@namesys.com
3725     +W: http://www.namesys.com/
3726     +D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3727     +S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3728     +S: Oakland, CA 94611
3729     +S: USA
3730     +
3731     N: Joerg Reuter
3732     E: jreuter@yaina.de
3733     W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3734 root 1.387 %
3735 root 1.232 Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3736     [poeppel_magenta.gif]
3737 root 1.387 %
3738 root 1.231 [http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3739     Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3740 root 1.387 %
3741 root 1.230 [http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3742     Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3743 root 1.387 %
3744 root 1.229 [rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3745     [http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3746     [...]
3747     Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3748     within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3749     $50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3750     ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3751     [...]
3752     Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3753     $100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3754     (and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3755     to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3756 root 1.387 %
3757 root 1.228 [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3758     [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3759     Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3760     Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3761     Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3762     Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3763 root 1.387 %
3764 root 1.226 [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3765 root 1.227 [...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3766     button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3767     fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3768     be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3769     clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3770     to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3771     anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3772     anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3773 root 1.387 %
3774 root 1.223 [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3775     I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3776 root 1.224 picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3777 root 1.223 A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3778 root 1.387 %
3779 root 1.222 [bts show 215647]
3780     [yes, the whole thing]
3781 root 1.387 %
3782 root 1.221 [bts show 254316]
3783 root 1.247 > > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3784     > > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3785     > > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3786 root 1.221 >
3787     > ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3788    
3789     We'll use a larger wall.
3790 root 1.387 %
3791 root 1.220 [Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3792     This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3793     horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3794     by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3795    
3796     The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3797     non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3798    
3799     There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3800     but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3801    
3802     It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3803     cost.
3804     ["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3805 root 1.387 %
3806 root 1.219 When searching on google for:
3807    
3808 root 1.225 kakerlake schabe made
3809 root 1.219
3810     Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3811    
3812 root 1.225 kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3813 root 1.387 %
3814 root 1.218 What we learned this week;
3815     "Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3816 root 1.387 %
3817 root 1.216 "Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3818     Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3819 root 1.387 %
3820 root 1.215 [translated]
3821     23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3822     23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3823     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3824     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3825     23:07 <schmorp> ...
3826     23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3827     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3828     23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3829 root 1.387 %
3830 root 1.214 History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3831     -- Lord Balfour
3832 root 1.387 %
3833 root 1.213 The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3834 root 1.387 %
3835 root 1.212 <Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3836     I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3837     him to forgive me.
3838 root 1.387 %
3839 root 1.211 [slashdot]
3840     > there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3841    
3842     I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3843 root 1.387 %
3844 root 1.210 [IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3845     "What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3846     get bored during the sex scenes.
3847 root 1.387 %
3848 root 1.209 I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3849     strangler is to the woman home alone.
3850     - Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3851 root 1.387 %
3852 root 1.208 [Bruce Schneier]
3853     SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3854     widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3855     pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3856     to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3857     secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3858 root 1.387 %
3859 root 1.207 [From Paul Eggert]
3860     [...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3861     violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3862     HP-UX customer. [...]
3863 root 1.387 %
3864 root 1.206 >>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3865     >>
3866     >>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3867     >>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3868     >>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3869     >>spelled it in UC.
3870 root 1.247 >
3871     >
3872 root 1.206 > BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3873    
3874     C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3875 root 1.387 %
3876 root 1.205 [comp.lang.c]
3877     > According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3878    
3879     I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3880     usage.
3881    
3882     Richard
3883 root 1.387 %
3884 root 1.204 I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3885     tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3886     at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3887     creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3888     play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3889     repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3890 root 1.387 %
3891 root 1.203 21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3892     21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3893 root 1.387 %
3894 root 1.202 MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3895 root 1.387 %
3896 root 1.201 A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3897     competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3898     make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3899     don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3900     will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3901     anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3902     no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3903     nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3904     existence means and implies.
3905    
3906     [Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3907 root 1.387 %
3908 root 1.201 > > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3909     >
3910     > I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3911     > said you were wrong I'll get more...
3912     >
3913     > You're WRONG!
3914    
3915 root 1.388 void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3916     and §7.20.3.1).
3917 root 1.387 %
3918 root 1.200 From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3919     In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3920     knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3921 root 1.387 %
3922 root 1.199 [another variation, more useful]
3923     A. It should be obvious.
3924     Q. How is it hard?
3925     A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3926     Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3927 root 1.387 %
3928 root 1.198 [windows is a good place to learn programming]
3929     Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3930    
3931     Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3932     The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3933    
3934     - works ok on linux
3935     - ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3936    
3937     Any clues why?
3938     I am new to the non windows world.
3939    
3940     Thanks
3941 root 1.387 %
3942 root 1.197 [comp.lang.c]
3943     > I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3944     > serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3945     > this ?
3946    
3947     This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3948     we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3949 root 1.387 %
3950 root 1.196 [comp.std.c]
3951     In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3952     Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3953    
3954     > In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3955 root 1.247 >
3956     > >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3957     >
3958 root 1.196 > Yup, mine!
3959 root 1.387 %
3960 root 1.195 [links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3961     Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3962    
3963     Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3964 root 1.387 %
3965 root 1.194 [an old question, revisited]
3966     http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3967 root 1.387 %
3968 root 1.194 [comp.lang.c]
3969 root 1.247 > can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3970 root 1.194
3971     This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3972     obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3973 root 1.387 %
3974 root 1.194 [comp.lang.c]
3975     I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3976 root 1.387 %
3977 root 1.193 according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3978 root 1.387 %
3979 root 1.192 [Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3980     Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3981 root 1.247 deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3982 root 1.387 %
3983 root 1.388 [Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3984     aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3985     Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3986 root 1.190 DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3987    
3988 root 1.388 "Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3989 root 1.190
3990 root 1.388 Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3991 root 1.190 dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3992     wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3993     Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3994 root 1.388 diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3995     abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3996     schützen können.
3997 root 1.387 %
3998 root 1.189 [Reiner Gamma]
3999     http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4000 root 1.387 %
4001 root 1.188 >> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4002     [...]
4003 root 1.187 >Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4004 root 1.188 [...]
4005 root 1.187 Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4006     crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4007     never get your message.
4008 root 1.387 %
4009 root 1.186 [http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4010     As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4011     filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4012 root 1.387 %
4013 root 1.185 [http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4014     (look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4015     a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4016 root 1.387 %
4017 root 1.184 bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4018     01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4019     01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4020     01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4021     01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4022     01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4023     01:15 <schmorp> *g*
4024     01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4025 root 1.387 %
4026 root 1.183 http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4027     [...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4028     since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4029     think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4030     when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4031     reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4032     work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4033     dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4034 root 1.387 %
4035 root 1.182 [http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4036     [...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4037     disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4038 root 1.387 %
4039 root 1.181 [Eugene Spafford]
4040     During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4041     email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4042     Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4043     systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4044     systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4045     of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4046 root 1.387 %
4047 root 1.180 [http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4048     If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4049 root 1.387 %
4050 root 1.180 [from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4051     GNOME TERMINAL
4052     [...]
4053     The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4054     author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4055     fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4056     [.. later]
4057     There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4058     bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4059     interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4060 root 1.387 %
4061 root 1.179 [I *love* X programs]
4062     [xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4063     /*
4064 root 1.247 * blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4065 root 1.179 */
4066     void blip()
4067 root 1.247 {
4068 root 1.179 fflush(stdout);
4069     fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4070     fflush(stderr);
4071 root 1.247 }
4072 root 1.387 %
4073 root 1.178 [pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4074     + int alternative_order = 999;
4075    
4076     Why not 666? :-).
4077 root 1.387 %
4078 root 1.178 [yosh on gimp-developer]
4079     It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4080     sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4081     users are clueless.
4082 root 1.387 %
4083 root 1.177 [modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4084     http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4085 root 1.387 %
4086 root 1.176 [beware german translations]
4087     dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4088 root 1.387 %
4089 root 1.175 [http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4090     NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4091 root 1.387 %
4092 root 1.174 The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4093     is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4094     and", and finally, ampersand.
4095 root 1.387 %
4096 root 1.173 [xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4097     [...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4098     which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4099     themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4100     when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4101 root 1.387 %
4102 root 1.171 [linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4103     WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4104     use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4105     destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4106     or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4107 root 1.387 %
4108 root 1.170 [http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4109     Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4110     the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4111     sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4112     and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4113     from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4114     [mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4115 root 1.387 %
4116 root 1.247 17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4117 root 1.388 die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4118     17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4119 root 1.387 %
4120 root 1.168 [Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4121     Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4122     standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4123 root 1.387 %
4124 root 1.172 [cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4125 root 1.168 confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4126 root 1.387 %
4127 root 1.167 [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4128 root 1.247 And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4129     is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4130     ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4131 root 1.167 %
4132 root 1.166 http://www.bash.org/?178890
4133 root 1.387 %
4134 root 1.165 [http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4135     <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
4136 root 1.387 %
4137 root 1.247 00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4138     nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4139 root 1.164 einfach :)
4140     00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4141 root 1.387 %
4142 root 1.163 [spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4143     /*
4144     * Function compares two strings.
4145 root 1.247 * Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4146 root 1.163 * int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4147     */
4148     static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4149     {
4150     int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4151     [...]
4152 root 1.387 %
4153 root 1.163 http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4154 root 1.387 %
4155 root 1.388 rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4156 root 1.387 %
4157 root 1.162 [rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4158     /* grab colors before netscape does */
4159     Get_Colours ();
4160 root 1.387 %
4161 root 1.388 [oesi über apache-2.0]
4162 root 1.160 03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4163     03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4164     03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4165     03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4166     03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4167     03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4168     03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4169     03:12 <schmorp> *rofl*
4170 root 1.161 [...]
4171     03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4172     03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4173     03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4174     03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4175     03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4176 root 1.387 %
4177 root 1.159 [http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4178     [...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4179 root 1.387 %
4180 root 1.158 [rxvt/src/screen.C]
4181     #ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4182 root 1.247 assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4183 root 1.158 #else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4184     MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4185     #endif
4186 root 1.387 %
4187 root 1.157 [http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4188     [...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4189     UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4190 root 1.387 %
4191 root 1.156 > > Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4192     > > Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4193     >
4194     > Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4195    
4196     Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4197     --
4198     OpenVMS @ 25 | Martin Vorlaender | VMS & WNT programmer
4199 root 1.387 %
4200 root 1.388 Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4201     IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4202     Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4203     mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4204     auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4205     Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4206     Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4207 root 1.387 %
4208 root 1.154 http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4209     http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4210 root 1.387 %
4211 root 1.153 Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4212 root 1.387 %
4213 root 1.153 "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4214     victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4215     bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4216     -- Robert Fisk
4217 root 1.387 %
4218 root 1.151 [the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4219     http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4220 root 1.152 [see also the small satellites homepage]
4221     http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4222 root 1.387 %
4223 root 1.150 [http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4224     "Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4225     high-violence culture"
4226     [...]
4227     "[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4228     resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4229     suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4230     that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4231     This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4232     that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4233     a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4234     policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4235    
4236     Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4237     they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4238 root 1.387 %
4239 root 1.150 From: <[...]@aol.com>
4240     Subject: Re: [...]
4241    
4242     Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4243    
4244     > Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4245     > sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4246     > since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4247     > saved it :)
4248    
4249     Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4250     addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4251     [...]
4252 root 1.387 %
4253 root 1.150 From: Alan Cox
4254     > The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4255     > Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4256     > deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4257     > code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4258    
4259     Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4260     prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4261     what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4262     [...]
4263 root 1.387 %
4264 root 1.150 http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4265 root 1.387 %
4266 root 1.150 http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4267 root 1.387 %
4268 root 1.150 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4269 root 1.387 %
4270 root 1.149 [FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4271     even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4272     claim to have decades of java experience]
4273     On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4274     > I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4275     > willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4276     > programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4277 root 1.387 %
4278 root 1.149 http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4279 root 1.387 %
4280 root 1.149 http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4281 root 1.387 %
4282 root 1.149 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4283 root 1.387 %
4284 root 1.147 [in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4285     [mail not to be delivered]
4286     > > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4287 root 1.247 >
4288 root 1.147 > Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4289    
4290     My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4291     bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4292 root 1.387 %
4293 root 1.147 On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4294    
4295     > David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4296     >
4297     > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4298     > >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4299     > >
4300     > > I don't *think* anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4301     > > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4302     > > language which does support this?
4303     >
4304    
4305     Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4306    
4307     In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4308     other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4309     heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4310     a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4311     since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4312     than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4313 root 1.387 %
4314 root 1.147 echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4315     echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4316     --Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4317 root 1.387 %
4318 root 1.146 AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4319     spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4320     Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4321    
4322     Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4323     extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4324     a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4325     Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4326     rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4327    
4328     Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4329     explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4330     on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4331     and thwart them that way.
4332 root 1.387 %
4333 root 1.146 [Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4334     There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4335     that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4336     unfortunate decision.
4337 root 1.387 %
4338 root 1.247 02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4339 root 1.146 fest ;)
4340 root 1.387 %
4341 root 1.146 [http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4342    
4343     Last updated: - Invalid Date
4344 root 1.387 %
4345 root 1.146 http://www.bash.org/?99060
4346 root 1.387 %
4347 root 1.145 [IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4348     http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4349 root 1.387 %
4350 root 1.144 Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4351    
4352     A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4353     similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4354     local object as a "he":
4355    
4356     "He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4357     has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4358     He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4359     nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4360     metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4361     kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4362     the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4363     EX-PARROT!"
4364    
4365     - Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4366 root 1.387 %
4367 root 1.144 [ach du schande]
4368     "pflichtpfandfrei"
4369 root 1.387 %
4370 root 1.142 [a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4371     The police will shoot you.
4372    
4373     OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4374     arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4375    
4376 root 1.247 Just another average day in central London.
4377 root 1.387 %
4378 root 1.141 [this signature gave me a laugh...]
4379     [...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4380     reply.
4381    
4382     pls. cc my email address
4383    
4384     tia
4385     pd
4386    
4387    
4388 root 1.247 --
4389 root 1.141 ^X^C
4390     q
4391     quit
4392     :q
4393     ^C
4394     end
4395     x
4396     exit
4397     ZZ
4398     ^D
4399     ?
4400     help
4401     shit
4402     .
4403 root 1.387 %
4404 root 1.140 * muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4405 root 1.387 %
4406 root 1.140 [From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4407     Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4408     with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4409     because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4410 root 1.387 %
4411 root 1.140 [I love it]
4412     http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4413     http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4414 root 1.387 %
4415 root 1.139 "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4416     - Douglas Adams
4417 root 1.387 %
4418 root 1.138 Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4419     PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4420     to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4421     an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4422    
4423 root 1.247 The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4424     wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4425     software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4426     this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4427     their software properly.
4428 root 1.138
4429     He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4430     patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4431     because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4432     told the publication.
4433    
4434 root 1.247 And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4435     number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4436     "they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4437     malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4438     who want visibility and glory.
4439 root 1.387 %
4440 root 1.137 [In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4441    
4442     o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4443    
4444     x Try not using it.
4445 root 1.387 %
4446 root 1.136 [http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4447     The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4448     School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4449     to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4450     Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4451     had given.
4452    
4453     Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4454     showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4455     person as well."
4456 root 1.387 %
4457 root 1.136 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4458 root 1.388 "Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4459     habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4460 root 1.387 %
4461 root 1.388 ["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4462 root 1.135 [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4463 root 1.134
4464     Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4465 root 1.388 des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4466 root 1.135 [...]
4467 root 1.134 Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4468 root 1.388 ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4469 root 1.135 [...]
4470     Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4471     oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4472 root 1.387 %
4473 root 1.134 http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4474 root 1.387 %
4475 root 1.132 [A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4476     on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4477     mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4478     -- Ulrich Drepper
4479 root 1.387 %
4480 root 1.131 GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4481     -- Ulrich Drepper
4482 root 1.387 %
4483 root 1.131 Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4484     written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4485 root 1.133 correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4486 root 1.387 %
4487 root 1.130 Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4488     and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4489     -- Ulrich Drepper
4490 root 1.387 %
4491 root 1.130 Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4492     -- Ulrich Drepper
4493 root 1.387 %
4494 root 1.129 [http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4495 root 1.388 Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4496     zuverlässiger
4497 root 1.387 %
4498 root 1.129 [comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4499     /*
4500     * 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4501     * days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4502     * being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4503     */
4504 root 1.387 %
4505 root 1.128 [Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4506     Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4507     you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4508     dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4509     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4510 root 1.387 %
4511 root 1.128 [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4512     Pirating Movies
4513    
4514     [...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4515     them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4516     illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4517 root 1.387 %
4518 root 1.128 [Look at the time scale...]
4519     http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4520 root 1.387 %
4521 root 1.127 [Just funny]
4522     http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4523 root 1.387 %
4524 root 1.127 [http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4525     The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4526     sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4527     hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4528     company's engineers would end up in jail?
4529 root 1.387 %
4530 root 1.126 [http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4531     Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4532     and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4533     etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4534     sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4535    
4536     Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4537     left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4538    
4539     Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4540     9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4541     million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4542     $70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4543     the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4544     them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4545     the first place!
4546 root 1.387 %
4547 root 1.247 Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4548     you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4549     a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4550 root 1.125 -- Philip Greenspun
4551 root 1.387 %
4552 root 1.124 "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4553     don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4554 root 1.387 %
4555 root 1.124 "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4556     to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4557 root 1.387 %
4558 root 1.123 "Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4559     platform."
4560     [Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4561 root 1.387 %
4562 root 1.123 Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4563     waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4564     frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4565     and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4566     raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4567 root 1.320 [http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4568 root 1.387 %
4569 root 1.123 [The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4570     http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4571 root 1.387 %
4572 root 1.123 [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4573     So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4574     if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4575     database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4576     crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4577     Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4578     made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4579     Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4580     daily.
4581 root 1.387 %
4582 root 1.123 "...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4583 root 1.388 [Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4584     Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4585 root 1.387 %
4586 root 1.123 [http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4587     Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4588     to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4589     Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4590     convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4591     revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4592     consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4593 root 1.387 %
4594 root 1.247 "It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4595 root 1.123 -- Bruce Schneier
4596 root 1.387 %
4597 root 1.123 [it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4598     [...so it must be good]
4599     http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4600 root 1.387 %
4601 root 1.123 [mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4602     [real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4603     raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4604 root 1.387 %
4605 root 1.120 [D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4606     I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4607     No idea why I announce it here...
4608 root 1.121 http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4609 root 1.387 %
4610 root 1.119 [Oh My God!]
4611     Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4612 root 1.387 %
4613 root 1.119 [How many squares are on a go-board?]
4614 root 1.118 http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4615 root 1.387 %
4616 root 1.117 [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4617     When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4618     father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4619     life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4620     been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4621    
4622     'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4623     Sacha.
4624 root 1.387 %
4625 root 1.116 [From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4626     A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4627     desk one morning:
4628    
4629     Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4630    
4631     Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4632    
4633     Employee: 123456
4634    
4635     [Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4636     photograph of the employee.]
4637    
4638     Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4639     identification which has your picture on it?
4640    
4641     Employee: Why would you need that?
4642    
4643     Security Guard: To match against our records.
4644    
4645     Employee: A picture of my face?
4646    
4647     Security Guard: Yes
4648    
4649     Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4650    
4651     Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4652     compare against this one.
4653 root 1.387 %
4654 root 1.116 [Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4655     http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4656     [frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4657 root 1.387 %
4658 root 1.116 MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4659     Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4660     my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4661    
4662     <http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4663     <http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4664 root 1.387 %
4665 root 1.123 Eppur si muove!
4666 root 1.387 %
4667 root 1.116 [bwahahaha]
4668     "RV K-17"
4669 root 1.387 %
4670 root 1.116 "We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4671     electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4672 root 1.387 %
4673 root 1.116 [where NOT to learn german :)]
4674     [http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4675     <= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4676     => Son las once menos cuarto.
4677 root 1.387 %
4678 root 1.115 ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4679     ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4680 root 1.387 %
4681 root 1.115 [http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4682 root 1.388 Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4683     ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4684 root 1.115 mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4685 root 1.388 sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4686     erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4687 root 1.387 %
4688 root 1.122 http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4689 root 1.387 %
4690 root 1.115 [D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4691     Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4692 root 1.387 %
4693 root 1.115 [This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4694     [patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4695     <00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4696     >00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4697 root 1.387 %
4698 root 1.115 [bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4699     This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4700     Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4701     an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4702     grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4703     RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4704     to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4705     She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4706     it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4707     Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4708     of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4709     entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4710     the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4711     tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4712     Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4713     code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4714     bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4715     diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4716     should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4717 root 1.387 %
4718 root 1.114 [what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4719     "Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4720 root 1.387 %
4721 root 1.114 [the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4722     rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4723 root 1.387 %
4724 root 1.113 [Wasteland]
4725     Lester Moore,
4726     Shot in the head with a .44.
4727     No Les, no more.
4728 root 1.387 %
4729 root 1.113 [SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4730     Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4731    
4732     STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4733     [for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4734 root 1.387 %
4735 root 1.113 [Fallout]
4736     Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4737     Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4738 root 1.387 %
4739 root 1.111 [http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4740     As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4741     different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4742     of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4743     are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4744 root 1.112 [...]
4745     It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4746     [...]
4747     The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4748     and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4749     the result with SHA.
4750 root 1.387 %
4751 root 1.388 > Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4752 root 1.111 > rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4753     > ist!
4754 root 1.388 Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4755     plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4756 root 1.111 Du denn? Analphabeten?
4757 root 1.387 %
4758 root 1.388 "Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4759     [Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4760 root 1.387 %
4761 root 1.109 17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4762 root 1.387 %
4763 root 1.108 [Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4764     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4765     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4766     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4767     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4768     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4769 root 1.387 %
4770 root 1.108 [I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4771     tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4772 root 1.387 %
4773 root 1.107 [links are free ;)]
4774     http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4775 root 1.387 %
4776 root 1.106 [http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4777     Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4778 root 1.387 %
4779 root 1.105 [openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4780    
4781     /* One positive side-effect of US's export
4782     * control history, is that we should at least
4783     * be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4784     * "initialisation"? */
4785     EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4786 root 1.387 %
4787 root 1.105 [man pem]
4788     Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4789 root 1.387 %
4790 root 1.105 [pth_native.c]
4791    
4792     /* ``If you can't do it in
4793 root 1.247 ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4794 root 1.105 -- Unknown */
4795 root 1.387 %
4796 root 1.104 [subculture]
4797 root 1.388 ... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4798     mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4799 root 1.104 skillig vorkommen ...
4800    
4801     [http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4802 root 1.424 %
4803 root 1.104 [back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4804     this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4805 root 1.247 00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4806 root 1.104 gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4807 root 1.247 00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4808 root 1.104 ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4809     00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4810 root 1.387 %
4811 root 1.103 [http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4812 root 1.388 ... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4813     suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4814     Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4815 root 1.103 im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4816 root 1.388 Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4817     an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4818     vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4819 root 1.387 %
4820 root 1.102 sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4821     aber wenig freude.
4822 root 1.387 %
4823 root 1.102 [from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4824     - you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4825     and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4826     That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4827     must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4828     based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4829     to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4830     Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4831     and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4832     in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4833 root 1.387 %
4834 root 1.388 17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4835     doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4836 root 1.101 17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4837     fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet *g*
4838 root 1.387 %
4839 root 1.100 For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4840     don't work well in practise.
4841     http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4842 root 1.387 %
4843 root 1.99 [Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4844     There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4845     "ready, fire, aim."
4846 root 1.387 %
4847 root 1.98 [...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4848     license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4849     free countries like Germany [1].
4850     [...]
4851     Regards
4852     Henning
4853    
4854     [1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4855     part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4856     might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4857 root 1.387 %
4858 root 1.98 [...]
4859     The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4860     establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4861     to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4862     same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4863     itself give you none of these rights at all.
4864     [...]
4865     Wolfgang Walter
4866 root 1.387 %
4867 root 1.98 burro: i once played against a computer
4868     burro: it seemed very clever
4869     burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4870     burro: it forgot to defend later..
4871     burro: oops
4872     burro: accidental poetry
4873 root 1.387 %
4874 root 1.98 [about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4875     where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4876     yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4877 root 1.387 %
4878 root 1.98 [from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4879     #define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4880 root 1.387 %
4881 root 1.98 "In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4882     -- Oscar Wilde
4883 root 1.387 %
4884 root 1.98 [a principle used in florida's law]
4885     "guilty until proven innocent"
4886     [http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4887 root 1.387 %
4888 root 1.98 Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4889     said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4890     information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4891     getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4892     on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4893     number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4894     said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4895     full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4896     as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4897     hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4898     her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4899     wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4900     man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4901     close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4902     in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4903 root 1.387 %
4904 root 1.98 [gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4905     // NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4906     // experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4907     // hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4908     // suit particular needs.
4909     _M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4910 root 1.387 %
4911 root 1.98 [members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4912     [Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4913     ... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4914 root 1.388 Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4915 root 1.98 kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4916 root 1.387 %
4917 root 1.97 [Onibaba - Great Movie]
4918     http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4919 root 1.387 %
4920 root 1.97 [Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4921     http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4922 root 1.387 %
4923 root 1.96 [<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4924     [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4925     Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4926 root 1.387 %
4927 root 1.96 GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4928     vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4929 root 1.388 XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4930     JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4931 root 1.387 %
4932 root 1.96 [http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4933    
4934     [...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4935     [seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4936     the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4937     out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4938     is not [...]
4939 root 1.387 %
4940 root 1.247 Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4941 root 1.95 all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4942     repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4943 root 1.387 %
4944 root 1.94 [some hilights from:]
4945     [http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4946    
4947 root 1.388 _Einfach erklärt_
4948 root 1.94
4949     GUI
4950     Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4951     Globale Variable
4952 root 1.388 Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4953 root 1.94 objektorientiert
4954     Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4955     strukturiert
4956     dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4957     Multithreaded
4958 root 1.388 Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4959 root 1.94 Windows 95
4960 root 1.388 Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4961 root 1.94 Emacs
4962 root 1.388 Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4963     ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4964     ein vernünftiger Editor.
4965 root 1.94 IPv6
4966     $ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4967     Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4968     2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4969     2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4970 root 1.388 Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4971     Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4972 root 1.247 PHP
4973 root 1.388 Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4974 root 1.94 in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4975 root 1.388 die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4976     e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4977 root 1.247 Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4978 root 1.94 Bunt.
4979 root 1.388 Plattformunabhängig
4980     Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4981     plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4982 root 1.95 [94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4983 root 1.387 %
4984 root 1.93 [logic & fallacies]
4985     http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4986 root 1.387 %
4987 root 1.93 http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4988 root 1.387 %
4989 root 1.93 [nah]
4990     In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4991     appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4992     paint dry."
4993 root 1.387 %
4994 root 1.92 http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4995     http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4996     http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4997 root 1.387 %
4998 root 1.178 [Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4999 root 1.91 The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5000     importance.
5001 root 1.387 %
5002 root 1.91 [http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5003     [_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5004     Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5005     Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5006    
5007     You have to trust Microsoft.
5008    
5009     There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5010     Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5011     release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5012     Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5013     that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5014     useless chrome.
5015    
5016     But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5017     whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5018     I'd like to trust them with.
5019 root 1.93 [...]
5020 root 1.387 %
5021 root 1.91 [when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5022     [now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5023     XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5024     Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5025     Line Number 90, Column 15:
5026 root 1.247 <li>Copyright &copy; 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5027 root 1.91 --------------^
5028 root 1.387 %
5029 root 1.91 [from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5030     [http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5031     A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5032     which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5033     English grammar, I assure you.
5034 root 1.387 %
5035 root 1.91 Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5036     a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5037     these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5038     hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5039     en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5040     hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5041     can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5042    
5043     Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5044     strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5045     entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5046     the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5047     than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5048     1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5049     hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5050     surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5051     body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5052     from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5053    
5054     This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5055     in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5056     stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5057     numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5058    
5059     Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5060     Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5061 root 1.387 %
5062 root 1.91 [http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5063     [fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5064     The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5065     crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5066     don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5067     work etc first:
5068    
5069     #include <stdio.h>
5070    
5071     int main (void) {
5072     while (1)
5073     printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5074    
5075     return 0;
5076     }
5077 root 1.387 %
5078 root 1.91 [you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5079     contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5080 root 1.90 http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5081 root 1.387 %
5082 root 1.90 [http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5083     Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5084     the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5085     rigorous government certification confirming this.
5086 root 1.387 %
5087 root 1.89 [mms_client after finishing the download]
5088     everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5089     proprietary and patentend technology.
5090 root 1.387 %
5091 root 1.88 I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5092 root 1.388 -- Aki Kaurismäki
5093 root 1.387 %
5094 root 1.87 [http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5095 root 1.388 "The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5096 root 1.87 with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5097     construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5098     the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5099 root 1.387 %
5100 root 1.388 1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5101     Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5102 root 1.87 Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5103 root 1.388 geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5104     Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5105 root 1.87 verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5106 root 1.388 kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5107 root 1.87
5108 root 1.388 2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5109     2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5110     Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5111     und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5112     gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5113     unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5114 root 1.87 Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5115     Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5116    
5117 root 1.388 3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5118     Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5119     Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5120     Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5121     einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5122     besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5123     (Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5124     überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5125     der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5126     Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5127 root 1.87 von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5128 root 1.387 %
5129 root 1.87 [just FMI (for my information)]
5130     http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5131 root 1.387 %
5132 root 1.87 [perldoc perlboot]
5133     Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5134     multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5135 root 1.387 %
5136 root 1.87 [I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5137     "linux" thing will fail]
5138     In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5139     [...]
5140 root 1.247 Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5141 root 1.87 compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5142     to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5143     effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5144    
5145     Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5146     deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5147     life to the public good.
5148    
5149     You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5150     You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5151     Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5152     so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5153     software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5154    
5155     You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5156     a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5157     treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5158     on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5159     software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5160     software to work on the linux kernel!
5161    
5162     Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5163     are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5164     stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5165     rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5166     deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5167 root 1.387 %
5168 root 1.86 [perldoc perlreftut]
5169 root 1.247 What does line 4 do here?
5170     [...]
5171     This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5172 root 1.387 %
5173 root 1.86 [perldoc perlreftut]
5174     Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5175     blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5176     program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5177 root 1.387 %
5178 root 1.86 [rise and fall of free software standards]
5179 root 1.247 * GNU Gettext and %expect
5180     GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5181     Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5182     too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5183     does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5184 root 1.387 %
5185 root 1.86 Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5186     -- Leonard Brandwein
5187 root 1.387 %
5188 root 1.85 [11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5189 root 1.247 [11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5190     [11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5191     [11:58] <schmorp> nope
5192     [11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5193     [11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5194     [12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, *sigh*
5195     [12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5196     [12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5197     [12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5198     [12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5199     [12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5200 root 1.387 %
5201 root 1.247 [11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5202     [11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5203 root 1.387 %
5204 root 1.84 A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5205     United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5206     interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5207     his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5208     collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5209     assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5210     jurisprudence fun?
5211     <http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5212 root 1.387 %
5213 root 1.247 [02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5214     [02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5215     [02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5216 root 1.84 [...]
5217 root 1.247 [03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5218 root 1.387 %
5219 root 1.84 [found at www.imdb.com]
5220     the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5221     - Paul Ginsparg.
5222 root 1.387 %
5223 root 1.84 prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5224     said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5225     home.":))
5226     [erm...]
5227 root 1.387 %
5228 root 1.84 > described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5229    
5230 root 1.247 Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5231 root 1.387 %
5232 root 1.247 [05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5233 root 1.387 %
5234 root 1.83 [http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5235    
5236     [...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5237     implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5238     UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5239     bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5240 root 1.387 %
5241 root 1.83 .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5242     / \ / \ / \ / \ /
5243     .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5244 root 1.387 %
5245 root 1.82 From: "David S. Miller"
5246 root 1.83
5247     > Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5248 root 1.82
5249     If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5250     to use in future emails?
5251 root 1.387 %
5252 root 1.82 Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5253     please?
5254    
5255     I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5256     a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5257    
5258 root 1.247 Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5259 root 1.387 %
5260 root 1.82 Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5261     Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5262     last until February 16th 2003.
5263    
5264     So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5265     changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5266     will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5267     end.
5268    
5269     The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5270    
5271     Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5272     the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5273     round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5274     Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5275     counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5276     round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5277     take place on October 27th.
5278    
5279     The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5280     of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5281     Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5282     the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5283     Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5284     the clock)...
5285 root 1.387 %
5286 root 1.81 [boycot your enemies]
5287     > We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5288     > helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5289     > world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5290     > helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5291    
5292     Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5293     cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay *you* to do kernel
5294     development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5295     RedHat and SuSE).
5296    
5297     I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5298    
5299     Pavel
5300 root 1.387 %
5301 root 1.81 Rik
5302 root 1.247 --
5303 root 1.81 A: No.
5304     Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5305 root 1.387 %
5306 root 1.81 > Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5307 root 1.247 > GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5308     > disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5309 root 1.81
5310     I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5311     no useful data.
5312    
5313 root 1.247 --
5314 root 1.81 bill davidsen
5315 root 1.387 %
5316 root 1.80 In the switching software (written in C)
5317     there was a long do..while construct,
5318     which contained a switch statement,
5319     which contained an if clause,
5320     which contained a break,
5321     which was intended for the if clause,
5322     but instead broke from the switch statement.
5323    
5324     - Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5325     network January 15, 1990
5326 root 1.387 %
5327 root 1.80 [From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5328    
5329 root 1.247 They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5330     told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5331     stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5332     violation of network policies.
5333 root 1.80
5334     [the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5335    
5336     K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5337     The format is as follows:
5338    
5339     K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5340 root 1.387 %
5341 root 1.79 [Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5342     "People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5343     http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5344 root 1.387 %
5345 root 1.79 http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5346     "I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5347     Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5348     developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5349     conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5350     customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5351     ...
5352     "If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5353     Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5354     the effort."
5355 root 1.387 %
5356 root 1.79 http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5357 root 1.387 %
5358 root 1.79 [please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5359     gay people mad at me with this one...]
5360 root 1.78 [10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5361 root 1.247 Lukas vergleicht :)
5362     [10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5363 root 1.387 %
5364 root 1.76 http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5365 root 1.387 %
5366 root 1.76 http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5367 root 1.387 %
5368 root 1.76 I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5369     same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5370     [Albert Cahalan]
5371 root 1.387 %
5372 root 1.75 The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5373     externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5374     least as bad, but lesser known.
5375 root 1.387 %
5376 root 1.75 There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5377     line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5378     different.
5379 root 1.387 %
5380 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.
5381 root 1.387 %
5382 root 1.76 [no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5383     http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5384 root 1.387 %
5385 root 1.74 [about the early CD-R dyes]
5386     The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5387     popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5388     of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5389     consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5390     without a show.
5391 root 1.387 %
5392 root 1.76 [more of a timestamp]
5393 root 1.73 "SANS, SOUCI"
5394 root 1.387 %
5395 root 1.72 http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5396 root 1.387 %
5397 root 1.71 The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5398     http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5399 root 1.387 %
5400 root 1.71 [Bruce Schneier]
5401     A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5402     the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5403 root 1.247 they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5404 root 1.71 going on.
5405     [...]
5406 root 1.247 People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5407     otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5408     as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5409 root 1.387 %
5410 root 1.70 [06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5411     opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5412 root 1.387 %
5413 root 1.247 You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5414 root 1.387 %
5415 root 1.69 http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5416 root 1.387 %
5417 root 1.69 [practical go humor]
5418     Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5419     id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and *insist* you've won.
5420 root 1.387 %
5421 root 1.68 [windows API rocks]
5422     The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5423     the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5424     returned data.
5425    
5426 root 1.247 typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5427     FindExInfoStandard
5428     } FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5429 root 1.387 %
5430 root 1.388 [Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5431 root 1.67 [05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5432     [05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5433 root 1.247 kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5434 root 1.387 %
5435 root 1.66 [Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5436     it doesn't work:]
5437     1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5438     known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5439     this MIME type as the final determination.
5440 root 1.387 %
5441 root 1.65 [freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5442    
5443     Recode 0.1.1
5444     by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5445    
5446     About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5447     three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5448    
5449     Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5450 root 1.387 %
5451 root 1.65 http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5452 root 1.387 %
5453 root 1.64 $S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5454 root 1.387 %
5455 root 1.64 [From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5456    
5457     Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5458     just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5459     claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5460     <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5461     <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5462     A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5463     the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5464     keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5465     century."
5466    
5467     Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5468     where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5469     that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5470     carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5471     has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5472     that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5473     such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5474     to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5475     decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5476     past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5477     naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5478     motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5479     clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5480     <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5481    
5482     At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5483     software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5484     much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5485     hilarious in light of the above.
5486     <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5487    
5488     A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5489     secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5490     States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5491     been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5492     which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5493     said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5494     <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5495    
5496     Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5497     someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5498     numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5499     Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5500 root 1.65 <http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5501 root 1.387 %
5502 root 1.64 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5503 root 1.387 %
5504 root 1.388 ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5505     zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5506 root 1.387 %
5507 root 1.63 "There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5508     so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5509     so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5510    
5511     Tony Hoare
5512 root 1.387 %
5513 root 1.388 Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5514     vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5515 root 1.63 _nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5516 root 1.388 Maßeinheit verwendet.
5517 root 1.387 %
5518 root 1.63 From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5519    
5520     [...]
5521     The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5522     by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5523     system. Basically its windows computer
5524 root 1.387 %
5525 root 1.63 [go figure...]
5526 root 1.247 <JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5527 root 1.387 %
5528 root 1.63 Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5529    
5530     > In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5531     > to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5532     > Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5533     > software developers...
5534    
5535     Homeopathic approach to software development?
5536 root 1.387 %
5537 root 1.63 > > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5538     > > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5539     > > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5540     >
5541     > I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5542    
5543     Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5544     badly with respect to patches, so far.
5545    
5546     - Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5547     in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5548    
5549     - I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5550     but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5551     off by throwing away the patch.
5552    
5553     Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5554     create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5555     patch any time soon.
5556    
5557     --
5558     Daniel
5559 root 1.387 %
5560 root 1.62 From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5561     Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5562     [...]
5563     Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5564     be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5565     next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5566 root 1.387 %
5567 root 1.62 [no comments ;)]
5568    
5569     I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5570     It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5571     Is it realy needed?
5572 root 1.387 %
5573 root 1.62 [W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5574    
5575     int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5576    
5577     [...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5578     specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5579     an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5580 root 1.387 %
5581 root 1.62 [www.intel.com]
5582     Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5583     extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5584     the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5585     download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5586     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5587     and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5588 root 1.387 %
5589 root 1.61 From: Alexander Viro
5590    
5591     On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5592     > > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5593     > > found in the CML2 sources.
5594     >
5595     > Btw, what happened to CML2?
5596    
5597     This is an ex-parrot
5598 root 1.387 %
5599 root 1.61 From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5600    
5601     > > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5602     > > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5603     > > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5604     > > algorithm ever" etc.
5605     >
5606     > Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5607     > pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5608    
5609     I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5610    
5611     while (!sorted(data))
5612     ;
5613 root 1.387 %
5614 root 1.61 Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5615     From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5616    
5617     > This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5618    
5619     You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5620     to computing
5621 root 1.387 %
5622 root 1.61 From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5623    
5624     On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5625     >What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5626    
5627     Common sense, one would hope.
5628 root 1.387 %
5629 root 1.61 From: Toon Moene
5630     [...]
5631    
5632     Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5633     backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5634     translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5635    
5636     http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5637    
5638     "Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5639     Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5640     programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5641     created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5642    
5643     :-)
5644 root 1.387 %
5645 root 1.247 "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5646     lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5647     their C programs."
5648 root 1.60
5649     Robert Firth
5650 root 1.387 %
5651 root 1.59 [miri@ccc.de]
5652 root 1.388 Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5653 root 1.59 [and after some quarrel...]
5654     Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5655 root 1.387 %
5656 root 1.68 [Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5657 root 1.388 Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5658 root 1.387 %
5659 root 1.57 [Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5660     Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5661 root 1.387 %
5662 root 1.68 [from windows' wininet.h]
5663 root 1.56 #define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5664 root 1.387 %
5665 root 1.388 Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5666 root 1.56 in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5667     selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5668 root 1.388 dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5669     eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5670 root 1.56 erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5671     vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5672    
5673     Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5674    
5675     \Gisbert
5676 root 1.387 %
5677 root 1.55 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5678 root 1.387 %
5679 root 1.55 P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5680     world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
5681     --Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5682 root 1.387 %
5683 root 1.54 From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5684     Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5685    
5686     I don't have python. Any version of python.
5687     [...]
5688 root 1.387 %
5689 root 1.54 [perldoc Test::Harness]
5690     Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5691     Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5692    
5693     ok 1
5694     # Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5695     not ok 2
5696     # got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5697 root 1.387 %
5698 root 1.54 I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5699    
5700     Cheers,
5701    
5702     Andre Hedrick
5703     Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5704 root 1.387 %
5705 root 1.54 > > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5706 root 1.247 >
5707 root 1.54 > Spinaphore :-)
5708    
5709     Or mutabloat :-(
5710 root 1.387 %
5711 root 1.54 Microsoft Outlook *IS* the problem. Blaming it *IS* correct. Removing
5712     Outlook *IS* the solution.
5713 root 1.387 %
5714 root 1.54 Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5715 root 1.387 %
5716 root 1.53 From: Ricky Beam
5717    
5718     Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5719     never bought anything from UUNet.
5720 root 1.387 %
5721 root 1.53 deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5722     that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5723     by delving below its surface meaning)
5724 root 1.387 %
5725 root 1.52 http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5726 root 1.387 %
5727 root 1.52 From: Alan Cox
5728    
5729     > and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5730     > just go to court and say:
5731    
5732     Oh glorious naivety.
5733    
5734     > The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5735     > sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5736     > can do the work better than I).
5737    
5738     You release the code
5739    
5740     The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5741    
5742     The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5743     preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5744     by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5745     doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5746    
5747     Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5748     by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5749    
5750     A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5751     because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5752    
5753     Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5754    
5755     Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5756     is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5757     or that the good guys win.
5758    
5759     This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5760     US, and outside of most of the EU.
5761 root 1.387 %
5762 root 1.51 From: Alan Cox
5763    
5764     [...]
5765     I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5766     country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5767 root 1.247 is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5768 root 1.51 year to kill.
5769 root 1.387 %
5770 root 1.51 [CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5771     Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5772    
5773     [...]
5774     Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5775     center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5776     of for Windows desktop systems."
5777     [...]
5778     eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5779     months before Microsoft released its patch.
5780     [...]
5781     UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5782     networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5783     Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5784     turned on by default.
5785     [...]
5786     The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5787     delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5788     these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5789     [...]
5790     Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5791     fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5792     are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5793     done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5794     repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5795     they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5796     anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5797     as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5798     kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5799 root 1.387 %
5800 root 1.50 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5801 root 1.387 %
5802 root 1.49 [following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5803 root 1.388 Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5804 root 1.49
5805     technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5806    
5807     Monday, 06. November 2000
5808 root 1.387 %
5809 root 1.247 [01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5810     [01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5811 root 1.387 %
5812 root 1.90 [http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5813 root 1.48 * If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5814     * the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5815     [too late, I broke the law, again!]
5816 root 1.387 %
5817 root 1.47 Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5818     matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5819     that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5820     launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5821 root 1.387 %
5822 root 1.47 > Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5823     > manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5824    
5825     Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5826     existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5827     student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5828 root 1.387 %
5829 root 1.47 From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5830     X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5831    
5832     > It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5833     > address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5834     > dropped patches.
5835    
5836     Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5837 root 1.247 wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5838 root 1.47 people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5839     lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5840     know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5841     patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5842 root 1.387 %
5843 root 1.46 I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5844     the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5845     it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5846 root 1.387 %
5847 root 1.45 From: "David S. Miller"
5848    
5849     From: Bill Huey
5850     Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5851    
5852     Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5853    
5854     Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5855 root 1.247 relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5856 root 1.45 themselves.
5857    
5858     Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5859     certain.
5860 root 1.387 %
5861 root 1.45 > required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5862     > something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5863     > complains about kernel bloat" :)
5864    
5865     And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5866     appropriate approach to a problem.
5867 root 1.387 %
5868 root 1.388 From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5869 root 1.44 ^^^^
5870     [...]
5871     Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5872     [...]
5873     -20 Long underwear is a good idea
5874     -15 Nice winter day
5875     -10 Slightly warm winter day
5876     -5 Nice warm winter day
5877     0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5878 root 1.387 %
5879 root 1.44 No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5880     entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5881     of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5882     suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5883 root 1.387 %
5884 root 1.44 On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5885     > select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5886    
5887     Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5888    
5889     -ben
5890 root 1.387 %
5891 root 1.43 [...]
5892 root 1.247 [11:55] <|Pixel|> no, not spanish :)
5893     [11:55] <|Pixel|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5894     [11:55] <|Pixel|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5895     [11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5896     [11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5897     [11:56] <|Pixel|> err
5898     [11:56] <|Pixel|> well :)
5899     [11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5900     [11:57] <|Pixel|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5901     [11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5902     [11:57] <|Pixel|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5903 root 1.387 %
5904 root 1.388 Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5905     debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5906 root 1.43 Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5907 root 1.388 Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5908     unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5909     wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5910     Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5911     könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5912     debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5913 root 1.43 statt...
5914 root 1.387 %
5915 root 1.42 http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5916 root 1.387 %
5917 root 1.42 [From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5918     Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5919     In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5920     to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5921     values." Who writes this stuff?
5922 root 1.387 %
5923 root 1.42 http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5924 root 1.387 %
5925 root 1.41 > I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5926     > 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5927     > See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5928     > 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5929     > "Macao".
5930     > 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5931     > 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5932 root 1.387 %
5933 root 1.247 [09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5934 root 1.387 %
5935 root 1.40 Beitrag
5936 root 1.247 FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5937 root 1.40
5938     fucklinux
5939    
5940     IP: 217.83.123.198
5941    
5942     1. FUCK LINUX
5943    
5944 root 1.388 Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5945 root 1.40
5946     Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5947 root 1.387 %
5948 root 1.388 From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5949 root 1.40
5950     [...]
5951     Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5952     understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5953     when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5954     read...
5955 root 1.387 %
5956 root 1.39 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5957     persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5958     depends on the unreasonable man.
5959    
5960     -George Bernard Shaw
5961 root 1.387 %
5962 root 1.38 [Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5963    
5964     Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5965 root 1.247 Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5966 root 1.387 %
5967 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:
5968 root 1.387 %
5969 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
5970     [06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5971     [06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5972     [06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5973     [06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5974 root 1.387 %
5975 root 1.37 On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5976     > You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5977 root 1.247 > So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5978 root 1.37 > to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5979     > Thanks for clearing this up.
5980 root 1.387 %
5981 root 1.247 It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5982     It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5983     It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5984     It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5985     It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5986     It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5987     It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5988     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).
5989     It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5990     It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5991 root 1.387 %
5992 root 1.36 [Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5993     Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5994     prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5995     on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5996     found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5997     removed in Windows XP.
5998    
5999     We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6000     configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6001     also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6002     crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6003 root 1.387 %
6004 root 1.36 [From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6005     The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6006     security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6007     Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6008     System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6009     DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6010     they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6011     was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6012     system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6013     trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6014    
6015     Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6016     without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6017     developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6018     withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6019     less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6020     you have no details?
6021     [...]
6022     <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6023     <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6024     Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6025     counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6026     said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6027     -- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6028     the industrial terrorists want."
6029 root 1.387 %
6030 root 1.36 [Bruce Schneier]
6031     Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6032 root 1.387 %
6033 root 1.247 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6034 root 1.387 %
6035 root 1.36 In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6036     of each 50 days
6037 root 1.387 %
6038 root 1.36 "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6039    
6040     >I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6041     >missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6042     >later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6043 root 1.387 %
6044 root 1.36 > Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6045     > about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6046     > with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6047 root 1.387 %
6048 root 1.35 On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6049     > I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6050 root 1.247 >
6051 root 1.35 > <...>
6052     >
6053     > Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6054     > it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6055     > want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6056 root 1.247 > cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6057 root 1.387 %
6058 root 1.35 They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6059     This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6060     -- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6061 root 1.387 %
6062 root 1.35 > more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6063     > sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6064     > really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6065    
6066 root 1.247 You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6067     graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6068     environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6069     servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6070     like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6071     changing run level, interactive boot.
6072 root 1.35
6073     Alan
6074 root 1.387 %
6075 root 1.35 [http://thefreeworld.net/]
6076    
6077     I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6078     The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6079    
6080     First they came for the Communists,
6081     and I didn't speak up,
6082     because I wasn't a Communist.
6083     Then they came for the Jews,
6084     and I didn't speak up,
6085     because I wasn't a Jew.
6086     Then they came for the Catholics,
6087     and I didn't speak up,
6088     because I was a Protestant.
6089     Then they came for me,
6090     and by that time there was no one
6091     left to speak up for me.
6092    
6093     by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6094 root 1.387 %
6095 root 1.34 http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6096 root 1.387 %
6097 root 1.34 If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6098     -- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6099 root 1.387 %
6100 root 1.33 > For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6101     > density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6102     > the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6103     > a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6104    
6105     I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6106 root 1.387 %
6107 root 1.32 [jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6108    
6109     "This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6110     area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6111     to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6112     bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6113     used databases!"
6114 root 1.387 %
6115 root 1.32 From: Alexander Viro
6116    
6117     > The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6118    
6119     Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6120     change that was not?
6121     [...]
6122 root 1.387 %
6123 root 1.31 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6124    
6125     [...]
6126    
6127 root 1.247 I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6128 root 1.31 dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6129     lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6130    
6131 root 1.247 I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6132 root 1.31 natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6133     them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6134     them anywhere else").
6135    
6136     But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6137     hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6138 root 1.247 descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6139 root 1.31 to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6140     order..
6141    
6142 root 1.247 (IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6143 root 1.31 borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6144 root 1.387 %
6145 root 1.30 On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6146     > (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6147     > corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6148    
6149     Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6150 root 1.387 %
6151 root 1.29 [02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6152 root 1.247 vertauschen (links-rechts).
6153     [02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6154     [02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6155     [02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6156 root 1.387 %
6157 root 1.29 From: Bill Davidsen
6158     To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6159    
6160     I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6161     management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6162     new versions of *stable* kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6163     existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6164     series.
6165    
6166     [...]
6167 root 1.387 %
6168 root 1.29 [11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6169 root 1.247 fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6170 root 1.387 %
6171 root 1.29 On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6172     >Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6173     >was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6174    
6175     Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6176     then save." *g*
6177    
6178     /* Steinar */
6179 root 1.387 %
6180 root 1.29 > I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6181     > Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6182    
6183     That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6184     You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6185     they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending *them*
6186     a bill...
6187 root 1.387 %
6188 root 1.29 [a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6189     >> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6190     >> additional _7_ CPUs!
6191    
6192     Sorry. Mea culpa
6193    
6194     --- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6195     +++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6196     @@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6197     * WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6198     * page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6199     */
6200     - for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6201     + for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6202     /* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6203     int fpu_exception;
6204 root 1.387 %
6205 root 1.29 From: Alexander Viro
6206    
6207     > In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6208    
6209     *ding* *ding* *ding* we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6210     started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6211     ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6212     they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6213     a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6214 root 1.387 %
6215 root 1.29 From: Linux Torvalds
6216    
6217     In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6218     people.
6219 root 1.387 %
6220 root 1.29 Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6221     <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6222    
6223     Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6224     laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6225     week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6226     in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6227     the question.
6228     <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6229 root 1.387 %
6230 root 1.29 [http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6231     1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6232     I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6233     2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6234     (September)
6235 root 1.387 %
6236 root 1.29 Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6237 root 1.387 %
6238 root 1.29 [I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6239     idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6240     throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6241     http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6242     [nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6243 root 1.387 %
6244 root 1.28 "TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6245     -- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6246 root 1.387 %
6247 root 1.28 <JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6248     <JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6249     <JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6250     <JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6251     <JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6252 root 1.387 %
6253 root 1.27 Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6254 root 1.387 %
6255 root 1.27 EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6256 root 1.387 %
6257 root 1.27 It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6258     age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6259     state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6260     wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6261     so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6262     these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6263     you tell them.
6264 root 1.387 %
6265 root 1.27 But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6266     cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6267     alcohol.
6268    
6269     Regards
6270     Henning
6271 root 1.387 %
6272 root 1.27 > handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6273     > This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6274     > on a desktop system.
6275    
6276     Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6277     wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6278    
6279     C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6280     transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6281    
6282     Alan
6283 root 1.387 %
6284 root 1.26 Hi Keith,
6285     kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6286    
6287     > That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6288     >
6289     > CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6290     > Use Welsh
6291    
6292     Don't forget
6293    
6294     CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6295     Use Finnish
6296    
6297     (Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6298    
6299     And while we're at it,
6300    
6301     CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6302     Use German
6303    
6304     CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6305     Use English
6306    
6307     MfG Kai
6308 root 1.387 %
6309 root 1.25 [From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6310    
6311     This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6312     bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6313     verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6314     forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6315     Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6316     there's no one thinking there.
6317     <http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6318 root 1.387 %
6319 root 1.24 Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6320     scores the rules:
6321    
6322     [*]
6323     Score:: =-9999
6324 root 1.247 Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6325 root 1.24 Content-Type: text/html;
6326     X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6327     X-Mailer: Mozilla
6328     X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6329    
6330     (right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6331     that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6332     getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6333     levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6334     going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6335    
6336     I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6337     Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6338     wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6339     clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6340 root 1.387 %
6341 root 1.24 99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6342     98 IIS servers online...
6343 root 1.387 %
6344 root 1.24 BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6345     Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6346     produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6347     only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6348    
6349     US law does *not* apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6350     it to be otherwise.
6351    
6352     Abigail
6353 root 1.387 %
6354 root 1.23 4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6355 root 1.387 %
6356 root 1.23 I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6357 root 1.247 attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6358 root 1.23 was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6359 root 1.387 %
6360 root 1.22 [11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6361 root 1.247 si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6362 root 1.387 %
6363 root 1.22 Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6364     disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6365     to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6366     software people doing the same)
6367    
6368     In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6369     and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6370     irrelevant
6371    
6372     Alan
6373 root 1.387 %
6374 root 1.22 [from rfc2822]
6375     Comments may nest.
6376 root 1.387 %
6377 root 1.22 [from findas]
6378     # there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6379     # a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6380     # b) the database format is nonparsable
6381     # (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6382     # of course, the only source to find out about global
6383     # address distributino is... arin.
6384 root 1.387 %
6385 root 1.22 Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6386     "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6387 root 1.387 %
6388 root 1.22 [From perl5-porters]
6389     On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6390     > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6391     > > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6392     > > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6393 root 1.247 >
6394 root 1.22 > Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6395    
6396     $foot->insert($mouth);
6397    
6398     # or is that
6399    
6400     $mouth->insert($foot);
6401    
6402     You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6403     How utterly optimistic :-)
6404 root 1.387 %
6405 root 1.22 [From perl5-porters]
6406     >Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6407     >of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6408     >Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6409     >(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6410     >can see why it happens)
6411     >Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6412    
6413     Well, there's perl... :)
6414 root 1.387 %
6415 root 1.21 [From pth-1.4.0]
6416     * No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6417     * it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6418     * makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6419     * fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6420 root 1.247 * boxes.
6421 root 1.387 %
6422 root 1.21 http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6423     http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6424     http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6425 root 1.387 %
6426 root 1.388 Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6427     zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6428 root 1.387 %
6429 root 1.20 Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6430     From: Juergen Christoffel
6431     Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6432     To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6433    
6434     Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6435    
6436     a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6437     Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6438     einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6439     schon;
6440    
6441     b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6442     Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6443     auch mehr zum faedeln.
6444    
6445     Danke, JC
6446 root 1.387 %
6447 root 1.19 [perl.c]
6448     #undef REASONABLE
6449 root 1.387 %
6450 root 1.18 And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6451     about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6452    
6453     Alan
6454 root 1.387 %
6455 root 1.18 George Bonser writes:
6456     > I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6457     > the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6458     > people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6459 root 1.247 > client population that is out there without having to make them change
6460 root 1.18 > anything.
6461    
6462     You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6463     who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6464 root 1.247 care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6465     something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6466 root 1.18 hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6467     eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6468    
6469     To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6470     chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6471     Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6472     always a good idea.
6473 root 1.387 %
6474 root 1.18 Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6475     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6476    
6477 root 1.247 First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6478 root 1.18 years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6479 root 1.387 %
6480 root 1.18 [From the DOSEMU homepage]
6481     We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6482     versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6483     as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6484 root 1.387 %
6485 root 1.18 Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6486 root 1.387 %
6487 root 1.247 >I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6488 root 1.18
6489     WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6490     enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6491 root 1.387 %
6492 root 1.17 [the world will end soon. i promise!]
6493     I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6494     like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6495     to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6496 root 1.387 %
6497 root 1.17 ..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6498 root 1.387 %
6499 root 1.17 Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6500     programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6501     good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6502     burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6503     misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6504     ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6505 root 1.387 %
6506 root 1.16 From: Victor Yodaiken
6507    
6508     There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6509     set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6510     I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6511     an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6512     created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6513     than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6514     we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6515 root 1.387 %
6516 root 1.16 [I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6517     good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6518     future. Bleeeh]
6519    
6520     From: Larry McVoy
6521    
6522 root 1.247 I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6523 root 1.16 are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6524     like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6525     exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6526     programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6527     exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6528     the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6529     not for the exceptional case.
6530 root 1.387 %
6531 root 1.16 Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6532     semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6533     overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6534     versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6535     Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6536     created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6537     stack.
6538    
6539     Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6540     garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6541     relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6542    
6543     So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6544     going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6545 root 1.387 %
6546 root 1.16 From: Larry McVoy
6547    
6548 root 1.247 > > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6549     > > *if* threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6550     > > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6551     > > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6552 root 1.16 > > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6553 root 1.247 >
6554 root 1.16 > How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6555     > on the CPU?
6556    
6557     Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6558 root 1.247 that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6559 root 1.16 died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6560     system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6561    
6562     It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6563     What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6564     and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6565     the point again".
6566 root 1.387 %
6567 root 1.16 From: Alan Cox
6568    
6569 root 1.15 > 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6570     > 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6571 root 1.247 > be GPL'd header files.
6572 root 1.15 > 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6573 root 1.247 >
6574 root 1.15 > There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6575     > scenario.
6576    
6577     Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6578 root 1.387 %
6579 root 1.14 [configure --help]
6580 root 1.15 --enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6581     --enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6582     --enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6583 root 1.387 %
6584 root 1.14 I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6585     tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6586     others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6587     character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6588     very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6589     they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6590     world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6591     if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6592     anything.
6593 root 1.387 %
6594 root 1.247 [01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6595 root 1.387 %
6596 root 1.12 [inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6597     http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6598 root 1.387 %
6599 root 1.11 [long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6600     On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6601     > The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6602     > official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6603     > by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6604    
6605     you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6606 root 1.387 %
6607 root 1.11 From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6608    
6609     On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6610    
6611     >Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6612     >It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6613     >it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6614     >would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6615     >basics, I understood the power of the system.
6616    
6617     My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6618     package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6619     only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6620     either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6621     consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6622     the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6623     seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6624     seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6625     to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6626     for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6627     It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6628     to work through the learning curve.
6629 root 1.387 %
6630 root 1.11 [http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6631 root 1.247 Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6632 root 1.387 %
6633 root 1.11 [VERY good movie]
6634     Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6635 root 1.387 %
6636 root 1.11 [http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6637     Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6638 root 1.387 %
6639 root 1.10 [http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6640     Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6641 root 1.388 großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6642     sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6643 root 1.10 erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6644 root 1.387 %
6645 root 1.9 [alt.bible]
6646 root 1.247 Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6647 root 1.9 is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6648 root 1.387 %
6649 root 1.247 [02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6650     [02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6651 root 1.387 %
6652 root 1.9 [this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6653     Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6654     unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6655     die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6656     festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6657     E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6658     3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6659     Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6660    
6661 root 1.388 Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6662 root 1.9 "E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6663 root 1.388 E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6664 root 1.9 wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6665     zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6666    
6667     Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6668     verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6669     guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6670     verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6671     in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6672     insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6673     Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6674 root 1.388 § 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6675 root 1.9 bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6676     vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6677     m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6678 root 1.387 %
6679 root 1.9 [comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6680     /*---.
6681     | ? |
6682     `---*/
6683 root 1.387 %
6684 root 1.9 Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6685 root 1.387 %
6686 root 1.8 [While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6687     From: Joe Buck
6688     > Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6689     Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6690 root 1.387 %
6691 root 1.8 [Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6692     Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6693 root 1.387 %
6694 root 1.7 04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6695 root 1.247 Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6696 root 1.387 %
6697 root 1.4 [ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6698 root 1.247 [07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6699 root 1.387 %
6700 root 1.4 [about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6701 root 1.247 [03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6702 root 1.4 ...
6703     [03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6704 root 1.387 %
6705 root 1.3 [From: Alan Cox]
6706 root 1.247 > The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6707     > "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6708     > know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6709    
6710     I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6711    
6712     Alan
6713 root 1.387 %
6714 root 1.388 [JanMan über O'Reilly]
6715 root 1.247 [07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6716     [07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6717     [07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6718     [07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6719 root 1.387 %
6720 root 1.2 [JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6721 root 1.247 [07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6722     [07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6723     [07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6724     [07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6725     [07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6726     [07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6727 root 1.387 %
6728 root 1.2 Hlade's Law:
6729     If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6730     will find an easier way to do it.
6731 root 1.387 %
6732 root 1.388 [Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6733 root 1.7 "Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] \(Micro$oft-Fetischist\)" gesetzt hat.]
6734     Paul wrote:
6735     >Marc wrote:
6736 root 1.2 >> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6737     > aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6738     > den richtigen.
6739 root 1.387 %
6740 root 1.1 [from janmans .sig]
6741     > " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6742 root 1.387 %
6743 root 1.1 [a small perl program]
6744     :(); { :: | :: } ;
6745 root 1.387 %
6746 root 1.1 [a small fork-bomb for bash]
6747     :() { : | : ;} ; :
6748 root 1.387 %
6749 root 1.1 [messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6750     New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6751     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6752     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6753     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6754 root 1.387 %
6755 root 1.1 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6756     [...]
6757    
6758     >Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6759    
6760     Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6761 root 1.387 %
6762 root 1.1 > There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6763     > constants.
6764    
6765     I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6766 root 1.247 Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6767 root 1.1 would be conducive for further discussion.
6768 root 1.387 %
6769 root 1.247 > Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6770 root 1.1 > it might be useful?
6771    
6772     I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6773     room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6774     much to do with IRC.
6775 root 1.387 %
6776 root 1.1 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6777     Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6778    
6779     [...]
6780     Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6781    
6782     I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6783     ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6784 root 1.387 %
6785 root 1.1 [sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6786 root 1.247 [07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6787 root 1.387 %
6788 root 1.1 [http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6789    
6790     Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6791     Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6792     clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6793    
6794     Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6795     lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6796     man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6797     shows how much you know, pal.
6798    
6799     The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6800 root 1.387 %
6801 root 1.1 [messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6802     /scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6803     Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6804 root 1.387 %
6805 root 1.1 [a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6806     s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6807     y yzzyyccss;;##s
6808     s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6809 root 1.387 %
6810 root 1.1 [from the FWP mailinglist]
6811     > OR is spelled "|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6812     Your version of perl sucks.
6813 root 1.387 %
6814 root 1.247 [01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6815     [01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6816     [01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6817     [01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6818     [02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6819     [02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6820     [02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6821     [02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6822 root 1.1 [02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6823 root 1.247 [02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6824     [02:05] <schmorp> *sigh*
6825 root 1.387 %
6826 root 1.1 I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6827     before you can understand it :)
6828 root 1.387 %
6829 root 1.1 > now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6830     > and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6831     > would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6832 root 1.247 > that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6833 root 1.1 > paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6834     > shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6835     > would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6836    
6837     IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6838     There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6839     the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6840     easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6841     what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6842     be worth attempting).
6843    
6844     I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6845     floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6846     caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6847    
6848     Nick.
6849 root 1.387 %
6850 root 1.1 From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6851     Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6852     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6853    
6854 root 1.247 I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6855 root 1.1 goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6856     how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6857     have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6858     magic_bone@hotmail.com
6859 root 1.387 %
6860 root 1.1 > > > I guess then someone would want
6861     > > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6862     > > > to work :-)
6863 root 1.247 > >
6864 root 1.1 > > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6865 root 1.247 >
6866 root 1.1 > Eh?
6867 root 1.247 >
6868 root 1.1 > $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6869     > syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6870    
6871     He didn't say it worked. :)
6872 root 1.387 %
6873 root 1.1 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6874    
6875     On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6876     > I find it irksome that
6877 root 1.247 >
6878 root 1.1 > for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6879    
6880     ...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6881 root 1.387 %
6882 root 1.1 [a perl5 bug report]
6883     From: Simon Cozens
6884    
6885     On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6886     > '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6887     > Produces SIGSEGV.
6888    
6889     Looks like a feature to me.
6890 root 1.387 %
6891 root 1.1 [Lukilein...]
6892 root 1.388 "Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6893 root 1.387 %
6894 root 1.1 [hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6895     intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6896    
6897     "There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6898     continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6899     is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6900     other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6901    
6902     "We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6903     simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6904     would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6905     you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6906     large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6907     part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6908 root 1.387 %
6909 root 1.1 [following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6910     I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6911     security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6912     level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6913     this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6914     great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6915     only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6916     security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6917     reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6918     the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6919     secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6920     accurate and not subject to tampering."
6921    
6922     Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6923     better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6924     hacker might read about it and break it. Who *are* these guys?
6925    
6926     <http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6927 root 1.387 %
6928 root 1.1 It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6929     more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6930     impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6931     Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6932     Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6933     likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6934     replication."
6935     <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6936 root 1.387 %
6937 root 1.1 [just some private thoughts]
6938     Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6939    
6940     IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6941     shows.
6942    
6943     First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6944     transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6945     totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6946    
6947     Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6948     defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6949     is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6950     this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6951     MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6952    
6953     Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6954     to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6955     up with a saner protocol.
6956 root 1.387 %
6957 root 1.1 [voting by television, the american way...]
6958     "They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6959     and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6960    
6961     Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6962     cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6963     voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6964 root 1.387 %
6965 root 1.1 IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6966     <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6967     ...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6968     <http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6969     A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6970     <http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6971 root 1.387 %
6972 root 1.1 [Midori-Linux FAQ]
6973     Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6974 root 1.247 A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6975     seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6976     is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6977     does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6978 root 1.1 Netscape in a loop.
6979 root 1.387 %
6980 root 1.1 Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6981 root 1.387 %
6982 root 1.1 [Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6983     marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6984 root 1.247 mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6985 root 1.1 marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6986 root 1.247 hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6987 root 1.387 %
6988 root 1.1 [2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6989     "ist mir egal"
6990 root 1.387 %
6991 root 1.1 From: Hans Reiser
6992     Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6993    
6994     Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6995 root 1.387 %
6996 root 1.1 [debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6997     hallole
6998 root 1.387 %
6999 root 1.1 I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7000     have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7001     most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7002 root 1.387 %
7003 root 1.1 1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7004     1929 The high sign of refreshment
7005     1929 The pause that refreshes
7006     1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7007     1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7008     1935 The pause that brings friends together
7009     1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7010     1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7011     1939 Thirst stops here
7012     1942 It's the real thing
7013     1947 Have a Coke
7014     1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7015     1963 Things go better with Coke
7016     1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7017     1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7018     1982 Coke is it!
7019     -- Coca-Cola slogans
7020 root 1.387 %
7021 root 1.1 [strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7022     model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7023 root 1.387 %
7024 root 1.247 [02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7025     [02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7026 root 1.387 %
7027 root 1.388 [Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7028 root 1.1 Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7029     erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7030     islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7031     Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7032     ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7033     Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7034     wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7035     erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7036     booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7037     einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7038     Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7039     - allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7040     (640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7041     Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7042    
7043     Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7044     hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7045 root 1.387 %
7046 root 1.1 [RMS about gcc snapshots]
7047     From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7048    
7049     [...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7050     uncool thing to do. [...]
7051 root 1.387 %
7052 root 1.1 "Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7053     betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7054     [Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7055 root 1.387 %
7056 root 1.388 "Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7057 root 1.1 Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7058 root 1.388 Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7059 root 1.1
7060 root 1.388 "Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7061     daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7062     vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7063     von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7064 root 1.1 die Maschinen Platz."
7065     [Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7066 root 1.387 %
7067 root 1.1 My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7068     software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7069     Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7070     work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7071     doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7072     problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7073     like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7074    
7075     And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7076     run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7077     whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7078 root 1.387 %
7079 root 1.1 > You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7080    
7081     US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7082 root 1.387 %
7083 root 1.1 Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7084     to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7085     to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7086     beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7087     at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7088 root 1.247 one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7089 root 1.387 %
7090 root 1.1 From: David Woodhouse
7091     > Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7092     > wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7093    
7094     Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7095     is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7096    
7097     After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7098 root 1.387 %
7099 root 1.1 http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7100 root 1.387 %
7101 root 1.1 [recently on linux-kernel]
7102     From: Alan Cox
7103     > > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7104     > > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7105 root 1.247 >
7106     > Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7107 root 1.1
7108 root 1.247 Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7109 root 1.1 users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7110 root 1.387 %
7111 root 1.1 From: Russell King
7112     Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7113     To: Albert D. Cahalan
7114    
7115     Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7116     > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7117     > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7118     > few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7119    
7120     iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7121    
7122     [flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7123 root 1.387 %
7124 root 1.388 [11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7125 root 1.1 der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7126     dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7127 root 1.247 [11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7128 root 1.387 %
7129 root 1.388 [über "Mediengestaltung"]
7130 root 1.247 [10:39] <elmex|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7131     [10:40] <schmorp> elmex|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7132 root 1.387 %
7133 root 1.1 [perldoc perlembed]
7134     You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7135 root 1.387 %
7136 root 1.247 [03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7137 root 1.387 %
7138 root 1.247 [09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7139     [09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7140     nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7141 root 1.387 %
7142 root 1.1 [linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7143     /* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7144     talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7145     to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7146     eloquent like `fuck'. */
7147 root 1.387 %
7148 root 1.1 [20:44] <elmex|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7149 root 1.387 %
7150 root 1.247 [09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7151     [09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7152     [09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7153     [09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7154     [09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7155     [09:41] <elmex> ?
7156     [09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7157 root 1.387 %
7158 root 1.1 [Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7159     for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7160 root 1.387 %
7161 root 1.1 [From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7162     perl:]
7163    
7164     $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7165    
7166     [now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7167     to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7168     above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7169     warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7170     in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7171     disable the message and pray it works"]
7172 root 1.387 %
7173 root 1.1 [Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7174     From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7175     Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7176     X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7177    
7178     I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7179     can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7180     i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7181     know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7182     better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7183 root 1.387 %
7184 root 1.1 [I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7185     language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7186     http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7187 root 1.387 %
7188 root 1.1 [imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7189     * This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7190     * Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7191     * passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7192     * a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7193 root 1.387 %
7194 root 1.1 [from qmail's maildir(5)]
7195     Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7196     operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7197 root 1.387 %
7198 root 1.1 [Lukas Grundwald]
7199     Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7200 root 1.387 %
7201 root 1.1 [waiting for windows...]
7202     http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7203 root 1.387 %
7204 root 1.1 [x86 really is a cool design]
7205     > For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7206     > before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7207     > general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7208     > it's a hard requirement.
7209    
7210     Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7211     if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7212     experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7213     another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7214     cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7215     a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7216     the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7217     have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7218 root 1.387 %
7219 root 1.1 > once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7220     > Netscape?"
7221 root 1.247
7222 root 1.1 can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7223     netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7224 root 1.387 %
7225 root 1.1 The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7226     commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7227     structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7228     created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7229     them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7230     the specified task step-by-step.
7231 root 1.387 %
7232 root 1.1 There is an old programmer's rule.
7233    
7234     "Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7235     be damned hard to understand."
7236 root 1.387 %
7237 root 1.1 [Linus]
7238     Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7239     will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7240     wrong. It's that simple.
7241 root 1.387 %
7242 root 1.1 [yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7243 root 1.247 09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7244 root 1.1 [09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7245     site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7246     never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7247 root 1.247 Undernet>
7248 root 1.387 %
7249 root 1.1 [character normalization might be harmful]
7250     > In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7251     > inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7252     > point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7253    
7254     Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7255     document that contains an element or attribute named
7256 root 1.388 "autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7257 root 1.1 A forged version of the document that contained the name
7258     "autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7259     a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7260     might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7261     and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7262     now appears to have unlimited credit!
7263 root 1.387 %
7264 root 1.1 ["my spam"]
7265     99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7266     numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7267     protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7268     or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7269     TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7270 root 1.387 %
7271 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel]
7272     Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7273     who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7274     [... snip ...]
7275     never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7276     tragedy...
7277 root 1.387 %
7278 root 1.1 From: "Mike A. Harris"
7279 root 1.247
7280 root 1.1 On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7281     >---- A notice to spammers ----
7282     >Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7283     >strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7284     >Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7285     >advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7286     >message plus attorney's fees.
7287     [SNIP long sig]
7288 root 1.247
7289 root 1.1 O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7290     most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7291     all you're doing is contributing to it.
7292 root 1.247
7293 root 1.1 I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7294     However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7295     procmailable address.
7296 root 1.247
7297 root 1.1 One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7298     means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7299     just a waste of bandwidth.
7300 root 1.387 %
7301 root 1.388 rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7302 root 1.387 %
7303 root 1.1 [during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7304     /bin/true --version | read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7305 root 1.387 %
7306 root 1.1 [stefan thought this would be better]
7307 root 1.247 /bin/true --version | read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7308 root 1.387 %
7309 root 1.1 [Java-Design]
7310 root 1.247 [02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7311     [02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7312     [02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7313 root 1.1 [02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7314 root 1.247 klasse, alles muell.
7315     [02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7316     [02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7317     [02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7318 root 1.387 %
7319 root 1.247 [02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7320 root 1.387 %
7321 root 1.247 [02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7322 root 1.1 [02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7323 root 1.247 missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7324 root 1.387 %
7325 root 1.1 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7326     The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7327     using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7328     immediately and not block the calling process.
7329    
7330     the man pages are wrong
7331    
7332     --cw
7333 root 1.387 %
7334 root 1.1 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7335     ...
7336     My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7337 root 1.387 %
7338 root 1.1 [Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7339     Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7340 root 1.387 %
7341 root 1.1 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7342     > tar cvpf - foo | ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7343     > Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7344    
7345     How fast does it oops?
7346 root 1.387 %
7347 root 1.1 From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7348    
7349     On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7350     > NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7351     > touch is 2Gig.
7352    
7353     In theory, yes.
7354     In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7355     2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7356 root 1.387 %
7357 root 1.247 [10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7358     [10:44] <elmex> | | | | | | |
7359     [10:44] <elmex> | | | |-----| | | |
7360     [10:44] <elmex> | |-------------------------| | | |
7361     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | .---------------------------.| |-------|
7362     [10:44] <elmex> | | | |Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de|| | |
7363     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | `---------------------------'| | |
7364     [10:44] <elmex> | |----------| |-----------------------| |
7365     [10:44] <elmex> | | |-| | | | |
7366     [10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | |-----| |
7367     [10:44] <elmex> | |------------|-------------- | | |
7368     [10:44] <elmex> | |-----------------------------------|-| |----|
7369     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| |-| | | | |
7370     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | | | | |
7371     [10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | | |
7372     [10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7373 root 1.387 %
7374 root 1.1 Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7375 root 1.387 %
7376 root 1.1 "There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7377     like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7378     [irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7379     take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7380     -- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7381 root 1.387 %
7382 root 1.1 "Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7383     [Lukas Grunwald]
7384 root 1.387 %
7385 root 1.1 [about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7386     From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7387     Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7388     To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7389    
7390     Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7391     > > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7392     > > prompt.
7393     > very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7394     > /proc/info/authors?
7395 root 1.247
7396 root 1.1 Grand idea.
7397     Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7398     /proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7399     /proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7400     /proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7401     /proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7402 root 1.247
7403 root 1.1 NOT.
7404     [...]
7405 root 1.387 %
7406 root 1.1 [Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7407     Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7408     From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7409 root 1.247
7410 root 1.1 On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7411     > I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7412     > selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7413     > an interesting experiment.
7414 root 1.247
7415 root 1.1 Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7416     about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7417     to disagree...
7418 root 1.387 %
7419 root 1.1 http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7420     http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7421     http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7422     [und Lukas sagt:]
7423     ... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7424 root 1.387 %
7425 root 1.1 [from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7426     report:]
7427     ... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7428     the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7429     second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7430     excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7431 root 1.387 %
7432 root 1.1 [boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7433     http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7434 root 1.387 %
7435 root 1.1 ["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7436     From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7437     Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7438    
7439     Alexander Viro wrote:
7440     > > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7441     > > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7442     >
7443     > Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7444     > as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7445     > codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7446     > UNIX.
7447    
7448     Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7449     compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7450     docs... ew!
7451 root 1.387 %
7452 root 1.1 > Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7453     > should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7454     > protected mode?
7455    
7456     From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7457     with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7458     registers loaded ;)
7459 root 1.387 %
7460 root 1.1 > > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7461     [...]
7462     > backports hurt forward progress.
7463    
7464     beware of content free dogma
7465 root 1.387 %
7466 root 1.1 > What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7467     > wondering.
7468    
7469     Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7470     has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7471     unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7472     Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7473     and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7474     machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7475     no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7476    
7477     Markus [G. Kuhn]
7478 root 1.387 %
7479 root 1.1 >Keith,
7480 root 1.247 >
7481 root 1.1 >Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7482     >of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7483     >RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7484    
7485     I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7486     utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7487     of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7488     not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7489     added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7490     are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7491     do the right thing.
7492    
7493     Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7494     and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7495     unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7496     distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7497     and they have to fix it.
7498 root 1.387 %
7499 root 1.1 10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7500     [10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7501     [10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7502     [10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7503 root 1.387 %
7504 root 1.1 [a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7505     printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7506 root 1.387 %
7507 root 1.1 On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7508     > You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7509     > pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7510     > midgets and what I should expect or not.
7511    
7512     You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7513     You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7514 root 1.387 %
7515 root 1.1 [once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7516     gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7517 root 1.387 %
7518 root 1.1 [subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7519     glibc-2.2 was released]
7520     Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7521 root 1.387 %
7522 root 1.1 [08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7523 root 1.387 %
7524 root 1.1 # root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7525     # kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7526     # elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7527 root 1.387 %
7528 root 1.1 <JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7529     <schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7530     <JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7531 root 1.387 %
7532 root 1.1 [From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7533    
7534     (1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7535     standards-compliant.
7536     (2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7537     (2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7538     entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7539     (2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7540     must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7541     (2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7542 root 1.387 %
7543 root 1.1 [Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7544     > which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7545     > even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7546    
7547     That's your problem.
7548    
7549     There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7550    
7551     Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7552     (If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7553 root 1.387 %
7554 root 1.1 > > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7555     > > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7556     > > out there) in the foot?
7557    
7558     > I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7559    
7560     True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7561     themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7562     for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7563 root 1.387 %
7564 root 1.1 > Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7565     > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7566     > or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7567    
7568     No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7569     after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7570     perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7571     PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7572     _again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7573     --
7574     Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7575 root 1.387 %
7576 root 1.1 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7577    
7578     > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7579     >
7580     > > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7581     > > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7582     >
7583     > Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7584    
7585     [Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7586 root 1.387 %
7587 root 1.388 [Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7588     daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7589     "Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7590 root 1.1 Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7591 root 1.387 %
7592 root 1.1 [amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7593     which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7594     Bullschildt below ;)]
7595    
7596     "The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7597     do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7598 root 1.387 %
7599 root 1.1 Stefan Traby wrote:
7600     >
7601     > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7602     >
7603     > > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7604     >
7605     > Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7606 root 1.387 %
7607 root 1.1 > This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7608    
7609     I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7610     it did the same thing.
7611    
7612     Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7613     a week ago. :(
7614    
7615     --Jack
7616 root 1.387 %
7617 root 1.388 "Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7618 root 1.387 %
7619 root 1.1 [It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7620     -- K&R
7621 root 1.387 %
7622 root 1.1 <elmex> JanMan: "||01:42:20|| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7623 root 1.387 %
7624 root 1.1 [please kids, don't try this at home]
7625     indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7626 root 1.387 %
7627 root 1.1 http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7628 root 1.387 %
7629 root 1.1 [PApp.pm]
7630     $modules => { "" => "" };
7631 root 1.387 %
7632 root 1.388 Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7633 root 1.387 %
7634 root 1.1 <JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7635 root 1.387 %
7636 root 1.1 [From Russel Coker's .sig]
7637     > --
7638     > If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7639     > Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7640 root 1.387 %
7641 root 1.1 [the two sides of the medal]
7642     From: "David Schwartz"
7643    
7644     > Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7645     > 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7646     > increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7647     > pretty spiffy.
7648    
7649     Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7650     to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7651     factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7652     implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7653 root 1.387 %
7654 root 1.1 [lukas grunwald...]
7655 root 1.388 [ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7656 root 1.387 %
7657 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7658     > (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7659     > of having bough one.
7660    
7661     Not an uncommon thought :)
7662 root 1.387 %
7663 root 1.1 From: Stefan Traby
7664    
7665     Hi Marc !
7666    
7667     keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7668     keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7669     keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7670    
7671     Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7672 root 1.387 %
7673 root 1.1 [I hope you get the point(s)...]
7674     From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7675     Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7676     To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7677    
7678     At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7679     >But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7680     >dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7681    
7682     Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7683     all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7684     which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7685     remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7686     [yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7687     and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7688    
7689     >[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7690     >in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7691    
7692     And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7693     separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7694     them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7695     right to left.
7696    
7697     >But no culture
7698     >has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7699     >nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7700     >to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7701     >confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7702     >nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7703    
7704     Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7705    
7706     --Alex
7707 root 1.387 %
7708 root 1.1 [recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7709     From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7710     To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7711    
7712     [most of the reply snipped...]
7713    
7714     > The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7715     > may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7716     > it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7717    
7718     [[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7719    
7720     These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7721     the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7722     grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7723     forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7724     and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7725    
7726     (Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7727     attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7728     try to claim that they do?)
7729 root 1.387 %
7730 root 1.1 On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7731    
7732     > void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7733     > {
7734     > if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7735     > flush(load);
7736     > else
7737     > wear(load);
7738     > }
7739    
7740     But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7741     purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7742    
7743     In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7744     calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7745    
7746     --
7747     dwmw2
7748 root 1.387 %
7749 root 1.1 Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7750     are are overturned.
7751 root 1.387 %
7752 root 1.1 "Going into court is throwing the dice."
7753 root 1.387 %
7754 root 1.1 [Dipl. Ing. W******* D*******]
7755     "Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7756 root 1.388 für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7757     verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7758 root 1.387 %
7759 root 1.1 [some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7760     Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7761     Marc gives some dumb comments.
7762     Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7763     Marc: Yeah.. and?
7764     Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7765     Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7766 root 1.387 %
7767 root 1.1 [t-online is just sooo cool:]
7768     Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7769     From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7770    
7771     |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
7772     <service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7773     |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
7774 root 1.387 %
7775 root 1.1 [a play with a well-known-signature:]
7776     Deadlock, n.:
7777     Deceased Rasterman.
7778 root 1.387 %
7779 root 1.1 [Jeff Williams & friends]
7780     ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7781     http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7782     http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7783 root 1.387 %
7784 root 1.1 [some .signature]
7785     This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7786 root 1.387 %
7787 root 1.1 [Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7788     Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7789 root 1.388 mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7790     Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7791     zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7792     nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7793 root 1.1 reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7794     das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7795 root 1.388 Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7796     Positionen für unwählbar.
7797 root 1.1
7798     Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7799 root 1.387 %
7800 root 1.1 From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7801     Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7802     Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7803    
7804     Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7805    
7806     > Their opinion: "well, *everybody* knows that this is not professional,
7807     > nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7808     > should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7809     > but *WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN* was to write these programs in Haskell.
7810     > Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7811    
7812     A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7813     She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7814     on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7815     students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7816     refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7817     results simply because I make a mistake!
7818    
7819     In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7820     students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7821     errors.
7822    
7823     So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7824     North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7825     European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7826     programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7827 root 1.387 %
7828 root 1.1 On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7829     > yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7830     > > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7831     > > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7832     >
7833     > Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7834 root 1.387 %
7835 root 1.1 "The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7836     of nothing."
7837 root 1.387 %
7838 root 1.1 [after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7839     Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7840     >
7841     > So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7842     > CPU?
7843    
7844     Root password? :)
7845    
7846     John.Fulmer
7847 root 1.387 %
7848 root 1.1 I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7849    
7850     Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7851 root 1.387 %
7852 root 1.1 > NO. They can/will use RAW_IO *IF* this is available to them. If not, they
7853     > will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7854     > which I prefer...
7855    
7856     Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7857     to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7858     works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7859     scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7860     updater for the new SCSI controller.
7861     --
7862     Horst von Brand
7863 root 1.387 %
7864 root 1.1 [de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7865    
7866     >Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7867    
7868     [...]
7869    
7870     Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7871 root 1.387 %
7872 root 1.1 [Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7873     at your problem:]
7874    
7875     The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7876     a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7877     had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7878 root 1.387 %
7879 root 1.1 [Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7880     cp is inherently inefficient.
7881 root 1.387 %
7882 root 1.1 >I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7883     >breaking seals on them.
7884    
7885     Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7886     nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7887     hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7888    
7889     ...
7890    
7891     There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7892     did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7893     killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7894     could be just an urban myth though.
7895    
7896     Russell Coker
7897 root 1.387 %
7898 root 1.1 >I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7899     >Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7900    
7901     Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7902 root 1.387 %
7903 root 1.1 On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7904     > "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7905     > > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7906     > > deleting.
7907     >
7908     > Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7909    
7910     Wrong. Yury does.
7911     :(
7912    
7913     --
7914     Stefan
7915 root 1.387 %
7916 root 1.1 "Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7917     > I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7918     > folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7919     > not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7920     > Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7921     > dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7922     > DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7923    
7924     DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7925    
7926     Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7927 root 1.387 %
7928 root 1.1 [very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7929 root 1.388 00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7930 root 1.1 Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7931 root 1.388 Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7932     einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7933 root 1.387 %
7934 root 1.1 [Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7935     > > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7936     > > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7937     > > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7938     > > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7939     > > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7940     > > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7941     > > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7942     > > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7943     > > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7944 root 1.387 %
7945 root 1.388 [Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7946     installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7947     Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7948 root 1.1 aus!
7949 root 1.387 %
7950 root 1.1 [IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7951     http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7952 root 1.387 %
7953 root 1.1 [On the reality of random numbers]
7954     > /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7955     > to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7956     Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7957 root 1.387 %
7958 root 1.1 [Flame Warriors]
7959     http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7960 root 1.387 %
7961 root 1.1 A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7962     functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7963     more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7964     fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7965    
7966     --tom
7967 root 1.387 %
7968 root 1.1 To: bugs@gimp.org
7969     X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7970    
7971     Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7972     problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7973     it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7974     editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7975     whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7976 root 1.387 %
7977 root 1.1 ["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7978     VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7979     lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7980     a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7981     solutions.
7982    
7983     http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7984    
7985     [Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7986     rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7987     the background]
7988 root 1.387 %
7989 root 1.1 [Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7990     Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7991     Security Response Center:
7992    
7993     This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7994     virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7995    
7996     [and later]
7997     Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7998    
7999     This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8000    
8001     [Phil closes]
8002     Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8003    
8004     [See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8005     [and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8006 root 1.387 %
8007 root 1.1 [Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8008     Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8009     2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8010     even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8011     system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8012     vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8013     Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8014 root 1.387 %
8015 root 1.1 >Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8016     >splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8017     >that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8018     >was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8019    
8020     [Trashey / Quasars]
8021 root 1.387 %
8022 root 1.1 Tom Christiansen writes:
8023     > I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8024     > switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8025    
8026     Irony potential in
8027    
8028     man perlrtfm
8029    
8030     is left to the reader.
8031    
8032     Nat
8033 root 1.387 %
8034 root 1.1 Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8035     and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8036    
8037     (Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8038     private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8039 root 1.387 %
8040 root 1.1 [Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8041     Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8042     Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8043 root 1.387 %
8044 root 1.1 "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8045     same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8046     Paul Tomblin
8047 root 1.387 %
8048 root 1.1 [recently on p5p]
8049     >I am morally
8050     >convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8051    
8052     Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8053     possibility...
8054    
8055     Dan
8056 root 1.387 %
8057 root 1.1 [after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8058 root 1.388 <jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8059 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 :)
8060     <Mr> zugabe
8061 root 1.387 %
8062 root 1.1 "Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8063     Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8064 root 1.387 %
8065 root 1.1 DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8066     [cobol, *sigh*]
8067 root 1.387 %
8068 root 1.1 It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8069     operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8070     on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8071     desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8072     scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8073     age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8074     system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8075     so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8076    
8077     Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8078 root 1.387 %
8079 root 1.1 "Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8080    
8081     "Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8082     not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8083     may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8084     after they regain their composure."
8085    
8086     -- Paul Rinaldo
8087     [see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8088 root 1.387 %
8089 root 1.1 On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8090     >
8091     > In case you guys havn't noticed...
8092     >
8093     > http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8094    
8095     Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8096    
8097     Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8098    
8099     ;-}
8100    
8101     --
8102    
8103     ciao -
8104     Stefan
8105    
8106 root 1.387 %
8107 root 1.1 > The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8108     > Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8109    
8110     No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8111     mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8112     guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8113     'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8114     one' type remarks.
8115     [Alan Cox]
8116 root 1.387 %
8117 root 1.1 Godwin's Law
8118    
8119     As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8120     involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8121    
8122     [see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8123 root 1.387 %
8124 root 1.1 ["Stefan im IRC."]
8125    
8126     [01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8127     [01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8128     [01:53:31] <coda> haha
8129 root 1.387 %
8130 root 1.1 [remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8131     Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8132     The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8133     requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8134 root 1.387 %
8135 root 1.1 [Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8136     > No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8137    
8138     Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8139     is to me ok.
8140 root 1.387 %
8141 root 1.1 "The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8142    
8143     "I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8144 root 1.387 %
8145 root 1.1 [Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8146     Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8147 root 1.387 %
8148 root 1.1 Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8149     just nod your head and back away slowly...
8150 root 1.387 %
8151 root 1.1 The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8152     files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8153     to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8154    
8155     Ralf
8156 root 1.387 %
8157 root 1.1 It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8158     care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8159     95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8160    
8161     david parsons
8162 root 1.387 %
8163 root 1.1 ["some time ago on p5p"]
8164     > ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8165    
8166     >Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8167     >so that trick is not portable.
8168    
8169     % grep localhost /etc/hosts
8170     127.0.0.1 localhost
8171    
8172     --tom
8173 root 1.387 %
8174 root 1.1 ["some time ago on p5p"]
8175     On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8176     > >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8177     > >the question is moot.
8178     >
8179     > I'll send you a free Unix system.
8180    
8181     Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8182    
8183     Ilya
8184 root 1.387 %
8185 root 1.1 [Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8186     > Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8187     > using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8188     > will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8189     > trying.
8190    
8191     Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8192     fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8193 root 1.387 %
8194 root 1.1 [Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8195     ... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8196     ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8197     outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8198 root 1.387 %
8199 root 1.1 [Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8200     I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8201     his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8202 root 1.387 %
8203 root 1.1 [David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8204     > ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8205     > strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8206     > blocking :-)
8207    
8208     That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8209     validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8210     people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8211     people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8212     reasons.
8213    
8214     DS
8215 root 1.387 %
8216 root 1.1 [WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8217 root 1.388 Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8218 root 1.1 geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8219 root 1.388 und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8220 root 1.1 hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8221    
8222     Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8223 root 1.388 üblich, erschossen wurde.
8224 root 1.387 %
8225 root 1.1 > - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8226     [...]
8227     > Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8228     [...]
8229    
8230     You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8231     You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8232     Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8233     with each other on the same channel.
8234    
8235     IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8236     hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8237    
8238     This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8239 root 1.387 %
8240 root 1.1 [ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8241     "Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8242 root 1.387 %
8243 root 1.1 Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8244 root 1.387 %
8245 root 1.1 [OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8246     ANY word at all is a candidate.
8247     USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8248     ok
8249 root 1.387 %
8250 root 1.1 [SDF for POD Users]
8251     ... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8252 root 1.387 %
8253 root 1.1 <Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8254     <schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8255     <Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8256     <schmorp> xach: ok.
8257     <Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8258     <Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8259     <Xach> burrito, focus
8260     <Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8261 root 1.387 %
8262 root 1.1 [Paul Miller]
8263     ... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8264     using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8265     tested it." ...
8266 root 1.387 %
8267 root 1.1 Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8268 root 1.387 %
8269 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8270    
8271     Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8272     >Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8273     >
8274     >>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8275     >
8276     >"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8277     >
8278     >"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8279     >
8280     >No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8281     >the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8282     >systems.
8283    
8284    
8285     Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8286     had.
8287    
8288     --
8289     Neal Bridges
8290 root 1.387 %
8291 root 1.1 On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8292    
8293     > Hi folks,
8294     > 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?
8295     > please reply to
8296     > sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8297     > and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8298    
8299     Parse error.
8300    
8301     ---
8302     Alex
8303 root 1.387 %
8304 root 1.1 From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8305    
8306     > Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8307     > including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8308    
8309     Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8310     amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8311     the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8312    
8313     That doesn't mean that I don't want *my* program to be clean ANSI C.
8314 root 1.387 %
8315 root 1.1 [one of the few good us movies]
8316 root 1.388 Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8317 root 1.387 %
8318 root 1.1 [guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8319     ii = 44;
8320     p = &ii;
8321     *p = ii/*p;
8322     ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8323     printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8324 root 1.387 %
8325 root 1.1 > But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8326     > Linux time then.
8327    
8328     Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8329    
8330     They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8331     Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8332    
8333     Roger.
8334 root 1.387 %
8335 root 1.1 <Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8336 root 1.387 %
8337 root 1.1 auto accident;
8338     register voters;
8339     static electricity;
8340     struct by_lightning;
8341     void *where_prohibited;
8342     char broiled;
8343     short circuit;
8344     short changed;
8345     long johns;
8346     unsigned long letter;
8347     double entendre;
8348     double trouble;
8349     union organizer;
8350     float valve;
8351     short pants;
8352     union station;
8353     void check; unsigned check;
8354     struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8355 root 1.387 %
8356 root 1.1 [I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8357     22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8358     - 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8359 root 1.388 verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8360 root 1.387 %
8361 root 1.1 Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8362    
8363     I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8364     worstation.
8365 root 1.387 %
8366 root 1.1 I wrote
8367     > I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8368     $/
8369    
8370     Damn shift key.
8371    
8372    
8373     Mike Guy
8374 root 1.387 %
8375 root 1.1 [rfc2635]
8376     The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8377     netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8378     movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8379     over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8380     of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8381     closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8382     take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8383     pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8384 root 1.387 %
8385 root 1.1 [CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8386    
8387     The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8388    
8389     Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8390     device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8391     simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8392     is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8393    
8394     http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8395 root 1.387 %
8396 root 1.1 : Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8397     : 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8398    
8399     It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8400     context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8401     now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8402     easy to bother.
8403    
8404     The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8405     purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8406     sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8407     are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8408    
8409     That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8410    
8411     Larry
8412 root 1.387 %
8413 root 1.1 [that one's only for insiders...]
8414     > : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8415     Yeah. :-)
8416 root 1.387 %
8417 root 1.1 [comp.lang.forth]
8418     > Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8419     [...]
8420     > Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8421    
8422     Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8423     penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8424     I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8425     fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8426    
8427     Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8428     whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8429     with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8430     receipts aren't used anymore.
8431 root 1.387 %
8432 root 1.1 Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8433     installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8434     Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8435 root 1.387 %
8436 root 1.1 > Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8437     > und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8438     > Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8439     > versteht?"
8440 root 1.387 %
8441 root 1.1 [de.alt.anime]
8442     Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8443     "Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8444     der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8445 root 1.388 Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8446 root 1.1 dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8447 root 1.388 mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8448 root 1.1 geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8449     Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8450     ji!
8451 root 1.387 %
8452 root 1.1 I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8453     in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8454     [Larry Wall]
8455 root 1.387 %
8456 root 1.1 Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8457     Altpreussen.
8458     - Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8459     de.soc.politik.deutschland
8460 root 1.387 %
8461 root 1.1 > > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8462     > > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8463     > > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8464     > > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8465     >
8466 root 1.388 > Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8467     > geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8468 root 1.1 > Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8469    
8470 root 1.388 Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8471 root 1.1 Norbert?
8472 root 1.387 %
8473 root 1.208 Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8474 root 1.1 Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8475     "Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8476 root 1.387 %
8477 root 1.1 http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8478 root 1.387 %
8479 root 1.1 <Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8480 root 1.387 %
8481 root 1.1 Subject: GNU compiler
8482     From: "Steve"
8483     Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8484     To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8485     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8486    
8487     [the following was a single line, of course]
8488     I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8489     instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8490     how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8491     several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8492     assistance would be greatly appreciated
8493    
8494     Thanks,
8495    
8496     Steve
8497 root 1.387 %
8498 root 1.1 [an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8499     > Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8500     > managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8501     > 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8502 root 1.387 %
8503 root 1.1 <tigert> xachbot, op
8504     <XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8505     <tigert> ahem
8506 root 1.387 %
8507 root 1.1 <tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8508     -XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records | See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8509     <tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8510 root 1.387 %
8511 root 1.1 [the release of perl 5.000]
8512     Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8513     From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8514     Subject: It's soup.
8515    
8516     Okay, it's there.
8517    
8518     ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8519    
8520     The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8521    
8522     Larry
8523 root 1.387 %
8524 root 1.1 l33+ h4X0rz
8525 root 1.387 %
8526 root 1.1 # A random text generator using Markov chains
8527     perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8528     }.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8529     &b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8530     ($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8531 root 1.387 %
8532 root 1.1 > && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8533     > && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8534     >
8535     > Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8536     > And there's no mouse.
8537     >
8538     > Abigail
8539    
8540     Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8541    
8542     Matt.
8543 root 1.387 %
8544 root 1.1 Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8545     giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8546    
8547     - --tom
8548 root 1.387 %
8549 root 1.1 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8550     Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8551    
8552     On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8553     >
8554     > So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8555     > 2.2.11 release?
8556    
8557     [ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8558    
8559     Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8560    
8561     Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8562 root 1.387 %
8563 root 1.1 Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you *want* to get the point?
8564 root 1.387 %
8565 root 1.1 ["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8566     On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8567     > Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8568     > ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8569     > block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8570     > that much ;-)
8571    
8572     IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8573 root 1.387 %
8574 root 1.1 MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8575     preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8576 root 1.387 %
8577 root 1.1 [comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8578     <QUOTE>
8579     I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8580    
8581     (I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8582     gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8583     </QUOTE>
8584 root 1.387 %
8585 root 1.1 The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8586     and routes around it.
8587    
8588     Roger Larsson
8589 root 1.388 Skellefteå
8590 root 1.387 %
8591 root 1.1 [configuring gcc]
8592     Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8593 root 1.387 %
8594 root 1.1 'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8595     except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8596 root 1.387 %
8597 root 1.1 [http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8598    
8599     Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8600     comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8601     finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8602     on different JVMs.
8603    
8604     [and later]
8605    
8606     Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8607     adventure gaming:
8608    
8609     1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8610     2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8611 root 1.387 %
8612 root 1.1 [the ||-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8613     "and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8614    
8615     >>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8616    
8617     NK> ?? -> huh?
8618    
8619     That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8620    
8621     <chaim>
8622 root 1.387 %
8623 root 1.1 `One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8624     code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8625     languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8626     people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8627     numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8628     specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8629 root 1.387 %
8630 root 1.1 [Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8631 root 1.388 Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8632 root 1.387 %
8633 root 1.1 [Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8634     Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8635     page]
8636     ... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8637     value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8638     must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8639     properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8640     though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8641     OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8642     value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8643     disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8644     [Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8645     dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8646 root 1.387 %
8647 root 1.1 [Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8648     Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8649     excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8650     don't actually get anything DONE.
8651 root 1.387 %
8652 root 1.1 Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8653     * It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8654     * You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8655     * You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8656 root 1.387 %
8657 root 1.1 > 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8658     > number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8659     > read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8660     > get the serial number from the OS)?
8661    
8662     Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8663 root 1.387 %
8664 root 1.1 [CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8665     "Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8666     they have continued that legacy to this day."
8667 root 1.387 %
8668 root 1.1 [From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8669     "In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8670     files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8671 root 1.387 %
8672 root 1.1 > If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8673    
8674     Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8675     means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8676     that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8677     exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8678     other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8679     seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8680     still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8681     Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8682     got the T-shirt.
8683 root 1.387 %
8684 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8685     From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8686     Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8687     To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8688     Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8689     davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8690     X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8691    
8692     Linus writes, to Craig:
8693    
8694     > I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8695     > and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8696     > thus choices than gcc.
8697    
8698     No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8699     larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8700     conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8701     far more complex than the kernel.
8702    
8703     [NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8704     bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8705    
8706     [ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8707 root 1.387 %
8708 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8709     From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8710     To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8711    
8712     >I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8713     [...]
8714     >I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8715     >information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8716     >best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8717     >let the user be in control.
8718    
8719     In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8720     the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8721     that you know, what, *nothing* about language design, and *nothing*
8722     about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8723     compilers?
8724 root 1.387 %
8725 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8726     From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8727    
8728     Linus writes:
8729     > Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8730     > gcc could do better?
8731    
8732     Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8733     matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8734     before you had so many worshippers.
8735 root 1.387 %
8736 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8737     From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8738     Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8739     To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8740     X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8741    
8742     Linus Torvalds wrote:
8743    
8744     > I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8745     > revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8746     > trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8747     > just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8748    
8749     Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8750    
8751     #pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8752    
8753     around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8754     _and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8755    
8756     They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8757    
8758     >:->
8759    
8760     Brane
8761    
8762    
8763     P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8764     who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8765     standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8766     compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8767     features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8768    
8769    
8770     P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8771 root 1.387 %
8772 root 1.1 You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose *two*
8773 root 1.387 %
8774 root 1.1 "Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8775     fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8776     high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8777 root 1.387 %
8778 root 1.1 1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8779     2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8780     3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8781 root 1.387 %
8782 root 1.1 [gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8783    
8784     > Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8785    
8786     Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8787 root 1.387 %
8788 root 1.1 [perl is cryptic??]
8789     Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8790     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8791     Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8792    
8793     We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8794    
8795     : Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8796     : substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8797     :
8798     : ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* }
8799     :
8800     : replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8801     :
8802     : "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* }"
8803 root 1.387 %
8804 root 1.1 Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8805 root 1.387 %
8806 root 1.1 > |> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8807     > |> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8808     > |> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8809     > |> interpreting words in any human language.
8810     >
8811     > This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8812     > "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8813    
8814     The classic example:
8815    
8816     "Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8817     "Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8818 root 1.387 %
8819 root 1.1 [do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8820     >_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8821    
8822     And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8823     once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8824     lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8825    
8826     What's next, a String class for Perl?
8827    
8828     --tom
8829 root 1.387 %
8830 root 1.1 [some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8831     i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8832     working on something for me
8833     u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8834     to me nutting concerning y ok
8835     piece
8836     russ
8837 root 1.387 %
8838 root 1.1 [From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8839    
8840     pico (text editor for beginners)
8841     vi (text editor for advanced users)
8842     emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8843     ed (text editor for beginners)
8844 root 1.387 %
8845 root 1.1 There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8846    
8847     use Python;
8848    
8849     and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8850     Except maybe faster. :-)
8851    
8852     Larry
8853 root 1.387 %
8854 root 1.1 > Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8855    
8856     just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8857     2010.
8858    
8859     (Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8860 root 1.387 %
8861 root 1.1 The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8862     read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8863     and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8864     it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8865     descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8866     lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8867     document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8868     been created.
8869 root 1.387 %
8870 root 1.1 > Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8871     >
8872     > Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8873     > $3.99.
8874     >
8875     > Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8876     >
8877     > Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8878     >
8879     > Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8880     >
8881     > Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8882     >
8883     > Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8884     >
8885     > Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8886     > got integrated Coke!
8887     >
8888     > Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8889     > to drink the Coke.
8890     >
8891     > Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8892     >
8893     > Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8894     >
8895     > Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8896     > inseparable.
8897     >
8898     > Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8899     >
8900     > Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8901     >
8902     > Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8903     >
8904     > Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8905     > two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8906     > continuous taste across all your foods.
8907 root 1.387 %
8908 root 1.1 Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8909     like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8910 root 1.40 Rob Pike
8911 root 1.387 %
8912 root 1.1 From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8913    
8914     Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8915     Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8916     It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8917     for you to digest this book.
8918     Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8919     Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8920     Join The Trickle
8921     Python: more popular than Dylan!
8922     Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8923     Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8924 root 1.387 %
8925 root 1.1 Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8926     honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8927     that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8928     complete and utter vapourware.
8929    
8930     Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8931 root 1.387 %
8932 root 1.1 [From "Programming Perl"]
8933    
8934     We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8935     programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8936 root 1.387 %
8937 root 1.1 [Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8938    
8939     Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8940     almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8941     see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8942     a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8943     Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8944     Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8945     not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8946     (Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8947     find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8948     terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8949     problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8950     span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8951     everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8952     saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8953     methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8954     would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8955     proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8956     come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8957     programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8958     understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8959     work.
8960     [...]
8961     You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8962     type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8963     don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8964     what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8965     litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8966     search generically - then it has some potential.
8967     [...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8968     It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8969     profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8970     intellectual value whatsoever.
8971    
8972     [Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8973     I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8974     out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8975 root 1.387 %
8976 root 1.1 [Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8977 root 1.388 "Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8978 root 1.387 %
8979 root 1.1 [/bin/false on solaris]
8980     #!/usr/bin/sh
8981     # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8982     # All Rights Reserved
8983    
8984     # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8985     # The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8986     # actual or intended publication of such source code.
8987    
8988     #ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8989     [obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, *1* line.]
8990 root 1.387 %
8991 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.
8992 root 1.387 %
8993 root 1.1 When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8994     or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8995     the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8996 root 1.387 %
8997 root 1.1 [Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8998    
8999     "Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9000     rather than fixing the actual problem."
9001    
9002     [further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9003     just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9004     machine]
9005    
9006     "Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9007     of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9008     responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9009    
9010     [see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9011 root 1.387 %
9012 root 1.1 [Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9013     spamming:]
9014    
9015     >fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9016     >>
9017     >>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9018     >>------------------------------------------------------
9019     >>
9020     >>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9021     >>
9022     >>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9023    
9024     [and later, misquoting my name:]
9025     >mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9026 root 1.387 %
9027 root 1.1 [How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9028     He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9029 root 1.387 %
9030 root 1.1 > And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9031     If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9032 root 1.387 %
9033 root 1.1 According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9034     95/98 are limited to an uptime of *exactly* 49.7 days.
9035    
9036     --found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9037 root 1.387 %
9038 root 1.1 > Leave that to RMS.
9039    
9040     If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9041     RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9042     else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9043     he's full of.
9044    
9045     Support BSD/Linux.
9046    
9047     --tom
9048 root 1.387 %
9049 root 1.1 "The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9050 root 1.387 %
9051 root 1.1 We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9052 root 1.387 %
9053 root 1.1 > Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9054     > history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9055    
9056     Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9057     mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9058     and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9059     few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9060 root 1.387 %
9061 root 1.1 [on channel #gimp]
9062    
9063     [msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9064     [XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9065 root 1.387 %
9066 root 1.1 [the creation]
9067     http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9068 root 1.387 %
9069 root 1.1 THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9070    
9071     This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9072     an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9073     to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9074 root 1.387 %
9075 root 1.1 Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9076     selbst schliesse.
9077     Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9078     am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9079 root 1.387 %
9080 root 1.1 According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9081     > "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9082    
9083     No:
9084    
9085     use Borg;
9086     make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9087    
9088     --
9089     Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9090 root 1.387 %
9091 root 1.1 "And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9092     the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9093     sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9094     systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9095     its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9096     appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9097     agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9098     time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9099     agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9100     non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9101     failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9102     specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9103     pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9104     concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9105     sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9106     run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9107     modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9108     'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9109     logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9110     aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9111     the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9112     dispensers."
9113    
9114     [Kenneth Albanowski]
9115 root 1.387 %
9116 root 1.1 Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9117     Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9118     unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9119     -- Kristian Koehntopp
9120 root 1.387 %
9121 root 1.1 > Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9122     > topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9123     > marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9124 root 1.387 %
9125 root 1.388 [bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9126 root 1.1
9127     Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9128 root 1.388 Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9129 root 1.1 Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9130 root 1.388 Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9131 root 1.1 Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9132     Student: "..."
9133     Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9134     Student: "..."
9135     Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9136 root 1.387 %
9137 root 1.1 Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9138    
9139     > Just morbid curiosity,
9140     >
9141     > Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9142    
9143     Yes. Broken ones.
9144    
9145     dgris
9146 root 1.387 %
9147 root 1.1 "The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9148     -- A Borges story in ten words.
9149 root 1.387 %
9150 root 1.1 "C combines the power of assembly language
9151     with the flexibility of assembly language."
9152 root 1.387 %
9153 root 1.1 ...
9154    
9155     <AOL>
9156    
9157     Me too!
9158    
9159     </AOL>
9160    
9161     Tig
9162 root 1.387 %
9163 root 1.1 ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9164 root 1.387 %
9165 root 1.1 unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9166 root 1.387 %
9167 root 1.1 From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9168    
9169     I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9170     "slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9171     wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9172     loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9173     to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9174     chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9175     NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9176    
9177     Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9178    
9179     I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9180     expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9181     get really really pissed.
9182    
9183     Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux *really* start
9184     to cut into M$'s server market share.
9185 root 1.387 %
9186 root 1.1 > Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9187     > that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9188     > need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9189     > period.
9190     >
9191     > Sorry for the insignificant post..
9192     > Nic
9193     >
9194    
9195     Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9196    
9197     -hpa
9198 root 1.387 %
9199 root 1.1 grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9200 root 1.387 %
9201 root 1.1 "If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9202     make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9203     happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9204     administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9205     happy."
9206     - - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9207 root 1.387 %
9208 root 1.1 From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9209     Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9210     To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9211    
9212     I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9213     of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9214     I also forwarded the offending code.
9215    
9216     The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9217     of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9218     service.
9219    
9220     Daniel
9221 root 1.387 %
9222 root 1.1 Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9223     ...
9224     * cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9225 root 1.387 %
9226 root 1.1 "Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9227     It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9228     [RJL]
9229 root 1.387 %
9230 root 1.1 As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9231     right.''
9232 root 1.387 %
9233 root 1.1 [Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9234    
9235     Amazing--they actually listened.
9236 root 1.387 %
9237 root 1.1 That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9238     SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9239     that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9240    
9241     # less foo
9242     sh: command not found
9243     # more foo
9244     sh: command not found
9245     # emacs foo
9246     sh: command not found
9247     # ed foo
9248     0
9249     help
9250     ?
9251     quit
9252     ?
9253     exit
9254     ?
9255     DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9256     ?
9257    
9258     [Albert D. Cahalan]
9259 root 1.387 %
9260 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9261     From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9262     Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9263    
9264     tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9265    
9266     tim> use blib ':quiet';
9267    
9268     tim> would be most correct in style.
9269    
9270     Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9271     For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9272 root 1.387 %
9273 root 1.1 [A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9274     No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9275     effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9276     [Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9277     too bad --- ]
9278 root 1.387 %
9279 root 1.1 Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9280 root 1.387 %
9281 root 1.1 Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9282    
9283     > Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9284     > licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9285    
9286     The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9287     pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9288 root 1.387 %
9289 root 1.1 [once on linux-kernel:]
9290     > >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9291     > Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9292     he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9293     driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9294 root 1.387 %
9295 root 1.1 > Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9296    
9297     No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9298     include wrong #include files in their source.
9299 root 1.387 %
9300 root 1.1 [unix-faq]
9301    
9302     Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9303     "rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "*" instead of "*.foo".
9304     Consider it a rite of passage.
9305 root 1.387 %
9306 root 1.1 "There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9307     "Oops."
9308     -- MST3K
9309 root 1.387 %
9310 root 1.1 Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9311     claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9312     those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9313    
9314     I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9315     It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9316     I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9317     look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9318     stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9319     it. ;)
9320 root 1.387 %
9321 root 1.1 >I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9322     >human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9323     >not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9324     >This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9325     >testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9326    
9327     What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9328     documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9329     Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9330     did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9331    
9332     --tom
9333 root 1.387 %
9334 root 1.1 > * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9335    
9336     In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9337    
9338     >Why does it end ?
9339    
9340     Ask the X3J11 committee.
9341    
9342     > * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9343     > * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9344    
9345     To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9346 root 1.387 %
9347 root 1.1 "Unix *is* Perl's IDE!"
9348     -- Tom Christiansen
9349 root 1.387 %
9350 root 1.1 [Sputnik]
9351    
9352     Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9353     A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9354     supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9355     wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9356     of Sputnik.
9357 root 1.387 %
9358 root 1.1 NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9359     even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9360     characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9361     the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9362     of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9363 root 1.387 %
9364 root 1.1 Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9365     - Hanlons razor -
9366 root 1.387 %
9367 root 1.1 Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9368     explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9369 root 1.387 %
9370 root 1.1 According to Chris Nandor:
9371     > I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9372     > but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9373     > offered no significant advantages.
9374    
9375     That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9376 root 1.387 %
9377 root 1.1 My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9378     stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9379     (?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9380     reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9381     quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9382     in front of me says so."
9383    
9384     He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9385 root 1.387 %
9386 root 1.1 9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9387     statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9388     praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9389     fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9390     deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9391     quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9392     transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9393     annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9394     consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9395     idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9396     quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9397 root 1.387 %
9398 root 1.1 You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9399     and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9400     did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9401     2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9402     the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9403 root 1.387 %
9404 root 1.1 "Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9405 root 1.387 %
9406 root 1.388 HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9407 root 1.1 hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9408     Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9409     schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9410     get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9411 root 1.387 %
9412 root 1.1 From: Robert Lipe
9413     > > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9414     > > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9415     >
9416     > But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9417     > and/or screen.
9418    
9419     Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9420 root 1.387 %
9421 root 1.1 Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9422     From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9423    
9424     On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9425     > use pedantic;
9426     > use strict 'code';
9427     >
9428     > or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9429    
9430     use syntax 'python';
9431    
9432     Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9433    
9434 root 1.387 %
9435 root 1.1 Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9436     >
9437     > Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9438     > past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9439     > primarily because people *think* it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9440     > panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9441     >
9442     > It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9443 root 1.387 %
9444 root 1.1 [rfc1925]
9445     Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9446 root 1.387 %
9447 root 1.1 [Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9448     > A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9449     > be time-consuming.
9450    
9451     "Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9452 root 1.387 %
9453 root 1.1 UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9454     77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9455     however, they do not handle C++...
9456     [from "learning the vi editor"]
9457 root 1.387 %
9458 root 1.1 > correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9459     > months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9460    
9461     Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9462    
9463     So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9464    
9465     and as Ecclesiastes said:
9466    
9467     Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9468     already of old time, which was before us.
9469     There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9470     remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9471    
9472     Regards,
9473     Tigran.
9474 root 1.387 %
9475 root 1.1 SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9476 root 1.387 %
9477 root 1.1 [slightly broken, though...]
9478     /* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9479     hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9480     main(){
9481     extrn hw;
9482     putchar(0[hw]);
9483     hw=+1;
9484     putchar(0[hw]);
9485     }
9486 root 1.387 %
9487 root 1.1 > So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9488    
9489     The egg. Always. By definition.
9490 root 1.387 %
9491 root 1.1 > > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9492     >
9493     > Better check your scsi cables.
9494 root 1.387 %
9495 root 1.1 Arroganz durch Wissen
9496     [Dirk Jagdmann]
9497 root 1.387 %
9498 root 1.1 [Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9499     > Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9500     > ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9501     > auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9502    
9503 root 1.388 was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9504 root 1.1 sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9505     Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9506    
9507 root 1.388 Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9508 root 1.1 bezwecken will... ^_-
9509 root 1.387 %
9510 root 1.1 >James :\
9511     >
9512     >I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9513    
9514     I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9515 root 1.387 %
9516 root 1.1 From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9517     Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9518     Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9519 root 1.387 %
9520 root 1.1 > The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9521     > is just asking for a black eye.
9522    
9523     But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9524    
9525     For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9526     if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9527     translation tables are marked as pageable.
9528    
9529     Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9530     that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9531     area.
9532 root 1.387 %
9533 root 1.1 Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9534     [Lukas Grunwald]
9535 root 1.387 %
9536 root 1.1 http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9537    
9538     THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9539     EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9540     YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9541     (DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9542     FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9543 root 1.387 %
9544 root 1.1 [a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9545     Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9546    
9547     kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9548 root 1.387 %
9549 root 1.1 [Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9550     On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9551     For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9552    
9553     0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9554    
9555     However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9556    
9557     0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9558    
9559     due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9560     the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9561 root 1.387 %
9562 root 1.388 [Grüner Tip/Arte]
9563 root 1.1 Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9564 root 1.388 Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9565 root 1.387 %
9566 root 1.1 Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9567     longer...
9568 root 1.387 %
9569 root 1.1 [M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9570     By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9571     VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9572 root 1.387 %
9573 root 1.1 > > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9574     > > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9575     > > world :) I just love it...
9576     >
9577     > Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9578     >
9579     It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9580     should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9581     practical...
9582     for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9583     person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9584     Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9585     one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9586     everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9587    
9588     Jan Hubicka
9589 root 1.387 %
9590 root 1.1 > template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9591     [...]
9592     > I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9593    
9594     No, it is not. What you meant is
9595    
9596     template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9597 root 1.387 %
9598 root 1.1 Jan Dubois writes:
9599     > A) perl-5.00553
9600     > path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9601     > cc = cl.exe
9602     A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9603    
9604     [...]
9605    
9606     Ilya
9607 root 1.387 %
9608 root 1.1 >Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9609    
9610     Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9611    
9612     p.
9613 root 1.387 %
9614 root 1.1 [tomc]
9615     Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9616     logical && and || operators. Here they are:
9617    
9618     +------------------------------------------+
9619     | Other languages, notably C++, permit it. |
9620     +------------------------------------------+
9621    
9622     This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9623     that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9624    
9625     * Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9626     like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9627     * The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9628     infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9629     interesting way.
9630     * Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9631     allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9632     * Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9633     interesting things.
9634     * C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9635     language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9636     things.
9637 root 1.387 %
9638 root 1.1 Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9639     --Dennis Ritchie
9640 root 1.387 %
9641 root 1.1 perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9642 root 1.387 %
9643 root 1.1 [not quite duff's device, but...]
9644    
9645     switch (x)
9646     default:
9647     if (prime(x))
9648     case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9649     process_prime(x);
9650     else
9651     case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9652     process_composite(x);
9653 root 1.387 %
9654 root 1.1 Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9655     after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9656     in megabytes, required for execution?
9657    
9658     Craig Milo Rogers
9659 root 1.387 %
9660 root 1.1 Mark Mielke writes:
9661     > This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9662     > to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9663    
9664     This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9665     US (apparently in Canada too?).
9666    
9667     Ilya
9668 root 1.387 %
9669 root 1.1 [from p5p]
9670     > Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9671    
9672     Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9673     immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9674     note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9675    
9676     Nat
9677 root 1.387 %
9678 root 1.1 Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9679     much steroids for a while. =)
9680    
9681     --Albert Dvornik
9682     <bert@genscan.com>
9683 root 1.387 %
9684 root 1.1 Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9685     From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9686     Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9687    
9688     >*You* do not understand? Perl is slow...
9689    
9690     Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9691     or tcl crowd instead of here.
9692    
9693     --tom
9694 root 1.387 %
9695 root 1.1 >What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9696    
9697     Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9698    
9699     Linus
9700 root 1.387 %
9701 root 1.1 On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9702     devil added HTML mail...
9703 root 1.387 %
9704 root 1.1 linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9705     linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9706     linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9707 root 1.387 %
9708 root 1.1 On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9709     Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9710    
9711     > Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9712     > java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9713     > techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9714    
9715     Arm the gnus!
9716 root 1.387 %
9717 root 1.1 [David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9718    
9719     Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9720     you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9721     gcc, so go away.
9722 root 1.387 %
9723 root 1.1 I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9724     wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9725    
9726     "\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9727    
9728     But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9729     Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9730 root 1.387 %
9731 root 1.1 [on perl version numbering]
9732     > So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9733     > Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9734     > journalists need to make them pay attention.
9735    
9736     Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9737     was released today" madness.
9738 root 1.387 %
9739 root 1.1 [on perl version numbering]
9740     > elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9741     > elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9742     > elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9743     > elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9744     > elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9745     >
9746     > To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9747     > for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9748     > wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9749     > it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9750     > marketing name, anyway.
9751    
9752     Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9753     "The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9754     put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9755    
9756     Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit *mindless*
9757     violence..." :-)
9758 root 1.387 %
9759 root 1.1 Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9760     his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9761 root 1.387 %
9762 root 1.1 > >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9763     > >poor drivers
9764     >
9765     > No it doesn't.
9766    
9767     Indeed. Its down to
9768    
9769     Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9770    
9771     and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9772     The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9773     we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9774     or binaries.
9775 root 1.387 %
9776 root 1.1 dig txt leap.yp.to
9777 root 1.387 %
9778 root 1.1 "The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9779 root 1.387 %
9780 root 1.1 [linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9781    
9782     |> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9783     |> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9784     |>
9785     |> s/optimal/stupid/
9786    
9787     What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9788    
9789     Andreas.
9790 root 1.387 %
9791 root 1.1 [Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9792     ...
9793     A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9794    
9795     Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9796     Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9797     skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9798     arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9799     UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9800     not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9801 root 1.387 %
9802 root 1.1 [D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9803    
9804     Paul Eggert writes:
9805     > which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9806    
9807     Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9808     try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9809 root 1.387 %
9810 root 1.1 For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9811     however.
9812    
9813     "We don't have the tools"
9814     "We can't support a non intel build"
9815     "We don't have that sort of machine"
9816     "Its not worth the time cost"
9817     "Whats an Alpha ?"
9818 root 1.387 %
9819 root 1.1 On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9820    
9821     > The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9822     > from mini [10.0.0.3]
9823     >
9824     > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9825     > <mailproc@fred>
9826     >
9827     > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9828     > procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9829     > procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9830     > procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9831     > 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9832 root 1.387 %
9833 root 1.1 > Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9834     > No documented problem
9835     > No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9836     > No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9837     >
9838     > Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9839 root 1.387 %
9840 root 1.1 > This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9841     > satisfy neither of us (:-).
9842 root 1.387 %
9843 root 1.1 By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9844     change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9845    
9846     dave
9847 root 1.387 %
9848 root 1.1 On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9849     DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9850    
9851     BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9852 root 1.387 %
9853 root 1.1 [Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9854    
9855     Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9856     From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9857    
9858     Paul Eggert writes:
9859     > * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9860    
9861     If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9862     1 month before 29 March?
9863    
9864     The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9865    
9866     1 month before 28 March?
9867    
9868     28 February.
9869    
9870     And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9871     _before_ 27 February?
9872    
9873     28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9874 root 1.387 %
9875 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9876    
9877     >Nils Goesche wrote:
9878     >> So make a security check first:
9879     >>
9880     >> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9881     >> launch_full_counterstrike();
9882     >
9883     >Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9884     >do the job. Here's the revised version:
9885     >
9886     >if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9887     > = instead of == error*/
9888     > launch_full_counterstrike();
9889     >
9890     >Now isn't that much more reliable?
9891     >
9892     >--
9893     >Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9894    
9895     The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9896    
9897     if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9898     launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9899 root 1.387 %
9900 root 1.1 It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9901     of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9902    
9903     He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9904     for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9905     to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9906     happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9907     essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9908     this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9909     check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9910     Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9911    
9912     The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9913     were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9914     of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9915     available for that hardware from any source.
9916     What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9917     Whats next? A *Smell* modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9918     sniffing!
9919 root 1.387 %
9920 root 1.1 "I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9921     technical support line that isn't"
9922 root 1.387 %
9923 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel]
9924     `This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9925 root 1.387 %
9926 root 1.1 [...]
9927     And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9928     suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9929    
9930     "I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9931     4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9932     "We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9933     "Nothing else"
9934     "Sorry"
9935     [Click]
9936    
9937     Alan
9938 root 1.387 %
9939 root 1.388 Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9940     während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9941 root 1.387 %
9942 root 1.1 > Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9943     > software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9944     > we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9945     > users excepted, of course!).
9946    
9947     Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9948     systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9949     their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9950     concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9951     construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9952     is installed"
9953    
9954     [Toon Moene in private discussion]
9955 root 1.387 %
9956 root 1.1 Newsgroups: alt.config
9957    
9958     L. Harris wrote:
9959     >
9960     > Testing
9961    
9962     you failed.
9963 root 1.387 %
9964 root 1.1 Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9965     <JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9966 root 1.387 %
9967 root 1.1 Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9968     20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9969     "20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9970     group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9971 root 1.387 %
9972 root 1.1 > alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9973     > fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9974     > 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9975    
9976     What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9977 root 1.387 %
9978 root 1.1 We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9979     seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9980     choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9981     where else...
9982 root 1.387 %
9983 root 1.1 Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9984     [...]
9985     : The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9986     : about a certain topic.
9987 root 1.387 %
9988 root 1.1 Mark Robinson wrote:
9989     >
9990     > Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9991     > know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9992    
9993     Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9994     write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9995    
9996     void main (void)
9997     {
9998     printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9999     printf ("\n");
10000     printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10001     printf ("You have died.\n");
10002     printf ("\n");
10003     printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10004     }
10005    
10006     (Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10007    
10008     --
10009     John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10010 root 1.387 %
10011 root 1.1 [mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10012     mistake I ever made]
10013    
10014     From: "Tom Miller"
10015     Subject: Can
10016     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10017    
10018     Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10019     send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10020     my name is Tom Miller
10021    
10022     From: "Tom Miller"
10023     Subject: Wait
10024     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10025    
10026     Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10027     passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10028 root 1.387 %
10029 root 1.1 From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10030    
10031     [...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10032     better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10033     so why bother? [...]
10034 root 1.387 %
10035 root 1.388 Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10036 root 1.1
10037     Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10038    
10039     Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10040     jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10041     Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10042     Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10043     Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10044     besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10045     sich dann.
10046 root 1.387 %
10047 root 1.1 CRASH(8)
10048     no fs
10049     A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10050     Definitely hardware or software error.
10051    
10052     Unix Version 7 Manual
10053 root 1.387 %
10054 root 1.1 On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10055     >
10056     > Maybe Pi looks like this:
10057     >
10058     > =for C
10059     > i++; /* add 1 to i */
10060     > =end
10061     > =for C++
10062     > i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10063     > =end
10064     > =for Java
10065     > system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10066     > =end
10067     >
10068     > :-)
10069 root 1.387 %
10070 root 1.1 > > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
10071 root 1.387 %
10072 root 1.1 [on linux 2.1.111]
10073    
10074     The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10075     the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10076     cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10077     turn it on.
10078 root 1.387 %
10079 root 1.1 [...]
10080     its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10081     between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10082     (wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10083     [...]
10084 root 1.387 %
10085 root 1.1 I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10086    
10087     Chad C Giffin
10088 root 1.387 %
10089 root 1.1 [usenet, an anology]
10090     Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10091     worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10092     Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10093     their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10094     the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10095    
10096     "Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10097     through the door.
10098     "HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10099     "There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10100     "That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10101     you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10102     Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10103     he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10104     cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10105     usually.)
10106    
10107     "Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10108     muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10109     your tire pressure..."
10110     Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10111     even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10112     "My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10113     oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10114     "Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10115     Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10116     gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10117     three days for a cost of $175.23.
10118 root 1.387 %
10119 root 1.1 > Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10120    
10121     Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10122 root 1.387 %
10123 root 1.1 > Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10124    
10125     Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10126     :-(
10127 root 1.387 %
10128 root 1.1 >Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10129     >dies alles geschieht.
10130     >Und es verging nicht.
10131    
10132     So what?
10133    
10134     Ich dachte eher an:
10135    
10136     " 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10137     Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10138     Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10139     jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10140     unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10141     hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10142     nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10143     ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10144     die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10145     Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10146     roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10147     wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10148    
10149     Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10150    
10151     Antje
10152 root 1.387 %
10153 root 1.1 [....]
10154    
10155     Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10156     grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10157     zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10158     und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10159     Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10160     Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10161    
10162     Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10163    
10164     Antje
10165 root 1.387 %
10166 root 1.1 It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10167     lalala, I love you baby..."
10168     --
10169     Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10170 root 1.387 %
10171 root 1.1 On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10172     >
10173     > Kubys
10174    
10175     Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10176    
10177     Linus
10178 root 1.387 %
10179 root 1.1 > eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10180    
10181     .... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10182     instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10183     don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10184 root 1.387 %
10185 root 1.1 > It is *big* and never uses.
10186    
10187     That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10188     out what it means.
10189     --
10190     Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10191 root 1.387 %
10192 root 1.1 [...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10193     company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10194 root 1.387 %
10195 root 1.1 From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10196     Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10197    
10198     Terry L Ridder wrote:
10199    
10200     > at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10201     > is being discussed.
10202    
10203     Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10204 root 1.387 %
10205 root 1.1 [gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10206    
10207     Drop data of type text/plain was:
10208    
10209     Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10210    
10211     [and the button reads]
10212    
10213     Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10214 root 1.387 %
10215 root 1.1 Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10216    
10217     While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10218    
10219     A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10220     certain amount of redundancy.
10221 root 1.387 %
10222 root 1.1 Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10223     the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10224    
10225     ...
10226    
10227     Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10228 root 1.387 %
10229 root 1.1 >Hello,
10230     >
10231     >I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10232     >operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10233     >
10234    
10235     Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10236     version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10237     nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10238     compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10239 root 1.387 %
10240 root 1.1 An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10241     on the country as a whole.
10242     Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10243     explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10244     prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10245 root 1.387 %
10246 root 1.1 With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10247     limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10248 root 1.387 %
10249 root 1.1 There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10250 root 1.387 %
10251 root 1.1 In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10252     Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10253     :Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10254    
10255     $id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10256    
10257     --tom
10258     --
10259     Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10260     --Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10261 root 1.387 %
10262 root 1.1 Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10263     Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10264 root 1.387 %
10265 root 1.1 On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10266    
10267     > The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10268     > to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10269     > NO CARRIER
10270     > !@*&#@#%T^@&*(GU*SD*(@!&*(@#R(*FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10271 root 1.387 %
10272 root 1.1 > People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10273     > rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10274     > better.
10275    
10276     There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10277     my finger on it. Hmmm.
10278 root 1.387 %
10279 root 1.1 comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10280     bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10281 root 1.387 %
10282 root 1.1 |> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10283     |>
10284     |> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10285     |> : a free-standing implimentation.
10286     |>
10287     |> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10288     |> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10289    
10290     The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10291     point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10292     horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10293     remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10294     build Bison, and then cook it.
10295    
10296     Viva la buffalo burgers.
10297 root 1.387 %
10298 root 1.1 A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10299     home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10300     The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10301     Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10302     can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10303 root 1.387 %
10304 root 1.1 The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10305     -- lbxproxy(1)
10306 root 1.387 %
10307 root 1.1 Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10308    
10309     |> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10310    
10311     Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10312     on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10313 root 1.387 %
10314 root 1.1 Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10315    
10316     that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10317 root 1.387 %
10318 root 1.1 In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10319     |> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10320     |> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10321     |> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10322     |> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10323    
10324     |> What does this mean.
10325    
10326     It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10327     install [free|net|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10328 root 1.387 %
10329 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10330    
10331     On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10332     > Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10333    
10334     Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10335 root 1.387 %
10336 root 1.1 "Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10337     planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10338     streams)."
10339     -- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10340 root 1.387 %
10341 root 1.1 "Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10342     - Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10343 root 1.387 %
10344 root 1.1 Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10345    
10346     >Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10347    
10348     Klaro.
10349    
10350     >Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10351     >koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10352     >wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10353     >verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10354    
10355 root 1.388 Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10356 root 1.1 Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10357    
10358     >Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10359     >Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10360     >Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10361     >mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10362     >Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10363     >folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10364     >einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10365    
10366     Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10367     am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10368     passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10369 root 1.388 der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10370     richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10371     Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10372     ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10373 root 1.1 Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10374    
10375     Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10376 root 1.388 die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10377     die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10378     die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10379     der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10380     Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10381     die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10382     den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10383 root 1.1 2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10384     Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10385    
10386     cu in hell 2002
10387 root 1.387 %
10388 root 1.1 "Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10389 root 1.387 %
10390 root 1.1 >In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10391    
10392     Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10393     get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10394     the man page for crypt(1).
10395    
10396     Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10397     section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10398     that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10399    
10400     man -s3 crypt
10401    
10402     Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10403     entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10404    
10405     If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10406     find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10407     he can figure out to use the command
10408    
10409     man -s3 Intro.3
10410    
10411     to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10412     crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10413    
10414     man -s3c crypt
10415    
10416     Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10417     stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10418     any trouble.
10419     --
10420     Michael M Rubenstein
10421 root 1.387 %
10422 root 1.1 Take a moment to consider these lines:
10423    
10424     %OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10425    
10426     sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10427    
10428     :-) I *love* Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10429    
10430     Regards,
10431     Tim Bunce.
10432    
10433     p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10434     p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10435     p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10436 root 1.387 %
10437 root 1.1 From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10438    
10439     ...
10440    
10441     > now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10442     > experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10443     > keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10444    
10445     I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10446     its unusable, believe me I do.
10447 root 1.387 %
10448 root 1.1 Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10449    
10450     Semour Cray
10451 root 1.387 %
10452 root 1.1 Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10453    
10454     Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10455 root 1.387 %
10456 root 1.1 From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10457     Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10458    
10459     aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10460     it only supports parts of it
10461 root 1.387 %
10462 root 1.1 egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10463     /* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10464 root 1.387 %
10465 root 1.1 [...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10466     as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10467     let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10468     whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10469     of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10470     the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10471     *without* the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10472    
10473     (In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10474     which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10475     being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10476     smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10477     branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10478     and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10479     specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10480     botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10481     me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10482     with existing HP as code.) [...]
10483    
10484     tq vm, (burley)
10485 root 1.387 %
10486 root 1.1 libc/posix/regex.h:
10487     /* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10488     wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10489     ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10490     types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10491     typedef long int s_reg_t;
10492     typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10493 root 1.387 %
10494 root 1.1 libc/db2/db.h:
10495     /*
10496     * While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10497     * defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10498     * it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10499     * files won't compile.
10500     */
10501 root 1.387 %
10502 root 1.1 > UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10503     > great.
10504    
10505     I answered only the places I can comment on.
10506    
10507     > BASSAS DA INDIA
10508    
10509     This rock is below water half of the time!
10510     If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10511     on a regular basis! ;-)
10512 root 1.387 %
10513 root 1.1 # ./test-plugin.pl
10514     Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10515     wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10516 root 1.387 %
10517 root 1.1 >
10518     > The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10519     > developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10520     > tools from the environment and precanning software.
10521    
10522     No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10523 root 1.387 %
10524 root 1.1 Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10525    
10526     >Hello!
10527    
10528     >I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10529     >I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10530     >would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10531    
10532    
10533     Perl.
10534    
10535     regards
10536     jobst
10537 root 1.387 %
10538 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10539     From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10540     Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10541    
10542     > Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' *laff*, they have
10543     > to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10544    
10545     They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10546     are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10547     makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10548     nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10549     compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10550     the absolute pits.
10551 root 1.387 %
10552 root 1.1 Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10553 root 1.387 %
10554 root 1.1 > What about: . scriptname
10555     > ------------------^ this is a dot!
10556    
10557     Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10558 root 1.387 %
10559 root 1.1 A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10560     ketchup and mustard
10561 root 1.387 %
10562 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10563    
10564     vimal gajjar wrote:
10565     >
10566     > Hi there,
10567     > Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10568     > code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10569     > the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10570     > "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10571     > 5% of cpu
10572     > 2 Mb of RAM
10573     > for the period of 10 Seconds.
10574     >
10575     > can one of the gurus take this challange?
10576    
10577     Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10578     brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10579     has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10580 root 1.387 %
10581 root 1.1 > >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10582     > >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10583     >
10584     > >s/usually/never/
10585     >
10586     > s/sometimes/never/
10587    
10588     Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10589 root 1.387 %
10590 root 1.1 :That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10591     :were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10592     :Perl, IMO.
10593    
10594     Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10595    
10596     TC
10597 root 1.387 %
10598 root 1.1 'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10599 root 1.387 %
10600 root 1.1 shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10601    
10602     Hi guys!
10603    
10604     How check socket, alive it or die ?
10605 root 1.387 %
10606 root 1.1 --> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10607    
10608     Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10609     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10610     12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10611     13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10612     14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10613     15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10614 root 1.387 %
10615 root 1.1 Subject: what a week!
10616     From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10617     Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10618    
10619     unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10620     and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really *do*
10621     need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10622     running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10623    
10624     I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10625     THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10626     COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10627     ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10628    
10629     I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10630    
10631     GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10632    
10633     WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10634     WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10635     BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10636    
10637     I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10638     EVIL. AND A PENTIUM *IS* A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10639    
10640     WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10641     DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10642    
10643     Did I miss any? ;-)
10644    
10645     *Please* don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10646     Laugh. Please.
10647    
10648     And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10649     --Scott
10650 root 1.387 %
10651 root 1.1 > Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10652    
10653     And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10654     installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10655     remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10656     successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10657 root 1.387 %
10658 root 1.1 Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10659     : This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10660    
10661     One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10662    
10663     This is not mail.
10664    
10665     This is Usenet.
10666    
10667     Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10668 root 1.387 %
10669 root 1.1 ------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10670     --- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10671     --- ide1: reset: success
10672     -----------> I like Linux !
10673 root 1.387 %
10674 root 1.1 > I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10675     > the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10676    
10677     Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10678     do.
10679 root 1.387 %
10680 root 1.1 ++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10681     ++ PLONK.
10682 root 1.387 %
10683 root 1.1 ++ > SSI is *not* HTML.
10684     Re: Subraumfunk
10685    
10686     Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10687     wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10688    
10689     Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10690     mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10691     InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10692     eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10693     schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10694 root 1.387 %
10695 root 1.1 > > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10696     > > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10697     >
10698     > Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10699    
10700     Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10701 root 1.387 %
10702 root 1.1 ++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10703     Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10704 root 1.387 %
10705 root 1.1 Namsuk Kim wrote:
10706     > Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10707    
10708     I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10709     - is the data in EBCDIC now?
10710    
10711     Bill Jones
10712 root 1.387 %
10713 root 1.1 GNU/getopt.c:
10714    
10715     #if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10716     /* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10717     #include <windows.h>
10718     #define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10719     #endif
10720 root 1.387 %
10721 root 1.1 Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10722    
10723     Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10724     is, invoking the URL
10725    
10726     http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10727    
10728     causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10729 root 1.387 %
10730 root 1.1 "You need to use CGI."
10731     "I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10732     "No, no, *use* CGI. The directive 'use'."
10733     "OK, so what directive do I use?"
10734     "No, no, you *use* *use*. Use CGI."
10735     "I *am* using CGI!"
10736    
10737     Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10738 root 1.387 %
10739 root 1.1 > > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10740     > > kennenlernen koennen?
10741     >
10742 root 1.388 > Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10743 root 1.1 > Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10744    
10745     Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10746 root 1.387 %
10747 root 1.1 "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10748     professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10749 root 1.387 %
10750 root 1.1 If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10751     If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10752     If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10753     To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10754 root 1.387 %
10755 root 1.1 From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10756    
10757     pcg@goof.com said:
10758     > It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10759    
10760     Hehe - I know the feeling.
10761    
10762     "It's broken."
10763     "What's wrong with it?."
10764     "I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10765     "Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10766     "It just doesn't work."
10767     "How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10768     "It gives an error message."
10769     "Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10770     "It says.... something about there being an error."
10771     "That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10772     "It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10773     "That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10774     letter for letter this time."
10775 root 1.387 %
10776 root 1.1 From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10777    
10778     After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10779     had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10780     2.6, the mode was 04555.
10781    
10782     Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10783     might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10784     perms.
10785    
10786     (Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10787 root 1.387 %
10788 root 1.1 From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10789     Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10790    
10791     Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10792    
10793     I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10794     for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10795     how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10796    
10797     The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10798     ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10799 root 1.387 %
10800 root 1.388 >am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10801     >verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10802 root 1.1 >Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10803    
10804     Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10805     gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10806     und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10807     ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10808     also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10809     bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10810     also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10811     wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10812     haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10813     logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10814     sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10815    
10816     Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10817    
10818     normarz@aol.com
10819 root 1.387 %
10820 root 1.1 >Oder anders gesagt:
10821 root 1.388 >Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10822 root 1.1 >Legion
10823     >schlagen?
10824    
10825     Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10826    
10827     Bye
10828     Andreas
10829 root 1.387 %
10830 root 1.1 >Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10831    
10832     It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10833     justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10834    
10835     I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10836     companies.
10837    
10838     Kind regards
10839     Henning
10840 root 1.387 %
10841 root 1.1 From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10842     Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10843     Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10844    
10845     At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10846     into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10847     for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10848    
10849     There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10850     tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10851     be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10852     told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10853     standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10854     make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10855     that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10856     hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10857     issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10858     computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10859 root 1.387 %
10860 root 1.1 Where do you want to go today?
10861     We might support that sometime next year.
10862     -=- Microsoft
10863     (But I doubt it.)
10864     -=- Me
10865     -=- James Mastros
10866 root 1.387 %
10867 root 1.1 Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10868     > I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10869     > following methods, but the output was split into two
10870     >lines.
10871    
10872     If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10873     put newlines in the middle of your string.
10874 root 1.387 %
10875 root 1.1 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10876 root 1.387 %
10877 root 1.1 Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10878     in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10879     probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10880     Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10881 root 1.387 %
10882 root 1.1 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10883    
10884     My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10885     mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10886     Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10887     correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10888     for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10889     least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10890     absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10891     it's not all his fault.
10892    
10893     The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10894     pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10895     course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10896     understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10897     content.
10898    
10899     Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10900     spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10901     others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10902     learn (or pay for it;)
10903    
10904     IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10905     people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10906     to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10907     just for fun or to get the op.
10908    
10909     Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10910     your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10911     mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10912     mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10913    
10914     Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10915    
10916     Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10917     course, Linux and Linux people.
10918 root 1.387 %
10919 root 1.1 ... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10920     then he rewrote it as WNT.
10921    
10922     Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10923     --
10924     Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10925 root 1.387 %
10926 root 1.1 >Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10927    
10928     I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10929     rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10930     where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10931    
10932     I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10933     preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10934     tradition.
10935 root 1.387 %
10936 root 1.1 "Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10937     I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10938 root 1.387 %
10939 root 1.1 The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10940     evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10941 root 1.387 %
10942 root 1.1 "In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10943     U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10944     called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10945     Or GIRLS for short.
10946 root 1.387 %
10947 root 1.1 Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10948 root 1.387 %
10949 root 1.1 I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10950     post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10951     mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10952     drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10953     5_004_03 to build!"
10954    
10955     This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10956     have no patience."
10957    
10958     xoxo,
10959     Andy
10960 root 1.387 %
10961 root 1.1 > I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10962     > and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10963     We all have our cross to bear.
10964 root 1.387 %
10965 root 1.1 (THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10966    
10967     From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10968     Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10969     Subject: Re: system() question
10970    
10971     There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10972     over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10973     are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10974     code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10975     code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10976     service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10977     badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10978     written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10979     are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10980     happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10981     languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10982     English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10983     Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10984     humiliating for me!)
10985    
10986     Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10987     not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10988     flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10989     questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10990     They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10991     I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10992     I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10993     go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10994     really knows the answer.
10995    
10996     The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10997     some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10998     they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10999     instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11000    
11001     Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11002     questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11003     qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11004     for that.
11005    
11006     Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11007     list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11008     it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11009     not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11010     going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11011     problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11012     hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11013    
11014     Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11015    
11016     1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11017     program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11018     something for free.''
11019    
11020     (OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11021    
11022     2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11023     ...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11024    
11025     (Good question.)
11026    
11027     3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11028     but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11029     once I have run it.''
11030     (Good question.)
11031    
11032     4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11033    
11034     (Good question.)
11035    
11036     See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11037     question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11038     very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11039     ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11040     about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11041    
11042     Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11043     addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11044     big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11045     the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11046     comp.lang.perl?
11047     Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11048     to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11049     lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11050     could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11051     external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11052     in comp.lang.perl?
11053    
11054     Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11055     you my rate card.
11056    
11057     Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11058     the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11059     here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11060     introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11061     language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11062     Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11063     examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11064     instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11065     a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11066     to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11067    
11068     The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11069     have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11070     could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11071     Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11072     My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11073     been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11074     West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11075     all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11076     He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11077     shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11078     good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11079     asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11080     that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11081     What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11082     no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11083     off his finger or something. I dunno.
11084    
11085     Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11086     today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11087     those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11088     in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11089     someone will. Maybe I will.
11090    
11091     If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11092     how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11093     I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11094     go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11095     jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11096     these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11097     that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11098     of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11099    
11100     Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11101     thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11102     `How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11103     except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11104     integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11105     these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11106     really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11107     easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11108     with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11109     always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11110     development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11111     gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11112     out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11113     manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11114    
11115     The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11116     X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11117     again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11118     filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11119    
11120     The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11121    
11122     `I want to accomplish X.
11123    
11124     I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11125    
11126     ...
11127    
11128     But instead it does Y.
11129    
11130     Why is that?''
11131    
11132     This one is also pretty good:
11133    
11134     `I want to accomplish X.
11135     I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11136    
11137     But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11138     because of Z.
11139    
11140     What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11141    
11142     When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11143     There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11144    
11145    
11146     There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11147     Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11148    
11149     --
11150     Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11151     The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11152 root 1.387 %
11153 root 1.1 >> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11154     >Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11155    
11156     If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11157     support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11158     TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11159    
11160     Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11161    
11162     bye, Georg
11163 root 1.387 %
11164 root 1.1 I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11165     (nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11166     convince me.
11167    
11168     [ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11169    
11170     Linus
11171 root 1.387 %
11172 root 1.1 ++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11173     ++
11174    
11175     Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11176     complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11177    
11178 root 1.85 $var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11179 root 1.1
11180     If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11181     understanding the above line.
11182    
11183     Abigail
11184 root 1.387 %
11185 root 1.1 I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11186     1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11187 root 1.387 %
11188 root 1.1 ++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11189     ++ button?
11190     Yes.
11191    
11192     ++ 100 pictures or so?
11193     Yes.
11194    
11195     ++ Can I do it in Perl?
11196     Yes.
11197    
11198     Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11199     newsgroup. alt.button.play
11200    
11201     Abigail
11202 root 1.387 %
11203 root 1.1 perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11204    
11205     perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11206    
11207     Martien
11208 root 1.387 %
11209 root 1.388 Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11210     nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11211     eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11212     etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11213 root 1.1 Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11214 root 1.388 Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11215     nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11216     unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11217     Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11218 root 1.1 Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11219 root 1.388 Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11220     selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11221 root 1.1 war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11222     nicht. ;)
11223    
11224 root 1.388 Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11225     nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11226     fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11227 root 1.1 Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11228     Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11229 root 1.388 daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11230 root 1.1 das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11231    
11232 root 1.388 Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11233     ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11234 root 1.1 Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11235 root 1.388 ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11236 root 1.1 wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11237    
11238 root 1.388 Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11239 root 1.1 Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11240 root 1.388 "Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11241     eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11242 root 1.1 ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11243 root 1.388 sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11244 root 1.1 nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11245     "unvorstellbar".
11246    
11247     Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11248 root 1.387 %
11249 root 1.1 Marcel Richter wrote:
11250     > Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11251     ^^^
11252     fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11253 root 1.387 %
11254 root 1.1 The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11255     do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11256 root 1.387 %
11257 root 1.1 linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11258     printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11259 root 1.387 %
11260 root 1.1 >>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11261     >>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11262     >Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11263    
11264     An artificial pile of rocks.
11265 root 1.387 %
11266 root 1.1 > ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11267     > marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11268     > gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11269     > noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11270     > beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11271     > - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11272    
11273     Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11274     Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11275     sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11276     grosser Flipperautomat.
11277    
11278     Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11279 root 1.387 %
11280 root 1.1 > Kris Weilemann schrieb
11281     >
11282     > >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11283     > >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11284     > >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11285     > >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11286     > >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11287 root 1.387 %
11288 root 1.388 ... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11289     daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11290 root 1.1
11291     "Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11292 root 1.387 %
11293 root 1.1 http://www.rsw.com/
11294    
11295     The Unix shell as a 4GL
11296    
11297     Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11298     perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11299     functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11300     over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11301     of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11302     is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11303     Unix environment.
11304 root 1.387 %
11305 root 1.1 Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11306     between these:
11307    
11308     time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11309     sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11310    
11311     Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11312     The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11313     ;#", and the print gets executed!
11314    
11315     There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11316     "use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11317     "time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11318     (or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11319    
11320     Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11321     'perl'".
11322    
11323     --
11324     Randal L. Schwartz
11325 root 1.387 %
11326 root 1.1 Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11327    
11328     > Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11329     > > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11330     >
11331     > So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11332    
11333     It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11334    
11335     --
11336     Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11337 root 1.387 %
11338 root 1.1 The management (my cats) made me say this.
11339 root 1.387 %
11340 root 1.1 uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11341     write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11342 root 1.387 %
11343 root 1.1 uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11344     write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11345 root 1.387 %
11346 root 1.1 Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11347     can have the return value of a function be itself a
11348     function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11349     provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11350     providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11351     example.
11352 root 1.387 %
11353 root 1.1 When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11354     resemble a nail.
11355 root 1.387 %
11356 root 1.1 > but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11357     > I did wrong.
11358    
11359     What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11360     newsgroup.
11361 root 1.387 %
11362 root 1.1 I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11363 root 1.387 %
11364 root 1.388 >Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11365     >vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11366 root 1.1 >wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11367    
11368     Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11369 root 1.387 %
11370 root 1.388 >Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11371 root 1.1
11372 root 1.388 Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11373 root 1.387 %
11374 root 1.1 ...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11375     my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11376     expired instantly!!!
11377 root 1.387 %
11378 root 1.1 From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11379     To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11380    
11381     > Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11382     > length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11383     > if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11384    
11385     I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11386     He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11387     an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11388     than double Linus's programming experience?
11389    
11390     > This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11391     > pretty straight forward.
11392    
11393     Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11394     in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11395 root 1.387 %
11396 root 1.1 Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11397     Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11398     fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11399     wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11400     kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11401     Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11402 root 1.387 %
11403 root 1.1 Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11404 root 1.387 %
11405 root 1.1 hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11406     Example:
11407     print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11408 root 1.387 %
11409 root 1.1 liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11410     Randal gets his hands on it
11411 root 1.387 %
11412 root 1.1 Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11413 root 1.387 %
11414 root 1.1 > Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11415    
11416     No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11417     first if you get it working.
11418 root 1.387 %
11419 root 1.1 > Macintosh.
11420     > Think different.
11421    
11422     Think Again.
11423 root 1.387 %
11424 root 1.1 Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11425 root 1.387 %
11426 root 1.1 tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11427     > Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11428     > push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11429    
11430     What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11431 root 1.387 %
11432 root 1.1 # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11433     # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11434 root 1.387 %
11435 root 1.1 | I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11436     | someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11437     | top.
11438 root 1.387 %
11439 root 1.1 I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11440     he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11441 root 1.387 %
11442 root 1.1 On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11443     ^^^^^^^^^
11444     >Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11445    
11446     Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11447 root 1.387 %
11448 root 1.1 >Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11449     >gehen soll?
11450    
11451 root 1.388 Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11452 root 1.1 materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11453     diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11454 root 1.387 %
11455 root 1.1 Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11456 root 1.387 %
11457 root 1.388 >> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11458     >> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11459 root 1.1 >> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11460     >
11461     >Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11462    
11463     Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11464     Schuh aus!
11465 root 1.387 %
11466 root 1.1 >Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11467    
11468 root 1.388 Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11469 root 1.1 eingeleitet?
11470 root 1.387 %
11471 root 1.1 Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11472    
11473    
11474     First opportunity
11475     Approximate
11476     Orbit Internet
11477     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11478    
11479     4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11480     4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11481     4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11482     4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11483    
11484     Second opportunity
11485     Approximate
11486     Orbit Internet
11487     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11488    
11489     4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11490     4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11491     4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11492     4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11493    
11494     Third opportunity
11495     Approximate
11496     Orbit Internet
11497     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11498    
11499     4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11500     4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11501     4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11502     4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11503    
11504 root 1.387 %
11505 root 1.1 > >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11506 root 1.388 > >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11507     > >würden.
11508 root 1.1 >
11509     > Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11510     > "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11511     Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11512     unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11513     (heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11514     Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11515     implizierst.
11516 root 1.387 %
11517 root 1.1 > You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11518     > quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11519 root 1.387 %
11520 root 1.1 Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11521     Big improvement.
11522 root 1.387 %
11523 root 1.1 -- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11524     -- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11525     over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11526     -- "Why that one?"
11527     -- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11528     -- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11529 root 1.387 %
11530 root 1.1 In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11531     Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11532     wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11533 root 1.387 %
11534 root 1.1 > Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11535     > Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11536     > etlicher Lebensformen?
11537    
11538     Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11539    
11540     > Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11541     > "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11542     > die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11543    
11544     Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11545    
11546     > Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11547     > ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11548     > er eigentlich ist?
11549    
11550 root 1.388 Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11551 root 1.1 Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11552 root 1.388 ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11553 root 1.1 bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11554 root 1.388 länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11555 root 1.1 er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11556 root 1.388 als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11557 root 1.1 Ciao
11558     Stefan
11559 root 1.387 %
11560 root 1.1 "These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11561     unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11562     all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11563     (http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11564 root 1.387 %
11565 root 1.1 Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11566     say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11567     determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11568     to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11569     can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11570     42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11571     knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11572     you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11573     off.
11574 root 1.387 %
11575 root 1.1 Join the Army,
11576     Meet interesting people,
11577     Kill them.
11578 root 1.387 %
11579 root 1.1 > Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11580     > umwandelbar ist.
11581    
11582     E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11583 root 1.387 %
11584 root 1.388 >nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11585 root 1.1 >unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11586 root 1.387 %
11587 root 1.1 > (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11588     >
11589     > >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11590     > >> ruckartig.
11591     > >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11592     >
11593 root 1.388 > Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11594 root 1.1
11595     :-)
11596 root 1.387 %
11597 root 1.1 SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11598 root 1.388 rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11599     "XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11600 root 1.1 verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11601     Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11602     wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11603     entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11604    
11605     ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11606     Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11607 root 1.388 gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11608     sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11609 root 1.1 Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11610 root 1.388 2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11611     Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11612     Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11613 root 1.1 Union.
11614    
11615 root 1.388 RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11616     der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11617 root 1.1 Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11618 root 1.388 Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11619     er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11620     Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11621 root 1.1 Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11622 root 1.387 %
11623 root 1.1 * Linux Viruscan.....
11624     Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11625 root 1.387 %
11626 root 1.1 >>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11627 root 1.388 >>Realität?
11628 root 1.1 >>
11629     >>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11630 root 1.388 >>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11631     >>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11632 root 1.1 >>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11633     >
11634     >Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11635     >FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11636 root 1.387 %
11637 root 1.1 "'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11638 root 1.387 %
11639 root 1.1 > How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11640     > into a random order???
11641     >
11642    
11643     @array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11644     print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11645    
11646     I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11647     of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11648     any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11649     that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11650     number less than 42.
11651 root 1.387 %
11652 root 1.1 From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11653     crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11654     another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11655     netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11656     I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11657     called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11658     eventually invent Unix.
11659 root 1.387 %
11660 root 1.1 In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11661     the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11662     business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11663     typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11664     been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11665     plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11666     "Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11667     typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11668     copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11669     designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11670     some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11671     Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11672     Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11673     license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11674     in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11675     scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11676 root 1.387 %
11677 root 1.1 [linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11678     Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11679     faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11680 root 1.387 %
11681 root 1.1 Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11682     using a Perl CGI script?
11683 root 1.387 %
11684 root 1.1 >I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11685    
11686     One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11687     week.
11688 root 1.387 %
11689 root 1.1 Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11690     Brieweb> of PERL.
11691     No, that's an http *proxy* server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11692     From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11693     [Randal Schwartz]
11694 root 1.387 %
11695 root 1.1 But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11696     capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11697     for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11698     [Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11699 root 1.387 %
11700 root 1.1 Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11701     programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11702     It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11703     hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11704     to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11705     use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11706     programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11707     also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11708     system and restricting their options.
11709     [Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11710 root 1.387 %
11711 root 1.1 <Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11712     <Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11713     <BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11714 root 1.387 %
11715 root 1.1 "It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11716     society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11717     Ernie Hai
11718     Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11719 root 1.387 %
11720 root 1.1 : I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11721     : results" report from the users.
11722    
11723     if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11724     be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11725     "can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11726     TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11727 root 1.387 %
11728 root 1.1 There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11729     They are all owned by cats.
11730 root 1.387 %
11731 root 1.1 Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11732     attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11733     You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11734 root 1.387 %
11735 root 1.1 From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11736     Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11737    
11738     Yesterday it worked
11739     Today it is not working
11740     Windows is like that
11741     - - -
11742     wind catches lily
11743     scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11744     segmentation fault
11745     - - -
11746     Three things are certain:
11747     Death, taxes, and lost data.
11748     Guess which has occurred.
11749     - - -
11750     A file that big?
11751     It might be very useful.
11752     But now it is gone.
11753     - - -
11754     Windows NT crashed.
11755     I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11756     No one hears your screams.
11757     - - -
11758     Errors have occurred.
11759     We won't tell you where or why.
11760     Lazy programmers.
11761     - - -
11762     Seeing my great fault
11763     Through darkening blue windows
11764     I begin again
11765     - - -
11766     The code was willing,
11767     It considered your request,
11768     But the chips were weak.
11769     - - -
11770     Printer not ready.
11771     Could be a fatal error.
11772     Have a pen handy?
11773     - - -
11774     Server's poor response
11775     Not quick enough for browser.
11776     Timed out, plum blossom.
11777     - - -
11778     Chaos reigns within.
11779     Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11780     Order shall return.
11781     - - -
11782     Login incorrect.
11783     Only perfect spellers may
11784     enter this system.
11785     - - -
11786     This site has been moved.
11787     We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11788     have to delete you.
11789     - - -
11790     ABORTED effort:
11791     Close all that you have.
11792     You ask way too much.
11793     - - -
11794     First snow, then silence.
11795     This thousand dollar screen dies
11796     so beautifully.
11797     - - -
11798     With searching comes loss
11799     and the presence of absence:
11800     "My Novel" not found.
11801     - - -
11802     The Tao that is seen
11803     Is not the true Tao, until
11804     You bring fresh toner.
11805     - - -
11806     The Web site you seek
11807     cannot be located but
11808     endless others exist
11809     - - -
11810     Stay the patient course
11811     Of little worth is your ire
11812     The network is down
11813     - - -
11814     A crash reduces
11815     your expensive computer
11816     to a simple stone.
11817     - - -
11818     There is a chasm
11819     of carbon and silicon
11820     the software can't bridge
11821     - - -
11822     To have no errors
11823     Would be life without meaning
11824     No struggle, no joy
11825     - - -
11826     You step in the stream,
11827     but the water has moved on.
11828     This page is not here.
11829     - - -
11830     No keyboard present
11831     Hit F1 to continue
11832     Zen engineering?
11833     - - -
11834     Hal, open the file
11835     Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11836     open it, please Hal
11837     - - -
11838     Out of memory.
11839     We wish to hold the whole sky,
11840     But we never will.
11841     - - -
11842     Having been erased,
11843     The document you're seeking
11844     Must now be retyped.
11845     - - -
11846     The ten thousand things
11847     How long do any persist?
11848     Netscape, too, has gone.
11849     - - -
11850     Rather than a beep
11851     Or a rude error message,
11852     These words: "File not found."
11853     - - -
11854     Serious error.
11855     All shortcuts have disappeared
11856     Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11857 root 1.387 %
11858 root 1.1 "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11859     to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
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11861 root 1.1 > What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11862     > UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11863    
11864     Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11865     early 1980s.
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11867 root 1.1 > I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11868     > the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11869     > something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11870     > copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11871    
11872     I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11873     with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11874     control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11875     introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11876     you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11877     many new features that it just stops working.
11878    
11879     This also applies to Microsoft products.
11880    
11881     > Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11882     > help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11883    
11884     Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11885     really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11886     know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11887    
11888     Hope this explains what's going on
11889     Martien Verbruggen
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11891 root 1.1 ...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11892 root 1.387 %
11893 root 1.1 X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11894 root 1.387 %
11895 root 1.1 -------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11896 root 1.387 %
11897 root 1.1 "Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11898     unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11899     Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
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11901 root 1.1 > ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11902     > ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11903     > ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11904     >
11905     > Just make sure you understand it ;)
11906    
11907     I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11908     think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
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11910 root 1.1 Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11911     where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11912     until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11913     should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11914 root 1.387 %
11915 root 1.1 But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11916     even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11917     individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11918     the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11919     attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11920     motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11921     are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11922     convienience store.")
11923 root 1.387 %
11924 root 1.1 : how do i make my perl script run?
11925     Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11926 root 1.387 %
11927 root 1.1 for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11928 root 1.424 >>> ToiLeTGoD
11929 root 1.1
11930     Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11931     Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11932 root 1.387 %
11933 root 1.1 Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11934     including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11935     background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11936     populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
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11938 root 1.1 Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11939     kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11940     -- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11941 root 1.387 %
11942 root 1.1 The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11943     (A => B) => (B => A)
11944     (There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11945     (A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11946 root 1.387 %
11947 root 1.1 cal 9 1752
11948 root 1.387 %
11949 root 1.1 Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11950     -Barry Shein
11951 root 1.387 %
11952 root 1.1 And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11953     by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11954     read the manual.
11955 root 1.387 %
11956 root 1.1 "SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11957 root 1.387 %
11958 root 1.1 I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11959     that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11960     the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11961     Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11962     in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11963     it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11964     from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11965     to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11966     for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11967 root 1.387 %
11968 root 1.1 comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11969 root 1.387 %
11970 root 1.1 I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11971     is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11972     the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
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11974 root 1.1 > Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11975    
11976     I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11977     need.
11978 root 1.387 %
11979 root 1.1 Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11980     powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11981     deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
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11983 root 1.1 I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11984     lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11985     newsreaders. You know,
11986     those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11987     back
11988     again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11989     to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11990     out what they're saying.
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11992 root 1.1 It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11993     million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11994 root 1.387 %
11995 root 1.1 I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11996     U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11997     newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11998    
11999     But the combination.... *sutters*
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12001 root 1.1 Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12002     Darn it.
12003 root 1.387 %
12004 root 1.1 At least he didn't post in all caps.
12005 root 1.387 %
12006 root 1.1 http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12007 root 1.387 %
12008 root 1.1 I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12009     the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12010     "Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12011     school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12012     trying to use it.
12013 root 1.387 %
12014 root 1.1 "Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12015 root 1.387 %
12016 root 1.1 cdog wrote:
12017     >
12018     > Is this group active?
12019     No.
12020    
12021     If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12022     probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12023    
12024     On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12025     345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12026 root 1.387 %
12027 root 1.1 "Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12028     -comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12029 root 1.387 %
12030 root 1.1 "Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12031     Press any key to continue..."
12032 root 1.387 %
12033 root 1.1 NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12034     isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12035     itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12036 root 1.387 %
12037 root 1.1 The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12038     considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12039     it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12040     adjust your travel plans.
12041 root 1.387 %
12042 root 1.388 "Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12043     hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
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12045 root 1.1 The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12046     highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12047    
12048     tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12049     = tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12050    
12051     For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12052    
12053     tak 18 12 6
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12055 root 1.1 "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12056     -- Bill Gates
12057     "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12058     -- Bill Gates
12059     "Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12060     -- logical conclusion
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12062 root 1.1 Year Name James Bond Book
12063     - ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12064     50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12065     1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12066     1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12067     1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12068     1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12069     1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12070     1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12071     1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12072     1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12073     1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12074     1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12075     1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12076     1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12077     1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12078     1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12079     1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12080     1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12081     1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12082     * -- Not a Broccoli production.
12083 root 1.387 %
12084 root 1.1 Windows NT: n.
12085     32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12086     operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12087     by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12088 root 1.387 %
12089 root 1.388 Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.