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1 root 1.459 GNU Powered it
2     GPL Protected it
3     GOD Blessed it
4    
5     [from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
6     %
7 root 1.458 a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
8     kinship term she'd ever heard.
9    
10     [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
11     %
12     > I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
13     > the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
14     > an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
15    
16     I don't agree.
17    
18     > The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
19     > accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
20     > is not as clear as it could be.
21    
22     As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
23     trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
24     to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
25     applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
26     is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
27    
28     [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
29     [darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
30     %
31     > that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
32    
33     That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
34     else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
35     other conventions exist for a very long time.
36    
37     [https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
38     %
39     static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
40    
41     [minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
42     %
43 root 1.457 However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
44     you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
45     and government agency portal.
46    
47     [wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
48     agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
49    
50     [https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
51     %
52     Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
53    
54     [hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
55     %
56     The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
57     as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
58     smashing into each other, sooner or later.
59    
60     [aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
61     %
62     Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
63     Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
64     Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
65     Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
66     Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
67     %
68 root 1.456 Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
69     to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
70     surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
71     where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
72     to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
73     penalty. This makes really a difference.
74    
75     [http://antirez.com/news/122]
76     %
77     "MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
78     Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
79    
80     [https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
81     %
82 root 1.455 Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
83    
84     [BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
85     %
86 root 1.454 [supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
87    
88     # We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
89     # they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
90    
91     # We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
92     # unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
93     # a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
94    
95     # We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
96     # tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
97    
98     [https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
99     %
100 root 1.453 [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
101    
102     Vim 15.2%
103     Emacs 3.8%
104    
105     [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
106    
107     Vim 26.1%
108     Emacs 5.2%
109     %
110 root 1.452 Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
111    
112     Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
113    
114     R! /dir/.* destroys root.
115    
116     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?"
117    
118     Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
119    
120     Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
121    
122     Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
123    
124     Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
125    
126     'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
127    
128     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."
129    
130     'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
131    
132     [https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
133     %
134     [raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
135    
136     >>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
137     >>> their own servers.
138     >>
139     >> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
140     >
141     > No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
142    
143     [https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
144     %
145 root 1.451 The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
146    
147     [from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
148     them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
149     %
150 root 1.450 Chronology of Significant Events
151     ================================
152    
153 root 1.449 November 2002
154    
155     Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
156     hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
157     treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
158    
159     ---
160    
161     Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
162     dehydration and fatigue.
163    
164     ---
165    
166     Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
167     interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
168    
169     ---
170    
171     Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
172    
173     November 19 2200 hrs
174     guard check - Rahman is alive.
175    
176     2300 hrs
177     guard check - Rahman is alive.
178    
179     November 20 0400 hrs
180     guard check - Rahman is alive.
181    
182     0800 hrs
183     guard check - Rahman is alive.
184    
185     1000 hrs
186     guard check - Rahman is dead.
187    
188     [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
189     %
190 root 1.448 In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
191     when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
192     the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
193     intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
194     through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
195     proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
196     music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
197     another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
198     be a better place.
199    
200     [E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
201     %
202 root 1.447 > Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
203     > always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
204     > computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
205     > like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
206     > really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
207     > in technology.
208    
209     -P
210     Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
211    
212     [http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
213     %
214     > Simon Cooke wrote:
215     > *shrugs* I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
216    
217     I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
218    
219     [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
220     %
221 root 1.446 Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
222     for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
223     number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
224     of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
225     55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
226    
227     [https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
228     %
229 root 1.445 Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
230     anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
231     the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
232     hashtag #sexualassault.
233    
234     [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
235     %
236 root 1.444 From: Linus Torvalds
237    
238     And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
239     trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
240    
241     [https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
242     %
243     > How is the old way a problem?
244    
245     That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
246     things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
247     it's smarter than you.
248    
249     [https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
250     %
251 root 1.443 Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
252     dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
253     better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
254     less lethal.
255    
256     [https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
257     %
258 root 1.442 From: Richard Stallman
259    
260     [...]
261    
262     > then that sounds like a layering violation.
263    
264     The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
265     If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
266     we won't let "layering" get in the way.
267     %
268 root 1.441 "Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
269     "Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
270     "Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
271     "also now legal names for the UK.
272    
273     [Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
274     %
275     From: Russ Allbery
276     To: tz@iana.org
277     Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
278    
279     > Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
280     > existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
281     > in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
282     > document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
283     > with the documentation on change impact including budget,
284     > authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
285     > changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
286    
287     A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
288     and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
289    
290     It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
291     any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
292     contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
293     Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
294     jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
295    
296     It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
297     project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
298     project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
299     form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
300     private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
301     adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
302     (or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
303     entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
304     certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
305    
306     Some companies don't *want* to spend that money, and try to do it on the
307     cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
308     software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
309     maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
310     carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
311     weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
312     software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
313     far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
314     whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
315     maintainer.
316     %
317 root 1.440 [About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
318    
319     They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
320     such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
321     an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
322     "BST", but no:
323     http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
324     %
325     To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
326     Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
327    
328     Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
329     > When can we expect the updated version
330    
331     About three weeks ago.
332     %
333 root 1.439 [...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
334     not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
335     %
336     [...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
337    
338     [http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
339     %
340 root 1.438 Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
341     was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
342     neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
343    
344     [http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
345     %
346     From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
347    
348     Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
349    
350     > From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
351     [http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
352    
353     | The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
354     | the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
355     | the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
356    
357     Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
358     full day per year.
359     %
360 root 1.437 Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
361     de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
362     [I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
363     %
364     File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
365     -- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
366     %
367     Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
368     storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
369     me - lately?".
370     -- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
371     Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
372    
373     [http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
374     %
375     I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
376     fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
377     arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
378     variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
379    
380     I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
381     because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
382     because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
383     your lives be a living hell.
384    
385     [Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
386     %
387 root 1.436 Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
388     [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
389     %
390     Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
391     for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
392     out with a problem I'm having?
393    
394     Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
395    
396     Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
397    
398     Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
399     want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
400     from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
401     doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
402    
403     Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
404    
405     Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
406    
407     Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
408    
409     Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
410     [http://c2.com/]
411     %
412     Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
413     controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
414     right-parenthesis.
415     [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
416     %
417     Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
418     yourself?
419     Software development is the career for you!
420    
421     [https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
422     %
423 root 1.435 [...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
424     -- Richard Dawkins
425     %
426     There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
427     choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
428     and security.
429    
430     [http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
431     %
432     [In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
433    
434     We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
435     used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
436     -— National Security Agency, June 1992
437     %
438     In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
439     exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
440     known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
441     this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
442     they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
443     undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
444    
445     [http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
446     %
447     tiny hsv2rgb
448     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;}
449    
450     vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
451     return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)*6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)*v;
452     }
453     %
454     Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
455     Only Java makes it possible!
456    
457     [http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
458     %
459     'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
460     generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
461     extremely poettering''
462     %
463     "There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
464     -- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
465     %
466     "I drank what?!"
467     -- Socrates
468     %
469     It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
470     implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
471     400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
472    
473     Jon Callas in
474     http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
475     %
476     "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
477     -- Conway's Law
478     %
479     The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
480     (this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
481     of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
482     because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
483     to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
484     have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
485     untangling this mess right now so).
486    
487     [http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
488     %
489     Option "NoPM" "boolean"
490     Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
491     enabled on platforms that support it.
492     [xorg.conf(5)]
493     %
494     > Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
495     > Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
496     > would work on code.
497    
498     Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
499     like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
500     and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
501     [87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
502     %
503 root 1.434 [and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
504     As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
505     hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
506     the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
507     option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
508     a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
509     that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
510     there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
511     the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
512     %
513     Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
514     acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
515     sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
516     work around *your* bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
517     very beginning.
518     [Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
519     %
520     systemd creates user session information in
521     /run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
522     only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
523     that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
524     allowed one session per user.
525     [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
526     %
527 root 1.433 > Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
528     > about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
529     > about anything else.
530     >
531     > Why is it like that?
532    
533     Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
534    
535     [http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
536     %
537     [from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
538    
539     >> However, there are a number of serious problems:
540     >>
541     >> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
542     >> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
543     >> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
544     >> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
545     >
546     > I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
547    
548     That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
549     The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
550     %
551     (partial) Beaufort Table
552     Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
553     Calm 0 0 0
554     Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
555     Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
556     Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
557     Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
558     Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
559     Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
560     Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
561     Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
562     Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
563     %
564     "I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
565     - random imdb forum quote excerpt
566     %
567     "Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
568     sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
569     %
570     The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
571     profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
572     suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
573     on the cards.
574     %
575     [random comment from amule sources]
576     // trust noone ;-)
577     // lol, useless comment but made me lmao
578     // wtf you guys are weird.
579     %
580 root 1.432 Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
581     - Kin Hubbard
582     %
583     [random .sig]
584     I'm a muslim.
585    
586     No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
587     %
588     [...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
589     of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
590     before.
591    
592     [Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
593     %
594     <imho>
595    
596     BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
597     Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
598     Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
599     Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
600    
601     ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
602     Java - public static void not fun.
603     C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
604     C - usually not fun.
605    
606     What about modern scripting languages?
607    
608     JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
609     Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
610     Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
611    
612     </imho>
613    
614     [http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
615     %
616     "Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
617     Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
618     %
619    
620     * GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
621     *
622     * This routine sets the specified display mode.
623    
624     n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
625     [plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
626     %
627     # The user is always right.
628     if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
629     [autoconf]
630     %
631     from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
632    
633     /*
634     * We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
635     * not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
636     * extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
637     * file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
638     * more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
639     * fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
640     * but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
641     * and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
642     * FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
643     * deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
644     * scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
645     * tables and this condition does not arise without those.
646     */
647     %
648     Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
649     was new to me:
650    
651     switch(c)
652     {
653     case 'x': base=16; type |= 4; if(0) {
654     case 'o': base= 8; type |= 4; } if(0) {
655     case 'u': base=10; type |= 4; } if(0) {
656     case 'd': base=-10; }
657     switch(type)
658     {
659     case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
660     case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
661     case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
662     case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
663     case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
664     case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
665     default:val=0; break;
666     }
667     cp = __numout(val,base);
668     if(0) {
669     case 's':
670     cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
671     }
672     %
673     Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
674     is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
675     timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
676     at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
677     extra second and see how far you get :-)
678     [Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
679     %
680     > > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
681     > > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
682     > > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
683     > > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
684     >
685     > Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
686     > set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
687    
688     It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
689     infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
690    
691     [from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
692     %
693     It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
694     should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
695     heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
696    
697     Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
698    
699     http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
700     %
701     (i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
702     whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
703     know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
704     beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
705     nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
706     settings)
707    
708     http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
709     %
710     How do I deal with memory leaks?
711    
712     By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
713    
714     [From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
715     %
716     This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
717     ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
718    
719     http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
720     %
721     The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
722     recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
723     hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
724     Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
725    
726     The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
727     public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
728     justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
729     children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
730     Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
731     rewarded for their creativity.
732    
733     Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
734     will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
735     that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
736     librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
737     would never have made it in the first place.
738    
739     http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
740     %
741     "I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
742     future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
743     %
744     Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
745     it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
746     Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
747     capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
748     to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
749    
750     http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
751     %
752     "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
753     Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
754     - Mohandas Gandhi
755     %
756     "And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
757     the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
758     handiwork of the Lord."
759     - Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
760     %
761     Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
762    
763     I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
764     Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
765     must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
766    
767     Scientific scrutiny works like this:
768     Scientist A publishes results.
769    
770     Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
771     and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
772     x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
773    
774     A: x, y, and z are such and such.
775     B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
776     sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
777     A: ...
778     B: You fraud!
779    
780     Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
781    
782     A publishes results.
783    
784     B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
785     Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
786     A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
787     article. Did you have something specific in mind?
788     B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
789     experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
790    
791     -- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
792     [http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
793     %
794     [regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
795     them because they need the money to operate]
796    
797     "The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
798     readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
799     readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
800     site or its bottom line."
801     %
802     "..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
803     the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
804     who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
805     enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
806     that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
807     adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
808     contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
809     being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
810     their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
811     are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
812     Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
813     – Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
814     %
815     Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
816    
817     Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
818    
819     Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
820     %
821     ["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
822    
823     >>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
824     >>>> and the beating of children?
825     >>>
826     >>> Subjugation of women...
827     >>
828     >> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
829     >> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
830     >> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
831     >> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
832     >> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
833     >> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
834     >> shake partner.
835     >
836     > Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
837     >
838     > He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
839     > on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
840     > humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
841     > choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
842     >
843    
844     As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
845     was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
846     traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
847     of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
848     really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
849     those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
850     and your wife.
851     %
852     Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
853     cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
854     still kill you. - arestheblue
855     %
856     Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
857     abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
858     specifications for GSS-API.
859    
860     It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
861     the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
862    
863     There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
864     Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
865    
866     [http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
867     %
868     [from the minix 3 users guide]
869    
870     ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
871     %
872     [Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
873    
874     During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
875     [...]
876     You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
877     complaintant to guess this is true.
878     %
879     "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
880     - Ken Thompson.
881     %
882     http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
883    
884     "Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
885    
886     Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
887     universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
888     source code excerpt:
889    
890     int sn()
891     {
892     char pwr;
893    
894     int input1 = 0;
895     double output1 = 0;
896    
897     system("clear");
898     cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
899     cin>>input1;
900     output1 = (sin(input1));
901     cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
902     cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
903     cin>>pwr;
904     if(pwr == 'a')
905     sq();
906     if(pwr == 'm')
907     system("pause");
908    
909     }
910     %
911     It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
912     full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
913    
914     [mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
915    
916     http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
917     %
918     From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
919     app for me" department:
920    
921     From: Evan LeCompte
922    
923     Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
924     Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
925     developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
926     %
927     "I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
928     a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
929     indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
930    
931     http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
932     %
933     "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
934     Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
935     – Steve Jobs[47]
936    
937     "We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
938     – Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
939     the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
940     %
941     The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
942     -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
943     %
944     Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
945     From: Patrick Horgan
946     Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
947     To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
948    
949     Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
950     writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
951     documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
952     by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
953     posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
954     the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
955    
956     [...]
957     %
958 root 1.431 "Logic has made me hated among men"
959     — Peter Abelard
960     %
961     A man said to the universe:
962     "Sir I exist!"
963     "However," replied the universe,
964     "The fact has not created in me
965 root 1.432 A sense of obligation."
966     - Steven Crane
967 root 1.431 %
968     He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
969    
970     He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
971    
972     He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
973    
974     He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
975    
976     – Sanskrit Saying
977     %
978     [anonymised discussion]
979     AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
980     Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
981     %
982     [http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
983    
984 root 1.432 Additions to the WGL Specification
985 root 1.431
986     First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
987     existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
988     appear.
989     %
990     "All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
991     sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
992     - Douglas Adams
993     %
994     I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
995     [http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
996     %
997     “A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
998     lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
999     %
1000     "This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1001     in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1002     - footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1003     http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1004     %
1005     Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1006     %
1007     "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1008     - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1009     President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1010     Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1011     Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1012     %
1013     It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1014     programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1015     or her career.
1016     [http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1017     %
1018     It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1019     as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1020     Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1021     %
1022     I LOVE YOU
1023     ["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1024     %
1025     General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1026     the air impeller.
1027    
1028     Alan Cox
1029     %
1030     "I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1031     with a minimum computer science background."
1032     %
1033     From: Eric Sosman
1034     Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1035     Subject: Re: about graphics
1036    
1037     prince wrote:
1038     > how to get command over graphics in c language?
1039    
1040     #include <stdio.h>
1041     int main(void) {
1042     puts("graphics\rcommand");
1043     return 0;
1044     }
1045     %
1046     I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1047     amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1048     wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1049     detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1050     %
1051     [Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1052    
1053     While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
1054     it still is a constant-time attack.
1055     %
1056     "Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1057     -- Karl Joseph Simrock
1058     %
1059     From: David Damerell
1060    
1061     Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1062     >Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1063     >caps to make it different.
1064    
1065     Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1066     painful but will take less typing.
1067     %
1068     Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1069     of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1070     compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1071    
1072     Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1073     %
1074     From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1075    
1076     > The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1077     > free than the BSD.
1078     >
1079     > Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1080    
1081     The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1082     by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1083     %
1084     [C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1085    
1086     State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
1087     struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1088     from incompatible pointer type
1089     State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
1090     struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1091     makes pointer from integer without a cast
1092     State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *,
1093     struct CV *, struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1094     %
1095     The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1096     people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1097     convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1098     rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1099     not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1100     by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1101    
1102     [Chandon Seldon]
1103     %
1104     [Wikipedia]
1105     Differences between vi and Emacs
1106    
1107     The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1108     %
1109     [lost the reference]
1110     Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1111     bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1112     %
1113     "Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1114     to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1115     elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1116     %
1117     [aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1118    
1119     Subject: Re: fcrack help
1120     From: puezalb024@aol.com
1121     Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1122     To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1123     X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1124    
1125     well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1126     ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1127     have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1128     working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1129     your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1130     yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1131     piss on your leg.
1132    
1133     ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1134     maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1135     spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1136    
1137     [then, a day later]
1138    
1139     Subject: Re: fcrack help
1140     From: puezalb024@aol.com
1141     Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1142     To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1143     X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1144    
1145     just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1146     aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1147     your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1148     previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1149     all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1150     quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1151     response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1152     fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1153     copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1154    
1155    
1156     -----Original Message-----
1157     From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1158     To: puezalb024@aol.com
1159     Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1160     Subject: Re: fcrack help
1161    
1162    
1163    
1164     On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1165 root 1.432 >
1166 root 1.431 > ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1167    
1168     I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1169    
1170     Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1171     I hope you don't object :)
1172     %
1173     >Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1174     >dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1175    
1176     You made my day
1177     %
1178     [http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1179    
1180     Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1181     implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1182     the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1183    
1184     Linus
1185     %
1186     The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1187    
1188     From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1189    
1190     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 ...
1191    
1192     [lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1193    
1194     As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1195     emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1196     when sending emails to other people:
1197     http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1198    
1199     [which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1200    
1201     [mail quoted with permission btw.]
1202     %
1203     * k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1204     <k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1205     <brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1206     <k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1207     <brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1208     %
1209     I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1210     be used if run as administrator in windows.
1211    
1212     Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1213     %
1214     [on italy]
1215    
1216     #24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1217    
1218     @youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1219     majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1220     wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1221     only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1222    
1223     Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1224     corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1225     by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1226     funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1227     suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1228     on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1229    
1230     http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1231    
1232     Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1233     during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1234     1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1235     from fascism period.
1236    
1237     We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1238     cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1239     them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1240     author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1241     song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1242     created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1243     royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1244     they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1245     SIAE.
1246    
1247     We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1248     code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1249     you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1250     elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1251     explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1252     explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1253     your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1254     electronic ones
1255    
1256     #25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1257    
1258     Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1259     don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1260     (on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1261     CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1262     based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1263     western country.
1264    
1265     I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1266     very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1267     but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1268     elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1269     deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1270     Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1271     laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1272     innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1273     also the governments of "center-left".
1274    
1275     Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1276    
1277     If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1278     great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1279     without any restriction.
1280    
1281     Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1282     and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1283     world.
1284    
1285     Long life to the Bay, forever.
1286     Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1287     Thank you for reading.
1288     %
1289     > > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1290     >
1291     > don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1292    
1293     How very ironic.
1294     %
1295     With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1296     evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1297     takes religion."
1298    
1299     --Steve Weinberg
1300     %
1301     http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1302     %
1303     [Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1304     [Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1305     [if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1306    
1307     "I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1308     solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1309     solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1310     %
1311     [From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1312     The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1313     the right tool for me.
1314     %
1315     [deliantra]
1316     02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1317     %
1318     I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1319     %
1320     cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1321     /wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1322     Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1323     %
1324     From the CFA633 datasheet:
1325    
1326     * Do not eat the LCD panel.
1327     %
1328     >> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1329     >> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1330    
1331     It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1332     actually tells you it's *American*.
1333     %
1334     [better do not hire this programmer]
1335     From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1336     Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1337     Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1338    
1339     Hi
1340    
1341     I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1342     someone here can advise me.
1343    
1344     I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1345     that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1346     wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1347     dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1348     happens with the customer looking on!!).
1349    
1350     I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1351     like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1352     on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1353     Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1354     exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1355     corresponding thing in C?
1356    
1357     Thanks!
1358     %
1359     [from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1360    
1361     // See bug 53763.
1362     nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1363     nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1364     if (shell) {
1365     kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1366     %
1367     [the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1368     amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1369    
1370     0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1371     0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1372     0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1373     0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1374     0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1375     %
1376     (A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1377     zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1378     error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1379     must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1380     “display quality too high”).
1381    
1382     [http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1383     %
1384     Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1385    
1386 root 1.432 > I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1387 root 1.431 > mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1388    
1389     Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1390    
1391     x / y * z
1392    
1393     and
1394    
1395     x / y * z
1396    
1397     That'll *never* cause problems, right? :)
1398    
1399     (To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1400     design decisions.)
1401     %
1402     endergt:
1403     > snoofle:
1404     > > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1405     > > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1406     > > you understand what you are doing...
1407     >
1408 root 1.432 > Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1409 root 1.431
1410 root 1.432 debug
1411 root 1.431 %
1412     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%.
1413    
1414     Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1415     %
1416     Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1417     are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1418     for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1419    
1420     Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1421     pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1422     6 Decompilation
1423    
1424     1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1425     reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1426     of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1427     necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1428     computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1429     conditions are met: [...]"
1430     %
1431     http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1432     %
1433     Why Linux Sux ?
1434    
1435     Easy .
1436     Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1437     Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1438     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 .
1439     Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1440     GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1441     Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1442     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! ) .
1443     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 .
1444     Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1445    
1446     You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1447     no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1448     working ones . Screw linux users .
1449     %
1450     19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1451     19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1452     19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1453     %
1454     > The Dell 30"...
1455    
1456     It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1457     the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1458     %
1459 root 1.432 Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1460 root 1.431
1461     > > 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".
1462 root 1.432 >
1463 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!
1464 root 1.432 >
1465 root 1.431 > your welcome, pinhead!
1466 root 1.432
1467 root 1.431 Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a *beep* during ww2 I will respond.
1468    
1469     1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1470     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.
1471     3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1472 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.
1473 root 1.431 %
1474     [discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1475     Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1476     public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1477     %
1478     ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1479    
1480     Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1481     es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1482     dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1483    
1484     Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1485     anderen betriebssystemen.
1486    
1487     Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1488     auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1489    
1490     habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1491     Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1492     Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1493     Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1494     einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1495    
1496     Frage?
1497     Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1498     Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1499     Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1500    
1501     Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1502     %
1503     "In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1504     Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1505     of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1506     religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1507     has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1508     and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1509     %
1510     19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1511     19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1512     19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1513     19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1514     %
1515     What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1516     reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1517    
1518     God bless the re-inventers
1519    
1520     Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1521     what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1522    
1523 root 1.432 Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1524 root 1.431
1525     The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1526     one.
1527     %
1528     [rfc2665]
1529     The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1530     Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1531     useful in theory than in practice.
1532     %
1533     15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1534 root 1.432 15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1535 root 1.431 mit windows zu tun
1536     15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1537     15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1538     15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1539     15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1540     15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1541 root 1.432 15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1542 root 1.431 geaendert haben :->
1543     15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1544 root 1.432 15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1545 root 1.431 15:30
1546     15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1547     15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1548     %
1549     [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1550     The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1551     If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1552     %
1553     http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1554    
1555     Strictly for beginners
1556    
1557     Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1558     [...]
1559     %
1560     http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1561     %
1562     17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1563     17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1564     17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1565     17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1566     17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1567     17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1568     17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1569     17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1570     17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1571     17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1572     17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1573     17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1574     17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1575     17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1576     17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1577     17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1578     17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1579     17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1580     17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1581     17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1582     17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1583     17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1584     17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1585     17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1586     17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1587     %
1588     [A Gentoo User]
1589     First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1590     distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1591     doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1592     [...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1593     Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1594     environment and think LFS is to much work.
1595     [http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1596     %
1597     20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1598     20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1599     20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1600     20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1601     20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1602 root 1.432 20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1603     least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1604 root 1.431 can do
1605     20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1606     20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1607     20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1608     20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1609     20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1610     20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1611     %
1612     23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1613 root 1.432 23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1614     between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1615     processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1616 root 1.431 times before) and (idiots)
1617     23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1618 root 1.432 23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1619     general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1620 root 1.431 out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1621     %
1622     [http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1623     Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1624     %
1625     [http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1626    
1627     Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1628     to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1629     be slow in Windows 2000"
1630    
1631     In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1632     upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1633     that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1634     %
1635     [so much for type-safety]
1636     List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1637     lst.add(null);
1638     int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1639     %
1640     [just for reference]
1641     Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1642     kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1643     einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1644     dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1645     weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1646     es nicht.
1647    
1648     Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1649     lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1650     einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1651     letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1652     hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1653     wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1654    
1655     Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1656     war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1657     das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1658     Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1659     Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1660     Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1661     die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1662     mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1663     regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1664     Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1665     man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1666     Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1667     Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1668     verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1669    
1670     Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1671     Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1672     anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1673     in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1674     tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1675     verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1676     nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1677    
1678     Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1679     mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1680     soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1681     letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1682     krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1683     nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1684     Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1685     Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1686     mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1687     oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1688     leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1689     Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1690     alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1691     anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1692     für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1693     slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1694     alternativ' Idioten!
1695    
1696     Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1697     Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1698     bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1699     euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1700     war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1701     dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1702     Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1703     ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1704     lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1705     brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1706     Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1707     damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1708     niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1709     Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1710    
1711     Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1712     nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1713     Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1714    
1715     Ich will R A C H E !
1716    
1717     Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1718     gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1719     Dinge zu sagen:
1720    
1721     1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1722    
1723     Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1724     unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1725     welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1726     diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1727     anfange.
1728    
1729     2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1730     denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1731     haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1732     dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1733     dieser verdammten schule!
1734    
1735     Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1736     die Welt zu bieten hat!
1737    
1738     S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1739    
1740     Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1741     was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1742     Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1743     Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1744     allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1745     oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1746     eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1747     Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1748     Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1749     können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1750    
1751     S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1752     Einschulung.
1753    
1754     Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1755     wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1756     Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1757     und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1758     Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1759     wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1760     zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1761     wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1762     Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1763     herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1764    
1765     WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1766     SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1767    
1768     Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1769     Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1770     müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1771     sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1772     zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1773     sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1774     Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1775     Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1776    
1777     Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1778     sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1779     benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1780     Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1781     weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1782     Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1783     Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1784     NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1785    
1786     Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1787     ihr dafür bezahlen!
1788    
1789     Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1790     einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1791     Hand genommen.
1792    
1793     Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1794     gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1795    
1796     Ich bin weg...
1797     %
1798     01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1799     01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1800     %
1801 root 1.432 19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1802     kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1803     wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1804     die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1805 root 1.431 abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1806     19:19 <schmorp> *rofl*
1807     19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1808     19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1809     19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1810     19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1811     19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1812     %
1813     http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1814     %
1815     [http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1816     [The reason I left Perl 6]
1817    
1818     The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1819     worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1820     bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1821     considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1822     better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1823     %
1824     http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1825     %
1826     00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1827     00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1828     00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1829     %
1830     [very funny read]
1831     Hack-a-Bike
1832     USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1833     %
1834     Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1835     be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1836     Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1837     still can.
1838    
1839     http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1840     %
1841 root 1.432 23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1842     Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1843 root 1.431 Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1844     %
1845     [without words]
1846     http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1847     %
1848     [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1849     We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1850     a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1851     with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1852     actual kid in an actual bath.
1853     %
1854     Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1855     today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1856     makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1857     may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1858     absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1859     government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1860     what happened to you.
1861     %
1862 root 1.432 --
1863 root 1.431 Markus Schulz
1864    
1865     A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1866     Q: Why is top posting bad?
1867     %
1868     On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1869 root 1.432 > 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1870     > due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1871 root 1.431 > important difference.)
1872    
1873     Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1874     you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1875     implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1876     instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1877     just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1878    
1879     - Ted
1880     %
1881     [http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1882     "I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1883     Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1884     as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1885     Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1886     me, but we have the truth!"
1887     %
1888     [Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1889     (22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1890     (22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1891     (22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1892     %
1893     [nethack extinctionist faq]
1894     The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1895     tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1896     didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1897     monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1898     other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1899     in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1900     genociding every monster.
1901    
1902     I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1903     genocide them for good measure!
1904     %%
1905     [nethack instadeath faq]
1906    
1907     * eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1908    
1909     Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1910     %
1911     17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1912     17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1913 root 1.432 17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1914 root 1.431 Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1915     17:58 <Murch> lol
1916     %
1917     22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1918     %
1919     [Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1920     http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1921     %
1922     http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1923     %
1924     http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1925    
1926     There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1927     or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1928     adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1929     %
1930     http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1931    
1932     At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1933     announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1934     into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1935     the Eastern Time Zone.
1936     [...]
1937     Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1938     sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1939     allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1940     daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1941     %
1942     Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1943    
1944     _dl_profile_output
1945     = &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1946     %
1947     [CRYPTO-GRAM]
1948     By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1949     a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1950     watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1951     security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1952     can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1953     that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1954    
1955     http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1956     %
1957     [famous last words]
1958     11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by *plonk*?
1959     %
1960     What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1961    
1962     "We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1963    
1964     "They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1965    
1966     --
1967     Jay Hennigan
1968     %
1969     http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1970     %
1971     [latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1972     held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1973     of homeland security]
1974     http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1975     %
1976     "Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1977 root 1.432 seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1978 root 1.431 Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1979     version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1980     are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1981     range of spyware available to us?"
1982    
1983     [http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1984     %
1985     [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1986     00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1987     00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1988     %
1989 root 1.432 <Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1990 root 1.431 to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1991     %
1992     The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1993     http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1994     %
1995     Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1996     did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1997     I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1998     shooter.
1999    
2000     The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2001     done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2002     to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2003     they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2004     opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2005     puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2006    
2007     Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2008     in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2009     Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2010     apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2011     way.
2012    
2013     And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2014     bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2015     key graphic good. Make me happy."
2016    
2017     *shrugs* But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2018     %
2019     > So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2020     > D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2021     > out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2022     > above comment about Hitler).
2023    
2024     I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2025     mention Hitler loses.
2026     %
2027     [siggraph '99 course 12]
2028     Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2029     introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2030     your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2031     can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2032     program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2033     UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2034     including <windows.h>.
2035     [...]
2036     Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2037     but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2038     gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2039     wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2040     programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2041     coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2042     extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2043     environments.
2044     %
2045     http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2046     %
2047     [http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2048     "It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2049     %
2050     [CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2051     [...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2052     computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2053     do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2054     use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2055     advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2056     software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2057     their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2058     companies want to own your computer.
2059    
2060     Some examples:
2061    
2062     1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2063     distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2064     software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2065     secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2066     Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2067     Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2068     software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2069     an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2070     wanting to own its customers' machines.
2071 root 1.432
2072 root 1.431 2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2073     Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2074     security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2075     because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2076     software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2077    
2078     3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2079     addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2080     trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2081     from Microsoft? You can't.
2082    
2083     4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2084     the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2085     blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2086     useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2087     just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2088     isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2089     adversely affect its business partners.
2090    
2091     5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2092     computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2093     their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2094     about your behavior.
2095    
2096     6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2097     try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2098     security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2099     disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2100     presumed infractions.
2101    
2102     Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2103     examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2104     Computing will only make the problem worse.
2105    
2106     There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2107     people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2108     legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2109     invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2110     user's device against him.
2111     [...]
2112     You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2113     respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2114     their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2115     like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2116     owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2117     back-room marketing deals.
2118     %
2119     [John Carmack on Java]
2120     Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2121     platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2122     the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2123     (often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2124     performance.
2125     %
2126     [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2127    
2128     "Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2129     ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2130     und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2131     Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2132     %
2133     http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2134     %
2135     "Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2136     once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2137     a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2138     http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2139     %
2140     http://funroll-loops.org/
2141     %
2142     [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2143     When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2144     initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2145     goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2146     a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2147     to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2148     of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2149     it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2150     celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2151     Fahrenheit documentation.
2152     %
2153     [Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2154     the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2155     sure its much slower than CVS]
2156     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2157     svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2158     svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2159 root 1.432 [Exit 1]
2160 root 1.431 cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2161     svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2162 root 1.432 [Exit 1]
2163 root 1.431 cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2164     svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2165 root 1.432 [Exit 1]
2166 root 1.431 [Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2167     humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2168     %
2169 root 1.430 [http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2170    
2171     ... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2172     role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2173 root 1.431 %
2174 root 1.429 Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2175    
2176     > Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2177     > systems ?
2178    
2179     Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2180     probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2181    
2182     Jesper
2183     %
2184 root 1.428 [http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2185    
2186     "As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2187     YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2188    
2189 root 1.432 ~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2190 root 1.429 %
2191 root 1.427 http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2192     %
2193 root 1.426 [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2194    
2195     You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2196     like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2197     evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2198     measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2199     direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2200     into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2201     but that's the truth.
2202     %
2203 root 1.424 [de.alt.ufo]
2204    
2205     Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2206    
2207 root 1.432 > 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2208     > Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2209     > Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2210     > Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2211 root 1.424
2212     Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2213 root 1.425 einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2214     ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2215 root 1.424 gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2216    
2217     Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2218     was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2219 root 1.425 der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2220 root 1.424 gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2221     in Richtung Boden.
2222    
2223     [...]
2224    
2225 root 1.432 > Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2226 root 1.425 > Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2227 root 1.424
2228     Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2229 root 1.425 da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2230 root 1.424 Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2231    
2232     [...]
2233    
2234     > 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2235 root 1.432 > Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2236 root 1.425 > Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2237 root 1.424
2238     Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2239 root 1.425 mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2240     schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2241     die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2242 root 1.424 Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2243     sofort.
2244     %
2245 root 1.423 [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2246     By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2247     like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2248     software from Microsoft.)
2249 root 1.424 %
2250 root 1.422 http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2251 root 1.424 %
2252 root 1.421 > BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2253    
2254     Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2255     gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2256     afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2257     much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2258 root 1.424 %
2259 root 1.420 http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2260 root 1.419 http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2261 root 1.424 %
2262 root 1.418 Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2263     From: Rodrigo Severo
2264     Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2265     To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2266    
2267     On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2268    
2269     "David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2270     It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2271     obviously-broken regulations like this.
2272    
2273     I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2274     isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2275     brazilian ;)
2276     Rodrigo Severo
2277 root 1.424 %
2278 root 1.431 [Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2279 root 1.417
2280     http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2281 root 1.424 %
2282 root 1.416 [Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2283    
2284     I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2285    
2286     Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2287    
2288     Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2289     squid (in mostly default debian config).
2290    
2291     *sigh*
2292 root 1.424 %
2293 root 1.415 A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2294     By Bertrand Russell
2295    
2296     Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2297     decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2298     it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2299     might be set forth as follows:
2300    
2301     1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2302    
2303     2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2304     evidence is sure to come to light.
2305    
2306     3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2307    
2308     4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2309     or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2310     authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2311    
2312     5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2313     contrary authorities to be found.
2314    
2315     6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2316     do the opinions will suppress you.
2317    
2318     7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2319     was once eccentric.
2320    
2321     8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2322     for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2323     agreement than the latter.
2324    
2325     9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2326     more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2327    
2328     10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2329     paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2330    
2331     "A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2332     Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2333 root 1.424 %
2334 root 1.413 [http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2335 root 1.412 John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2336     the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2337     Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2338    
2339     "Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2340     that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2341     purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2342     European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2343     or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2344     United States."
2345 root 1.413 ---
2346     It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2347     outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2348     communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2349 root 1.414 ---
2350     "You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2351     discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2352     quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2353     street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2354     $1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2355    
2356     This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2357     play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2358 root 1.424 %
2359 root 1.411 [gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2360     Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2361 root 1.424 %
2362 root 1.410 [http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2363    
2364     Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2365     almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2366    
2367     Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2368     set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2369    
2370     Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2371    
2372     [...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2373     believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2374 root 1.424 %
2375 root 1.409 [Copyright History - US view]
2376     http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2377 root 1.424 %
2378 root 1.408 [I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2379     X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2380     tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2381     the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2382     to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2383     656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2384 root 1.424 %
2385 root 1.406 [Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2386    
2387     "Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2388     they care about it?"
2389     -- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2390 root 1.407
2391     [see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2392 root 1.424 %
2393 root 1.405 Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2394     -- Gregory Chaitin
2395 root 1.424 %
2396 root 1.432 13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2397 root 1.404 gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2398     13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2399     [...]
2400 root 1.432 13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2401     wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2402 root 1.404 wieder alles groß
2403 root 1.424 %
2404 root 1.403 [man perlsub]
2405     That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2406     having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2407     for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2408     those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2409     sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2410 root 1.424 %
2411 root 1.402 [glibc's bits/socket.h]
2412    
2413     if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2414 root 1.432 /* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2415     return 0;
2416 root 1.424 %
2417 root 1.400 http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2418 root 1.401
2419     > Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2420     > Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2421     > entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2422     > unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2423     > die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2424     > wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2425     > Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2426     > und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2427     > transparent.
2428    
2429     Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2430     der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2431     die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2432     Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2433 root 1.424 %
2434 root 1.399 Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2435     aber falsche Lösungen.
2436 root 1.424 %
2437 root 1.398 A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2438     and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2439     as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2440     is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2441 root 1.424 %
2442 root 1.397 On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2443     >
2444     > Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2445     > listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2446     > listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2447     > than useful to the user.
2448    
2449     I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2450    
2451     This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2452     Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2453     use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2454     since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2455    
2456     Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2457    
2458     Linus
2459 root 1.424 %
2460 root 1.396 Move 80, Node 81
2461     theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2462     setzer [?]: what about 9d
2463     theodore [22k?]: they control it
2464 root 1.424 %
2465 root 1.395 [Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2466     Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2467    
2468 root 1.398 Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2469 root 1.395 als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2470     --
2471     Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2472    
2473     Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2474 root 1.424 %
2475 root 1.393 [Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2476     I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2477    
2478     Person: What do you do?
2479     Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2480     Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2481    
2482     If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2483     agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2484     exactly getting off on the right foot.
2485 root 1.394
2486     [And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2487     http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2488 root 1.424 %
2489 root 1.392 "The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2490     extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2491     illegal downloaders."
2492    
2493     Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2494    
2495     "If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2496     profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2497     liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2498     to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2499     have to emerge."
2500    
2501     http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2502 root 1.424 %
2503 root 1.425 >Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2504 root 1.391 >einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2505    
2506     Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2507     immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2508    
2509     Bye, Andy
2510 root 1.424 %
2511 root 1.398 [ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2512 root 1.425 >einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2513 root 1.390 >Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2514 root 1.425 >Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2515 root 1.390
2516     Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2517     Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2518     System, die das wegstrippen :(
2519     Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2520     halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2521     wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2522     Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2523     - und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2524     Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2525     ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2526     alle Benutzer.
2527     Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2528     Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2529     irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2530     probieren (bis es knallt)?
2531     Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2532     der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2533     Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2534     Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2535     Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2536     insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2537     es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2538 root 1.424 %
2539 root 1.389 [subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2540    
2541     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2542     svn: Working copy '.' locked
2543     svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2544     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2545     svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2546     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2547     svn: Working copy '.' locked
2548     svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2549     cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2550     cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2551     unfinished operations, etc.
2552     usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2553    
2554     Valid options:
2555     --diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2556     --config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2557    
2558     [Thanks for the details. Not.]
2559 root 1.424 %
2560 root 1.388 But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2561     ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2562     _much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2563     to provide.
2564     - perl6-language - michele dondi
2565 root 1.424 %
2566 root 1.386 [From: perl6-language]
2567    
2568     The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2569     alarm people more.
2570    
2571     -Nate
2572    
2573     [...]
2574    
2575     My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2576     Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2577     image of the language that is created here.
2578    
2579     Juerd
2580    
2581     [...]
2582    
2583     (Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2584     'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2585     perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2586    
2587 root 1.432 --
2588 root 1.386 H.Merijn Brand
2589 root 1.387 %
2590 root 1.385 Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2591 root 1.388 dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2592 root 1.385 Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2593     Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2594 root 1.387 %
2595 root 1.384 [Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2596     http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2597 root 1.387 %
2598 root 1.383 [Priceless :)]
2599     http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2600 root 1.387 %
2601 root 1.382 [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2602     >> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2603     [...]
2604     > Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2605     "Windows is broken."
2606 root 1.387 %
2607 root 1.381 [Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2608     Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2609     is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2610 root 1.387 %
2611 root 1.380 [Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2612     on being able to kill their children legally]
2613     http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2614 root 1.387 %
2615 root 1.379 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2616     The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2617     whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2618 root 1.387 %
2619 root 1.377 [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2620     "They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2621     that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2622     the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2623     personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2624     by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2625 root 1.378 --
2626     "What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2627     administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2628     war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2629     rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2630     reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2631     DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2632     wasteful government spending."
2633 root 1.387 %
2634 root 1.376 [Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2635     http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2636 root 1.387 %
2637 root 1.375 [Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2638     http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2639 root 1.387 %
2640 root 1.375 ["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2641     http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2642 root 1.387 %
2643 root 1.374 [Pencil Carving]
2644     http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2645 root 1.387 %
2646 root 1.374 [Copyright]
2647 root 1.373 http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2648 root 1.387 %
2649 root 1.372 [Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2650     http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2651 root 1.387 %
2652 root 1.432 23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2653     captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2654 root 1.371 nation from terrorist attacks.
2655 root 1.432 23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2656     necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2657 root 1.371 States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2658 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
2659     consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2660 root 1.387 %
2661 root 1.370 [Looks extreme]
2662     http://www.counterpunch.org/
2663 root 1.387 %
2664 root 1.369 [Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2665     "As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2666     foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2667     their weapons over our heads."
2668     http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2669 root 1.387 %
2670 root 1.368 [Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2671     http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2672 root 1.387 %
2673 root 1.367 [http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2674     Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2675     about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2676     space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2677     sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2678 root 1.387 %
2679 root 1.366 [http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2680 root 1.387 %
2681 root 1.366 The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2682     several requests for clarification.
2683    
2684     Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2685     not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2686     unter TCG definitions.
2687 root 1.387 %
2688 root 1.366 But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2689     force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2690     policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2691     do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2692 root 1.387 %
2693 root 1.366 It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2694     terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2695     get people on board.
2696     %
2697 root 1.365 To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2698     patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2699     accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2700     DRM.
2701    
2702     The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2703     injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2704 root 1.387 %
2705 root 1.364 [http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2706     switch ($decade) {
2707     case "the 50's":
2708     s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2709     break;
2710     case "the 60's":
2711     s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2712     break;
2713     case "the 70's":
2714     s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2715     break;
2716     case "the 80's":
2717     s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2718     break;
2719     case "the 90's":
2720     s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2721     break;
2722     case "the 00's":
2723     s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2724     break;
2725     }
2726 root 1.387 %
2727 root 1.363 http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2728    
2729     "How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2730     in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2731     assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2732     suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2733    
2734     "Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2735     at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2736     thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2737    
2738     ""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2739     why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2740     fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2741     that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2742     is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2743     sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2744     latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2745     question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2746     I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2747     plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2748 root 1.387 %
2749 root 1.362 "The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2750     that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2751     married or unmarried."
2752    
2753     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2754     http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2755     http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2756     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2757     http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2758 root 1.387 %
2759 root 1.362 http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2760    
2761     [I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2762     Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2763     to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2764     watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2765     are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2766     conditioning.
2767    
2768     [And this is religion at its best:]
2769     Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2770     Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2771     this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2772 root 1.387 %
2773 root 1.361 [Racism]
2774     http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2775 root 1.387 %
2776 root 1.360 [A link, just a link]
2777     http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2778 root 1.387 %
2779 root 1.359 As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2780     the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2781    
2782     I apologise for this.
2783    
2784     If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2785     me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2786 root 1.387 %
2787 root 1.358 PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2788     induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2789     el says: ich kenn da wen
2790     el says: bei dem wars so
2791     [...]
2792     PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2793     el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2794     el says: gehirntumor auch
2795     el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2796 root 1.387 %
2797 root 1.357 wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2798 root 1.387 %
2799 root 1.356 [in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2800     no sense in the kernel]
2801     From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2802    
2803     [...]
2804    
2805     Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2806     models.
2807    
2808     In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2809     models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2810     they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2811 root 1.387 %
2812 root 1.354 [such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2813     There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2814     contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2815     --
2816     Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2817 root 1.355 --
2818     This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2819     you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2820     like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2821     jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2822 root 1.387 %
2823 root 1.353 An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2824     Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2825     1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2826     attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2827     strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2828     forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2829     <http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2830     [From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2831 root 1.387 %
2832 root 1.352 [If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2833     which you currently do not posess]
2834     http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2835 root 1.387 %
2836 root 1.388 Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2837     Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2838 root 1.351 [Nach: Time Bandits]
2839 root 1.387 %
2840 root 1.350 http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2841 root 1.387 %
2842 root 1.349 Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2843     a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2844 root 1.387 %
2845 root 1.432 Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2846     is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2847     paragraphs.
2848 root 1.387 %
2849 root 1.347 [the average IQ seems to be declining]
2850     http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2851     http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2852 root 1.387 %
2853 root 1.346 [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2854     > If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2855    
2856     Most catholics aren't American.
2857 root 1.387 %
2858 root 1.345 [Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2859    
2860     [http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2861     In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2862     Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2863     against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2864     fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2865    
2866     [http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2867     How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2868 root 1.387 %
2869 root 1.344 [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2870     Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2871     replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2872     because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2873     civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2874     criminals."
2875 root 1.387 %
2876 root 1.343 The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2877     [http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2878 root 1.387 %
2879 root 1.342 To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2880     than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2881 root 1.387 %
2882 root 1.341 [There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2883     http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2884 root 1.387 %
2885 root 1.340 The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2886     I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2887     card (They went up in flames).
2888 root 1.387 %
2889 root 1.432 05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2890     it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2891     higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2892     was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2893 root 1.338 white flag factories, disabling their military.
2894 root 1.432 05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2895 root 1.339 http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2896 root 1.387 %
2897 root 1.337 [The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2898     we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2899     by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2900    
2901     "The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2902    
2903     [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2904 root 1.387 %
2905 root 1.336 [http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2906     Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2907     the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2908     application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2909     violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2910     elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2911     but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2912     a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2913     of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2914     --
2915     Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2916     of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2917     people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2918     but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2919     the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2920     explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2921 root 1.387 %
2922 root 1.335 http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2923     The Obfuscated V contest
2924 root 1.387 %
2925 root 1.335 Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2926     soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2927     shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2928     cigarette lighters."
2929     http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2930 root 1.387 %
2931 root 1.334 <http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2932     Does it run under Windows ?
2933     - Who cares?
2934 root 1.387 %
2935 root 1.333 [Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2936 root 1.332 http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2937 root 1.387 %
2938 root 1.331 http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2939     Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2940     [...]
2941     Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2942     [...]
2943     Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2944     to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2945     is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2946 root 1.387 %
2947 root 1.329 [de.alt.ufo]
2948 root 1.432 > Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2949     > wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2950     > Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2951 root 1.388 > Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2952 root 1.330 > www.ufo-finder.de
2953 root 1.432 > Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2954 root 1.330 > mehr!
2955     > richy.
2956    
2957     Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2958 root 1.387 %
2959 root 1.330 [de.alt.ufo]
2960 root 1.329 > Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2961     > zugetragen hat?
2962    
2963     Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2964     warum behauptest Du es dann?
2965 root 1.388 [später]
2966     > Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2967 root 1.329
2968     Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2969     Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2970     naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2971     ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2972     aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2973    
2974     Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2975    
2976     Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2977     von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2978     ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2979 root 1.387 %
2980 root 1.388 [de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2981 root 1.328 Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2982     dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2983 root 1.387 %
2984 root 1.327 [res_nsend.c]
2985     /* give the hook another try */
2986     if (++loops < 42) /*doug adams*/
2987     break;
2988 root 1.387 %
2989 root 1.326 [sr_port/mdq.h]
2990 root 1.432 /* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2991 root 1.326 in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2992     #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))
2993 root 1.387 %
2994 root 1.325 Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2995 root 1.387 %
2996 root 1.324 * Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2997 root 1.432 > No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2998 root 1.324 > current settings of the list.
2999 root 1.432 >
3000     > There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3001     > the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3002 root 1.324 > the original sender, not the list.
3003 root 1.432 >
3004     > The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3005     > All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3006 root 1.324 > as TO).
3007 root 1.432 >
3008 root 1.324 > Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3009    
3010     Your *mail* client is *not* being blamed. It is *your*
3011     responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3012     *is* your responsibility to see that *your* posts are properly
3013     addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3014     being discourteous to.
3015    
3016     The *fault* is *all* yours. It is/was your choice.
3017     --
3018     Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3019 root 1.387 %
3020 root 1.323 [http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3021 root 1.388 "Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3022 root 1.387 %
3023 root 1.322 An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3024     software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3025     http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3026     http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3027     http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3028 root 1.387 %
3029 root 1.322 [http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3030     "They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3031     what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3032     you don't have any'."
3033 root 1.323
3034     [I also am very fond of this quote:]
3035     "My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3036     would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3037     [Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3038 root 1.387 %
3039 root 1.321 [http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3040     Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3041     3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3042     Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3043 root 1.387 %
3044 root 1.319 [http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3045     The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3046     execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3047     should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3048     Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3049     reason will not win many fans.
3050    
3051     [http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3052     documents in the algorithm section]
3053 root 1.387 %
3054 root 1.318 ["Blue in the Face"]
3055     Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3056     irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3057     und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3058     die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3059    
3060     Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3061 root 1.387 %
3062 root 1.317 And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3063     Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3064     that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3065 root 1.388 of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3066 root 1.317 Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3067     [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3068 root 1.387 %
3069 root 1.316 [Better know what they actually do...]
3070 root 1.388 [Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3071 root 1.316 http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3072 root 1.315 [RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3073     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3074 root 1.387 %
3075 root 1.314 [rfc4096]
3076     The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3077     amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3078     or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3079     the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3080     Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3081 root 1.387 %
3082 root 1.313 [just a really nice md5sum]
3083     99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3084 root 1.387 %
3085 root 1.312 [a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3086 root 1.432 * For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3087 root 1.312 * WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3088     * at their price list.
3089 root 1.387 %
3090 root 1.311 [http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3091     You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3092     time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3093     wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3094     had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3095     terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3096     level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3097 root 1.387 %
3098 root 1.309 21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3099     21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3100 root 1.387 %
3101 root 1.308 03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3102     03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3103     03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3104     03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3105 root 1.387 %
3106 root 1.319 [ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3107 root 1.307 http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3108 root 1.387 %
3109 root 1.306 [some SPAM]
3110     Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3111 root 1.387 %
3112 root 1.305 cowsay -f head-in oink | cowthink -n -f sodomized
3113 root 1.387 %
3114 root 1.304 [star wars episode guide]
3115     1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3116     2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3117     3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3118     4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3119     5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3120     6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3121     [http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3122 root 1.387 %
3123 root 1.300 [God knows his enemies]
3124     http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3125 root 1.302 [Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3126 root 1.303 http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3127 root 1.387 %
3128 root 1.299 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3129 root 1.301 [Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3130 root 1.387 %
3131 root 1.298 [http://www.bildblog.de/]
3132 root 1.388 Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3133     rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3134     hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3135 root 1.298 Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3136    
3137     Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3138    
3139     Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3140     Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3141 root 1.388 ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3142 root 1.298 Zigarette sucht.
3143    
3144     Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3145    
3146     [usw.]
3147    
3148     Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3149 root 1.388 geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3150 root 1.298 bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3151    
3152     Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3153     brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3154     Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3155     Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3156     der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3157 root 1.387 %
3158 root 1.388 [schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3159 root 1.297 http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3160     http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3161 root 1.387 %
3162 root 1.296 [http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3163     Which fanboy are you?
3164    
3165     1. Windows
3166    
3167     You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3168     would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3169     in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3170     in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3171     MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3172     to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3173     about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3174     "The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3175     dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3176    
3177     2. Apple
3178    
3179     You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3180     in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3181     next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3182     is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3183     would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3184     Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3185     they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3186     you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3187    
3188     3. Linspire
3189    
3190     You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3191     too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3192     pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3193     continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3194     installed Linspire on your machine.
3195    
3196     4. Umbongo
3197    
3198     You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3199     multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3200     operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3201     knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3202     houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3203     such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3204     very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3205     never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3206     themselves.
3207    
3208     5. Gentoy
3209    
3210     You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3211     yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3212     Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3213     from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3214     matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3215     to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3216     law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3217     read those complicated regulatory documents.
3218    
3219     6. Linux From Scratch
3220    
3221     Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3222     sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3223     matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3224     matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3225     because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3226     alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3227     and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3228 root 1.387 %
3229 root 1.295 [/usr/bin/cowsay]
3230     if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3231 root 1.387 %
3232 root 1.294 [A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3233    
3234     In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3235     in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3236    
3237     Coda 6.0.10 is out
3238 root 1.387 %
3239 root 1.293 <opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3240    
3241     > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3242 root 1.432 >
3243 root 1.388 > > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3244 root 1.293 > > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3245 root 1.388 > > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3246     > > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3247     > > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3248 root 1.432 >
3249     > What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3250 root 1.293 > smell attracting flies of course...
3251 root 1.432 >
3252 root 1.293 I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3253     request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3254 root 1.388 cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3255 root 1.387 %
3256 root 1.432 00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3257 root 1.387 %
3258 root 1.291 War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3259 root 1.387 %
3260 root 1.290 98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3261 root 1.387 %
3262 root 1.289 [Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3263     show "Correspondent"]
3264 root 1.288
3265     [...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3266     years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3267    
3268     [so know we know who creates reality now]
3269     %
3270 root 1.287 [from wordnet]
3271     cock sucking, blowjob
3272     => fellatio, fellation
3273     => oral sex, head
3274     => perversion, sexual perversion
3275     => sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3276     => bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3277     => organic process, biological process
3278     => process
3279     => phenomenon
3280 root 1.387 %
3281 root 1.286 10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3282     10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3283 root 1.387 %
3284 root 1.285 [SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3285     [slightly edited]
3286     Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3287     (in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3288     than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3289     that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3290    
3291     About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3292     sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3293     laws on terrorism and drugs.
3294    
3295     Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3296     told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3297 root 1.387 %
3298 root 1.284 "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3299     (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3300 root 1.387 %
3301 root 1.283 Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3302 root 1.282 advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3303 root 1.387 %
3304 root 1.281 A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3305 root 1.432 I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3306     realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3307 root 1.281 - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3308 root 1.387 %
3309 root 1.279 "parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3310     - oesi
3311 root 1.387 %
3312 root 1.278 [US, Metric]
3313     http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3314 root 1.387 %
3315 root 1.432 [http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3316 root 1.277 [I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3317 root 1.275 Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3318     Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments | #23269 ]
3319    
3320     It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3321     started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3322     important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3323     increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3324     to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3325     post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3326     to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3327     that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3328     spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3329     have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3330     your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3331     seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3332     truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3333     days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3334     their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3335     more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3336     few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3337     yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3338     for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3339     Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3340     servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3341     becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3342     ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3343     petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3344    
3345     This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3346     rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3347     fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3348     more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3349     repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3350    
3351     Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3352     tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3353     basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3354     appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3355     subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3356     question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3357     as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3358     and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3359     not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3360     perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3361     the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3362    
3363     In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3364     programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3365     some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3366     their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3367     myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3368     student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3369     of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3370     trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3371     of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3372     everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3373     unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3374     sovereign nation.
3375    
3376     While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3377     jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3378     hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3379     sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3380     test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3381     CSPAN, don't post here.
3382    
3383     -scott
3384 root 1.387 %
3385 root 1.274 But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3386     University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3387     capacity to feel pain.
3388    
3389     "It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3390     as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3391 root 1.387 %
3392 root 1.273 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3393     From: Sven Neumann
3394    
3395     Hi,
3396    
3397 root 1.388 Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3398 root 1.432 > I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3399 root 1.273
3400     Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3401     that
3402    
3403     ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3404    
3405     does not do what you would expect it to do.
3406 root 1.387 %
3407 root 1.271 http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3408 root 1.272 the original comment says:
3409     This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3410     Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3411 root 1.387 %
3412 root 1.271 {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3413     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3414     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3415     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3416     {Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3417     {Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3418 root 1.387 %
3419 root 1.275 [Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3420 root 1.270 interesting read]
3421     http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3422 root 1.387 %
3423 root 1.269 [Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3424     http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3425     http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3426 root 1.387 %
3427 root 1.268 In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3428     gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3429     various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3430     linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3431     the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3432     locks can open the gate.
3433    
3434     This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3435     simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3436     with different locks in parallel and in series.
3437 root 1.387 %
3438 root 1.267 http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3439     Safecracking for the computer scientist
3440 root 1.387 %
3441 root 1.265 Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3442    
3443     Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3444    
3445     Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3446     species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3447     and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3448     'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3449     explanation of this.
3450    
3451     Theory: An explanation of an observation
3452    
3453     Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3454     which explains why the hammer falls.
3455    
3456     Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3457     how a population's genome can change over time.
3458    
3459 root 1.266 Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3460     mathematical relationship between two values.
3461 root 1.265
3462     Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3463     brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3464    
3465     Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3466     acceleration.
3467    
3468     Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3469     of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3470     evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3471     evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3472     evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3473     useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3474     longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3475     high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3476     false.
3477    
3478     [by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3479 root 1.387 %
3480 root 1.388 [Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3481 root 1.264 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3482    
3483     Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3484     Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3485 root 1.388 sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3486     Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3487     und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3488 root 1.264 und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3489    
3490 root 1.388 Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3491     Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3492     außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3493     sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3494     sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3495     Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3496     risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3497 root 1.264
3498     Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3499 root 1.388 Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3500     (Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3501     umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3502     fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3503 root 1.264 sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3504 root 1.388 Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3505 root 1.264 sportlich.
3506    
3507 root 1.388 Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3508     Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3509     ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3510     wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3511     Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3512 root 1.264
3513 root 1.388 Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3514 root 1.264 Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3515 root 1.388 Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3516     während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3517 root 1.264 vorzuweisen hat.
3518    
3519     "Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3520     Forscher.
3521 root 1.387 %
3522 root 1.263 [Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3523     the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3524     EULA-style license]
3525 root 1.262 http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3526 root 1.387 %
3527 root 1.261 The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3528     a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3529     cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3530     pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3531     Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3532     in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3533     of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3534 root 1.387 %
3535 root 1.260 Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3536 root 1.387 %
3537 root 1.259 [Happy New Year]
3538     23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3539     Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3540     00:24 <schmorp> re
3541 root 1.387 %
3542 root 1.258 [http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3543 root 1.388 Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3544     liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3545 root 1.258 sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3546     wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3547 root 1.387 %
3548 root 1.257 [funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3549     bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3550     proponents of such theories.]
3551     http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3552     "On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3553     evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3554     took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3555     `solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3556     spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3557     procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3558     University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3559     it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3560     intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3561     (below, right)."
3562 root 1.387 %
3563 root 1.256 [wonderful info...]
3564     http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3565     [useful info...]
3566     http://www.snopes.com/
3567 root 1.387 %
3568 root 1.253 Computer analyst to programmer:
3569     "You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3570 root 1.387 %
3571 root 1.252 [Fun!]
3572     http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3573 root 1.387 %
3574 root 1.388 [Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3575 root 1.251 "Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3576     Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3577 root 1.387 %
3578 root 1.250 [in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3579     ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3580     #!/usr/bin/sh
3581     # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3582     # All Rights Reserved
3583    
3584     # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3585     # The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3586     # actual or intended publication of such source code.
3587    
3588     #ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3589 root 1.432 ddev5:~$
3590 root 1.387 %
3591 root 1.249 22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3592     22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3593     22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3594 root 1.387 %
3595 root 1.248 [Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3596     # win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3597     # Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3598     # so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3599     # and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3600     # the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3601     #
3602     # say it with me: "i hate win32."
3603 root 1.387 %
3604 root 1.388 Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3605 root 1.247 Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3606     worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3607     -- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3608 root 1.387 %
3609 root 1.246 http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3610 root 1.387 %
3611 root 1.245 [http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3612 root 1.388 Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3613     gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3614 root 1.387 %
3615 root 1.244 http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3616     [I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3617     are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3618 root 1.387 %
3619 root 1.243 http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3620 root 1.387 %
3621 root 1.243 [From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3622     Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3623     Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3624     that you have a problem.)
3625     <http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3626 root 1.387 %
3627 root 1.242 [top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3628     PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3629 root 1.247 25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3630 root 1.242 26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3631    
3632     [I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3633     and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3634 root 1.387 %
3635 root 1.241 That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3636     sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3637    
3638     Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3639     declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3640     etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3641     exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3642     programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3643     because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3644     code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3645     it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3646     less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3647     themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3648     namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3649     techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3650     that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3651     got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3652    
3653     Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3654     "C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3655     paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3656     create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3657     programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3658     hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3659     MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3660 root 1.387 %
3661 root 1.240 [On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3662 root 1.239
3663     Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you *only*
3664     have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3665     doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3666 root 1.387 %
3667 root 1.238 [http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3668     "The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3669     knows this, and it's true for software too.
3670 root 1.387 %
3671 root 1.237 > think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3672    
3673     ... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3674     ;)
3675 root 1.387 %
3676 root 1.235 [this is not a blogggggg]
3677     One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3678     having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3679     proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3680    
3681     NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3682    
3683 root 1.236 Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3684     framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3685 root 1.387 %
3686 root 1.234 [taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3687     using so many abbreviations...]
3688    
3689     Hi Volker -
3690    
3691     alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3692 root 1.388 Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3693     spät ...
3694 root 1.234
3695     Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3696    
3697     Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3698    
3699 root 1.388 schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3700     nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3701 root 1.234
3702 root 1.388 herzliche Grüsse
3703 root 1.234
3704     tom
3705 root 1.247
3706 root 1.234 PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3707 root 1.388 'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3708 root 1.234 ... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3709 root 1.388 Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3710 root 1.234 schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3711 root 1.387 %
3712 root 1.233 From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3713     Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3714     Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3715    
3716     On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3717 root 1.247 > How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3718     > oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3719 root 1.233 > someone else?
3720    
3721     Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3722     ===================================================================
3723     --- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3724     +++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3725     @@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3726     S: 79098 Freiburg
3727     S: Germany
3728    
3729     +N: Hans Reiser
3730     +E: reiser@namesys.com
3731     +W: http://www.namesys.com/
3732     +D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3733     +S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3734     +S: Oakland, CA 94611
3735     +S: USA
3736     +
3737     N: Joerg Reuter
3738     E: jreuter@yaina.de
3739     W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3740 root 1.387 %
3741 root 1.232 Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3742     [poeppel_magenta.gif]
3743 root 1.387 %
3744 root 1.231 [http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3745     Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3746 root 1.387 %
3747 root 1.230 [http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3748     Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3749 root 1.387 %
3750 root 1.229 [rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3751     [http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3752     [...]
3753     Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3754     within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3755     $50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3756     ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3757     [...]
3758     Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3759     $100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3760     (and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3761     to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3762 root 1.387 %
3763 root 1.228 [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3764     [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3765     Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3766     Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3767     Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3768     Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3769 root 1.387 %
3770 root 1.226 [SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3771 root 1.227 [...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3772     button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3773     fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3774     be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3775     clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3776     to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3777     anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3778     anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3779 root 1.387 %
3780 root 1.223 [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3781     I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3782 root 1.224 picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3783 root 1.223 A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3784 root 1.387 %
3785 root 1.222 [bts show 215647]
3786     [yes, the whole thing]
3787 root 1.387 %
3788 root 1.221 [bts show 254316]
3789 root 1.247 > > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3790     > > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3791     > > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3792 root 1.221 >
3793     > ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3794    
3795     We'll use a larger wall.
3796 root 1.387 %
3797 root 1.220 [Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3798     This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3799     horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3800     by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3801    
3802     The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3803     non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3804    
3805     There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3806     but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3807    
3808     It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3809     cost.
3810     ["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3811 root 1.387 %
3812 root 1.219 When searching on google for:
3813    
3814 root 1.225 kakerlake schabe made
3815 root 1.219
3816     Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3817    
3818 root 1.225 kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3819 root 1.387 %
3820 root 1.218 What we learned this week;
3821     "Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3822 root 1.387 %
3823 root 1.216 "Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3824     Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3825 root 1.387 %
3826 root 1.215 [translated]
3827     23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3828     23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3829     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3830     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3831     23:07 <schmorp> ...
3832     23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3833     23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3834     23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3835 root 1.387 %
3836 root 1.214 History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3837     -- Lord Balfour
3838 root 1.387 %
3839 root 1.213 The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3840 root 1.387 %
3841 root 1.212 <Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3842     I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3843     him to forgive me.
3844 root 1.387 %
3845 root 1.211 [slashdot]
3846     > there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3847    
3848     I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3849 root 1.387 %
3850 root 1.210 [IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3851     "What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3852     get bored during the sex scenes.
3853 root 1.387 %
3854 root 1.209 I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3855     strangler is to the woman home alone.
3856     - Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3857 root 1.387 %
3858 root 1.208 [Bruce Schneier]
3859     SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3860     widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3861     pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3862     to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3863     secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3864 root 1.387 %
3865 root 1.207 [From Paul Eggert]
3866     [...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3867     violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3868     HP-UX customer. [...]
3869 root 1.387 %
3870 root 1.206 >>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3871     >>
3872     >>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3873     >>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3874     >>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3875     >>spelled it in UC.
3876 root 1.247 >
3877     >
3878 root 1.206 > BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3879    
3880     C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3881 root 1.387 %
3882 root 1.205 [comp.lang.c]
3883     > According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3884    
3885     I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3886     usage.
3887    
3888     Richard
3889 root 1.387 %
3890 root 1.204 I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3891     tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3892     at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3893     creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3894     play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3895     repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3896 root 1.387 %
3897 root 1.203 21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3898     21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3899 root 1.387 %
3900 root 1.202 MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3901 root 1.387 %
3902 root 1.201 A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3903     competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3904     make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3905     don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3906     will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3907     anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3908     no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3909     nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3910     existence means and implies.
3911    
3912     [Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3913 root 1.387 %
3914 root 1.201 > > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3915     >
3916     > I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3917     > said you were wrong I'll get more...
3918     >
3919     > You're WRONG!
3920    
3921 root 1.388 void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3922     and §7.20.3.1).
3923 root 1.387 %
3924 root 1.200 From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3925     In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3926     knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3927 root 1.387 %
3928 root 1.199 [another variation, more useful]
3929     A. It should be obvious.
3930     Q. How is it hard?
3931     A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3932     Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3933 root 1.387 %
3934 root 1.198 [windows is a good place to learn programming]
3935     Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3936    
3937     Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3938     The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3939    
3940     - works ok on linux
3941     - ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3942    
3943     Any clues why?
3944     I am new to the non windows world.
3945    
3946     Thanks
3947 root 1.387 %
3948 root 1.197 [comp.lang.c]
3949     > I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3950     > serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3951     > this ?
3952    
3953     This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3954     we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3955 root 1.387 %
3956 root 1.196 [comp.std.c]
3957     In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3958     Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3959    
3960     > In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3961 root 1.247 >
3962     > >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3963     >
3964 root 1.196 > Yup, mine!
3965 root 1.387 %
3966 root 1.195 [links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3967     Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3968    
3969     Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3970 root 1.387 %
3971 root 1.194 [an old question, revisited]
3972     http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3973 root 1.387 %
3974 root 1.194 [comp.lang.c]
3975 root 1.247 > can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3976 root 1.194
3977     This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3978     obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3979 root 1.387 %
3980 root 1.194 [comp.lang.c]
3981     I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3982 root 1.387 %
3983 root 1.193 according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3984 root 1.387 %
3985 root 1.192 [Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3986     Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3987 root 1.247 deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3988 root 1.387 %
3989 root 1.388 [Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3990     aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3991     Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3992 root 1.190 DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3993    
3994 root 1.388 "Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3995 root 1.190
3996 root 1.388 Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3997 root 1.190 dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3998     wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3999     Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4000 root 1.388 diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4001     abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4002     schützen können.
4003 root 1.387 %
4004 root 1.189 [Reiner Gamma]
4005     http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4006 root 1.387 %
4007 root 1.188 >> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4008     [...]
4009 root 1.187 >Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4010 root 1.188 [...]
4011 root 1.187 Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4012     crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4013     never get your message.
4014 root 1.387 %
4015 root 1.186 [http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4016     As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4017     filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4018 root 1.387 %
4019 root 1.185 [http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4020     (look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4021     a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4022 root 1.387 %
4023 root 1.184 bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4024     01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4025     01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4026     01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4027     01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4028     01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4029     01:15 <schmorp> *g*
4030     01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4031 root 1.387 %
4032 root 1.183 http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4033     [...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4034     since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4035     think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4036     when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4037     reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4038     work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4039     dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4040 root 1.387 %
4041 root 1.182 [http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4042     [...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4043     disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4044 root 1.387 %
4045 root 1.181 [Eugene Spafford]
4046     During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4047     email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4048     Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4049     systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4050     systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4051     of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4052 root 1.387 %
4053 root 1.180 [http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4054     If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4055 root 1.387 %
4056 root 1.180 [from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4057     GNOME TERMINAL
4058     [...]
4059     The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4060     author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4061     fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4062     [.. later]
4063     There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4064     bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4065     interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4066 root 1.387 %
4067 root 1.179 [I *love* X programs]
4068     [xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4069     /*
4070 root 1.247 * blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4071 root 1.179 */
4072     void blip()
4073 root 1.247 {
4074 root 1.179 fflush(stdout);
4075     fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4076     fflush(stderr);
4077 root 1.247 }
4078 root 1.387 %
4079 root 1.178 [pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4080     + int alternative_order = 999;
4081    
4082     Why not 666? :-).
4083 root 1.387 %
4084 root 1.178 [yosh on gimp-developer]
4085     It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4086     sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4087     users are clueless.
4088 root 1.387 %
4089 root 1.177 [modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4090     http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4091 root 1.387 %
4092 root 1.176 [beware german translations]
4093     dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4094 root 1.387 %
4095 root 1.175 [http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4096     NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4097 root 1.387 %
4098 root 1.174 The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4099     is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4100     and", and finally, ampersand.
4101 root 1.387 %
4102 root 1.173 [xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4103     [...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4104     which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4105     themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4106     when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4107 root 1.387 %
4108 root 1.171 [linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4109     WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4110     use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4111     destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4112     or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4113 root 1.387 %
4114 root 1.170 [http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4115     Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4116     the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4117     sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4118     and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4119     from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4120     [mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4121 root 1.387 %
4122 root 1.247 17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4123 root 1.388 die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4124     17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4125 root 1.387 %
4126 root 1.168 [Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4127     Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4128     standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4129 root 1.387 %
4130 root 1.172 [cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4131 root 1.168 confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4132 root 1.387 %
4133 root 1.167 [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4134 root 1.247 And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4135     is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4136     ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4137 root 1.167 %
4138 root 1.166 http://www.bash.org/?178890
4139 root 1.387 %
4140 root 1.165 [http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4141     <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
4142 root 1.387 %
4143 root 1.247 00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4144     nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4145 root 1.164 einfach :)
4146     00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4147 root 1.387 %
4148 root 1.163 [spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4149     /*
4150     * Function compares two strings.
4151 root 1.247 * Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4152 root 1.163 * int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4153     */
4154     static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4155     {
4156     int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4157     [...]
4158 root 1.387 %
4159 root 1.163 http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4160 root 1.387 %
4161 root 1.388 rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4162 root 1.387 %
4163 root 1.162 [rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4164     /* grab colors before netscape does */
4165     Get_Colours ();
4166 root 1.387 %
4167 root 1.388 [oesi über apache-2.0]
4168 root 1.160 03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4169     03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4170     03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4171     03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4172     03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4173     03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4174     03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4175     03:12 <schmorp> *rofl*
4176 root 1.161 [...]
4177     03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4178     03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4179     03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4180     03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4181     03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4182 root 1.387 %
4183 root 1.159 [http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4184     [...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4185 root 1.387 %
4186 root 1.158 [rxvt/src/screen.C]
4187     #ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4188 root 1.247 assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4189 root 1.158 #else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4190     MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4191     #endif
4192 root 1.387 %
4193 root 1.157 [http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4194     [...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4195     UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4196 root 1.387 %
4197 root 1.156 > > Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4198     > > Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4199     >
4200     > Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4201    
4202     Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4203     --
4204     OpenVMS @ 25 | Martin Vorlaender | VMS & WNT programmer
4205 root 1.387 %
4206 root 1.388 Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4207     IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4208     Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4209     mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4210     auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4211     Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4212     Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4213 root 1.387 %
4214 root 1.154 http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4215     http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4216 root 1.387 %
4217 root 1.153 Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4218 root 1.387 %
4219 root 1.153 "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4220     victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4221     bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4222     -- Robert Fisk
4223 root 1.387 %
4224 root 1.151 [the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4225     http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4226 root 1.152 [see also the small satellites homepage]
4227     http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4228 root 1.387 %
4229 root 1.150 [http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4230     "Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4231     high-violence culture"
4232     [...]
4233     "[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4234     resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4235     suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4236     that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4237     This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4238     that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4239     a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4240     policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4241    
4242     Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4243     they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4244 root 1.387 %
4245 root 1.150 From: <[...]@aol.com>
4246     Subject: Re: [...]
4247    
4248     Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4249    
4250     > Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4251     > sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4252     > since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4253     > saved it :)
4254    
4255     Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4256     addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4257     [...]
4258 root 1.387 %
4259 root 1.150 From: Alan Cox
4260     > The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4261     > Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4262     > deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4263     > code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4264    
4265     Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4266     prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4267     what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4268     [...]
4269 root 1.387 %
4270 root 1.150 http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4271 root 1.387 %
4272 root 1.150 http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4273 root 1.387 %
4274 root 1.150 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4275 root 1.387 %
4276 root 1.149 [FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4277     even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4278     claim to have decades of java experience]
4279     On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4280     > I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4281     > willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4282     > programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4283 root 1.387 %
4284 root 1.149 http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4285 root 1.387 %
4286 root 1.149 http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4287 root 1.387 %
4288 root 1.149 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4289 root 1.387 %
4290 root 1.147 [in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4291     [mail not to be delivered]
4292     > > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4293 root 1.247 >
4294 root 1.147 > Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4295    
4296     My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4297     bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4298 root 1.387 %
4299 root 1.147 On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4300    
4301     > David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4302     >
4303     > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4304     > >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4305     > >
4306     > > I don't *think* anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4307     > > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4308     > > language which does support this?
4309     >
4310    
4311     Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4312    
4313     In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4314     other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4315     heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4316     a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4317     since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4318     than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4319 root 1.387 %
4320 root 1.147 echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4321     echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4322     --Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4323 root 1.387 %
4324 root 1.146 AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4325     spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4326     Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4327    
4328     Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4329     extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4330     a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4331     Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4332     rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4333    
4334     Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4335     explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4336     on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4337     and thwart them that way.
4338 root 1.387 %
4339 root 1.146 [Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4340     There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4341     that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4342     unfortunate decision.
4343 root 1.387 %
4344 root 1.247 02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4345 root 1.146 fest ;)
4346 root 1.387 %
4347 root 1.146 [http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4348    
4349     Last updated: - Invalid Date
4350 root 1.387 %
4351 root 1.146 http://www.bash.org/?99060
4352 root 1.387 %
4353 root 1.145 [IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4354     http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4355 root 1.387 %
4356 root 1.144 Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4357    
4358     A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4359     similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4360     local object as a "he":
4361    
4362     "He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4363     has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4364     He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4365     nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4366     metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4367     kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4368     the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4369     EX-PARROT!"
4370    
4371     - Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4372 root 1.387 %
4373 root 1.144 [ach du schande]
4374     "pflichtpfandfrei"
4375 root 1.387 %
4376 root 1.142 [a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4377     The police will shoot you.
4378    
4379     OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4380     arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4381    
4382 root 1.247 Just another average day in central London.
4383 root 1.387 %
4384 root 1.141 [this signature gave me a laugh...]
4385     [...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4386     reply.
4387    
4388     pls. cc my email address
4389    
4390     tia
4391     pd
4392    
4393    
4394 root 1.247 --
4395 root 1.141 ^X^C
4396     q
4397     quit
4398     :q
4399     ^C
4400     end
4401     x
4402     exit
4403     ZZ
4404     ^D
4405     ?
4406     help
4407     shit
4408     .
4409 root 1.387 %
4410 root 1.140 * muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4411 root 1.387 %
4412 root 1.140 [From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4413     Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4414     with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4415     because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4416 root 1.387 %
4417 root 1.140 [I love it]
4418     http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4419     http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4420 root 1.387 %
4421 root 1.139 "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4422     - Douglas Adams
4423 root 1.387 %
4424 root 1.138 Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4425     PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4426     to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4427     an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4428    
4429 root 1.247 The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4430     wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4431     software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4432     this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4433     their software properly.
4434 root 1.138
4435     He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4436     patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4437     because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4438     told the publication.
4439    
4440 root 1.247 And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4441     number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4442     "they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4443     malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4444     who want visibility and glory.
4445 root 1.387 %
4446 root 1.137 [In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4447    
4448     o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4449    
4450     x Try not using it.
4451 root 1.387 %
4452 root 1.136 [http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4453     The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4454     School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4455     to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4456     Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4457     had given.
4458    
4459     Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4460     showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4461     person as well."
4462 root 1.387 %
4463 root 1.136 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4464 root 1.388 "Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4465     habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4466 root 1.387 %
4467 root 1.388 ["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4468 root 1.135 [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4469 root 1.134
4470     Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4471 root 1.388 des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4472 root 1.135 [...]
4473 root 1.134 Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4474 root 1.388 ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4475 root 1.135 [...]
4476     Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4477     oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4478 root 1.387 %
4479 root 1.134 http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4480 root 1.387 %
4481 root 1.132 [A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4482     on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4483     mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4484     -- Ulrich Drepper
4485 root 1.387 %
4486 root 1.131 GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4487     -- Ulrich Drepper
4488 root 1.387 %
4489 root 1.131 Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4490     written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4491 root 1.133 correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4492 root 1.387 %
4493 root 1.130 Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4494     and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4495     -- Ulrich Drepper
4496 root 1.387 %
4497 root 1.130 Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4498     -- Ulrich Drepper
4499 root 1.387 %
4500 root 1.129 [http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4501 root 1.388 Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4502     zuverlässiger
4503 root 1.387 %
4504 root 1.129 [comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4505     /*
4506     * 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4507     * days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4508     * being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4509     */
4510 root 1.387 %
4511 root 1.128 [Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4512     Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4513     you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4514     dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4515     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4516 root 1.387 %
4517 root 1.128 [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4518     Pirating Movies
4519    
4520     [...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4521     them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4522     illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4523 root 1.387 %
4524 root 1.128 [Look at the time scale...]
4525     http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4526 root 1.387 %
4527 root 1.127 [Just funny]
4528     http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4529 root 1.387 %
4530 root 1.127 [http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4531     The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4532     sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4533     hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4534     company's engineers would end up in jail?
4535 root 1.387 %
4536 root 1.126 [http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4537     Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4538     and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4539     etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4540     sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4541    
4542     Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4543     left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4544    
4545     Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4546     9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4547     million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4548     $70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4549     the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4550     them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4551     the first place!
4552 root 1.387 %
4553 root 1.247 Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4554     you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4555     a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4556 root 1.125 -- Philip Greenspun
4557 root 1.387 %
4558 root 1.124 "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4559     don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4560 root 1.387 %
4561 root 1.124 "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4562     to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4563 root 1.387 %
4564 root 1.123 "Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4565     platform."
4566     [Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4567 root 1.387 %
4568 root 1.123 Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4569     waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4570     frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4571     and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4572     raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4573 root 1.320 [http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4574 root 1.387 %
4575 root 1.123 [The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4576     http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4577 root 1.387 %
4578 root 1.123 [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4579     So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4580     if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4581     database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4582     crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4583     Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4584     made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4585     Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4586     daily.
4587 root 1.387 %
4588 root 1.123 "...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4589 root 1.388 [Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4590     Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4591 root 1.387 %
4592 root 1.123 [http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4593     Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4594     to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4595     Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4596     convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4597     revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4598     consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4599 root 1.387 %
4600 root 1.247 "It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4601 root 1.123 -- Bruce Schneier
4602 root 1.387 %
4603 root 1.123 [it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4604     [...so it must be good]
4605     http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4606 root 1.387 %
4607 root 1.123 [mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4608     [real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4609     raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4610 root 1.387 %
4611 root 1.120 [D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4612     I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4613     No idea why I announce it here...
4614 root 1.121 http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4615 root 1.387 %
4616 root 1.119 [Oh My God!]
4617     Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4618 root 1.387 %
4619 root 1.119 [How many squares are on a go-board?]
4620 root 1.118 http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4621 root 1.387 %
4622 root 1.117 [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4623     When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4624     father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4625     life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4626     been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4627    
4628     'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4629     Sacha.
4630 root 1.387 %
4631 root 1.116 [From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4632     A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4633     desk one morning:
4634    
4635     Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4636    
4637     Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4638    
4639     Employee: 123456
4640    
4641     [Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4642     photograph of the employee.]
4643    
4644     Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4645     identification which has your picture on it?
4646    
4647     Employee: Why would you need that?
4648    
4649     Security Guard: To match against our records.
4650    
4651     Employee: A picture of my face?
4652    
4653     Security Guard: Yes
4654    
4655     Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4656    
4657     Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4658     compare against this one.
4659 root 1.387 %
4660 root 1.116 [Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4661     http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4662     [frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4663 root 1.387 %
4664 root 1.116 MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4665     Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4666     my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4667    
4668     <http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4669     <http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4670 root 1.387 %
4671 root 1.123 Eppur si muove!
4672 root 1.387 %
4673 root 1.116 [bwahahaha]
4674     "RV K-17"
4675 root 1.387 %
4676 root 1.116 "We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4677     electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4678 root 1.387 %
4679 root 1.116 [where NOT to learn german :)]
4680     [http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4681     <= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4682     => Son las once menos cuarto.
4683 root 1.387 %
4684 root 1.115 ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4685     ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4686 root 1.387 %
4687 root 1.115 [http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4688 root 1.388 Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4689     ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4690 root 1.115 mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4691 root 1.388 sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4692     erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4693 root 1.387 %
4694 root 1.122 http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4695 root 1.387 %
4696 root 1.115 [D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4697     Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4698 root 1.387 %
4699 root 1.115 [This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4700     [patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4701     <00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4702     >00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4703 root 1.387 %
4704 root 1.115 [bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4705     This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4706     Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4707     an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4708     grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4709     RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4710     to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4711     She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4712     it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4713     Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4714     of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4715     entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4716     the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4717     tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4718     Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4719     code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4720     bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4721     diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4722     should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4723 root 1.387 %
4724 root 1.114 [what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4725     "Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4726 root 1.387 %
4727 root 1.114 [the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4728     rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4729 root 1.387 %
4730 root 1.113 [Wasteland]
4731     Lester Moore,
4732     Shot in the head with a .44.
4733     No Les, no more.
4734 root 1.387 %
4735 root 1.113 [SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4736     Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4737    
4738     STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4739     [for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4740 root 1.387 %
4741 root 1.113 [Fallout]
4742     Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4743     Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4744 root 1.387 %
4745 root 1.111 [http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4746     As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4747     different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4748     of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4749     are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4750 root 1.112 [...]
4751     It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4752     [...]
4753     The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4754     and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4755     the result with SHA.
4756 root 1.387 %
4757 root 1.388 > Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4758 root 1.111 > rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4759     > ist!
4760 root 1.388 Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4761     plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4762 root 1.111 Du denn? Analphabeten?
4763 root 1.387 %
4764 root 1.388 "Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4765     [Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4766 root 1.387 %
4767 root 1.109 17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4768 root 1.387 %
4769 root 1.108 [Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4770     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4771     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4772     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4773     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4774     64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4775 root 1.387 %
4776 root 1.108 [I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4777     tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4778 root 1.387 %
4779 root 1.107 [links are free ;)]
4780     http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4781 root 1.387 %
4782 root 1.106 [http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4783     Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4784 root 1.387 %
4785 root 1.105 [openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4786    
4787     /* One positive side-effect of US's export
4788     * control history, is that we should at least
4789     * be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4790     * "initialisation"? */
4791     EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4792 root 1.387 %
4793 root 1.105 [man pem]
4794     Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4795 root 1.387 %
4796 root 1.105 [pth_native.c]
4797    
4798     /* ``If you can't do it in
4799 root 1.247 ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4800 root 1.105 -- Unknown */
4801 root 1.387 %
4802 root 1.104 [subculture]
4803 root 1.388 ... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4804     mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4805 root 1.104 skillig vorkommen ...
4806    
4807     [http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4808 root 1.424 %
4809 root 1.104 [back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4810     this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4811 root 1.247 00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4812 root 1.104 gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4813 root 1.247 00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4814 root 1.104 ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4815     00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4816 root 1.387 %
4817 root 1.103 [http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4818 root 1.388 ... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4819     suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4820     Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4821 root 1.103 im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4822 root 1.388 Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4823     an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4824     vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4825 root 1.387 %
4826 root 1.102 sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4827     aber wenig freude.
4828 root 1.387 %
4829 root 1.102 [from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4830     - you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4831     and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4832     That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4833     must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4834     based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4835     to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4836     Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4837     and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4838     in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4839 root 1.387 %
4840 root 1.388 17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4841     doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4842 root 1.101 17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4843     fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet *g*
4844 root 1.387 %
4845 root 1.100 For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4846     don't work well in practise.
4847     http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4848 root 1.387 %
4849 root 1.99 [Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4850     There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4851     "ready, fire, aim."
4852 root 1.387 %
4853 root 1.98 [...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4854     license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4855     free countries like Germany [1].
4856     [...]
4857     Regards
4858     Henning
4859    
4860     [1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4861     part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4862     might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4863 root 1.387 %
4864 root 1.98 [...]
4865     The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4866     establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4867     to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4868     same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4869     itself give you none of these rights at all.
4870     [...]
4871     Wolfgang Walter
4872 root 1.387 %
4873 root 1.98 burro: i once played against a computer
4874     burro: it seemed very clever
4875     burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4876     burro: it forgot to defend later..
4877     burro: oops
4878     burro: accidental poetry
4879 root 1.387 %
4880 root 1.98 [about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4881     where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4882     yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4883 root 1.387 %
4884 root 1.98 [from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4885     #define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4886 root 1.387 %
4887 root 1.98 "In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4888     -- Oscar Wilde
4889 root 1.387 %
4890 root 1.98 [a principle used in florida's law]
4891     "guilty until proven innocent"
4892     [http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4893 root 1.387 %
4894 root 1.98 Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4895     said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4896     information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4897     getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4898     on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4899     number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4900     said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4901     full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4902     as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4903     hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4904     her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4905     wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4906     man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4907     close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4908     in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4909 root 1.387 %
4910 root 1.98 [gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4911     // NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4912     // experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4913     // hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4914     // suit particular needs.
4915     _M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4916 root 1.387 %
4917 root 1.98 [members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4918     [Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4919     ... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4920 root 1.388 Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4921 root 1.98 kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4922 root 1.387 %
4923 root 1.97 [Onibaba - Great Movie]
4924     http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4925 root 1.387 %
4926 root 1.97 [Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4927     http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4928 root 1.387 %
4929 root 1.96 [<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4930     [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4931     Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4932 root 1.387 %
4933 root 1.96 GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4934     vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4935 root 1.388 XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4936     JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4937 root 1.387 %
4938 root 1.96 [http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4939    
4940     [...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4941     [seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4942     the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4943     out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4944     is not [...]
4945 root 1.387 %
4946 root 1.247 Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4947 root 1.95 all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4948     repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4949 root 1.387 %
4950 root 1.94 [some hilights from:]
4951     [http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4952    
4953 root 1.388 _Einfach erklärt_
4954 root 1.94
4955     GUI
4956     Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4957     Globale Variable
4958 root 1.388 Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4959 root 1.94 objektorientiert
4960     Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4961     strukturiert
4962     dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4963     Multithreaded
4964 root 1.388 Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4965 root 1.94 Windows 95
4966 root 1.388 Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4967 root 1.94 Emacs
4968 root 1.388 Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4969     ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4970     ein vernünftiger Editor.
4971 root 1.94 IPv6
4972     $ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4973     Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4974     2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4975     2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4976 root 1.388 Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4977     Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4978 root 1.247 PHP
4979 root 1.388 Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4980 root 1.94 in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4981 root 1.388 die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4982     e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4983 root 1.247 Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4984 root 1.94 Bunt.
4985 root 1.388 Plattformunabhängig
4986     Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4987     plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4988 root 1.95 [94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4989 root 1.387 %
4990 root 1.93 [logic & fallacies]
4991     http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4992 root 1.387 %
4993 root 1.93 http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4994 root 1.387 %
4995 root 1.93 [nah]
4996     In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4997     appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4998     paint dry."
4999 root 1.387 %
5000 root 1.92 http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5001     http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5002     http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5003 root 1.387 %
5004 root 1.178 [Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5005 root 1.91 The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5006     importance.
5007 root 1.387 %
5008 root 1.91 [http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5009     [_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5010     Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5011     Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5012    
5013     You have to trust Microsoft.
5014    
5015     There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5016     Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5017     release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5018     Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5019     that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5020     useless chrome.
5021    
5022     But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5023     whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5024     I'd like to trust them with.
5025 root 1.93 [...]
5026 root 1.387 %
5027 root 1.91 [when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5028     [now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5029     XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5030     Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5031     Line Number 90, Column 15:
5032 root 1.247 <li>Copyright &copy; 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5033 root 1.91 --------------^
5034 root 1.387 %
5035 root 1.91 [from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5036     [http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5037     A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5038     which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5039     English grammar, I assure you.
5040 root 1.387 %
5041 root 1.91 Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5042     a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5043     these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5044     hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5045     en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5046     hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5047     can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5048    
5049     Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5050     strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5051     entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5052     the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5053     than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5054     1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5055     hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5056     surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5057     body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5058     from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5059    
5060     This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5061     in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5062     stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5063     numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5064    
5065     Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5066     Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5067 root 1.387 %
5068 root 1.91 [http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5069     [fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5070     The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5071     crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5072     don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5073     work etc first:
5074    
5075     #include <stdio.h>
5076    
5077     int main (void) {
5078     while (1)
5079     printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5080    
5081     return 0;
5082     }
5083 root 1.387 %
5084 root 1.91 [you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5085     contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5086 root 1.90 http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5087 root 1.387 %
5088 root 1.90 [http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5089     Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5090     the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5091     rigorous government certification confirming this.
5092 root 1.387 %
5093 root 1.89 [mms_client after finishing the download]
5094     everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5095     proprietary and patentend technology.
5096 root 1.387 %
5097 root 1.88 I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5098 root 1.388 -- Aki Kaurismäki
5099 root 1.387 %
5100 root 1.87 [http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5101 root 1.388 "The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5102 root 1.87 with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5103     construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5104     the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5105 root 1.387 %
5106 root 1.388 1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5107     Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5108 root 1.87 Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5109 root 1.388 geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5110     Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5111 root 1.87 verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5112 root 1.388 kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5113 root 1.87
5114 root 1.388 2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5115     2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5116     Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5117     und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5118     gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5119     unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5120 root 1.87 Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5121     Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5122    
5123 root 1.388 3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5124     Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5125     Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5126     Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5127     einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5128     besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5129     (Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5130     überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5131     der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5132     Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5133 root 1.87 von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5134 root 1.387 %
5135 root 1.87 [just FMI (for my information)]
5136     http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5137 root 1.387 %
5138 root 1.87 [perldoc perlboot]
5139     Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5140     multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5141 root 1.387 %
5142 root 1.87 [I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5143     "linux" thing will fail]
5144     In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5145     [...]
5146 root 1.247 Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5147 root 1.87 compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5148     to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5149     effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5150    
5151     Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5152     deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5153     life to the public good.
5154    
5155     You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5156     You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5157     Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5158     so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5159     software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5160    
5161     You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5162     a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5163     treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5164     on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5165     software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5166     software to work on the linux kernel!
5167    
5168     Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5169     are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5170     stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5171     rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5172     deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5173 root 1.387 %
5174 root 1.86 [perldoc perlreftut]
5175 root 1.247 What does line 4 do here?
5176     [...]
5177     This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5178 root 1.387 %
5179 root 1.86 [perldoc perlreftut]
5180     Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5181     blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5182     program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5183 root 1.387 %
5184 root 1.86 [rise and fall of free software standards]
5185 root 1.247 * GNU Gettext and %expect
5186     GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5187     Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5188     too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5189     does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5190 root 1.387 %
5191 root 1.86 Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5192     -- Leonard Brandwein
5193 root 1.387 %
5194 root 1.85 [11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5195 root 1.247 [11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5196     [11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5197     [11:58] <schmorp> nope
5198     [11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5199     [11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5200     [12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, *sigh*
5201     [12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5202     [12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5203     [12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5204     [12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5205     [12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5206 root 1.387 %
5207 root 1.247 [11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5208     [11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5209 root 1.387 %
5210 root 1.84 A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5211     United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5212     interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5213     his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5214     collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5215     assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5216     jurisprudence fun?
5217     <http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5218 root 1.387 %
5219 root 1.247 [02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5220     [02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5221     [02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5222 root 1.84 [...]
5223 root 1.247 [03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5224 root 1.387 %
5225 root 1.84 [found at www.imdb.com]
5226     the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5227     - Paul Ginsparg.
5228 root 1.387 %
5229 root 1.84 prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5230     said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5231     home.":))
5232     [erm...]
5233 root 1.387 %
5234 root 1.84 > described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5235    
5236 root 1.247 Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5237 root 1.387 %
5238 root 1.247 [05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5239 root 1.387 %
5240 root 1.83 [http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5241    
5242     [...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5243     implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5244     UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5245     bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5246 root 1.387 %
5247 root 1.83 .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5248     / \ / \ / \ / \ /
5249     .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5250 root 1.387 %
5251 root 1.82 From: "David S. Miller"
5252 root 1.83
5253     > Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5254 root 1.82
5255     If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5256     to use in future emails?
5257 root 1.387 %
5258 root 1.82 Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5259     please?
5260    
5261     I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5262     a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5263    
5264 root 1.247 Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5265 root 1.387 %
5266 root 1.82 Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5267     Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5268     last until February 16th 2003.
5269    
5270     So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5271     changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5272     will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5273     end.
5274    
5275     The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5276    
5277     Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5278     the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5279     round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5280     Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5281     counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5282     round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5283     take place on October 27th.
5284    
5285     The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5286     of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5287     Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5288     the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5289     Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5290     the clock)...
5291 root 1.387 %
5292 root 1.81 [boycot your enemies]
5293     > We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5294     > helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5295     > world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5296     > helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5297    
5298     Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5299     cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay *you* to do kernel
5300     development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5301     RedHat and SuSE).
5302    
5303     I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5304    
5305     Pavel
5306 root 1.387 %
5307 root 1.81 Rik
5308 root 1.247 --
5309 root 1.81 A: No.
5310     Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5311 root 1.387 %
5312 root 1.81 > Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5313 root 1.247 > GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5314     > disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5315 root 1.81
5316     I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5317     no useful data.
5318    
5319 root 1.247 --
5320 root 1.81 bill davidsen
5321 root 1.387 %
5322 root 1.80 In the switching software (written in C)
5323     there was a long do..while construct,
5324     which contained a switch statement,
5325     which contained an if clause,
5326     which contained a break,
5327     which was intended for the if clause,
5328     but instead broke from the switch statement.
5329    
5330     - Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5331     network January 15, 1990
5332 root 1.387 %
5333 root 1.80 [From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5334    
5335 root 1.247 They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5336     told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5337     stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5338     violation of network policies.
5339 root 1.80
5340     [the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5341    
5342     K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5343     The format is as follows:
5344    
5345     K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5346 root 1.387 %
5347 root 1.79 [Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5348     "People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5349     http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5350 root 1.387 %
5351 root 1.79 http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5352     "I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5353     Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5354     developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5355     conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5356     customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5357     ...
5358     "If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5359     Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5360     the effort."
5361 root 1.387 %
5362 root 1.79 http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5363 root 1.387 %
5364 root 1.79 [please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5365     gay people mad at me with this one...]
5366 root 1.78 [10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5367 root 1.247 Lukas vergleicht :)
5368     [10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5369 root 1.387 %
5370 root 1.76 http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5371 root 1.387 %
5372 root 1.76 http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5373 root 1.387 %
5374 root 1.76 I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5375     same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5376     [Albert Cahalan]
5377 root 1.387 %
5378 root 1.75 The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5379     externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5380     least as bad, but lesser known.
5381 root 1.387 %
5382 root 1.75 There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5383     line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5384     different.
5385 root 1.387 %
5386 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.
5387 root 1.387 %
5388 root 1.76 [no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5389     http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5390 root 1.387 %
5391 root 1.74 [about the early CD-R dyes]
5392     The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5393     popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5394     of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5395     consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5396     without a show.
5397 root 1.387 %
5398 root 1.76 [more of a timestamp]
5399 root 1.73 "SANS, SOUCI"
5400 root 1.387 %
5401 root 1.72 http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5402 root 1.387 %
5403 root 1.71 The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5404     http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5405 root 1.387 %
5406 root 1.71 [Bruce Schneier]
5407     A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5408     the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5409 root 1.247 they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5410 root 1.71 going on.
5411     [...]
5412 root 1.247 People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5413     otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5414     as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5415 root 1.387 %
5416 root 1.70 [06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5417     opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5418 root 1.387 %
5419 root 1.247 You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5420 root 1.387 %
5421 root 1.69 http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5422 root 1.387 %
5423 root 1.69 [practical go humor]
5424     Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5425     id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and *insist* you've won.
5426 root 1.387 %
5427 root 1.68 [windows API rocks]
5428     The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5429     the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5430     returned data.
5431    
5432 root 1.247 typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5433     FindExInfoStandard
5434     } FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5435 root 1.387 %
5436 root 1.388 [Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5437 root 1.67 [05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5438     [05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5439 root 1.247 kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5440 root 1.387 %
5441 root 1.66 [Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5442     it doesn't work:]
5443     1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5444     known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5445     this MIME type as the final determination.
5446 root 1.387 %
5447 root 1.65 [freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5448    
5449     Recode 0.1.1
5450     by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5451    
5452     About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5453     three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5454    
5455     Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5456 root 1.387 %
5457 root 1.65 http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5458 root 1.387 %
5459 root 1.64 $S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5460 root 1.387 %
5461 root 1.64 [From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5462    
5463     Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5464     just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5465     claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5466     <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5467     <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5468     A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5469     the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5470     keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5471     century."
5472    
5473     Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5474     where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5475     that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5476     carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5477     has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5478     that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5479     such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5480     to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5481     decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5482     past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5483     naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5484     motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5485     clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5486     <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5487    
5488     At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5489     software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5490     much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5491     hilarious in light of the above.
5492     <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5493    
5494     A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5495     secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5496     States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5497     been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5498     which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5499     said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5500     <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5501    
5502     Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5503     someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5504     numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5505     Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5506 root 1.65 <http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5507 root 1.387 %
5508 root 1.64 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5509 root 1.387 %
5510 root 1.388 ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5511     zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5512 root 1.387 %
5513 root 1.63 "There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5514     so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5515     so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5516    
5517     Tony Hoare
5518 root 1.387 %
5519 root 1.388 Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5520     vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5521 root 1.63 _nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5522 root 1.388 Maßeinheit verwendet.
5523 root 1.387 %
5524 root 1.63 From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5525    
5526     [...]
5527     The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5528     by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5529     system. Basically its windows computer
5530 root 1.387 %
5531 root 1.63 [go figure...]
5532 root 1.247 <JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5533 root 1.387 %
5534 root 1.63 Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5535    
5536     > In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5537     > to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5538     > Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5539     > software developers...
5540    
5541     Homeopathic approach to software development?
5542 root 1.387 %
5543 root 1.63 > > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5544     > > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5545     > > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5546     >
5547     > I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5548    
5549     Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5550     badly with respect to patches, so far.
5551    
5552     - Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5553     in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5554    
5555     - I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5556     but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5557     off by throwing away the patch.
5558    
5559     Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5560     create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5561     patch any time soon.
5562    
5563     --
5564     Daniel
5565 root 1.387 %
5566 root 1.62 From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5567     Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5568     [...]
5569     Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5570     be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5571     next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5572 root 1.387 %
5573 root 1.62 [no comments ;)]
5574    
5575     I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5576     It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5577     Is it realy needed?
5578 root 1.387 %
5579 root 1.62 [W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5580    
5581     int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5582    
5583     [...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5584     specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5585     an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5586 root 1.387 %
5587 root 1.62 [www.intel.com]
5588     Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5589     extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5590     the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5591     download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5592     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5593     and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5594 root 1.387 %
5595 root 1.61 From: Alexander Viro
5596    
5597     On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5598     > > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5599     > > found in the CML2 sources.
5600     >
5601     > Btw, what happened to CML2?
5602    
5603     This is an ex-parrot
5604 root 1.387 %
5605 root 1.61 From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5606    
5607     > > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5608     > > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5609     > > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5610     > > algorithm ever" etc.
5611     >
5612     > Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5613     > pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5614    
5615     I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5616    
5617     while (!sorted(data))
5618     ;
5619 root 1.387 %
5620 root 1.61 Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5621     From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5622    
5623     > This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5624    
5625     You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5626     to computing
5627 root 1.387 %
5628 root 1.61 From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5629    
5630     On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5631     >What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5632    
5633     Common sense, one would hope.
5634 root 1.387 %
5635 root 1.61 From: Toon Moene
5636     [...]
5637    
5638     Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5639     backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5640     translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5641    
5642     http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5643    
5644     "Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5645     Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5646     programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5647     created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5648    
5649     :-)
5650 root 1.387 %
5651 root 1.247 "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5652     lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5653     their C programs."
5654 root 1.60
5655     Robert Firth
5656 root 1.387 %
5657 root 1.59 [miri@ccc.de]
5658 root 1.388 Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5659 root 1.59 [and after some quarrel...]
5660     Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5661 root 1.387 %
5662 root 1.68 [Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5663 root 1.388 Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5664 root 1.387 %
5665 root 1.57 [Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5666     Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5667 root 1.387 %
5668 root 1.68 [from windows' wininet.h]
5669 root 1.56 #define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5670 root 1.387 %
5671 root 1.388 Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5672 root 1.56 in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5673     selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5674 root 1.388 dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5675     eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5676 root 1.56 erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5677     vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5678    
5679     Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5680    
5681     \Gisbert
5682 root 1.387 %
5683 root 1.55 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5684 root 1.387 %
5685 root 1.55 P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5686     world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
5687     --Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5688 root 1.387 %
5689 root 1.54 From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5690     Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5691    
5692     I don't have python. Any version of python.
5693     [...]
5694 root 1.387 %
5695 root 1.54 [perldoc Test::Harness]
5696     Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5697     Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5698    
5699     ok 1
5700     # Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5701     not ok 2
5702     # got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5703 root 1.387 %
5704 root 1.54 I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5705    
5706     Cheers,
5707    
5708     Andre Hedrick
5709     Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5710 root 1.387 %
5711 root 1.54 > > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5712 root 1.247 >
5713 root 1.54 > Spinaphore :-)
5714    
5715     Or mutabloat :-(
5716 root 1.387 %
5717 root 1.54 Microsoft Outlook *IS* the problem. Blaming it *IS* correct. Removing
5718     Outlook *IS* the solution.
5719 root 1.387 %
5720 root 1.54 Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5721 root 1.387 %
5722 root 1.53 From: Ricky Beam
5723    
5724     Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5725     never bought anything from UUNet.
5726 root 1.387 %
5727 root 1.53 deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5728     that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5729     by delving below its surface meaning)
5730 root 1.387 %
5731 root 1.52 http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5732 root 1.387 %
5733 root 1.52 From: Alan Cox
5734    
5735     > and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5736     > just go to court and say:
5737    
5738     Oh glorious naivety.
5739    
5740     > The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5741     > sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5742     > can do the work better than I).
5743    
5744     You release the code
5745    
5746     The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5747    
5748     The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5749     preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5750     by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5751     doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5752    
5753     Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5754     by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5755    
5756     A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5757     because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5758    
5759     Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5760    
5761     Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5762     is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5763     or that the good guys win.
5764    
5765     This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5766     US, and outside of most of the EU.
5767 root 1.387 %
5768 root 1.51 From: Alan Cox
5769    
5770     [...]
5771     I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5772     country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5773 root 1.247 is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5774 root 1.51 year to kill.
5775 root 1.387 %
5776 root 1.51 [CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5777     Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5778    
5779     [...]
5780     Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5781     center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5782     of for Windows desktop systems."
5783     [...]
5784     eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5785     months before Microsoft released its patch.
5786     [...]
5787     UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5788     networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5789     Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5790     turned on by default.
5791     [...]
5792     The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5793     delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5794     these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5795     [...]
5796     Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5797     fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5798     are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5799     done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5800     repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5801     they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5802     anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5803     as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5804     kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5805 root 1.387 %
5806 root 1.50 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5807 root 1.387 %
5808 root 1.49 [following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5809 root 1.388 Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5810 root 1.49
5811     technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5812    
5813     Monday, 06. November 2000
5814 root 1.387 %
5815 root 1.247 [01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5816     [01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5817 root 1.387 %
5818 root 1.90 [http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5819 root 1.48 * If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5820     * the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5821     [too late, I broke the law, again!]
5822 root 1.387 %
5823 root 1.47 Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5824     matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5825     that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5826     launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5827 root 1.387 %
5828 root 1.47 > Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5829     > manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5830    
5831     Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5832     existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5833     student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5834 root 1.387 %
5835 root 1.47 From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5836     X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5837    
5838     > It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5839     > address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5840     > dropped patches.
5841    
5842     Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5843 root 1.247 wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5844 root 1.47 people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5845     lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5846     know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5847     patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5848 root 1.387 %
5849 root 1.46 I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5850     the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5851     it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5852 root 1.387 %
5853 root 1.45 From: "David S. Miller"
5854    
5855     From: Bill Huey
5856     Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5857    
5858     Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5859    
5860     Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5861 root 1.247 relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5862 root 1.45 themselves.
5863    
5864     Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5865     certain.
5866 root 1.387 %
5867 root 1.45 > required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5868     > something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5869     > complains about kernel bloat" :)
5870    
5871     And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5872     appropriate approach to a problem.
5873 root 1.387 %
5874 root 1.388 From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5875 root 1.44 ^^^^
5876     [...]
5877     Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5878     [...]
5879     -20 Long underwear is a good idea
5880     -15 Nice winter day
5881     -10 Slightly warm winter day
5882     -5 Nice warm winter day
5883     0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5884 root 1.387 %
5885 root 1.44 No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5886     entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5887     of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5888     suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5889 root 1.387 %
5890 root 1.44 On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5891     > select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5892    
5893     Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5894    
5895     -ben
5896 root 1.387 %
5897 root 1.43 [...]
5898 root 1.247 [11:55] <|Pixel|> no, not spanish :)
5899     [11:55] <|Pixel|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5900     [11:55] <|Pixel|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5901     [11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5902     [11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5903     [11:56] <|Pixel|> err
5904     [11:56] <|Pixel|> well :)
5905     [11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5906     [11:57] <|Pixel|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5907     [11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5908     [11:57] <|Pixel|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5909 root 1.387 %
5910 root 1.388 Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5911     debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5912 root 1.43 Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5913 root 1.388 Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5914     unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5915     wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5916     Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5917     könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5918     debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5919 root 1.43 statt...
5920 root 1.387 %
5921 root 1.42 http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5922 root 1.387 %
5923 root 1.42 [From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5924     Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5925     In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5926     to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5927     values." Who writes this stuff?
5928 root 1.387 %
5929 root 1.42 http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5930 root 1.387 %
5931 root 1.41 > I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5932     > 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5933     > See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5934     > 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5935     > "Macao".
5936     > 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5937     > 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5938 root 1.387 %
5939 root 1.247 [09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5940 root 1.387 %
5941 root 1.40 Beitrag
5942 root 1.247 FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5943 root 1.40
5944     fucklinux
5945    
5946     IP: 217.83.123.198
5947    
5948     1. FUCK LINUX
5949    
5950 root 1.388 Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5951 root 1.40
5952     Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5953 root 1.387 %
5954 root 1.388 From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5955 root 1.40
5956     [...]
5957     Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5958     understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5959     when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5960     read...
5961 root 1.387 %
5962 root 1.39 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5963     persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5964     depends on the unreasonable man.
5965    
5966     -George Bernard Shaw
5967 root 1.387 %
5968 root 1.38 [Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5969    
5970     Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5971 root 1.247 Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5972 root 1.387 %
5973 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:
5974 root 1.387 %
5975 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
5976     [06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5977     [06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5978     [06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5979     [06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5980 root 1.387 %
5981 root 1.37 On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5982     > You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5983 root 1.247 > So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5984 root 1.37 > to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5985     > Thanks for clearing this up.
5986 root 1.387 %
5987 root 1.247 It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5988     It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5989     It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5990     It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5991     It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5992     It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5993     It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5994     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).
5995     It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5996     It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5997 root 1.387 %
5998 root 1.36 [Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5999     Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6000     prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6001     on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6002     found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6003     removed in Windows XP.
6004    
6005     We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6006     configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6007     also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6008     crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6009 root 1.387 %
6010 root 1.36 [From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6011     The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6012     security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6013     Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6014     System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6015     DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6016     they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6017     was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6018     system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6019     trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6020    
6021     Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6022     without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6023     developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6024     withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6025     less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6026     you have no details?
6027     [...]
6028     <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6029     <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6030     Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6031     counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6032     said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6033     -- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6034     the industrial terrorists want."
6035 root 1.387 %
6036 root 1.36 [Bruce Schneier]
6037     Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6038 root 1.387 %
6039 root 1.247 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6040 root 1.387 %
6041 root 1.36 In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6042     of each 50 days
6043 root 1.387 %
6044 root 1.36 "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6045    
6046     >I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6047     >missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6048     >later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6049 root 1.387 %
6050 root 1.36 > Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6051     > about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6052     > with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6053 root 1.387 %
6054 root 1.35 On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6055     > I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6056 root 1.247 >
6057 root 1.35 > <...>
6058     >
6059     > Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6060     > it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6061     > want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6062 root 1.247 > cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6063 root 1.387 %
6064 root 1.35 They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6065     This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6066     -- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6067 root 1.387 %
6068 root 1.35 > more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6069     > sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6070     > really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6071    
6072 root 1.247 You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6073     graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6074     environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6075     servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6076     like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6077     changing run level, interactive boot.
6078 root 1.35
6079     Alan
6080 root 1.387 %
6081 root 1.35 [http://thefreeworld.net/]
6082    
6083     I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6084     The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6085    
6086     First they came for the Communists,
6087     and I didn't speak up,
6088     because I wasn't a Communist.
6089     Then they came for the Jews,
6090     and I didn't speak up,
6091     because I wasn't a Jew.
6092     Then they came for the Catholics,
6093     and I didn't speak up,
6094     because I was a Protestant.
6095     Then they came for me,
6096     and by that time there was no one
6097     left to speak up for me.
6098    
6099     by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6100 root 1.387 %
6101 root 1.34 http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6102 root 1.387 %
6103 root 1.34 If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6104     -- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6105 root 1.387 %
6106 root 1.33 > For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6107     > density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6108     > the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6109     > a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6110    
6111     I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6112 root 1.387 %
6113 root 1.32 [jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6114    
6115     "This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6116     area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6117     to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6118     bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6119     used databases!"
6120 root 1.387 %
6121 root 1.32 From: Alexander Viro
6122    
6123     > The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6124    
6125     Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6126     change that was not?
6127     [...]
6128 root 1.387 %
6129 root 1.31 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6130    
6131     [...]
6132    
6133 root 1.247 I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6134 root 1.31 dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6135     lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6136    
6137 root 1.247 I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6138 root 1.31 natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6139     them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6140     them anywhere else").
6141    
6142     But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6143     hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6144 root 1.247 descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6145 root 1.31 to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6146     order..
6147    
6148 root 1.247 (IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6149 root 1.31 borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6150 root 1.387 %
6151 root 1.30 On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6152     > (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6153     > corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6154    
6155     Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6156 root 1.387 %
6157 root 1.29 [02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6158 root 1.247 vertauschen (links-rechts).
6159     [02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6160     [02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6161     [02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6162 root 1.387 %
6163 root 1.29 From: Bill Davidsen
6164     To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6165    
6166     I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6167     management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6168     new versions of *stable* kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6169     existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6170     series.
6171    
6172     [...]
6173 root 1.387 %
6174 root 1.29 [11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6175 root 1.247 fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6176 root 1.387 %
6177 root 1.29 On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6178     >Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6179     >was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6180    
6181     Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6182     then save." *g*
6183    
6184     /* Steinar */
6185 root 1.387 %
6186 root 1.29 > I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6187     > Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6188    
6189     That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6190     You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6191     they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending *them*
6192     a bill...
6193 root 1.387 %
6194 root 1.29 [a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6195     >> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6196     >> additional _7_ CPUs!
6197    
6198     Sorry. Mea culpa
6199    
6200     --- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6201     +++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6202     @@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6203     * WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6204     * page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6205     */
6206     - for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6207     + for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6208     /* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6209     int fpu_exception;
6210 root 1.387 %
6211 root 1.29 From: Alexander Viro
6212    
6213     > In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6214    
6215     *ding* *ding* *ding* we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6216     started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6217     ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6218     they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6219     a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6220 root 1.387 %
6221 root 1.29 From: Linux Torvalds
6222    
6223     In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6224     people.
6225 root 1.387 %
6226 root 1.29 Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6227     <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6228    
6229     Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6230     laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6231     week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6232     in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6233     the question.
6234     <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6235 root 1.387 %
6236 root 1.29 [http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6237     1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6238     I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6239     2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6240     (September)
6241 root 1.387 %
6242 root 1.29 Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6243 root 1.387 %
6244 root 1.29 [I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6245     idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6246     throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6247     http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6248     [nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6249 root 1.387 %
6250 root 1.28 "TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6251     -- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6252 root 1.387 %
6253 root 1.28 <JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6254     <JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6255     <JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6256     <JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6257     <JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6258 root 1.387 %
6259 root 1.27 Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6260 root 1.387 %
6261 root 1.27 EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6262 root 1.387 %
6263 root 1.27 It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6264     age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6265     state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6266     wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6267     so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6268     these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6269     you tell them.
6270 root 1.387 %
6271 root 1.27 But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6272     cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6273     alcohol.
6274    
6275     Regards
6276     Henning
6277 root 1.387 %
6278 root 1.27 > handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6279     > This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6280     > on a desktop system.
6281    
6282     Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6283     wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6284    
6285     C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6286     transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6287    
6288     Alan
6289 root 1.387 %
6290 root 1.26 Hi Keith,
6291     kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6292    
6293     > That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6294     >
6295     > CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6296     > Use Welsh
6297    
6298     Don't forget
6299    
6300     CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6301     Use Finnish
6302    
6303     (Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6304    
6305     And while we're at it,
6306    
6307     CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6308     Use German
6309    
6310     CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6311     Use English
6312    
6313     MfG Kai
6314 root 1.387 %
6315 root 1.25 [From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6316    
6317     This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6318     bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6319     verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6320     forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6321     Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6322     there's no one thinking there.
6323     <http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6324 root 1.387 %
6325 root 1.24 Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6326     scores the rules:
6327    
6328     [*]
6329     Score:: =-9999
6330 root 1.247 Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6331 root 1.24 Content-Type: text/html;
6332     X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6333     X-Mailer: Mozilla
6334     X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6335    
6336     (right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6337     that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6338     getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6339     levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6340     going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6341    
6342     I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6343     Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6344     wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6345     clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6346 root 1.387 %
6347 root 1.24 99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6348     98 IIS servers online...
6349 root 1.387 %
6350 root 1.24 BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6351     Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6352     produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6353     only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6354    
6355     US law does *not* apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6356     it to be otherwise.
6357    
6358     Abigail
6359 root 1.387 %
6360 root 1.23 4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6361 root 1.387 %
6362 root 1.23 I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6363 root 1.247 attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6364 root 1.23 was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6365 root 1.387 %
6366 root 1.22 [11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6367 root 1.247 si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6368 root 1.387 %
6369 root 1.22 Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6370     disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6371     to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6372     software people doing the same)
6373    
6374     In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6375     and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6376     irrelevant
6377    
6378     Alan
6379 root 1.387 %
6380 root 1.22 [from rfc2822]
6381     Comments may nest.
6382 root 1.387 %
6383 root 1.22 [from findas]
6384     # there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6385     # a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6386     # b) the database format is nonparsable
6387     # (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6388     # of course, the only source to find out about global
6389     # address distributino is... arin.
6390 root 1.387 %
6391 root 1.22 Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6392     "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6393 root 1.387 %
6394 root 1.22 [From perl5-porters]
6395     On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6396     > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6397     > > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6398     > > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6399 root 1.247 >
6400 root 1.22 > Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6401    
6402     $foot->insert($mouth);
6403    
6404     # or is that
6405    
6406     $mouth->insert($foot);
6407    
6408     You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6409     How utterly optimistic :-)
6410 root 1.387 %
6411 root 1.22 [From perl5-porters]
6412     >Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6413     >of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6414     >Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6415     >(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6416     >can see why it happens)
6417     >Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6418    
6419     Well, there's perl... :)
6420 root 1.387 %
6421 root 1.21 [From pth-1.4.0]
6422     * No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6423     * it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6424     * makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6425     * fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6426 root 1.247 * boxes.
6427 root 1.387 %
6428 root 1.21 http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6429     http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6430     http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6431 root 1.387 %
6432 root 1.388 Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6433     zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6434 root 1.387 %
6435 root 1.20 Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6436     From: Juergen Christoffel
6437     Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6438     To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6439    
6440     Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6441    
6442     a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6443     Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6444     einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6445     schon;
6446    
6447     b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6448     Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6449     auch mehr zum faedeln.
6450    
6451     Danke, JC
6452 root 1.387 %
6453 root 1.19 [perl.c]
6454     #undef REASONABLE
6455 root 1.387 %
6456 root 1.18 And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6457     about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6458    
6459     Alan
6460 root 1.387 %
6461 root 1.18 George Bonser writes:
6462     > I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6463     > the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6464     > people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6465 root 1.247 > client population that is out there without having to make them change
6466 root 1.18 > anything.
6467    
6468     You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6469     who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6470 root 1.247 care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6471     something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6472 root 1.18 hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6473     eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6474    
6475     To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6476     chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6477     Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6478     always a good idea.
6479 root 1.387 %
6480 root 1.18 Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6481     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6482    
6483 root 1.247 First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6484 root 1.18 years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6485 root 1.387 %
6486 root 1.18 [From the DOSEMU homepage]
6487     We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6488     versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6489     as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6490 root 1.387 %
6491 root 1.18 Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6492 root 1.387 %
6493 root 1.247 >I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6494 root 1.18
6495     WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6496     enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6497 root 1.387 %
6498 root 1.17 [the world will end soon. i promise!]
6499     I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6500     like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6501     to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6502 root 1.387 %
6503 root 1.17 ..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6504 root 1.387 %
6505 root 1.17 Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6506     programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6507     good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6508     burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6509     misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6510     ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6511 root 1.387 %
6512 root 1.16 From: Victor Yodaiken
6513    
6514     There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6515     set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6516     I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6517     an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6518     created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6519     than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6520     we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6521 root 1.387 %
6522 root 1.16 [I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6523     good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6524     future. Bleeeh]
6525    
6526     From: Larry McVoy
6527    
6528 root 1.247 I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6529 root 1.16 are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6530     like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6531     exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6532     programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6533     exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6534     the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6535     not for the exceptional case.
6536 root 1.387 %
6537 root 1.16 Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6538     semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6539     overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6540     versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6541     Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6542     created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6543     stack.
6544    
6545     Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6546     garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6547     relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6548    
6549     So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6550     going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6551 root 1.387 %
6552 root 1.16 From: Larry McVoy
6553    
6554 root 1.247 > > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6555     > > *if* threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6556     > > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6557     > > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6558 root 1.16 > > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6559 root 1.247 >
6560 root 1.16 > How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6561     > on the CPU?
6562    
6563     Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6564 root 1.247 that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6565 root 1.16 died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6566     system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6567    
6568     It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6569     What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6570     and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6571     the point again".
6572 root 1.387 %
6573 root 1.16 From: Alan Cox
6574    
6575 root 1.15 > 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6576     > 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6577 root 1.247 > be GPL'd header files.
6578 root 1.15 > 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6579 root 1.247 >
6580 root 1.15 > There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6581     > scenario.
6582    
6583     Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6584 root 1.387 %
6585 root 1.14 [configure --help]
6586 root 1.15 --enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6587     --enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6588     --enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6589 root 1.387 %
6590 root 1.14 I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6591     tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6592     others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6593     character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6594     very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6595     they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6596     world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6597     if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6598     anything.
6599 root 1.387 %
6600 root 1.247 [01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6601 root 1.387 %
6602 root 1.12 [inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6603     http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6604 root 1.387 %
6605 root 1.11 [long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6606     On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6607     > The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6608     > official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6609     > by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6610    
6611     you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6612 root 1.387 %
6613 root 1.11 From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6614    
6615     On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6616    
6617     >Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6618     >It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6619     >it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6620     >would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6621     >basics, I understood the power of the system.
6622    
6623     My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6624     package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6625     only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6626     either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6627     consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6628     the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6629     seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6630     seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6631     to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6632     for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6633     It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6634     to work through the learning curve.
6635 root 1.387 %
6636 root 1.11 [http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6637 root 1.247 Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6638 root 1.387 %
6639 root 1.11 [VERY good movie]
6640     Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6641 root 1.387 %
6642 root 1.11 [http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6643     Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6644 root 1.387 %
6645 root 1.10 [http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6646     Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6647 root 1.388 großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6648     sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6649 root 1.10 erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6650 root 1.387 %
6651 root 1.9 [alt.bible]
6652 root 1.247 Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6653 root 1.9 is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6654 root 1.387 %
6655 root 1.247 [02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6656     [02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6657 root 1.387 %
6658 root 1.9 [this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6659     Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6660     unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6661     die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6662     festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6663     E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6664     3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6665     Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6666    
6667 root 1.388 Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6668 root 1.9 "E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6669 root 1.388 E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6670 root 1.9 wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6671     zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6672    
6673     Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6674     verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6675     guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6676     verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6677     in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6678     insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6679     Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6680 root 1.388 § 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6681 root 1.9 bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6682     vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6683     m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6684 root 1.387 %
6685 root 1.9 [comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6686     /*---.
6687     | ? |
6688     `---*/
6689 root 1.387 %
6690 root 1.9 Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6691 root 1.387 %
6692 root 1.8 [While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6693     From: Joe Buck
6694     > Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6695     Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6696 root 1.387 %
6697 root 1.8 [Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6698     Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6699 root 1.387 %
6700 root 1.7 04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6701 root 1.247 Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6702 root 1.387 %
6703 root 1.4 [ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6704 root 1.247 [07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6705 root 1.387 %
6706 root 1.4 [about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6707 root 1.247 [03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6708 root 1.4 ...
6709     [03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6710 root 1.387 %
6711 root 1.3 [From: Alan Cox]
6712 root 1.247 > The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6713     > "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6714     > know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6715    
6716     I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6717    
6718     Alan
6719 root 1.387 %
6720 root 1.388 [JanMan über O'Reilly]
6721 root 1.247 [07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6722     [07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6723     [07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6724     [07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6725 root 1.387 %
6726 root 1.2 [JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6727 root 1.247 [07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6728     [07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6729     [07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6730     [07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6731     [07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6732     [07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6733 root 1.387 %
6734 root 1.2 Hlade's Law:
6735     If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6736     will find an easier way to do it.
6737 root 1.387 %
6738 root 1.388 [Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6739 root 1.7 "Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] \(Micro$oft-Fetischist\)" gesetzt hat.]
6740     Paul wrote:
6741     >Marc wrote:
6742 root 1.2 >> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6743     > aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6744     > den richtigen.
6745 root 1.387 %
6746 root 1.1 [from janmans .sig]
6747     > " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6748 root 1.387 %
6749 root 1.1 [a small perl program]
6750     :(); { :: | :: } ;
6751 root 1.387 %
6752 root 1.1 [a small fork-bomb for bash]
6753     :() { : | : ;} ; :
6754 root 1.387 %
6755 root 1.1 [messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6756     New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6757     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6758     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6759     <--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6760 root 1.387 %
6761 root 1.1 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6762     [...]
6763    
6764     >Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6765    
6766     Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6767 root 1.387 %
6768 root 1.1 > There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6769     > constants.
6770    
6771     I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6772 root 1.247 Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6773 root 1.1 would be conducive for further discussion.
6774 root 1.387 %
6775 root 1.247 > Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6776 root 1.1 > it might be useful?
6777    
6778     I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6779     room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6780     much to do with IRC.
6781 root 1.387 %
6782 root 1.1 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6783     Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6784    
6785     [...]
6786     Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6787    
6788     I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6789     ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6790 root 1.387 %
6791 root 1.1 [sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6792 root 1.247 [07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6793 root 1.387 %
6794 root 1.1 [http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6795    
6796     Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6797     Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6798     clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6799    
6800     Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6801     lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6802     man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6803     shows how much you know, pal.
6804    
6805     The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6806 root 1.387 %
6807 root 1.1 [messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6808     /scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6809     Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6810 root 1.387 %
6811 root 1.1 [a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6812     s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6813     y yzzyyccss;;##s
6814     s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6815 root 1.387 %
6816 root 1.1 [from the FWP mailinglist]
6817     > OR is spelled "|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6818     Your version of perl sucks.
6819 root 1.387 %
6820 root 1.247 [01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6821     [01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6822     [01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6823     [01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6824     [02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6825     [02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6826     [02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6827     [02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6828 root 1.1 [02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6829 root 1.247 [02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6830     [02:05] <schmorp> *sigh*
6831 root 1.387 %
6832 root 1.1 I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6833     before you can understand it :)
6834 root 1.387 %
6835 root 1.1 > now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6836     > and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6837     > would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6838 root 1.247 > that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6839 root 1.1 > paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6840     > shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6841     > would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6842    
6843     IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6844     There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6845     the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6846     easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6847     what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6848     be worth attempting).
6849    
6850     I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6851     floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6852     caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6853    
6854     Nick.
6855 root 1.387 %
6856 root 1.1 From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6857     Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6858     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6859    
6860 root 1.247 I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6861 root 1.1 goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6862     how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6863     have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6864     magic_bone@hotmail.com
6865 root 1.387 %
6866 root 1.1 > > > I guess then someone would want
6867     > > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6868     > > > to work :-)
6869 root 1.247 > >
6870 root 1.1 > > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6871 root 1.247 >
6872 root 1.1 > Eh?
6873 root 1.247 >
6874 root 1.1 > $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6875     > syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6876    
6877     He didn't say it worked. :)
6878 root 1.387 %
6879 root 1.1 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6880    
6881     On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6882     > I find it irksome that
6883 root 1.247 >
6884 root 1.1 > for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6885    
6886     ...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6887 root 1.387 %
6888 root 1.1 [a perl5 bug report]
6889     From: Simon Cozens
6890    
6891     On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6892     > '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6893     > Produces SIGSEGV.
6894    
6895     Looks like a feature to me.
6896 root 1.387 %
6897 root 1.1 [Lukilein...]
6898 root 1.388 "Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6899 root 1.387 %
6900 root 1.1 [hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6901     intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6902    
6903     "There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6904     continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6905     is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6906     other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6907    
6908     "We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6909     simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6910     would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6911     you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6912     large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6913     part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6914 root 1.387 %
6915 root 1.1 [following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6916     I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6917     security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6918     level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6919     this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6920     great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6921     only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6922     security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6923     reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6924     the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6925     secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6926     accurate and not subject to tampering."
6927    
6928     Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6929     better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6930     hacker might read about it and break it. Who *are* these guys?
6931    
6932     <http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6933 root 1.387 %
6934 root 1.1 It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6935     more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6936     impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6937     Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6938     Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6939     likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6940     replication."
6941     <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6942 root 1.387 %
6943 root 1.1 [just some private thoughts]
6944     Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6945    
6946     IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6947     shows.
6948    
6949     First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6950     transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6951     totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6952    
6953     Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6954     defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6955     is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6956     this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6957     MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6958    
6959     Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6960     to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6961     up with a saner protocol.
6962 root 1.387 %
6963 root 1.1 [voting by television, the american way...]
6964     "They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6965     and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6966    
6967     Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6968     cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6969     voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6970 root 1.387 %
6971 root 1.1 IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6972     <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6973     ...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6974     <http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6975     A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6976     <http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6977 root 1.387 %
6978 root 1.1 [Midori-Linux FAQ]
6979     Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6980 root 1.247 A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6981     seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6982     is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6983     does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6984 root 1.1 Netscape in a loop.
6985 root 1.387 %
6986 root 1.1 Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6987 root 1.387 %
6988 root 1.1 [Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6989     marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6990 root 1.247 mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6991 root 1.1 marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6992 root 1.247 hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6993 root 1.387 %
6994 root 1.1 [2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6995     "ist mir egal"
6996 root 1.387 %
6997 root 1.1 From: Hans Reiser
6998     Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6999    
7000     Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7001 root 1.387 %
7002 root 1.1 [debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7003     hallole
7004 root 1.387 %
7005 root 1.1 I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7006     have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7007     most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7008 root 1.387 %
7009 root 1.1 1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7010     1929 The high sign of refreshment
7011     1929 The pause that refreshes
7012     1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7013     1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7014     1935 The pause that brings friends together
7015     1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7016     1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7017     1939 Thirst stops here
7018     1942 It's the real thing
7019     1947 Have a Coke
7020     1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7021     1963 Things go better with Coke
7022     1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7023     1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7024     1982 Coke is it!
7025     -- Coca-Cola slogans
7026 root 1.387 %
7027 root 1.1 [strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7028     model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7029 root 1.387 %
7030 root 1.247 [02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7031     [02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7032 root 1.387 %
7033 root 1.388 [Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7034 root 1.1 Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7035     erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7036     islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7037     Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7038     ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7039     Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7040     wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7041     erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7042     booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7043     einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7044     Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7045     - allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7046     (640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7047     Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7048    
7049     Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7050     hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7051 root 1.387 %
7052 root 1.1 [RMS about gcc snapshots]
7053     From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7054    
7055     [...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7056     uncool thing to do. [...]
7057 root 1.387 %
7058 root 1.1 "Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7059     betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7060     [Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7061 root 1.387 %
7062 root 1.388 "Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7063 root 1.1 Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7064 root 1.388 Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7065 root 1.1
7066 root 1.388 "Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7067     daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7068     vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7069     von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7070 root 1.1 die Maschinen Platz."
7071     [Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7072 root 1.387 %
7073 root 1.1 My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7074     software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7075     Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7076     work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7077     doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7078     problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7079     like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7080    
7081     And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7082     run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7083     whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7084 root 1.387 %
7085 root 1.1 > You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7086    
7087     US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7088 root 1.387 %
7089 root 1.1 Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7090     to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7091     to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7092     beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7093     at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7094 root 1.247 one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7095 root 1.387 %
7096 root 1.1 From: David Woodhouse
7097     > Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7098     > wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7099    
7100     Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7101     is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7102    
7103     After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7104 root 1.387 %
7105 root 1.1 http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7106 root 1.387 %
7107 root 1.1 [recently on linux-kernel]
7108     From: Alan Cox
7109     > > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7110     > > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7111 root 1.247 >
7112     > Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7113 root 1.1
7114 root 1.247 Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7115 root 1.1 users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7116 root 1.387 %
7117 root 1.1 From: Russell King
7118     Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7119     To: Albert D. Cahalan
7120    
7121     Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7122     > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7123     > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7124     > few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7125    
7126     iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7127    
7128     [flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7129 root 1.387 %
7130 root 1.388 [11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7131 root 1.1 der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7132     dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7133 root 1.247 [11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7134 root 1.387 %
7135 root 1.388 [über "Mediengestaltung"]
7136 root 1.247 [10:39] <elmex|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7137     [10:40] <schmorp> elmex|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7138 root 1.387 %
7139 root 1.1 [perldoc perlembed]
7140     You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7141 root 1.387 %
7142 root 1.247 [03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7143 root 1.387 %
7144 root 1.247 [09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7145     [09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7146     nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7147 root 1.387 %
7148 root 1.1 [linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7149     /* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7150     talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7151     to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7152     eloquent like `fuck'. */
7153 root 1.387 %
7154 root 1.1 [20:44] <elmex|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7155 root 1.387 %
7156 root 1.247 [09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7157     [09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7158     [09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7159     [09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7160     [09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7161     [09:41] <elmex> ?
7162     [09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7163 root 1.387 %
7164 root 1.1 [Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7165     for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7166 root 1.387 %
7167 root 1.1 [From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7168     perl:]
7169    
7170     $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7171    
7172     [now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7173     to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7174     above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7175     warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7176     in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7177     disable the message and pray it works"]
7178 root 1.387 %
7179 root 1.1 [Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7180     From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7181     Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7182     X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7183    
7184     I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7185     can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7186     i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7187     know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7188     better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7189 root 1.387 %
7190 root 1.1 [I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7191     language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7192     http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7193 root 1.387 %
7194 root 1.1 [imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7195     * This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7196     * Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7197     * passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7198     * a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7199 root 1.387 %
7200 root 1.1 [from qmail's maildir(5)]
7201     Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7202     operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7203 root 1.387 %
7204 root 1.1 [Lukas Grundwald]
7205     Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7206 root 1.387 %
7207 root 1.1 [waiting for windows...]
7208     http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7209 root 1.387 %
7210 root 1.1 [x86 really is a cool design]
7211     > For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7212     > before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7213     > general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7214     > it's a hard requirement.
7215    
7216     Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7217     if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7218     experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7219     another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7220     cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7221     a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7222     the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7223     have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7224 root 1.387 %
7225 root 1.1 > once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7226     > Netscape?"
7227 root 1.247
7228 root 1.1 can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7229     netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7230 root 1.387 %
7231 root 1.1 The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7232     commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7233     structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7234     created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7235     them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7236     the specified task step-by-step.
7237 root 1.387 %
7238 root 1.1 There is an old programmer's rule.
7239    
7240     "Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7241     be damned hard to understand."
7242 root 1.387 %
7243 root 1.1 [Linus]
7244     Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7245     will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7246     wrong. It's that simple.
7247 root 1.387 %
7248 root 1.1 [yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7249 root 1.247 09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7250 root 1.1 [09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7251     site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7252     never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7253 root 1.247 Undernet>
7254 root 1.387 %
7255 root 1.1 [character normalization might be harmful]
7256     > In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7257     > inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7258     > point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7259    
7260     Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7261     document that contains an element or attribute named
7262 root 1.388 "autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7263 root 1.1 A forged version of the document that contained the name
7264     "autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7265     a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7266     might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7267     and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7268     now appears to have unlimited credit!
7269 root 1.387 %
7270 root 1.1 ["my spam"]
7271     99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7272     numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7273     protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7274     or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7275     TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7276 root 1.387 %
7277 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel]
7278     Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7279     who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7280     [... snip ...]
7281     never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7282     tragedy...
7283 root 1.387 %
7284 root 1.1 From: "Mike A. Harris"
7285 root 1.247
7286 root 1.1 On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7287     >---- A notice to spammers ----
7288     >Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7289     >strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7290     >Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7291     >advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7292     >message plus attorney's fees.
7293     [SNIP long sig]
7294 root 1.247
7295 root 1.1 O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7296     most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7297     all you're doing is contributing to it.
7298 root 1.247
7299 root 1.1 I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7300     However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7301     procmailable address.
7302 root 1.247
7303 root 1.1 One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7304     means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7305     just a waste of bandwidth.
7306 root 1.387 %
7307 root 1.388 rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7308 root 1.387 %
7309 root 1.1 [during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7310     /bin/true --version | read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7311 root 1.387 %
7312 root 1.1 [stefan thought this would be better]
7313 root 1.247 /bin/true --version | read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7314 root 1.387 %
7315 root 1.1 [Java-Design]
7316 root 1.247 [02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7317     [02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7318     [02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7319 root 1.1 [02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7320 root 1.247 klasse, alles muell.
7321     [02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7322     [02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7323     [02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7324 root 1.387 %
7325 root 1.247 [02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7326 root 1.387 %
7327 root 1.247 [02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7328 root 1.1 [02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7329 root 1.247 missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7330 root 1.387 %
7331 root 1.1 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7332     The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7333     using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7334     immediately and not block the calling process.
7335    
7336     the man pages are wrong
7337    
7338     --cw
7339 root 1.387 %
7340 root 1.1 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7341     ...
7342     My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7343 root 1.387 %
7344 root 1.1 [Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7345     Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7346 root 1.387 %
7347 root 1.1 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7348     > tar cvpf - foo | ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7349     > Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7350    
7351     How fast does it oops?
7352 root 1.387 %
7353 root 1.1 From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7354    
7355     On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7356     > NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7357     > touch is 2Gig.
7358    
7359     In theory, yes.
7360     In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7361     2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7362 root 1.387 %
7363 root 1.247 [10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7364     [10:44] <elmex> | | | | | | |
7365     [10:44] <elmex> | | | |-----| | | |
7366     [10:44] <elmex> | |-------------------------| | | |
7367     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | .---------------------------.| |-------|
7368     [10:44] <elmex> | | | |Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de|| | |
7369     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | `---------------------------'| | |
7370     [10:44] <elmex> | |----------| |-----------------------| |
7371     [10:44] <elmex> | | |-| | | | |
7372     [10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | |-----| |
7373     [10:44] <elmex> | |------------|-------------- | | |
7374     [10:44] <elmex> | |-----------------------------------|-| |----|
7375     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| |-| | | | |
7376     [10:44] <elmex> | |-| | | | | |
7377     [10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | | |
7378     [10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7379 root 1.387 %
7380 root 1.1 Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7381 root 1.387 %
7382 root 1.1 "There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7383     like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7384     [irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7385     take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7386     -- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7387 root 1.387 %
7388 root 1.1 "Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7389     [Lukas Grunwald]
7390 root 1.387 %
7391 root 1.1 [about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7392     From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7393     Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7394     To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7395    
7396     Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7397     > > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7398     > > prompt.
7399     > very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7400     > /proc/info/authors?
7401 root 1.247
7402 root 1.1 Grand idea.
7403     Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7404     /proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7405     /proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7406     /proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7407     /proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7408 root 1.247
7409 root 1.1 NOT.
7410     [...]
7411 root 1.387 %
7412 root 1.1 [Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7413     Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7414     From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7415 root 1.247
7416 root 1.1 On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7417     > I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7418     > selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7419     > an interesting experiment.
7420 root 1.247
7421 root 1.1 Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7422     about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7423     to disagree...
7424 root 1.387 %
7425 root 1.1 http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7426     http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7427     http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7428     [und Lukas sagt:]
7429     ... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7430 root 1.387 %
7431 root 1.1 [from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7432     report:]
7433     ... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7434     the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7435     second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7436     excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7437 root 1.387 %
7438 root 1.1 [boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7439     http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7440 root 1.387 %
7441 root 1.1 ["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7442     From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7443     Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7444    
7445     Alexander Viro wrote:
7446     > > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7447     > > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7448     >
7449     > Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7450     > as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7451     > codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7452     > UNIX.
7453    
7454     Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7455     compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7456     docs... ew!
7457 root 1.387 %
7458 root 1.1 > Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7459     > should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7460     > protected mode?
7461    
7462     From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7463     with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7464     registers loaded ;)
7465 root 1.387 %
7466 root 1.1 > > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7467     [...]
7468     > backports hurt forward progress.
7469    
7470     beware of content free dogma
7471 root 1.387 %
7472 root 1.1 > What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7473     > wondering.
7474    
7475     Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7476     has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7477     unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7478     Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7479     and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7480     machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7481     no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7482    
7483     Markus [G. Kuhn]
7484 root 1.387 %
7485 root 1.1 >Keith,
7486 root 1.247 >
7487 root 1.1 >Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7488     >of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7489     >RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7490    
7491     I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7492     utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7493     of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7494     not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7495     added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7496     are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7497     do the right thing.
7498    
7499     Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7500     and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7501     unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7502     distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7503     and they have to fix it.
7504 root 1.387 %
7505 root 1.1 10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7506     [10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7507     [10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7508     [10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7509 root 1.387 %
7510 root 1.1 [a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7511     printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7512 root 1.387 %
7513 root 1.1 On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7514     > You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7515     > pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7516     > midgets and what I should expect or not.
7517    
7518     You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7519     You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7520 root 1.387 %
7521 root 1.1 [once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7522     gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7523 root 1.387 %
7524 root 1.1 [subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7525     glibc-2.2 was released]
7526     Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7527 root 1.387 %
7528 root 1.1 [08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7529 root 1.387 %
7530 root 1.1 # root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7531     # kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7532     # elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7533 root 1.387 %
7534 root 1.1 <JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7535     <schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7536     <JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7537 root 1.387 %
7538 root 1.1 [From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7539    
7540     (1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7541     standards-compliant.
7542     (2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7543     (2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7544     entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7545     (2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7546     must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7547     (2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7548 root 1.387 %
7549 root 1.1 [Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7550     > which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7551     > even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7552    
7553     That's your problem.
7554    
7555     There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7556    
7557     Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7558     (If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7559 root 1.387 %
7560 root 1.1 > > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7561     > > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7562     > > out there) in the foot?
7563    
7564     > I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7565    
7566     True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7567     themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7568     for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7569 root 1.387 %
7570 root 1.1 > Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7571     > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7572     > or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7573    
7574     No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7575     after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7576     perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7577     PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7578     _again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7579     --
7580     Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7581 root 1.387 %
7582 root 1.1 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7583    
7584     > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7585     >
7586     > > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7587     > > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7588     >
7589     > Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7590    
7591     [Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7592 root 1.387 %
7593 root 1.388 [Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7594     daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7595     "Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7596 root 1.1 Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7597 root 1.387 %
7598 root 1.1 [amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7599     which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7600     Bullschildt below ;)]
7601    
7602     "The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7603     do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7604 root 1.387 %
7605 root 1.1 Stefan Traby wrote:
7606     >
7607     > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7608     >
7609     > > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7610     >
7611     > Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7612 root 1.387 %
7613 root 1.1 > This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7614    
7615     I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7616     it did the same thing.
7617    
7618     Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7619     a week ago. :(
7620    
7621     --Jack
7622 root 1.387 %
7623 root 1.388 "Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7624 root 1.387 %
7625 root 1.1 [It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7626     -- K&R
7627 root 1.387 %
7628 root 1.1 <elmex> JanMan: "||01:42:20|| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7629 root 1.387 %
7630 root 1.1 [please kids, don't try this at home]
7631     indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7632 root 1.387 %
7633 root 1.1 http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7634 root 1.387 %
7635 root 1.1 [PApp.pm]
7636     $modules => { "" => "" };
7637 root 1.387 %
7638 root 1.388 Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7639 root 1.387 %
7640 root 1.1 <JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7641 root 1.387 %
7642 root 1.1 [From Russel Coker's .sig]
7643     > --
7644     > If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7645     > Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7646 root 1.387 %
7647 root 1.1 [the two sides of the medal]
7648     From: "David Schwartz"
7649    
7650     > Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7651     > 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7652     > increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7653     > pretty spiffy.
7654    
7655     Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7656     to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7657     factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7658     implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7659 root 1.387 %
7660 root 1.1 [lukas grunwald...]
7661 root 1.388 [ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7662 root 1.387 %
7663 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7664     > (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7665     > of having bough one.
7666    
7667     Not an uncommon thought :)
7668 root 1.387 %
7669 root 1.1 From: Stefan Traby
7670    
7671     Hi Marc !
7672    
7673     keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7674     keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7675     keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7676    
7677     Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7678 root 1.387 %
7679 root 1.1 [I hope you get the point(s)...]
7680     From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7681     Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7682     To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7683    
7684     At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7685     >But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7686     >dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7687    
7688     Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7689     all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7690     which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7691     remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7692     [yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7693     and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7694    
7695     >[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7696     >in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7697    
7698     And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7699     separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7700     them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7701     right to left.
7702    
7703     >But no culture
7704     >has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7705     >nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7706     >to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7707     >confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7708     >nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7709    
7710     Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7711    
7712     --Alex
7713 root 1.387 %
7714 root 1.1 [recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7715     From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7716     To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7717    
7718     [most of the reply snipped...]
7719    
7720     > The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7721     > may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7722     > it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7723    
7724     [[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7725    
7726     These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7727     the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7728     grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7729     forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7730     and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7731    
7732     (Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7733     attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7734     try to claim that they do?)
7735 root 1.387 %
7736 root 1.1 On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7737    
7738     > void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7739     > {
7740     > if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7741     > flush(load);
7742     > else
7743     > wear(load);
7744     > }
7745    
7746     But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7747     purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7748    
7749     In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7750     calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7751    
7752     --
7753     dwmw2
7754 root 1.387 %
7755 root 1.1 Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7756     are are overturned.
7757 root 1.387 %
7758 root 1.1 "Going into court is throwing the dice."
7759 root 1.387 %
7760 root 1.1 [Dipl. Ing. W******* D*******]
7761     "Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7762 root 1.388 für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7763     verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7764 root 1.387 %
7765 root 1.1 [some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7766     Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7767     Marc gives some dumb comments.
7768     Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7769     Marc: Yeah.. and?
7770     Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7771     Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7772 root 1.387 %
7773 root 1.1 [t-online is just sooo cool:]
7774     Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7775     From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7776    
7777     |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
7778     <service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7779     |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
7780 root 1.387 %
7781 root 1.1 [a play with a well-known-signature:]
7782     Deadlock, n.:
7783     Deceased Rasterman.
7784 root 1.387 %
7785 root 1.1 [Jeff Williams & friends]
7786     ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7787     http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7788     http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7789 root 1.387 %
7790 root 1.1 [some .signature]
7791     This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7792 root 1.387 %
7793 root 1.1 [Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7794     Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7795 root 1.388 mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7796     Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7797     zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7798     nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7799 root 1.1 reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7800     das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7801 root 1.388 Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7802     Positionen für unwählbar.
7803 root 1.1
7804     Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7805 root 1.387 %
7806 root 1.1 From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7807     Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7808     Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7809    
7810     Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7811    
7812     > Their opinion: "well, *everybody* knows that this is not professional,
7813     > nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7814     > should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7815     > but *WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN* was to write these programs in Haskell.
7816     > Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7817    
7818     A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7819     She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7820     on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7821     students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7822     refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7823     results simply because I make a mistake!
7824    
7825     In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7826     students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7827     errors.
7828    
7829     So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7830     North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7831     European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7832     programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7833 root 1.387 %
7834 root 1.1 On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7835     > yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7836     > > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7837     > > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7838     >
7839     > Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7840 root 1.387 %
7841 root 1.1 "The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7842     of nothing."
7843 root 1.387 %
7844 root 1.1 [after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7845     Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7846     >
7847     > So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7848     > CPU?
7849    
7850     Root password? :)
7851    
7852     John.Fulmer
7853 root 1.387 %
7854 root 1.1 I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7855    
7856     Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7857 root 1.387 %
7858 root 1.1 > NO. They can/will use RAW_IO *IF* this is available to them. If not, they
7859     > will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7860     > which I prefer...
7861    
7862     Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7863     to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7864     works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7865     scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7866     updater for the new SCSI controller.
7867     --
7868     Horst von Brand
7869 root 1.387 %
7870 root 1.1 [de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7871    
7872     >Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7873    
7874     [...]
7875    
7876     Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7877 root 1.387 %
7878 root 1.1 [Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7879     at your problem:]
7880    
7881     The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7882     a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7883     had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7884 root 1.387 %
7885 root 1.1 [Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7886     cp is inherently inefficient.
7887 root 1.387 %
7888 root 1.1 >I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7889     >breaking seals on them.
7890    
7891     Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7892     nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7893     hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7894    
7895     ...
7896    
7897     There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7898     did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7899     killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7900     could be just an urban myth though.
7901    
7902     Russell Coker
7903 root 1.387 %
7904 root 1.1 >I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7905     >Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7906    
7907     Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7908 root 1.387 %
7909 root 1.1 On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7910     > "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7911     > > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7912     > > deleting.
7913     >
7914     > Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7915    
7916     Wrong. Yury does.
7917     :(
7918    
7919     --
7920     Stefan
7921 root 1.387 %
7922 root 1.1 "Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7923     > I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7924     > folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7925     > not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7926     > Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7927     > dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7928     > DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7929    
7930     DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7931    
7932     Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7933 root 1.387 %
7934 root 1.1 [very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7935 root 1.388 00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7936 root 1.1 Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7937 root 1.388 Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7938     einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7939 root 1.387 %
7940 root 1.1 [Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7941     > > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7942     > > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7943     > > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7944     > > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7945     > > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7946     > > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7947     > > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7948     > > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7949     > > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7950 root 1.387 %
7951 root 1.388 [Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7952     installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7953     Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7954 root 1.1 aus!
7955 root 1.387 %
7956 root 1.1 [IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7957     http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7958 root 1.387 %
7959 root 1.1 [On the reality of random numbers]
7960     > /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7961     > to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7962     Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7963 root 1.387 %
7964 root 1.1 [Flame Warriors]
7965     http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7966 root 1.387 %
7967 root 1.1 A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7968     functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7969     more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7970     fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7971    
7972     --tom
7973 root 1.387 %
7974 root 1.1 To: bugs@gimp.org
7975     X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7976    
7977     Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7978     problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7979     it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7980     editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7981     whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7982 root 1.387 %
7983 root 1.1 ["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7984     VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7985     lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7986     a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7987     solutions.
7988    
7989     http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7990    
7991     [Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7992     rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7993     the background]
7994 root 1.387 %
7995 root 1.1 [Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7996     Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7997     Security Response Center:
7998    
7999     This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8000     virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8001    
8002     [and later]
8003     Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8004    
8005     This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8006    
8007     [Phil closes]
8008     Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8009    
8010     [See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8011     [and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8012 root 1.387 %
8013 root 1.1 [Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8014     Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8015     2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8016     even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8017     system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8018     vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8019     Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8020 root 1.387 %
8021 root 1.1 >Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8022     >splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8023     >that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8024     >was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8025    
8026     [Trashey / Quasars]
8027 root 1.387 %
8028 root 1.1 Tom Christiansen writes:
8029     > I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8030     > switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8031    
8032     Irony potential in
8033    
8034     man perlrtfm
8035    
8036     is left to the reader.
8037    
8038     Nat
8039 root 1.387 %
8040 root 1.1 Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8041     and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8042    
8043     (Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8044     private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8045 root 1.387 %
8046 root 1.1 [Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8047     Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8048     Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8049 root 1.387 %
8050 root 1.1 "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8051     same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8052     Paul Tomblin
8053 root 1.387 %
8054 root 1.1 [recently on p5p]
8055     >I am morally
8056     >convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8057    
8058     Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8059     possibility...
8060    
8061     Dan
8062 root 1.387 %
8063 root 1.1 [after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8064 root 1.388 <jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8065 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 :)
8066     <Mr> zugabe
8067 root 1.387 %
8068 root 1.1 "Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8069     Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8070 root 1.387 %
8071 root 1.1 DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8072     [cobol, *sigh*]
8073 root 1.387 %
8074 root 1.1 It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8075     operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8076     on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8077     desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8078     scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8079     age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8080     system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8081     so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8082    
8083     Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8084 root 1.387 %
8085 root 1.1 "Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8086    
8087     "Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8088     not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8089     may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8090     after they regain their composure."
8091    
8092     -- Paul Rinaldo
8093     [see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8094 root 1.387 %
8095 root 1.1 On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8096     >
8097     > In case you guys havn't noticed...
8098     >
8099     > http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8100    
8101     Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8102    
8103     Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8104    
8105     ;-}
8106    
8107     --
8108    
8109     ciao -
8110     Stefan
8111    
8112 root 1.387 %
8113 root 1.1 > The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8114     > Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8115    
8116     No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8117     mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8118     guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8119     'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8120     one' type remarks.
8121     [Alan Cox]
8122 root 1.387 %
8123 root 1.1 Godwin's Law
8124    
8125     As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8126     involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8127    
8128     [see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8129 root 1.387 %
8130 root 1.1 ["Stefan im IRC."]
8131    
8132     [01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8133     [01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8134     [01:53:31] <coda> haha
8135 root 1.387 %
8136 root 1.1 [remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8137     Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8138     The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8139     requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8140 root 1.387 %
8141 root 1.1 [Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8142     > No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8143    
8144     Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8145     is to me ok.
8146 root 1.387 %
8147 root 1.1 "The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8148    
8149     "I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8150 root 1.387 %
8151 root 1.1 [Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8152     Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8153 root 1.387 %
8154 root 1.1 Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8155     just nod your head and back away slowly...
8156 root 1.387 %
8157 root 1.1 The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8158     files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8159     to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8160    
8161     Ralf
8162 root 1.387 %
8163 root 1.1 It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8164     care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8165     95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8166    
8167     david parsons
8168 root 1.387 %
8169 root 1.1 ["some time ago on p5p"]
8170     > ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8171    
8172     >Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8173     >so that trick is not portable.
8174    
8175     % grep localhost /etc/hosts
8176     127.0.0.1 localhost
8177    
8178     --tom
8179 root 1.387 %
8180 root 1.1 ["some time ago on p5p"]
8181     On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8182     > >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8183     > >the question is moot.
8184     >
8185     > I'll send you a free Unix system.
8186    
8187     Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8188    
8189     Ilya
8190 root 1.387 %
8191 root 1.1 [Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8192     > Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8193     > using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8194     > will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8195     > trying.
8196    
8197     Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8198     fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8199 root 1.387 %
8200 root 1.1 [Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8201     ... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8202     ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8203     outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8204 root 1.387 %
8205 root 1.1 [Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8206     I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8207     his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8208 root 1.387 %
8209 root 1.1 [David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8210     > ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8211     > strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8212     > blocking :-)
8213    
8214     That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8215     validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8216     people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8217     people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8218     reasons.
8219    
8220     DS
8221 root 1.387 %
8222 root 1.1 [WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8223 root 1.388 Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8224 root 1.1 geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8225 root 1.388 und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8226 root 1.1 hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8227    
8228     Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8229 root 1.388 üblich, erschossen wurde.
8230 root 1.387 %
8231 root 1.1 > - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8232     [...]
8233     > Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8234     [...]
8235    
8236     You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8237     You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8238     Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8239     with each other on the same channel.
8240    
8241     IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8242     hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8243    
8244     This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8245 root 1.387 %
8246 root 1.1 [ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8247     "Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8248 root 1.387 %
8249 root 1.1 Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8250 root 1.387 %
8251 root 1.1 [OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8252     ANY word at all is a candidate.
8253     USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8254     ok
8255 root 1.387 %
8256 root 1.1 [SDF for POD Users]
8257     ... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8258 root 1.387 %
8259 root 1.1 <Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8260     <schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8261     <Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8262     <schmorp> xach: ok.
8263     <Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8264     <Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8265     <Xach> burrito, focus
8266     <Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8267 root 1.387 %
8268 root 1.1 [Paul Miller]
8269     ... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8270     using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8271     tested it." ...
8272 root 1.387 %
8273 root 1.1 Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8274 root 1.387 %
8275 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8276    
8277     Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8278     >Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8279     >
8280     >>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8281     >
8282     >"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8283     >
8284     >"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8285     >
8286     >No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8287     >the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8288     >systems.
8289    
8290    
8291     Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8292     had.
8293    
8294     --
8295     Neal Bridges
8296 root 1.387 %
8297 root 1.1 On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8298    
8299     > Hi folks,
8300     > 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?
8301     > please reply to
8302     > sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8303     > and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8304    
8305     Parse error.
8306    
8307     ---
8308     Alex
8309 root 1.387 %
8310 root 1.1 From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8311    
8312     > Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8313     > including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8314    
8315     Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8316     amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8317     the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8318    
8319     That doesn't mean that I don't want *my* program to be clean ANSI C.
8320 root 1.387 %
8321 root 1.1 [one of the few good us movies]
8322 root 1.388 Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8323 root 1.387 %
8324 root 1.1 [guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8325     ii = 44;
8326     p = &ii;
8327     *p = ii/*p;
8328     ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8329     printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8330 root 1.387 %
8331 root 1.1 > But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8332     > Linux time then.
8333    
8334     Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8335    
8336     They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8337     Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8338    
8339     Roger.
8340 root 1.387 %
8341 root 1.1 <Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8342 root 1.387 %
8343 root 1.1 auto accident;
8344     register voters;
8345     static electricity;
8346     struct by_lightning;
8347     void *where_prohibited;
8348     char broiled;
8349     short circuit;
8350     short changed;
8351     long johns;
8352     unsigned long letter;
8353     double entendre;
8354     double trouble;
8355     union organizer;
8356     float valve;
8357     short pants;
8358     union station;
8359     void check; unsigned check;
8360     struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8361 root 1.387 %
8362 root 1.1 [I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8363     22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8364     - 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8365 root 1.388 verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8366 root 1.387 %
8367 root 1.1 Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8368    
8369     I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8370     worstation.
8371 root 1.387 %
8372 root 1.1 I wrote
8373     > I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8374     $/
8375    
8376     Damn shift key.
8377    
8378    
8379     Mike Guy
8380 root 1.387 %
8381 root 1.1 [rfc2635]
8382     The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8383     netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8384     movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8385     over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8386     of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8387     closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8388     take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8389     pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8390 root 1.387 %
8391 root 1.1 [CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8392    
8393     The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8394    
8395     Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8396     device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8397     simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8398     is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8399    
8400     http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8401 root 1.387 %
8402 root 1.1 : Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8403     : 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8404    
8405     It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8406     context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8407     now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8408     easy to bother.
8409    
8410     The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8411     purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8412     sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8413     are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8414    
8415     That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8416    
8417     Larry
8418 root 1.387 %
8419 root 1.1 [that one's only for insiders...]
8420     > : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8421     Yeah. :-)
8422 root 1.387 %
8423 root 1.1 [comp.lang.forth]
8424     > Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8425     [...]
8426     > Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8427    
8428     Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8429     penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8430     I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8431     fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8432    
8433     Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8434     whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8435     with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8436     receipts aren't used anymore.
8437 root 1.387 %
8438 root 1.1 Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8439     installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8440     Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8441 root 1.387 %
8442 root 1.1 > Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8443     > und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8444     > Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8445     > versteht?"
8446 root 1.387 %
8447 root 1.1 [de.alt.anime]
8448     Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8449     "Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8450     der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8451 root 1.388 Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8452 root 1.1 dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8453 root 1.388 mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8454 root 1.1 geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8455     Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8456     ji!
8457 root 1.387 %
8458 root 1.1 I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8459     in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8460     [Larry Wall]
8461 root 1.387 %
8462 root 1.1 Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8463     Altpreussen.
8464     - Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8465     de.soc.politik.deutschland
8466 root 1.387 %
8467 root 1.1 > > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8468     > > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8469     > > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8470     > > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8471     >
8472 root 1.388 > Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8473     > geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8474 root 1.1 > Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8475    
8476 root 1.388 Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8477 root 1.1 Norbert?
8478 root 1.387 %
8479 root 1.208 Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8480 root 1.1 Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8481     "Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8482 root 1.387 %
8483 root 1.1 http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8484 root 1.387 %
8485 root 1.1 <Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8486 root 1.387 %
8487 root 1.1 Subject: GNU compiler
8488     From: "Steve"
8489     Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8490     To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8491     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8492    
8493     [the following was a single line, of course]
8494     I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8495     instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8496     how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8497     several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8498     assistance would be greatly appreciated
8499    
8500     Thanks,
8501    
8502     Steve
8503 root 1.387 %
8504 root 1.1 [an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8505     > Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8506     > managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8507     > 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8508 root 1.387 %
8509 root 1.1 <tigert> xachbot, op
8510     <XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8511     <tigert> ahem
8512 root 1.387 %
8513 root 1.1 <tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8514     -XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records | See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8515     <tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8516 root 1.387 %
8517 root 1.1 [the release of perl 5.000]
8518     Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8519     From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8520     Subject: It's soup.
8521    
8522     Okay, it's there.
8523    
8524     ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8525    
8526     The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8527    
8528     Larry
8529 root 1.387 %
8530 root 1.1 l33+ h4X0rz
8531 root 1.387 %
8532 root 1.1 # A random text generator using Markov chains
8533     perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8534     }.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8535     &b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8536     ($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8537 root 1.387 %
8538 root 1.1 > && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8539     > && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8540     >
8541     > Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8542     > And there's no mouse.
8543     >
8544     > Abigail
8545    
8546     Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8547    
8548     Matt.
8549 root 1.387 %
8550 root 1.1 Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8551     giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8552    
8553     - --tom
8554 root 1.387 %
8555 root 1.1 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8556     Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8557    
8558     On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8559     >
8560     > So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8561     > 2.2.11 release?
8562    
8563     [ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8564    
8565     Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8566    
8567     Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8568 root 1.387 %
8569 root 1.1 Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you *want* to get the point?
8570 root 1.387 %
8571 root 1.1 ["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8572     On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8573     > Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8574     > ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8575     > block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8576     > that much ;-)
8577    
8578     IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8579 root 1.387 %
8580 root 1.1 MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8581     preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8582 root 1.387 %
8583 root 1.1 [comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8584     <QUOTE>
8585     I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8586    
8587     (I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8588     gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8589     </QUOTE>
8590 root 1.387 %
8591 root 1.1 The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8592     and routes around it.
8593    
8594     Roger Larsson
8595 root 1.388 Skellefteå
8596 root 1.387 %
8597 root 1.1 [configuring gcc]
8598     Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8599 root 1.387 %
8600 root 1.1 'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8601     except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8602 root 1.387 %
8603 root 1.1 [http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8604    
8605     Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8606     comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8607     finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8608     on different JVMs.
8609    
8610     [and later]
8611    
8612     Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8613     adventure gaming:
8614    
8615     1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8616     2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8617 root 1.387 %
8618 root 1.1 [the ||-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8619     "and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8620    
8621     >>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8622    
8623     NK> ?? -> huh?
8624    
8625     That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8626    
8627     <chaim>
8628 root 1.387 %
8629 root 1.1 `One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8630     code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8631     languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8632     people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8633     numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8634     specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8635 root 1.387 %
8636 root 1.1 [Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8637 root 1.388 Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8638 root 1.387 %
8639 root 1.1 [Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8640     Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8641     page]
8642     ... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8643     value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8644     must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8645     properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8646     though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8647     OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8648     value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8649     disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8650     [Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8651     dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8652 root 1.387 %
8653 root 1.1 [Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8654     Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8655     excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8656     don't actually get anything DONE.
8657 root 1.387 %
8658 root 1.1 Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8659     * It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8660     * You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8661     * You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8662 root 1.387 %
8663 root 1.1 > 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8664     > number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8665     > read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8666     > get the serial number from the OS)?
8667    
8668     Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8669 root 1.387 %
8670 root 1.1 [CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8671     "Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8672     they have continued that legacy to this day."
8673 root 1.387 %
8674 root 1.1 [From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8675     "In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8676     files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8677 root 1.387 %
8678 root 1.1 > If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8679    
8680     Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8681     means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8682     that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8683     exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8684     other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8685     seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8686     still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8687     Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8688     got the T-shirt.
8689 root 1.387 %
8690 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8691     From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8692     Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8693     To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8694     Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8695     davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8696     X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8697    
8698     Linus writes, to Craig:
8699    
8700     > I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8701     > and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8702     > thus choices than gcc.
8703    
8704     No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8705     larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8706     conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8707     far more complex than the kernel.
8708    
8709     [NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8710     bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8711    
8712     [ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8713 root 1.387 %
8714 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8715     From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8716     To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8717    
8718     >I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8719     [...]
8720     >I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8721     >information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8722     >best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8723     >let the user be in control.
8724    
8725     In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8726     the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8727     that you know, what, *nothing* about language design, and *nothing*
8728     about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8729     compilers?
8730 root 1.387 %
8731 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8732     From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8733    
8734     Linus writes:
8735     > Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8736     > gcc could do better?
8737    
8738     Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8739     matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8740     before you had so many worshippers.
8741 root 1.387 %
8742 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8743     From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8744     Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8745     To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8746     X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8747    
8748     Linus Torvalds wrote:
8749    
8750     > I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8751     > revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8752     > trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8753     > just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8754    
8755     Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8756    
8757     #pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8758    
8759     around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8760     _and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8761    
8762     They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8763    
8764     >:->
8765    
8766     Brane
8767    
8768    
8769     P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8770     who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8771     standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8772     compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8773     features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8774    
8775    
8776     P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8777 root 1.387 %
8778 root 1.1 You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose *two*
8779 root 1.387 %
8780 root 1.1 "Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8781     fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8782     high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8783 root 1.387 %
8784 root 1.1 1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8785     2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8786     3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8787 root 1.387 %
8788 root 1.1 [gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8789    
8790     > Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8791    
8792     Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8793 root 1.387 %
8794 root 1.1 [perl is cryptic??]
8795     Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8796     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8797     Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8798    
8799     We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8800    
8801     : Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8802     : substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8803     :
8804     : ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* }
8805     :
8806     : replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8807     :
8808     : "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* }"
8809 root 1.387 %
8810 root 1.1 Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8811 root 1.387 %
8812 root 1.1 > |> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8813     > |> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8814     > |> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8815     > |> interpreting words in any human language.
8816     >
8817     > This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8818     > "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8819    
8820     The classic example:
8821    
8822     "Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8823     "Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8824 root 1.387 %
8825 root 1.1 [do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8826     >_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8827    
8828     And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8829     once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8830     lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8831    
8832     What's next, a String class for Perl?
8833    
8834     --tom
8835 root 1.387 %
8836 root 1.1 [some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8837     i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8838     working on something for me
8839     u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8840     to me nutting concerning y ok
8841     piece
8842     russ
8843 root 1.387 %
8844 root 1.1 [From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8845    
8846     pico (text editor for beginners)
8847     vi (text editor for advanced users)
8848     emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8849     ed (text editor for beginners)
8850 root 1.387 %
8851 root 1.1 There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8852    
8853     use Python;
8854    
8855     and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8856     Except maybe faster. :-)
8857    
8858     Larry
8859 root 1.387 %
8860 root 1.1 > Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8861    
8862     just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8863     2010.
8864    
8865     (Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8866 root 1.387 %
8867 root 1.1 The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8868     read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8869     and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8870     it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8871     descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8872     lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8873     document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8874     been created.
8875 root 1.387 %
8876 root 1.1 > Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8877     >
8878     > Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8879     > $3.99.
8880     >
8881     > Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8882     >
8883     > Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8884     >
8885     > Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8886     >
8887     > Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8888     >
8889     > Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8890     >
8891     > Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8892     > got integrated Coke!
8893     >
8894     > Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8895     > to drink the Coke.
8896     >
8897     > Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8898     >
8899     > Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8900     >
8901     > Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8902     > inseparable.
8903     >
8904     > Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8905     >
8906     > Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8907     >
8908     > Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8909     >
8910     > Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8911     > two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8912     > continuous taste across all your foods.
8913 root 1.387 %
8914 root 1.1 Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8915     like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8916 root 1.40 Rob Pike
8917 root 1.387 %
8918 root 1.1 From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8919    
8920     Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8921     Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8922     It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8923     for you to digest this book.
8924     Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8925     Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8926     Join The Trickle
8927     Python: more popular than Dylan!
8928     Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8929     Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8930 root 1.387 %
8931 root 1.1 Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8932     honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8933     that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8934     complete and utter vapourware.
8935    
8936     Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8937 root 1.387 %
8938 root 1.1 [From "Programming Perl"]
8939    
8940     We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8941     programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8942 root 1.387 %
8943 root 1.1 [Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8944    
8945     Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8946     almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8947     see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8948     a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8949     Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8950     Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8951     not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8952     (Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8953     find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8954     terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8955     problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8956     span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8957     everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8958     saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8959     methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8960     would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8961     proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8962     come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8963     programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8964     understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8965     work.
8966     [...]
8967     You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8968     type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8969     don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8970     what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8971     litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8972     search generically - then it has some potential.
8973     [...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8974     It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8975     profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8976     intellectual value whatsoever.
8977    
8978     [Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8979     I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8980     out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8981 root 1.387 %
8982 root 1.1 [Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8983 root 1.388 "Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8984 root 1.387 %
8985 root 1.1 [/bin/false on solaris]
8986     #!/usr/bin/sh
8987     # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8988     # All Rights Reserved
8989    
8990     # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8991     # The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8992     # actual or intended publication of such source code.
8993    
8994     #ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8995     [obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, *1* line.]
8996 root 1.387 %
8997 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.
8998 root 1.387 %
8999 root 1.1 When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9000     or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9001     the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9002 root 1.387 %
9003 root 1.1 [Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9004    
9005     "Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9006     rather than fixing the actual problem."
9007    
9008     [further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9009     just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9010     machine]
9011    
9012     "Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9013     of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9014     responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9015    
9016     [see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9017 root 1.387 %
9018 root 1.1 [Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9019     spamming:]
9020    
9021     >fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9022     >>
9023     >>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9024     >>------------------------------------------------------
9025     >>
9026     >>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9027     >>
9028     >>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9029    
9030     [and later, misquoting my name:]
9031     >mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9032 root 1.387 %
9033 root 1.1 [How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9034     He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9035 root 1.387 %
9036 root 1.1 > And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9037     If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9038 root 1.387 %
9039 root 1.1 According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9040     95/98 are limited to an uptime of *exactly* 49.7 days.
9041    
9042     --found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9043 root 1.387 %
9044 root 1.1 > Leave that to RMS.
9045    
9046     If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9047     RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9048     else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9049     he's full of.
9050    
9051     Support BSD/Linux.
9052    
9053     --tom
9054 root 1.387 %
9055 root 1.1 "The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9056 root 1.387 %
9057 root 1.1 We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9058 root 1.387 %
9059 root 1.1 > Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9060     > history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9061    
9062     Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9063     mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9064     and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9065     few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9066 root 1.387 %
9067 root 1.1 [on channel #gimp]
9068    
9069     [msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9070     [XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9071 root 1.387 %
9072 root 1.1 [the creation]
9073     http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9074 root 1.387 %
9075 root 1.1 THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9076    
9077     This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9078     an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9079     to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9080 root 1.387 %
9081 root 1.1 Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9082     selbst schliesse.
9083     Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9084     am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9085 root 1.387 %
9086 root 1.1 According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9087     > "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9088    
9089     No:
9090    
9091     use Borg;
9092     make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9093    
9094     --
9095     Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9096 root 1.387 %
9097 root 1.1 "And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9098     the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9099     sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9100     systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9101     its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9102     appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9103     agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9104     time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9105     agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9106     non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9107     failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9108     specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9109     pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9110     concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9111     sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9112     run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9113     modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9114     'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9115     logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9116     aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9117     the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9118     dispensers."
9119    
9120     [Kenneth Albanowski]
9121 root 1.387 %
9122 root 1.1 Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9123     Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9124     unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9125     -- Kristian Koehntopp
9126 root 1.387 %
9127 root 1.1 > Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9128     > topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9129     > marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9130 root 1.387 %
9131 root 1.388 [bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9132 root 1.1
9133     Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9134 root 1.388 Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9135 root 1.1 Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9136 root 1.388 Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9137 root 1.1 Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9138     Student: "..."
9139     Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9140     Student: "..."
9141     Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9142 root 1.387 %
9143 root 1.1 Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9144    
9145     > Just morbid curiosity,
9146     >
9147     > Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9148    
9149     Yes. Broken ones.
9150    
9151     dgris
9152 root 1.387 %
9153 root 1.1 "The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9154     -- A Borges story in ten words.
9155 root 1.387 %
9156 root 1.1 "C combines the power of assembly language
9157     with the flexibility of assembly language."
9158 root 1.387 %
9159 root 1.1 ...
9160    
9161     <AOL>
9162    
9163     Me too!
9164    
9165     </AOL>
9166    
9167     Tig
9168 root 1.387 %
9169 root 1.1 ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9170 root 1.387 %
9171 root 1.1 unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9172 root 1.387 %
9173 root 1.1 From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9174    
9175     I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9176     "slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9177     wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9178     loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9179     to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9180     chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9181     NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9182    
9183     Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9184    
9185     I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9186     expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9187     get really really pissed.
9188    
9189     Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux *really* start
9190     to cut into M$'s server market share.
9191 root 1.387 %
9192 root 1.1 > Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9193     > that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9194     > need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9195     > period.
9196     >
9197     > Sorry for the insignificant post..
9198     > Nic
9199     >
9200    
9201     Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9202    
9203     -hpa
9204 root 1.387 %
9205 root 1.1 grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9206 root 1.387 %
9207 root 1.1 "If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9208     make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9209     happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9210     administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9211     happy."
9212     - - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9213 root 1.387 %
9214 root 1.1 From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9215     Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9216     To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9217    
9218     I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9219     of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9220     I also forwarded the offending code.
9221    
9222     The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9223     of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9224     service.
9225    
9226     Daniel
9227 root 1.387 %
9228 root 1.1 Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9229     ...
9230     * cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9231 root 1.387 %
9232 root 1.1 "Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9233     It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9234     [RJL]
9235 root 1.387 %
9236 root 1.1 As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9237     right.''
9238 root 1.387 %
9239 root 1.1 [Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9240    
9241     Amazing--they actually listened.
9242 root 1.387 %
9243 root 1.1 That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9244     SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9245     that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9246    
9247     # less foo
9248     sh: command not found
9249     # more foo
9250     sh: command not found
9251     # emacs foo
9252     sh: command not found
9253     # ed foo
9254     0
9255     help
9256     ?
9257     quit
9258     ?
9259     exit
9260     ?
9261     DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9262     ?
9263    
9264     [Albert D. Cahalan]
9265 root 1.387 %
9266 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9267     From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9268     Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9269    
9270     tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9271    
9272     tim> use blib ':quiet';
9273    
9274     tim> would be most correct in style.
9275    
9276     Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9277     For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9278 root 1.387 %
9279 root 1.1 [A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9280     No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9281     effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9282     [Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9283     too bad --- ]
9284 root 1.387 %
9285 root 1.1 Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9286 root 1.387 %
9287 root 1.1 Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9288    
9289     > Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9290     > licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9291    
9292     The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9293     pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9294 root 1.387 %
9295 root 1.1 [once on linux-kernel:]
9296     > >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9297     > Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9298     he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9299     driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9300 root 1.387 %
9301 root 1.1 > Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9302    
9303     No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9304     include wrong #include files in their source.
9305 root 1.387 %
9306 root 1.1 [unix-faq]
9307    
9308     Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9309     "rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "*" instead of "*.foo".
9310     Consider it a rite of passage.
9311 root 1.387 %
9312 root 1.1 "There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9313     "Oops."
9314     -- MST3K
9315 root 1.387 %
9316 root 1.1 Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9317     claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9318     those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9319    
9320     I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9321     It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9322     I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9323     look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9324     stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9325     it. ;)
9326 root 1.387 %
9327 root 1.1 >I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9328     >human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9329     >not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9330     >This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9331     >testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9332    
9333     What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9334     documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9335     Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9336     did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9337    
9338     --tom
9339 root 1.387 %
9340 root 1.1 > * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9341    
9342     In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9343    
9344     >Why does it end ?
9345    
9346     Ask the X3J11 committee.
9347    
9348     > * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9349     > * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9350    
9351     To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9352 root 1.387 %
9353 root 1.1 "Unix *is* Perl's IDE!"
9354     -- Tom Christiansen
9355 root 1.387 %
9356 root 1.1 [Sputnik]
9357    
9358     Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9359     A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9360     supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9361     wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9362     of Sputnik.
9363 root 1.387 %
9364 root 1.1 NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9365     even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9366     characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9367     the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9368     of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9369 root 1.387 %
9370 root 1.1 Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9371     - Hanlons razor -
9372 root 1.387 %
9373 root 1.1 Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9374     explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9375 root 1.387 %
9376 root 1.1 According to Chris Nandor:
9377     > I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9378     > but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9379     > offered no significant advantages.
9380    
9381     That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9382 root 1.387 %
9383 root 1.1 My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9384     stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9385     (?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9386     reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9387     quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9388     in front of me says so."
9389    
9390     He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9391 root 1.387 %
9392 root 1.1 9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9393     statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9394     praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9395     fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9396     deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9397     quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9398     transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9399     annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9400     consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9401     idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9402     quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9403 root 1.387 %
9404 root 1.1 You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9405     and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9406     did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9407     2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9408     the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9409 root 1.387 %
9410 root 1.1 "Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9411 root 1.387 %
9412 root 1.388 HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9413 root 1.1 hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9414     Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9415     schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9416     get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9417 root 1.387 %
9418 root 1.1 From: Robert Lipe
9419     > > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9420     > > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9421     >
9422     > But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9423     > and/or screen.
9424    
9425     Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9426 root 1.387 %
9427 root 1.1 Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9428     From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9429    
9430     On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9431     > use pedantic;
9432     > use strict 'code';
9433     >
9434     > or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9435    
9436     use syntax 'python';
9437    
9438     Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9439    
9440 root 1.387 %
9441 root 1.1 Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9442     >
9443     > Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9444     > past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9445     > primarily because people *think* it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9446     > panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9447     >
9448     > It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9449 root 1.387 %
9450 root 1.1 [rfc1925]
9451     Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9452 root 1.387 %
9453 root 1.1 [Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9454     > A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9455     > be time-consuming.
9456    
9457     "Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9458 root 1.387 %
9459 root 1.1 UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9460     77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9461     however, they do not handle C++...
9462     [from "learning the vi editor"]
9463 root 1.387 %
9464 root 1.1 > correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9465     > months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9466    
9467     Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9468    
9469     So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9470    
9471     and as Ecclesiastes said:
9472    
9473     Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9474     already of old time, which was before us.
9475     There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9476     remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9477    
9478     Regards,
9479     Tigran.
9480 root 1.387 %
9481 root 1.1 SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9482 root 1.387 %
9483 root 1.1 [slightly broken, though...]
9484     /* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9485     hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9486     main(){
9487     extrn hw;
9488     putchar(0[hw]);
9489     hw=+1;
9490     putchar(0[hw]);
9491     }
9492 root 1.387 %
9493 root 1.1 > So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9494    
9495     The egg. Always. By definition.
9496 root 1.387 %
9497 root 1.1 > > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9498     >
9499     > Better check your scsi cables.
9500 root 1.387 %
9501 root 1.1 Arroganz durch Wissen
9502     [Dirk Jagdmann]
9503 root 1.387 %
9504 root 1.1 [Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9505     > Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9506     > ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9507     > auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9508    
9509 root 1.388 was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9510 root 1.1 sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9511     Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9512    
9513 root 1.388 Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9514 root 1.1 bezwecken will... ^_-
9515 root 1.387 %
9516 root 1.1 >James :\
9517     >
9518     >I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9519    
9520     I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9521 root 1.387 %
9522 root 1.1 From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9523     Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9524     Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9525 root 1.387 %
9526 root 1.1 > The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9527     > is just asking for a black eye.
9528    
9529     But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9530    
9531     For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9532     if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9533     translation tables are marked as pageable.
9534    
9535     Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9536     that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9537     area.
9538 root 1.387 %
9539 root 1.1 Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9540     [Lukas Grunwald]
9541 root 1.387 %
9542 root 1.1 http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9543    
9544     THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9545     EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9546     YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9547     (DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9548     FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9549 root 1.387 %
9550 root 1.1 [a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9551     Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9552    
9553     kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9554 root 1.387 %
9555 root 1.1 [Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9556     On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9557     For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9558    
9559     0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9560    
9561     However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9562    
9563     0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9564    
9565     due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9566     the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9567 root 1.387 %
9568 root 1.388 [Grüner Tip/Arte]
9569 root 1.1 Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9570 root 1.388 Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9571 root 1.387 %
9572 root 1.1 Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9573     longer...
9574 root 1.387 %
9575 root 1.1 [M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9576     By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9577     VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9578 root 1.387 %
9579 root 1.1 > > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9580     > > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9581     > > world :) I just love it...
9582     >
9583     > Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9584     >
9585     It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9586     should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9587     practical...
9588     for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9589     person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9590     Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9591     one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9592     everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9593    
9594     Jan Hubicka
9595 root 1.387 %
9596 root 1.1 > template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9597     [...]
9598     > I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9599    
9600     No, it is not. What you meant is
9601    
9602     template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9603 root 1.387 %
9604 root 1.1 Jan Dubois writes:
9605     > A) perl-5.00553
9606     > path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9607     > cc = cl.exe
9608     A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9609    
9610     [...]
9611    
9612     Ilya
9613 root 1.387 %
9614 root 1.1 >Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9615    
9616     Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9617    
9618     p.
9619 root 1.387 %
9620 root 1.1 [tomc]
9621     Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9622     logical && and || operators. Here they are:
9623    
9624     +------------------------------------------+
9625     | Other languages, notably C++, permit it. |
9626     +------------------------------------------+
9627    
9628     This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9629     that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9630    
9631     * Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9632     like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9633     * The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9634     infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9635     interesting way.
9636     * Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9637     allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9638     * Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9639     interesting things.
9640     * C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9641     language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9642     things.
9643 root 1.387 %
9644 root 1.1 Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9645     --Dennis Ritchie
9646 root 1.387 %
9647 root 1.1 perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9648 root 1.387 %
9649 root 1.1 [not quite duff's device, but...]
9650    
9651     switch (x)
9652     default:
9653     if (prime(x))
9654     case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9655     process_prime(x);
9656     else
9657     case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9658     process_composite(x);
9659 root 1.387 %
9660 root 1.1 Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9661     after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9662     in megabytes, required for execution?
9663    
9664     Craig Milo Rogers
9665 root 1.387 %
9666 root 1.1 Mark Mielke writes:
9667     > This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9668     > to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9669    
9670     This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9671     US (apparently in Canada too?).
9672    
9673     Ilya
9674 root 1.387 %
9675 root 1.1 [from p5p]
9676     > Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9677    
9678     Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9679     immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9680     note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9681    
9682     Nat
9683 root 1.387 %
9684 root 1.1 Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9685     much steroids for a while. =)
9686    
9687     --Albert Dvornik
9688     <bert@genscan.com>
9689 root 1.387 %
9690 root 1.1 Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9691     From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9692     Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9693    
9694     >*You* do not understand? Perl is slow...
9695    
9696     Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9697     or tcl crowd instead of here.
9698    
9699     --tom
9700 root 1.387 %
9701 root 1.1 >What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9702    
9703     Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9704    
9705     Linus
9706 root 1.387 %
9707 root 1.1 On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9708     devil added HTML mail...
9709 root 1.387 %
9710 root 1.1 linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9711     linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9712     linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9713 root 1.387 %
9714 root 1.1 On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9715     Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9716    
9717     > Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9718     > java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9719     > techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9720    
9721     Arm the gnus!
9722 root 1.387 %
9723 root 1.1 [David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9724    
9725     Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9726     you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9727     gcc, so go away.
9728 root 1.387 %
9729 root 1.1 I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9730     wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9731    
9732     "\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9733    
9734     But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9735     Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9736 root 1.387 %
9737 root 1.1 [on perl version numbering]
9738     > So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9739     > Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9740     > journalists need to make them pay attention.
9741    
9742     Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9743     was released today" madness.
9744 root 1.387 %
9745 root 1.1 [on perl version numbering]
9746     > elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9747     > elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9748     > elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9749     > elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9750     > elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9751     >
9752     > To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9753     > for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9754     > wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9755     > it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9756     > marketing name, anyway.
9757    
9758     Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9759     "The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9760     put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9761    
9762     Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit *mindless*
9763     violence..." :-)
9764 root 1.387 %
9765 root 1.1 Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9766     his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9767 root 1.387 %
9768 root 1.1 > >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9769     > >poor drivers
9770     >
9771     > No it doesn't.
9772    
9773     Indeed. Its down to
9774    
9775     Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9776    
9777     and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9778     The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9779     we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9780     or binaries.
9781 root 1.387 %
9782 root 1.1 dig txt leap.yp.to
9783 root 1.387 %
9784 root 1.1 "The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9785 root 1.387 %
9786 root 1.1 [linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9787    
9788     |> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9789     |> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9790     |>
9791     |> s/optimal/stupid/
9792    
9793     What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9794    
9795     Andreas.
9796 root 1.387 %
9797 root 1.1 [Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9798     ...
9799     A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9800    
9801     Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9802     Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9803     skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9804     arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9805     UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9806     not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9807 root 1.387 %
9808 root 1.1 [D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9809    
9810     Paul Eggert writes:
9811     > which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9812    
9813     Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9814     try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9815 root 1.387 %
9816 root 1.1 For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9817     however.
9818    
9819     "We don't have the tools"
9820     "We can't support a non intel build"
9821     "We don't have that sort of machine"
9822     "Its not worth the time cost"
9823     "Whats an Alpha ?"
9824 root 1.387 %
9825 root 1.1 On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9826    
9827     > The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9828     > from mini [10.0.0.3]
9829     >
9830     > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9831     > <mailproc@fred>
9832     >
9833     > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9834     > procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9835     > procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9836     > procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9837     > 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9838 root 1.387 %
9839 root 1.1 > Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9840     > No documented problem
9841     > No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9842     > No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9843     >
9844     > Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9845 root 1.387 %
9846 root 1.1 > This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9847     > satisfy neither of us (:-).
9848 root 1.387 %
9849 root 1.1 By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9850     change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9851    
9852     dave
9853 root 1.387 %
9854 root 1.1 On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9855     DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9856    
9857     BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9858 root 1.387 %
9859 root 1.1 [Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9860    
9861     Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9862     From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9863    
9864     Paul Eggert writes:
9865     > * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9866    
9867     If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9868     1 month before 29 March?
9869    
9870     The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9871    
9872     1 month before 28 March?
9873    
9874     28 February.
9875    
9876     And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9877     _before_ 27 February?
9878    
9879     28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9880 root 1.387 %
9881 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9882    
9883     >Nils Goesche wrote:
9884     >> So make a security check first:
9885     >>
9886     >> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9887     >> launch_full_counterstrike();
9888     >
9889     >Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9890     >do the job. Here's the revised version:
9891     >
9892     >if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9893     > = instead of == error*/
9894     > launch_full_counterstrike();
9895     >
9896     >Now isn't that much more reliable?
9897     >
9898     >--
9899     >Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9900    
9901     The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9902    
9903     if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9904     launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9905 root 1.387 %
9906 root 1.1 It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9907     of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9908    
9909     He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9910     for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9911     to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9912     happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9913     essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9914     this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9915     check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9916     Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9917    
9918     The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9919     were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9920     of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9921     available for that hardware from any source.
9922     What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9923     Whats next? A *Smell* modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9924     sniffing!
9925 root 1.387 %
9926 root 1.1 "I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9927     technical support line that isn't"
9928 root 1.387 %
9929 root 1.1 [from linux-kernel]
9930     `This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9931 root 1.387 %
9932 root 1.1 [...]
9933     And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9934     suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9935    
9936     "I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9937     4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9938     "We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9939     "Nothing else"
9940     "Sorry"
9941     [Click]
9942    
9943     Alan
9944 root 1.387 %
9945 root 1.388 Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9946     während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9947 root 1.387 %
9948 root 1.1 > Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9949     > software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9950     > we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9951     > users excepted, of course!).
9952    
9953     Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9954     systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9955     their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9956     concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9957     construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9958     is installed"
9959    
9960     [Toon Moene in private discussion]
9961 root 1.387 %
9962 root 1.1 Newsgroups: alt.config
9963    
9964     L. Harris wrote:
9965     >
9966     > Testing
9967    
9968     you failed.
9969 root 1.387 %
9970 root 1.1 Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9971     <JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9972 root 1.387 %
9973 root 1.1 Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9974     20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9975     "20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9976     group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9977 root 1.387 %
9978 root 1.1 > alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9979     > fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9980     > 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9981    
9982     What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9983 root 1.387 %
9984 root 1.1 We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9985     seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9986     choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9987     where else...
9988 root 1.387 %
9989 root 1.1 Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9990     [...]
9991     : The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9992     : about a certain topic.
9993 root 1.387 %
9994 root 1.1 Mark Robinson wrote:
9995     >
9996     > Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9997     > know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9998    
9999     Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10000     write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10001    
10002     void main (void)
10003     {
10004     printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10005     printf ("\n");
10006     printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10007     printf ("You have died.\n");
10008     printf ("\n");
10009     printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10010     }
10011    
10012     (Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10013    
10014     --
10015     John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10016 root 1.387 %
10017 root 1.1 [mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10018     mistake I ever made]
10019    
10020     From: "Tom Miller"
10021     Subject: Can
10022     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10023    
10024     Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10025     send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10026     my name is Tom Miller
10027    
10028     From: "Tom Miller"
10029     Subject: Wait
10030     X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10031    
10032     Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10033     passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10034 root 1.387 %
10035 root 1.1 From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10036    
10037     [...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10038     better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10039     so why bother? [...]
10040 root 1.387 %
10041 root 1.388 Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10042 root 1.1
10043     Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10044    
10045     Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10046     jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10047     Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10048     Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10049     Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10050     besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10051     sich dann.
10052 root 1.387 %
10053 root 1.1 CRASH(8)
10054     no fs
10055     A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10056     Definitely hardware or software error.
10057    
10058     Unix Version 7 Manual
10059 root 1.387 %
10060 root 1.1 On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10061     >
10062     > Maybe Pi looks like this:
10063     >
10064     > =for C
10065     > i++; /* add 1 to i */
10066     > =end
10067     > =for C++
10068     > i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10069     > =end
10070     > =for Java
10071     > system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10072     > =end
10073     >
10074     > :-)
10075 root 1.387 %
10076 root 1.1 > > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
10077 root 1.387 %
10078 root 1.1 [on linux 2.1.111]
10079    
10080     The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10081     the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10082     cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10083     turn it on.
10084 root 1.387 %
10085 root 1.1 [...]
10086     its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10087     between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10088     (wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10089     [...]
10090 root 1.387 %
10091 root 1.1 I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10092    
10093     Chad C Giffin
10094 root 1.387 %
10095 root 1.1 [usenet, an anology]
10096     Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10097     worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10098     Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10099     their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10100     the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10101    
10102     "Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10103     through the door.
10104     "HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10105     "There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10106     "That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10107     you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10108     Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10109     he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10110     cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10111     usually.)
10112    
10113     "Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10114     muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10115     your tire pressure..."
10116     Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10117     even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10118     "My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10119     oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10120     "Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10121     Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10122     gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10123     three days for a cost of $175.23.
10124 root 1.387 %
10125 root 1.1 > Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10126    
10127     Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10128 root 1.387 %
10129 root 1.1 > Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10130    
10131     Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10132     :-(
10133 root 1.387 %
10134 root 1.1 >Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10135     >dies alles geschieht.
10136     >Und es verging nicht.
10137    
10138     So what?
10139    
10140     Ich dachte eher an:
10141    
10142     " 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10143     Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10144     Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10145     jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10146     unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10147     hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10148     nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10149     ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10150     die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10151     Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10152     roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10153     wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10154    
10155     Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10156    
10157     Antje
10158 root 1.387 %
10159 root 1.1 [....]
10160    
10161     Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10162     grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10163     zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10164     und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10165     Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10166     Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10167    
10168     Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10169    
10170     Antje
10171 root 1.387 %
10172 root 1.1 It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10173     lalala, I love you baby..."
10174     --
10175     Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10176 root 1.387 %
10177 root 1.1 On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10178     >
10179     > Kubys
10180    
10181     Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10182    
10183     Linus
10184 root 1.387 %
10185 root 1.1 > eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10186    
10187     .... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10188     instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10189     don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10190 root 1.387 %
10191 root 1.1 > It is *big* and never uses.
10192    
10193     That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10194     out what it means.
10195     --
10196     Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10197 root 1.387 %
10198 root 1.1 [...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10199     company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10200 root 1.387 %
10201 root 1.1 From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10202     Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10203    
10204     Terry L Ridder wrote:
10205    
10206     > at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10207     > is being discussed.
10208    
10209     Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10210 root 1.387 %
10211 root 1.1 [gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10212    
10213     Drop data of type text/plain was:
10214    
10215     Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10216    
10217     [and the button reads]
10218    
10219     Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10220 root 1.387 %
10221 root 1.1 Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10222    
10223     While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10224    
10225     A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10226     certain amount of redundancy.
10227 root 1.387 %
10228 root 1.1 Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10229     the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10230    
10231     ...
10232    
10233     Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10234 root 1.387 %
10235 root 1.1 >Hello,
10236     >
10237     >I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10238     >operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10239     >
10240    
10241     Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10242     version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10243     nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10244     compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10245 root 1.387 %
10246 root 1.1 An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10247     on the country as a whole.
10248     Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10249     explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10250     prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10251 root 1.387 %
10252 root 1.1 With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10253     limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10254 root 1.387 %
10255 root 1.1 There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10256 root 1.387 %
10257 root 1.1 In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10258     Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10259     :Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10260    
10261     $id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10262    
10263     --tom
10264     --
10265     Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10266     --Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10267 root 1.387 %
10268 root 1.1 Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10269     Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10270 root 1.387 %
10271 root 1.1 On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10272    
10273     > The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10274     > to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10275     > NO CARRIER
10276     > !@*&#@#%T^@&*(GU*SD*(@!&*(@#R(*FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10277 root 1.387 %
10278 root 1.1 > People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10279     > rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10280     > better.
10281    
10282     There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10283     my finger on it. Hmmm.
10284 root 1.387 %
10285 root 1.1 comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10286     bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10287 root 1.387 %
10288 root 1.1 |> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10289     |>
10290     |> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10291     |> : a free-standing implimentation.
10292     |>
10293     |> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10294     |> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10295    
10296     The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10297     point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10298     horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10299     remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10300     build Bison, and then cook it.
10301    
10302     Viva la buffalo burgers.
10303 root 1.387 %
10304 root 1.1 A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10305     home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10306     The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10307     Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10308     can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10309 root 1.387 %
10310 root 1.1 The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10311     -- lbxproxy(1)
10312 root 1.387 %
10313 root 1.1 Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10314    
10315     |> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10316    
10317     Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10318     on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10319 root 1.387 %
10320 root 1.1 Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10321    
10322     that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10323 root 1.387 %
10324 root 1.1 In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10325     |> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10326     |> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10327     |> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10328     |> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10329    
10330     |> What does this mean.
10331    
10332     It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10333     install [free|net|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10334 root 1.387 %
10335 root 1.1 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10336    
10337     On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10338     > Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10339    
10340     Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10341 root 1.387 %
10342 root 1.1 "Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10343     planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10344     streams)."
10345     -- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10346 root 1.387 %
10347 root 1.1 "Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10348     - Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10349 root 1.387 %
10350 root 1.1 Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10351    
10352     >Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10353    
10354     Klaro.
10355    
10356     >Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10357     >koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10358     >wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10359     >verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10360    
10361 root 1.388 Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10362 root 1.1 Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10363    
10364     >Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10365     >Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10366     >Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10367     >mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10368     >Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10369     >folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10370     >einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10371    
10372     Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10373     am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10374     passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10375 root 1.388 der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10376     richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10377     Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10378     ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10379 root 1.1 Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10380    
10381     Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10382 root 1.388 die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10383     die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10384     die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10385     der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10386     Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10387     die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10388     den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10389 root 1.1 2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10390     Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10391    
10392     cu in hell 2002
10393 root 1.387 %
10394 root 1.1 "Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10395 root 1.387 %
10396 root 1.1 >In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10397    
10398     Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10399     get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10400     the man page for crypt(1).
10401    
10402     Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10403     section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10404     that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10405    
10406     man -s3 crypt
10407    
10408     Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10409     entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10410    
10411     If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10412     find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10413     he can figure out to use the command
10414    
10415     man -s3 Intro.3
10416    
10417     to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10418     crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10419    
10420     man -s3c crypt
10421    
10422     Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10423     stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10424     any trouble.
10425     --
10426     Michael M Rubenstein
10427 root 1.387 %
10428 root 1.1 Take a moment to consider these lines:
10429    
10430     %OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10431    
10432     sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10433    
10434     :-) I *love* Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10435    
10436     Regards,
10437     Tim Bunce.
10438    
10439     p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10440     p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10441     p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10442 root 1.387 %
10443 root 1.1 From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10444    
10445     ...
10446    
10447     > now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10448     > experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10449     > keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10450    
10451     I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10452     its unusable, believe me I do.
10453 root 1.387 %
10454 root 1.1 Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10455    
10456     Semour Cray
10457 root 1.387 %
10458 root 1.1 Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10459    
10460     Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10461 root 1.387 %
10462 root 1.1 From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10463     Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10464    
10465     aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10466     it only supports parts of it
10467 root 1.387 %
10468 root 1.1 egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10469     /* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10470 root 1.387 %
10471 root 1.1 [...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10472     as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10473     let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10474     whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10475     of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10476     the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10477     *without* the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10478    
10479     (In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10480     which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10481     being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10482     smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10483     branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10484     and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10485     specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10486     botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10487     me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10488     with existing HP as code.) [...]
10489    
10490     tq vm, (burley)
10491 root 1.387 %
10492 root 1.1 libc/posix/regex.h:
10493     /* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10494     wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10495     ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10496     types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10497     typedef long int s_reg_t;
10498     typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10499 root 1.387 %
10500 root 1.1 libc/db2/db.h:
10501     /*
10502     * While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10503     * defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10504     * it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10505     * files won't compile.
10506     */
10507 root 1.387 %
10508 root 1.1 > UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10509     > great.
10510    
10511     I answered only the places I can comment on.
10512    
10513     > BASSAS DA INDIA
10514    
10515     This rock is below water half of the time!
10516     If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10517     on a regular basis! ;-)
10518 root 1.387 %
10519 root 1.1 # ./test-plugin.pl
10520     Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10521     wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10522 root 1.387 %
10523 root 1.1 >
10524     > The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10525     > developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10526     > tools from the environment and precanning software.
10527    
10528     No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10529 root 1.387 %
10530 root 1.1 Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10531    
10532     >Hello!
10533    
10534     >I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10535     >I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10536     >would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10537    
10538    
10539     Perl.
10540    
10541     regards
10542     jobst
10543 root 1.387 %
10544 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10545     From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10546     Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10547    
10548     > Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' *laff*, they have
10549     > to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10550    
10551     They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10552     are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10553     makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10554     nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10555     compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10556     the absolute pits.
10557 root 1.387 %
10558 root 1.1 Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10559 root 1.387 %
10560 root 1.1 > What about: . scriptname
10561     > ------------------^ this is a dot!
10562    
10563     Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10564 root 1.387 %
10565 root 1.1 A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10566     ketchup and mustard
10567 root 1.387 %
10568 root 1.1 Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10569    
10570     vimal gajjar wrote:
10571     >
10572     > Hi there,
10573     > Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10574     > code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10575     > the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10576     > "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10577     > 5% of cpu
10578     > 2 Mb of RAM
10579     > for the period of 10 Seconds.
10580     >
10581     > can one of the gurus take this challange?
10582    
10583     Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10584     brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10585     has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10586 root 1.387 %
10587 root 1.1 > >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10588     > >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10589     >
10590     > >s/usually/never/
10591     >
10592     > s/sometimes/never/
10593    
10594     Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10595 root 1.387 %
10596 root 1.1 :That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10597     :were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10598     :Perl, IMO.
10599    
10600     Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10601    
10602     TC
10603 root 1.387 %
10604 root 1.1 'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10605 root 1.387 %
10606 root 1.1 shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10607    
10608     Hi guys!
10609    
10610     How check socket, alive it or die ?
10611 root 1.387 %
10612 root 1.1 --> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10613    
10614     Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10615     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10616     12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10617     13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10618     14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10619     15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10620 root 1.387 %
10621 root 1.1 Subject: what a week!
10622     From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10623     Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10624    
10625     unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10626     and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really *do*
10627     need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10628     running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10629    
10630     I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10631     THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10632     COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10633     ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10634    
10635     I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10636    
10637     GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10638    
10639     WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10640     WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10641     BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10642    
10643     I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10644     EVIL. AND A PENTIUM *IS* A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10645    
10646     WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10647     DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10648    
10649     Did I miss any? ;-)
10650    
10651     *Please* don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10652     Laugh. Please.
10653    
10654     And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10655     --Scott
10656 root 1.387 %
10657 root 1.1 > Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10658    
10659     And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10660     installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10661     remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10662     successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10663 root 1.387 %
10664 root 1.1 Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10665     : This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10666    
10667     One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10668    
10669     This is not mail.
10670    
10671     This is Usenet.
10672    
10673     Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10674 root 1.387 %
10675 root 1.1 ------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10676     --- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10677     --- ide1: reset: success
10678     -----------> I like Linux !
10679 root 1.387 %
10680 root 1.1 > I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10681     > the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10682    
10683     Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10684     do.
10685 root 1.387 %
10686 root 1.1 ++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10687     ++ PLONK.
10688 root 1.387 %
10689 root 1.1 ++ > SSI is *not* HTML.
10690     Re: Subraumfunk
10691    
10692     Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10693     wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10694    
10695     Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10696     mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10697     InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10698     eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10699     schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10700 root 1.387 %
10701 root 1.1 > > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10702     > > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10703     >
10704     > Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10705    
10706     Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10707 root 1.387 %
10708 root 1.1 ++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10709     Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10710 root 1.387 %
10711 root 1.1 Namsuk Kim wrote:
10712     > Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10713    
10714     I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10715     - is the data in EBCDIC now?
10716    
10717     Bill Jones
10718 root 1.387 %
10719 root 1.1 GNU/getopt.c:
10720    
10721     #if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10722     /* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10723     #include <windows.h>
10724     #define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10725     #endif
10726 root 1.387 %
10727 root 1.1 Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10728    
10729     Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10730     is, invoking the URL
10731    
10732     http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10733    
10734     causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10735 root 1.387 %
10736 root 1.1 "You need to use CGI."
10737     "I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10738     "No, no, *use* CGI. The directive 'use'."
10739     "OK, so what directive do I use?"
10740     "No, no, you *use* *use*. Use CGI."
10741     "I *am* using CGI!"
10742    
10743     Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10744 root 1.387 %
10745 root 1.1 > > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10746     > > kennenlernen koennen?
10747     >
10748 root 1.388 > Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10749 root 1.1 > Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10750    
10751     Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10752 root 1.387 %
10753 root 1.1 "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10754     professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10755 root 1.387 %
10756 root 1.1 If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10757     If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10758     If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10759     To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10760 root 1.387 %
10761 root 1.1 From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10762    
10763     pcg@goof.com said:
10764     > It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10765    
10766     Hehe - I know the feeling.
10767    
10768     "It's broken."
10769     "What's wrong with it?."
10770     "I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10771     "Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10772     "It just doesn't work."
10773     "How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10774     "It gives an error message."
10775     "Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10776     "It says.... something about there being an error."
10777     "That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10778     "It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10779     "That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10780     letter for letter this time."
10781 root 1.387 %
10782 root 1.1 From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10783    
10784     After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10785     had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10786     2.6, the mode was 04555.
10787    
10788     Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10789     might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10790     perms.
10791    
10792     (Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10793 root 1.387 %
10794 root 1.1 From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10795     Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10796    
10797     Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10798    
10799     I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10800     for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10801     how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10802    
10803     The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10804     ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10805 root 1.387 %
10806 root 1.388 >am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10807     >verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10808 root 1.1 >Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10809    
10810     Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10811     gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10812     und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10813     ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10814     also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10815     bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10816     also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10817     wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10818     haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10819     logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10820     sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10821    
10822     Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10823    
10824     normarz@aol.com
10825 root 1.387 %
10826 root 1.1 >Oder anders gesagt:
10827 root 1.388 >Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10828 root 1.1 >Legion
10829     >schlagen?
10830    
10831     Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10832    
10833     Bye
10834     Andreas
10835 root 1.387 %
10836 root 1.1 >Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10837    
10838     It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10839     justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10840    
10841     I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10842     companies.
10843    
10844     Kind regards
10845     Henning
10846 root 1.387 %
10847 root 1.1 From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10848     Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10849     Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10850    
10851     At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10852     into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10853     for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10854    
10855     There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10856     tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10857     be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10858     told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10859     standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10860     make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10861     that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10862     hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10863     issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10864     computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10865 root 1.387 %
10866 root 1.1 Where do you want to go today?
10867     We might support that sometime next year.
10868     -=- Microsoft
10869     (But I doubt it.)
10870     -=- Me
10871     -=- James Mastros
10872 root 1.387 %
10873 root 1.1 Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10874     > I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10875     > following methods, but the output was split into two
10876     >lines.
10877    
10878     If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10879     put newlines in the middle of your string.
10880 root 1.387 %
10881 root 1.1 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10882 root 1.387 %
10883 root 1.1 Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10884     in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10885     probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10886     Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10887 root 1.387 %
10888 root 1.1 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10889    
10890     My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10891     mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10892     Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10893     correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10894     for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10895     least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10896     absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10897     it's not all his fault.
10898    
10899     The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10900     pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10901     course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10902     understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10903     content.
10904    
10905     Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10906     spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10907     others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10908     learn (or pay for it;)
10909    
10910     IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10911     people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10912     to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10913     just for fun or to get the op.
10914    
10915     Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10916     your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10917     mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10918     mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10919    
10920     Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10921    
10922     Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10923     course, Linux and Linux people.
10924 root 1.387 %
10925 root 1.1 ... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10926     then he rewrote it as WNT.
10927    
10928     Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10929     --
10930     Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10931 root 1.387 %
10932 root 1.1 >Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10933    
10934     I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10935     rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10936     where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10937    
10938     I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10939     preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10940     tradition.
10941 root 1.387 %
10942 root 1.1 "Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10943     I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10944 root 1.387 %
10945 root 1.1 The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10946     evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10947 root 1.387 %
10948 root 1.1 "In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10949     U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10950     called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10951     Or GIRLS for short.
10952 root 1.387 %
10953 root 1.1 Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10954 root 1.387 %
10955 root 1.1 I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10956     post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10957     mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10958     drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10959     5_004_03 to build!"
10960    
10961     This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10962     have no patience."
10963    
10964     xoxo,
10965     Andy
10966 root 1.387 %
10967 root 1.1 > I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10968     > and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10969     We all have our cross to bear.
10970 root 1.387 %
10971 root 1.1 (THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10972    
10973     From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10974     Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10975     Subject: Re: system() question
10976    
10977     There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10978     over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10979     are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10980     code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10981     code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10982     service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10983     badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10984     written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10985     are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10986     happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10987     languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10988     English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10989     Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10990     humiliating for me!)
10991    
10992     Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10993     not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10994     flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10995     questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10996     They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10997     I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10998     I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10999     go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11000     really knows the answer.
11001    
11002     The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11003     some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11004     they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11005     instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11006    
11007     Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11008     questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11009     qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11010     for that.
11011    
11012     Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11013     list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11014     it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11015     not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11016     going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11017     problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11018     hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11019    
11020     Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11021    
11022     1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11023     program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11024     something for free.''
11025    
11026     (OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11027    
11028     2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11029     ...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11030    
11031     (Good question.)
11032    
11033     3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11034     but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11035     once I have run it.''
11036     (Good question.)
11037    
11038     4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11039    
11040     (Good question.)
11041    
11042     See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11043     question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11044     very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11045     ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11046     about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11047    
11048     Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11049     addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11050     big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11051     the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11052     comp.lang.perl?
11053     Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11054     to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11055     lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11056     could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11057     external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11058     in comp.lang.perl?
11059    
11060     Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11061     you my rate card.
11062    
11063     Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11064     the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11065     here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11066     introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11067     language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11068     Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11069     examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11070     instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11071     a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11072     to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11073    
11074     The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11075     have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11076     could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11077     Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11078     My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11079     been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11080     West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11081     all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11082     He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11083     shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11084     good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11085     asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11086     that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11087     What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11088     no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11089     off his finger or something. I dunno.
11090    
11091     Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11092     today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11093     those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11094     in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11095     someone will. Maybe I will.
11096    
11097     If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11098     how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11099     I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11100     go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11101     jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11102     these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11103     that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11104     of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11105    
11106     Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11107     thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11108     `How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11109     except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11110     integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11111     these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11112     really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11113     easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11114     with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11115     always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11116     development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11117     gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11118     out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11119     manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11120    
11121     The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11122     X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11123     again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11124     filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11125    
11126     The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11127    
11128     `I want to accomplish X.
11129    
11130     I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11131    
11132     ...
11133    
11134     But instead it does Y.
11135    
11136     Why is that?''
11137    
11138     This one is also pretty good:
11139    
11140     `I want to accomplish X.
11141     I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11142    
11143     But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11144     because of Z.
11145    
11146     What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11147    
11148     When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11149     There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11150    
11151    
11152     There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11153     Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11154    
11155     --
11156     Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11157     The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11158 root 1.387 %
11159 root 1.1 >> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11160     >Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11161    
11162     If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11163     support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11164     TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11165    
11166     Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11167    
11168     bye, Georg
11169 root 1.387 %
11170 root 1.1 I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11171     (nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11172     convince me.
11173    
11174     [ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11175    
11176     Linus
11177 root 1.387 %
11178 root 1.1 ++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11179     ++
11180    
11181     Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11182     complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11183    
11184 root 1.85 $var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11185 root 1.1
11186     If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11187     understanding the above line.
11188    
11189     Abigail
11190 root 1.387 %
11191 root 1.1 I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11192     1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11193 root 1.387 %
11194 root 1.1 ++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11195     ++ button?
11196     Yes.
11197    
11198     ++ 100 pictures or so?
11199     Yes.
11200    
11201     ++ Can I do it in Perl?
11202     Yes.
11203    
11204     Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11205     newsgroup. alt.button.play
11206    
11207     Abigail
11208 root 1.387 %
11209 root 1.1 perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11210    
11211     perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11212    
11213     Martien
11214 root 1.387 %
11215 root 1.388 Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11216     nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11217     eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11218     etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11219 root 1.1 Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11220 root 1.388 Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11221     nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11222     unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11223     Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11224 root 1.1 Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11225 root 1.388 Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11226     selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11227 root 1.1 war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11228     nicht. ;)
11229    
11230 root 1.388 Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11231     nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11232     fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11233 root 1.1 Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11234     Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11235 root 1.388 daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11236 root 1.1 das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11237    
11238 root 1.388 Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11239     ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11240 root 1.1 Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11241 root 1.388 ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11242 root 1.1 wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11243    
11244 root 1.388 Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11245 root 1.1 Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11246 root 1.388 "Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11247     eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11248 root 1.1 ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11249 root 1.388 sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11250 root 1.1 nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11251     "unvorstellbar".
11252    
11253     Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11254 root 1.387 %
11255 root 1.1 Marcel Richter wrote:
11256     > Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11257     ^^^
11258     fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11259 root 1.387 %
11260 root 1.1 The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11261     do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11262 root 1.387 %
11263 root 1.1 linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11264     printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11265 root 1.387 %
11266 root 1.1 >>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11267     >>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11268     >Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11269    
11270     An artificial pile of rocks.
11271 root 1.387 %
11272 root 1.1 > ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11273     > marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11274     > gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11275     > noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11276     > beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11277     > - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11278    
11279     Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11280     Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11281     sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11282     grosser Flipperautomat.
11283    
11284     Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11285 root 1.387 %
11286 root 1.1 > Kris Weilemann schrieb
11287     >
11288     > >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11289     > >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11290     > >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11291     > >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11292     > >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11293 root 1.387 %
11294 root 1.388 ... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11295     daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11296 root 1.1
11297     "Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11298 root 1.387 %
11299 root 1.1 http://www.rsw.com/
11300    
11301     The Unix shell as a 4GL
11302    
11303     Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11304     perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11305     functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11306     over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11307     of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11308     is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11309     Unix environment.
11310 root 1.387 %
11311 root 1.1 Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11312     between these:
11313    
11314     time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11315     sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11316    
11317     Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11318     The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11319     ;#", and the print gets executed!
11320    
11321     There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11322     "use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11323     "time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11324     (or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11325    
11326     Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11327     'perl'".
11328    
11329     --
11330     Randal L. Schwartz
11331 root 1.387 %
11332 root 1.1 Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11333    
11334     > Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11335     > > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11336     >
11337     > So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11338    
11339     It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11340    
11341     --
11342     Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11343 root 1.387 %
11344 root 1.1 The management (my cats) made me say this.
11345 root 1.387 %
11346 root 1.1 uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11347     write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11348 root 1.387 %
11349 root 1.1 uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11350     write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11351 root 1.387 %
11352 root 1.1 Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11353     can have the return value of a function be itself a
11354     function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11355     provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11356     providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11357     example.
11358 root 1.387 %
11359 root 1.1 When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11360     resemble a nail.
11361 root 1.387 %
11362 root 1.1 > but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11363     > I did wrong.
11364    
11365     What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11366     newsgroup.
11367 root 1.387 %
11368 root 1.1 I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11369 root 1.387 %
11370 root 1.388 >Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11371     >vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11372 root 1.1 >wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11373    
11374     Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11375 root 1.387 %
11376 root 1.388 >Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11377 root 1.1
11378 root 1.388 Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11379 root 1.387 %
11380 root 1.1 ...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11381     my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11382     expired instantly!!!
11383 root 1.387 %
11384 root 1.1 From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11385     To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11386    
11387     > Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11388     > length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11389     > if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11390    
11391     I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11392     He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11393     an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11394     than double Linus's programming experience?
11395    
11396     > This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11397     > pretty straight forward.
11398    
11399     Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11400     in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11401 root 1.387 %
11402 root 1.1 Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11403     Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11404     fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11405     wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11406     kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11407     Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11408 root 1.387 %
11409 root 1.1 Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11410 root 1.387 %
11411 root 1.1 hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11412     Example:
11413     print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11414 root 1.387 %
11415 root 1.1 liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11416     Randal gets his hands on it
11417 root 1.387 %
11418 root 1.1 Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11419 root 1.387 %
11420 root 1.1 > Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11421    
11422     No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11423     first if you get it working.
11424 root 1.387 %
11425 root 1.1 > Macintosh.
11426     > Think different.
11427    
11428     Think Again.
11429 root 1.387 %
11430 root 1.1 Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11431 root 1.387 %
11432 root 1.1 tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11433     > Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11434     > push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11435    
11436     What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11437 root 1.387 %
11438 root 1.1 # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11439     # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11440 root 1.387 %
11441 root 1.1 | I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11442     | someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11443     | top.
11444 root 1.387 %
11445 root 1.1 I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11446     he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11447 root 1.387 %
11448 root 1.1 On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11449     ^^^^^^^^^
11450     >Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11451    
11452     Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11453 root 1.387 %
11454 root 1.1 >Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11455     >gehen soll?
11456    
11457 root 1.388 Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11458 root 1.1 materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11459     diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11460 root 1.387 %
11461 root 1.1 Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11462 root 1.387 %
11463 root 1.388 >> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11464     >> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11465 root 1.1 >> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11466     >
11467     >Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11468    
11469     Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11470     Schuh aus!
11471 root 1.387 %
11472 root 1.1 >Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11473    
11474 root 1.388 Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11475 root 1.1 eingeleitet?
11476 root 1.387 %
11477 root 1.1 Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11478    
11479    
11480     First opportunity
11481     Approximate
11482     Orbit Internet
11483     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11484    
11485     4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11486     4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11487     4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11488     4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11489    
11490     Second opportunity
11491     Approximate
11492     Orbit Internet
11493     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11494    
11495     4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11496     4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11497     4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11498     4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11499    
11500     Third opportunity
11501     Approximate
11502     Orbit Internet
11503     Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11504    
11505     4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11506     4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11507     4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11508     4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11509    
11510 root 1.387 %
11511 root 1.1 > >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11512 root 1.388 > >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11513     > >würden.
11514 root 1.1 >
11515     > Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11516     > "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11517     Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11518     unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11519     (heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11520     Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11521     implizierst.
11522 root 1.387 %
11523 root 1.1 > You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11524     > quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11525 root 1.387 %
11526 root 1.1 Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11527     Big improvement.
11528 root 1.387 %
11529 root 1.1 -- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11530     -- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11531     over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11532     -- "Why that one?"
11533     -- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11534     -- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11535 root 1.387 %
11536 root 1.1 In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11537     Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11538     wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11539 root 1.387 %
11540 root 1.1 > Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11541     > Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11542     > etlicher Lebensformen?
11543    
11544     Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11545    
11546     > Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11547     > "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11548     > die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11549    
11550     Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11551    
11552     > Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11553     > ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11554     > er eigentlich ist?
11555    
11556 root 1.388 Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11557 root 1.1 Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11558 root 1.388 ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11559 root 1.1 bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11560 root 1.388 länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11561 root 1.1 er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11562 root 1.388 als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11563 root 1.1 Ciao
11564     Stefan
11565 root 1.387 %
11566 root 1.1 "These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11567     unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11568     all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11569     (http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11570 root 1.387 %
11571 root 1.1 Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11572     say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11573     determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11574     to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11575     can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11576     42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11577     knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11578     you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11579     off.
11580 root 1.387 %
11581 root 1.1 Join the Army,
11582     Meet interesting people,
11583     Kill them.
11584 root 1.387 %
11585 root 1.1 > Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11586     > umwandelbar ist.
11587    
11588     E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11589 root 1.387 %
11590 root 1.388 >nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11591 root 1.1 >unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11592 root 1.387 %
11593 root 1.1 > (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11594     >
11595     > >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11596     > >> ruckartig.
11597     > >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11598     >
11599 root 1.388 > Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11600 root 1.1
11601     :-)
11602 root 1.387 %
11603 root 1.1 SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11604 root 1.388 rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11605     "XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11606 root 1.1 verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11607     Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11608     wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11609     entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11610    
11611     ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11612     Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11613 root 1.388 gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11614     sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11615 root 1.1 Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11616 root 1.388 2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11617     Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11618     Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11619 root 1.1 Union.
11620    
11621 root 1.388 RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11622     der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11623 root 1.1 Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11624 root 1.388 Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11625     er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11626     Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11627 root 1.1 Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11628 root 1.387 %
11629 root 1.1 * Linux Viruscan.....
11630     Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11631 root 1.387 %
11632 root 1.1 >>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11633 root 1.388 >>Realität?
11634 root 1.1 >>
11635     >>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11636 root 1.388 >>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11637     >>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11638 root 1.1 >>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11639     >
11640     >Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11641     >FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11642 root 1.387 %
11643 root 1.1 "'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11644 root 1.387 %
11645 root 1.1 > How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11646     > into a random order???
11647     >
11648    
11649     @array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11650     print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11651    
11652     I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11653     of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11654     any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11655     that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11656     number less than 42.
11657 root 1.387 %
11658 root 1.1 From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11659     crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11660     another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11661     netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11662     I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11663     called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11664     eventually invent Unix.
11665 root 1.387 %
11666 root 1.1 In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11667     the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11668     business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11669     typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11670     been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11671     plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11672     "Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11673     typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11674     copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11675     designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11676     some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11677     Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11678     Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11679     license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11680     in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11681     scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11682 root 1.387 %
11683 root 1.1 [linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11684     Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11685     faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11686 root 1.387 %
11687 root 1.1 Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11688     using a Perl CGI script?
11689 root 1.387 %
11690 root 1.1 >I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11691    
11692     One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11693     week.
11694 root 1.387 %
11695 root 1.1 Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11696     Brieweb> of PERL.
11697     No, that's an http *proxy* server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11698     From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11699     [Randal Schwartz]
11700 root 1.387 %
11701 root 1.1 But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11702     capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11703     for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11704     [Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11705 root 1.387 %
11706 root 1.1 Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11707     programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11708     It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11709     hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11710     to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11711     use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11712     programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11713     also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11714     system and restricting their options.
11715     [Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11716 root 1.387 %
11717 root 1.1 <Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11718     <Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11719     <BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11720 root 1.387 %
11721 root 1.1 "It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11722     society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11723     Ernie Hai
11724     Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11725 root 1.387 %
11726 root 1.1 : I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11727     : results" report from the users.
11728    
11729     if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11730     be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11731     "can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11732     TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11733 root 1.387 %
11734 root 1.1 There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11735     They are all owned by cats.
11736 root 1.387 %
11737 root 1.1 Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11738     attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11739     You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11740 root 1.387 %
11741 root 1.1 From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11742     Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11743    
11744     Yesterday it worked
11745     Today it is not working
11746     Windows is like that
11747     - - -
11748     wind catches lily
11749     scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11750     segmentation fault
11751     - - -
11752     Three things are certain:
11753     Death, taxes, and lost data.
11754     Guess which has occurred.
11755     - - -
11756     A file that big?
11757     It might be very useful.
11758     But now it is gone.
11759     - - -
11760     Windows NT crashed.
11761     I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11762     No one hears your screams.
11763     - - -
11764     Errors have occurred.
11765     We won't tell you where or why.
11766     Lazy programmers.
11767     - - -
11768     Seeing my great fault
11769     Through darkening blue windows
11770     I begin again
11771     - - -
11772     The code was willing,
11773     It considered your request,
11774     But the chips were weak.
11775     - - -
11776     Printer not ready.
11777     Could be a fatal error.
11778     Have a pen handy?
11779     - - -
11780     Server's poor response
11781     Not quick enough for browser.
11782     Timed out, plum blossom.
11783     - - -
11784     Chaos reigns within.
11785     Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11786     Order shall return.
11787     - - -
11788     Login incorrect.
11789     Only perfect spellers may
11790     enter this system.
11791     - - -
11792     This site has been moved.
11793     We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11794     have to delete you.
11795     - - -
11796     ABORTED effort:
11797     Close all that you have.
11798     You ask way too much.
11799     - - -
11800     First snow, then silence.
11801     This thousand dollar screen dies
11802     so beautifully.
11803     - - -
11804     With searching comes loss
11805     and the presence of absence:
11806     "My Novel" not found.
11807     - - -
11808     The Tao that is seen
11809     Is not the true Tao, until
11810     You bring fresh toner.
11811     - - -
11812     The Web site you seek
11813     cannot be located but
11814     endless others exist
11815     - - -
11816     Stay the patient course
11817     Of little worth is your ire
11818     The network is down
11819     - - -
11820     A crash reduces
11821     your expensive computer
11822     to a simple stone.
11823     - - -
11824     There is a chasm
11825     of carbon and silicon
11826     the software can't bridge
11827     - - -
11828     To have no errors
11829     Would be life without meaning
11830     No struggle, no joy
11831     - - -
11832     You step in the stream,
11833     but the water has moved on.
11834     This page is not here.
11835     - - -
11836     No keyboard present
11837     Hit F1 to continue
11838     Zen engineering?
11839     - - -
11840     Hal, open the file
11841     Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11842     open it, please Hal
11843     - - -
11844     Out of memory.
11845     We wish to hold the whole sky,
11846     But we never will.
11847     - - -
11848     Having been erased,
11849     The document you're seeking
11850     Must now be retyped.
11851     - - -
11852     The ten thousand things
11853     How long do any persist?
11854     Netscape, too, has gone.
11855     - - -
11856     Rather than a beep
11857     Or a rude error message,
11858     These words: "File not found."
11859     - - -
11860     Serious error.
11861     All shortcuts have disappeared
11862     Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11863 root 1.387 %
11864 root 1.1 "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11865     to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11866 root 1.387 %
11867 root 1.1 > What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11868     > UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11869    
11870     Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11871     early 1980s.
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11873 root 1.1 > I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11874     > the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11875     > something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11876     > copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11877    
11878     I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11879     with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11880     control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11881     introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11882     you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11883     many new features that it just stops working.
11884    
11885     This also applies to Microsoft products.
11886    
11887     > Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11888     > help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11889    
11890     Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11891     really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11892     know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11893    
11894     Hope this explains what's going on
11895     Martien Verbruggen
11896 root 1.387 %
11897 root 1.1 ...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11898 root 1.387 %
11899 root 1.1 X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11900 root 1.387 %
11901 root 1.1 -------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11902 root 1.387 %
11903 root 1.1 "Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11904     unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11905     Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11906 root 1.387 %
11907 root 1.1 > ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11908     > ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11909     > ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11910     >
11911     > Just make sure you understand it ;)
11912    
11913     I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11914     think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11915 root 1.387 %
11916 root 1.1 Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11917     where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11918     until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11919     should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11920 root 1.387 %
11921 root 1.1 But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11922     even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11923     individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11924     the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11925     attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11926     motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11927     are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11928     convienience store.")
11929 root 1.387 %
11930 root 1.1 : how do i make my perl script run?
11931     Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11932 root 1.387 %
11933 root 1.1 for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11934 root 1.424 >>> ToiLeTGoD
11935 root 1.1
11936     Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11937     Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11938 root 1.387 %
11939 root 1.1 Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11940     including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11941     background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11942     populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11943 root 1.387 %
11944 root 1.1 Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11945     kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11946     -- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11947 root 1.387 %
11948 root 1.1 The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11949     (A => B) => (B => A)
11950     (There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11951     (A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11952 root 1.387 %
11953 root 1.1 cal 9 1752
11954 root 1.387 %
11955 root 1.1 Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11956     -Barry Shein
11957 root 1.387 %
11958 root 1.1 And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11959     by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11960     read the manual.
11961 root 1.387 %
11962 root 1.1 "SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11963 root 1.387 %
11964 root 1.1 I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11965     that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11966     the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11967     Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11968     in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11969     it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11970     from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11971     to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11972     for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11973 root 1.387 %
11974 root 1.1 comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11975 root 1.387 %
11976 root 1.1 I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11977     is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11978     the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11979 root 1.387 %
11980 root 1.1 > Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11981    
11982     I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11983     need.
11984 root 1.387 %
11985 root 1.1 Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11986     powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11987     deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11988 root 1.387 %
11989 root 1.1 I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11990     lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11991     newsreaders. You know,
11992     those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11993     back
11994     again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11995     to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11996     out what they're saying.
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11998 root 1.1 It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11999     million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12000 root 1.387 %
12001 root 1.1 I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12002     U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12003     newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12004    
12005     But the combination.... *sutters*
12006 root 1.387 %
12007 root 1.1 Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12008     Darn it.
12009 root 1.387 %
12010 root 1.1 At least he didn't post in all caps.
12011 root 1.387 %
12012 root 1.1 http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12013 root 1.387 %
12014 root 1.1 I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12015     the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12016     "Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12017     school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12018     trying to use it.
12019 root 1.387 %
12020 root 1.1 "Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12021 root 1.387 %
12022 root 1.1 cdog wrote:
12023     >
12024     > Is this group active?
12025     No.
12026    
12027     If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12028     probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12029    
12030     On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12031     345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12032 root 1.387 %
12033 root 1.1 "Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12034     -comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12035 root 1.387 %
12036 root 1.1 "Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12037     Press any key to continue..."
12038 root 1.387 %
12039 root 1.1 NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12040     isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12041     itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12042 root 1.387 %
12043 root 1.1 The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12044     considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12045     it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12046     adjust your travel plans.
12047 root 1.387 %
12048 root 1.388 "Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12049     hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12050 root 1.387 %
12051 root 1.1 The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12052     highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12053    
12054     tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12055     = tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12056    
12057     For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12058    
12059     tak 18 12 6
12060 root 1.387 %
12061 root 1.1 "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12062     -- Bill Gates
12063     "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12064     -- Bill Gates
12065     "Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12066     -- logical conclusion
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12068 root 1.1 Year Name James Bond Book
12069     - ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12070     50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12071     1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12072     1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12073     1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12074     1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12075     1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12076     1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12077     1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12078     1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12079     1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12080     1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12081     1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12082     1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12083     1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12084     1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12085     1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12086     1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12087     1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12088     * -- Not a Broccoli production.
12089 root 1.387 %
12090 root 1.1 Windows NT: n.
12091     32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12092     operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12093     by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12094 root 1.387 %
12095 root 1.388 Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.