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1	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
2			- Rumsfeld 2003
3			%
4	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
5
6			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
7
8			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
9
10			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
11
12			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
13
14			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
15			%
16	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
17			- a rust tutorial
18			%
19	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
20			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
21			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
22
23			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
24			%
25			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
26			that has been problematic for a long time.
27
28			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
29			%
30	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
31			GPL Protected it
32			GOD Blessed it
33
34			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
35			%
36	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
37			kinship term she'd ever heard.
38
39			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
40			%
41			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
42			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
43			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
44
45			I don't agree.
46
47			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
48			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
49			> is not as clear as it could be.
50
51			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
52			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
53			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
54			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
55			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
56
57			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
58			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
59			%
60			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
61
62			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
63			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
64			other conventions exist for a very long time.
65
66			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
67			%
68			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
69
70			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
71			%
72	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
73			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
74			and government agency portal.
75
76			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
77			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
78
79			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
80			%
81			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
82
83			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
84			%
85			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
86			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
87			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
88
89			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
90			%
91			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
92			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
93			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
94			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
95			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
96			%
97	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
98			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
99			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
100			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
101			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
102			penalty. This makes really a difference.
103
104			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
105			%
106			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
107			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
108
109			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
110			%
111	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
112
113			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
114			%
115	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
116
117			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
118			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
119
120			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
121			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
122			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
123
124			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
125			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
126
127			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
128			%
129	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
130
131			Vim 15.2%
132			Emacs 3.8%
133
134			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
135
136			Vim 26.1%
137			Emacs 5.2%
138			%
139	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
140
141			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
142
143			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
144
145			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?"
146
147			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
148
149			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
150
151			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
152
153			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
154
155			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
156
157			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."
158
159			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
160
161			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
162			%
163			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
164
165			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
166			>>> their own servers.
167			>>
168			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
169			>
170			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
171
172			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
173			%
174	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
175
176			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
177			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
178			%
179	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
180			================================
181
182	root	1.449	November 2002
183
184			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
185			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
186			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
187
188			---
189
190			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
191			dehydration and fatigue.
192
193			---
194
195			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
196			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
197
198			---
199
200			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
201
202			November 19 2200 hrs
203			guard check - Rahman is alive.
204
205			2300 hrs
206			guard check - Rahman is alive.
207
208			November 20 0400 hrs
209			guard check - Rahman is alive.
210
211			0800 hrs
212			guard check - Rahman is alive.
213
214			1000 hrs
215			guard check - Rahman is dead.
216
217			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
218			%
219	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
220			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
221			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
222			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
223			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
224			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
225			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
226			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
227			be a better place.
228
229			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
230			%
231	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
232			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
233			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
234			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
235			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
236			> in technology.
237
238			-P
239			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
240
241			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
242			%
243			> Simon Cooke wrote:
244			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
245
246			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
247
248			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
249			%
250	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
251			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
252			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
253			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
254			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
255
256			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
257			%
258	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
259			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
260			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
261			hashtag #sexualassault.
262
263			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
264			%
265	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
266
267			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
268			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
269
270			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
271			%
272			> How is the old way a problem?
273
274			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
275			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
276			it's smarter than you.
277
278			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
279			%
280	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
281			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
282			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
283			less lethal.
284
285			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
286			%
287	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
288
289			[...]
290
291			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
292
293			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
294			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
295			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
296			%
297	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
298			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
299			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
300			"also now legal names for the UK.
301
302			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
303			%
304			From: Russ Allbery
305			To: tz@iana.org
306			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
307
308			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
309			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
310			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
311			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
312			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
313			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
314			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
315
316			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
317			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
318
319			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
320			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
321			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
322			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
323			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
324
325			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
326			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
327			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
328			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
329			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
330			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
331			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
332			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
333			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
334
335			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
336			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
337			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
338			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
339			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
340			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
341			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
342			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
343			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
344			maintainer.
345			%
346	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
347
348			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
349			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
350			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
351			"BST", but no:
352			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
353			%
354			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
355			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
356
357			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
358			> When can we expect the updated version
359
360			About three weeks ago.
361			%
362	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
363			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
364			%
365			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
366
367			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
368			%
369	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
370			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
371			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
372
373			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
374			%
375			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
376
377			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
378
379			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
380			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
381
382			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
383			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
384			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
385
386			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
387			full day per year.
388			%
389	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
390			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
391			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
392			%
393			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
394			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
395			%
396			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
397			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
398			me - lately?".
399			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
400			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
401
402			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
403			%
404			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
405			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
406			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
407			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
408
409			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
410			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
411			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
412			your lives be a living hell.
413
414			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
415			%
416	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
417			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
418			%
419			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
420			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
421			out with a problem I'm having?
422
423			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
424
425			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
426
427			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
428			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
429			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
430			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
431
432			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
433
434			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
435
436			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
437
438			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
439			[http://c2.com/]
440			%
441			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
442			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
443			right-parenthesis.
444			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
445			%
446			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
447			yourself?
448			Software development is the career for you!
449
450			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
451			%
452	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
453			-- Richard Dawkins
454			%
455			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
456			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
457			and security.
458
459			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
460			%
461			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
462
463			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
464			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
465			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
466			%
467			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
468			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
469			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
470			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
471			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
472			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
473
474			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
475			%
476			tiny hsv2rgb
477			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;}
478
479			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
480			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
481			}
482			%
483			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
484			Only Java makes it possible!
485
486			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
487			%
488			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
489			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
490			extremely poettering''
491			%
492			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
493			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
494			%
495			"I drank what?!"
496			-- Socrates
497			%
498			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
499			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
500			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
501
502			Jon Callas in
503			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
504			%
505			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
506			-- Conway's Law
507			%
508			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
509			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
510			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
511			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
512			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
513			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
514			untangling this mess right now so).
515
516			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
517			%
518			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
519			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
520			enabled on platforms that support it.
521			[xorg.conf(5)]
522			%
523			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
524			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
525			> would work on code.
526
527			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
528			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
529			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
530			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
531			%
532	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
533			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
534			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
535			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
536			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
537			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
538			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
539			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
540			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
541			%
542			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
543			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
544			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
545			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
546			very beginning.
547			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
548			%
549			systemd creates user session information in
550			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
551			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
552			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
553			allowed one session per user.
554			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
555			%
556	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
557			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
558			> about anything else.
559			>
560			> Why is it like that?
561
562			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
563
564			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
565			%
566			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
567
568			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
569			>>
570			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
571			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
572			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
573			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
574			>
575			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
576
577			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
578			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
579			%
580			(partial) Beaufort Table
581			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
582			Calm 0 0 0
583			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
584			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
585			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
586			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
587			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
588			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
589			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
590			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
591			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
592			%
593			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
594			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
595			%
596			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
597			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
598			%
599			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
600			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
601			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
602			on the cards.
603			%
604			[random comment from amule sources]
605			// trust noone ;-)
606			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
607			// wtf you guys are weird.
608			%
609	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
610			- Kin Hubbard
611			%
612			[random .sig]
613			I'm a muslim.
614
615			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
616			%
617			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
618			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
619			before.
620
621			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
622			%
623			<imho>
624
625			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
626			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
627			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
628			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
629
630			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
631			Java - public static void not fun.
632			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
633			C - usually not fun.
634
635			What about modern scripting languages?
636
637			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
638			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
639			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
640
641			</imho>
642
643			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
644			%
645			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
646			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
647			%
648
649			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
650			*
651			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
652
653			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
654			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
655			%
656			# The user is always right.
657			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
658			[autoconf]
659			%
660			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
661
662			/*
663			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
664			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
665			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
666			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
667			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
668			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
669			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
670			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
671			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
672			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
673			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
674			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
675			*/
676			%
677			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
678			was new to me:
679
680			switch(c)
681			{
682			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
683			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
684			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
685			case 'd': base=-10; }
686			switch(type)
687			{
688			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
689			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
690			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
691			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
692			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
693			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
694			default:val=0; break;
695			}
696			cp = __numout(val,base);
697			if(0) {
698			case 's':
699			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
700			}
701			%
702			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
703			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
704			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
705			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
706			extra second and see how far you get :-)
707			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
708			%
709			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
710			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
711			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
712			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
713			>
714			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
715			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
716
717			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
718			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
719
720			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
721			%
722			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
723			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
724			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
725
726			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
727
728			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
729			%
730			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
731			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
732			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
733			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
734			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
735			settings)
736
737			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
738			%
739			How do I deal with memory leaks?
740
741			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
742
743			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
744			%
745			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
746			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
747
748			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
749			%
750			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
751			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
752			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
753			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
754
755			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
756			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
757			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
758			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
759			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
760			rewarded for their creativity.
761
762			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
763			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
764			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
765			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
766			would never have made it in the first place.
767
768			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
769			%
770			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
771			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
772			%
773			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
774			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
775			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
776			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
777			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
778
779			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
780			%
781			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
782			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
783			- Mohandas Gandhi
784			%
785			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
786			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
787			handiwork of the Lord."
788			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
789			%
790			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
791
792			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
793			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
794			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
795
796			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
797			Scientist A publishes results.
798
799			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
800			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
801			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
802
803			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
804			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
805			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
806			A: ...
807			B: You fraud!
808
809			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
810
811			A publishes results.
812
813			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
814			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
815			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
816			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
817			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
818			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
819
820			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
821			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
822			%
823			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
824			them because they need the money to operate]
825
826			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
827			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
828			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
829			site or its bottom line."
830			%
831			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
832			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
833			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
834			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
835			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
836			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
837			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
838			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
839			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
840			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
841			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
842			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
843			%
844			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
845
846			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
847
848			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
849			%
850			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
851
852			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
853			>>>> and the beating of children?
854			>>>
855			>>> Subjugation of women...
856			>>
857			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
858			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
859			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
860			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
861			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
862			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
863			>> shake partner.
864			>
865			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
866			>
867			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
868			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
869			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
870			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
871			>
872
873			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
874			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
875			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
876			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
877			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
878			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
879			and your wife.
880			%
881			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
882			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
883			still kill you. - arestheblue
884			%
885			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
886			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
887			specifications for GSS-API.
888
889			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
890			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
891
892			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
893			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
894
895			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
896			%
897			[from the minix 3 users guide]
898
899			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
900			%
901			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
902
903			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
904			[...]
905			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
906			complaintant to guess this is true.
907			%
908			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
909			- Ken Thompson.
910			%
911			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
912
913			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
914
915			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
916			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
917			source code excerpt:
918
919			int sn()
920			{
921			char pwr;
922
923			int input1 = 0;
924			double output1 = 0;
925
926			system("clear");
927			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
928			cin>>input1;
929			output1 = (sin(input1));
930			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
931			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
932			cin>>pwr;
933			if(pwr == 'a')
934			sq();
935			if(pwr == 'm')
936			system("pause");
937
938			}
939			%
940			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
941			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
942
943			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
944
945			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
946			%
947			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
948			app for me" department:
949
950			From: Evan LeCompte
951
952			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
953			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
954			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
955			%
956			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
957			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
958			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
959
960			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
961			%
962			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
963			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
964			– Steve Jobs[47]
965
966			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
967			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
968			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
969			%
970			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
971			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
972			%
973			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
974			From: Patrick Horgan
975			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
976			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
977
978			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
979			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
980			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
981			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
982			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
983			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
984
985			[...]
986			%
987	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
988			— Peter Abelard
989			%
990			A man said to the universe:
991			"Sir I exist!"
992			"However," replied the universe,
993			"The fact has not created in me
994	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
995			- Steven Crane
996	root	1.431	%
997			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
998
999			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1000
1001			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1002
1003			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1004
1005			– Sanskrit Saying
1006			%
1007			[anonymised discussion]
1008			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1009			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1010			%
1011			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1012
1013	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1014	root	1.431
1015			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1016			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1017			appear.
1018			%
1019			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1020			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1021			- Douglas Adams
1022			%
1023			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1024			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1025			%
1026	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1027			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1028	root	1.431	%
1029			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1030			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1031			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1032			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1033			%
1034			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1035			%
1036			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1037			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1038			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1039			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1040			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1041			%
1042			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1043			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1044			or her career.
1045			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1046			%
1047			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1048			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1049			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1050			%
1051			I LOVE YOU
1052			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1053			%
1054			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1055			the air impeller.
1056
1057			Alan Cox
1058			%
1059			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1060			with a minimum computer science background."
1061			%
1062			From: Eric Sosman
1063			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1064			Subject: Re: about graphics
1065
1066			prince wrote:
1067			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1068
1069			#include <stdio.h>
1070			int main(void) {
1071			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1072			return 0;
1073			}
1074			%
1075			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1076			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1077			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1078			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1079			%
1080			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1081
1082			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
1083			it still is a constant-time attack.
1084			%
1085			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1086			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1087			%
1088			From: David Damerell
1089
1090			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1091			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1092			>caps to make it different.
1093
1094			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1095			painful but will take less typing.
1096			%
1097			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1098			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1099			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1100
1101			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1102			%
1103			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1104
1105			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1106			> free than the BSD.
1107			>
1108			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1109
1110			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1111			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1112			%
1113			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1114
1115			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1116			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1117			from incompatible pointer type
1118			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1119			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1120			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1121			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1122			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1123			%
1124			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1125			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1126			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1127			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1128			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1129			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1130
1131			[Chandon Seldon]
1132			%
1133			[Wikipedia]
1134			Differences between vi and Emacs
1135
1136			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1137			%
1138			[lost the reference]
1139			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1140			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1141			%
1142			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1143			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1144			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1145			%
1146			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1147
1148			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1149			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1150			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1151			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1152			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1153
1154			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1155			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1156			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1157			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1158			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1159			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1160			piss on your leg.
1161
1162			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1163			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1164			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1165
1166			[then, a day later]
1167
1168			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1169			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1170			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1171			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1172			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1173
1174			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1175			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1176			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1177			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1178			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1179			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1180			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1181			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1182			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1183
1184
1185			-----Original Message-----
1186			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1187			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1188			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1189			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1190
1191
1192
1193			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1194	root	1.432	>
1195	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1196
1197			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1198
1199			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1200			I hope you don't object :)
1201			%
1202			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1203			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1204
1205			You made my day
1206			%
1207			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1208
1209			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1210			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1211			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1212
1213			Linus
1214			%
1215			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1216
1217			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1218
1219			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 ...
1220
1221			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1222
1223			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1224			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1225			when sending emails to other people:
1226			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1227
1228			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1229
1230			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1231			%
1232			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1233			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1234			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1235			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1236			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1237			%
1238			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1239			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1240
1241			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1242			%
1243			[on italy]
1244
1245			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1246
1247			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1248			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1249			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1250			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1251
1252			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1253			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1254			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1255			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1256			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1257			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1258
1259			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1260
1261			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1262			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1263			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1264			from fascism period.
1265
1266			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1267			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1268			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1269			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1270			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1271			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1272			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1273			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1274			SIAE.
1275
1276			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1277			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1278			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1279			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1280			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1281			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1282			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1283			electronic ones
1284
1285			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1286
1287			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1288			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1289			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1290			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1291			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1292			western country.
1293
1294			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1295			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1296			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1297			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1298			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1299			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1300			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1301			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1302			also the governments of "center-left".
1303
1304			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1305
1306			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1307			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1308			without any restriction.
1309
1310			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1311			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1312			world.
1313
1314			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1315			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1316			Thank you for reading.
1317			%
1318			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1319			>
1320			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1321
1322			How very ironic.
1323			%
1324			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1325			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1326			takes religion."
1327
1328			--Steve Weinberg
1329			%
1330			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1331			%
1332			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1333			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1334			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1335
1336			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1337			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1338			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1339			%
1340			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1341			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1342			the right tool for me.
1343			%
1344			[deliantra]
1345			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1346			%
1347			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1348			%
1349			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1350			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1351			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1352			%
1353			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1354
1355			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1356			%
1357			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1358			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1359
1360			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1361			actually tells you it's American.
1362			%
1363			[better do not hire this programmer]
1364			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1365			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1366			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1367
1368			Hi
1369
1370			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1371			someone here can advise me.
1372
1373			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1374			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1375			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1376			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1377			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1378
1379			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1380			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1381			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1382			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1383			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1384			corresponding thing in C?
1385
1386			Thanks!
1387			%
1388			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1389
1390			// See bug 53763.
1391			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1392			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1393			if (shell) {
1394			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1395			%
1396			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1397			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1398
1399			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1400			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1401			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1402			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1403			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1404			%
1405			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1406			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1407			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1408			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1409	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1410	root	1.431
1411			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1412			%
1413			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1414
1415	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1416	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1417
1418			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1419
1420			x / y * z
1421
1422			and
1423
1424			x / y * z
1425
1426			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1427
1428			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1429			design decisions.)
1430			%
1431			endergt:
1432			> snoofle:
1433			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1434			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1435			> > you understand what you are doing...
1436			>
1437	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1438	root	1.431
1439	root	1.432	debug
1440	root	1.431	%
1441			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%.
1442
1443			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1444			%
1445			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1446			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1447			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1448
1449			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1450			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1451			6 Decompilation
1452
1453			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1454			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1455			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1456			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1457			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1458			conditions are met: [...]"
1459			%
1460			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1461			%
1462			Why Linux Sux ?
1463
1464			Easy .
1465			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1466			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1467			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 .
1468			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1469			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1470			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1471			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! ) .
1472			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 .
1473			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1474
1475			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1476			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1477			working ones . Screw linux users .
1478			%
1479			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1480			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1481			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1482			%
1483			> The Dell 30"...
1484
1485			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1486			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1487			%
1488	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1489	root	1.431
1490			> > 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".
1491	root	1.432	>
1492	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!
1493	root	1.432	>
1494	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1495	root	1.432
1496	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1497
1498			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1499			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.
1500			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1501	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.
1502	root	1.431	%
1503			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1504			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1505			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1506			%
1507			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1508
1509			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1510			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1511			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1512
1513			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1514			anderen betriebssystemen.
1515
1516			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1517			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1518
1519			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1520			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1521			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1522			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1523			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1524
1525			Frage?
1526			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1527			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1528			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1529
1530			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1531			%
1532			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1533			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1534			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1535			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1536			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1537			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1538			%
1539			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1540			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1541			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1542			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1543			%
1544			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1545			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1546
1547			God bless the re-inventers
1548
1549			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1550			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1551
1552	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1553	root	1.431
1554			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1555			one.
1556			%
1557			[rfc2665]
1558			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1559			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1560			useful in theory than in practice.
1561			%
1562			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1563	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1564	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1565			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1566			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1567			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1568			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1569			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1570	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1571	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1572			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1573	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1574	root	1.431	15:30
1575			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1576			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1577			%
1578			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1579			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1580			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1581			%
1582			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1583
1584			Strictly for beginners
1585
1586			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1587			[...]
1588			%
1589			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1590			%
1591			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1592			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1593			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1594			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1595			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1596			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1597			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1598			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1599			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1600			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1601			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1602			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1603			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1604			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1605			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1606			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1607			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1608			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1609			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1610			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1611			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1612			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1613			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1614			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1615			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1616			%
1617			[A Gentoo User]
1618			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1619			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1620			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1621			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1622			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1623			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1624			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1625			%
1626			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1627			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1628			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1629			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1630			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1631	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1632			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1633	root	1.431	can do
1634			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1635			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1636			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1637			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1638			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1639			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1640			%
1641			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1642	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1643			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1644			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1645	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1646			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1647	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1648			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1649	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1650			%
1651			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1652			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1653			%
1654			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1655
1656			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1657			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1658			be slow in Windows 2000"
1659
1660			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1661			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1662			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1663			%
1664			[so much for type-safety]
1665			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1666			lst.add(null);
1667			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1668			%
1669			[just for reference]
1670			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1671			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1672			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1673			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1674			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1675			es nicht.
1676
1677			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1678			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1679			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1680			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1681			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1682			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1683
1684			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1685			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1686			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1687			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1688			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1689			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1690			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1691			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1692			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1693			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1694			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1695			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1696			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1697			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1698
1699			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1700			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1701			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1702			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1703			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1704			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1705			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1706
1707			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1708			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1709			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1710			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1711			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1712			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1713			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1714			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1715			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1716			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1717			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1718			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1719			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1720			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1721			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1722			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1723			alternativ' Idioten!
1724
1725			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1726			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1727			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1728			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1729			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1730			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1731			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1732			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1733			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1734			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1735			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1736			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1737			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1738			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1739
1740			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1741			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1742			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1743
1744			Ich will R A C H E !
1745
1746			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1747			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1748			Dinge zu sagen:
1749
1750			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1751
1752			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1753			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1754			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1755			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1756			anfange.
1757
1758			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1759			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1760			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1761			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1762			dieser verdammten schule!
1763
1764			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1765			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1766
1767			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1768
1769			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1770			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1771			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1772			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1773			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1774			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1775			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1776			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1777			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1778			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1779
1780			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1781			Einschulung.
1782
1783			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1784			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1785			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1786			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1787			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1788			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1789			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1790			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1791			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1792			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1793
1794			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1795			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1796
1797			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1798			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1799			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1800			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1801			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1802			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1803			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1804			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1805
1806			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1807			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1808			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1809			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1810			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1811			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1812			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1813			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1814
1815			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1816			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1817
1818			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1819			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1820			Hand genommen.
1821
1822			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1823			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1824
1825			Ich bin weg...
1826			%
1827			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1828			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1829			%
1830	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1831			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1832			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1833			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1834	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1835			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1836			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1837			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1838			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1839			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1840			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1841			%
1842			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1843			%
1844			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1845			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1846
1847			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1848			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1849			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1850			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1851			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1852			%
1853			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1854			%
1855			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1856			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1857			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1858			%
1859			[very funny read]
1860			Hack-a-Bike
1861			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1862			%
1863			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1864			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1865			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1866			still can.
1867
1868			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1869			%
1870	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1871			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1872	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1873			%
1874			[without words]
1875			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1876			%
1877			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1878			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1879			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1880			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1881			actual kid in an actual bath.
1882			%
1883			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1884			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1885			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1886			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1887			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1888			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1889			what happened to you.
1890			%
1891	root	1.432	--
1892	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1893
1894			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1895			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1896			%
1897			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1898	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1899			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1900	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1901
1902			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1903			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1904			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1905			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1906			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1907
1908			- Ted
1909			%
1910			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1911			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1912			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1913			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1914			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1915			me, but we have the truth!"
1916			%
1917			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1918			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1919			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1920			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1921			%
1922			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1923			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1924			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1925			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1926			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1927			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1928			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1929			genociding every monster.
1930
1931			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1932			genocide them for good measure!
1933			%%
1934			[nethack instadeath faq]
1935
1936			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1937
1938			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1939			%
1940			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1941			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1942	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1943	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1944			17:58 <Murch> lol
1945			%
1946			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1947			%
1948			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1949			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1950			%
1951			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1952			%
1953			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1954
1955			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1956			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1957			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1958			%
1959			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1960
1961			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1962			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1963			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1964			the Eastern Time Zone.
1965			[...]
1966			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1967			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1968			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1969			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1970			%
1971			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1972
1973			_dl_profile_output
1974			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1975			%
1976			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1977			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1978			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1979			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1980			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1981			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1982			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1983
1984			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1985			%
1986			[famous last words]
1987			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1988			%
1989			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1990
1991			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1992
1993			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1994
1995			--
1996			Jay Hennigan
1997			%
1998			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1999			%
2000			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2001			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2002			of homeland security]
2003			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2004			%
2005			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2006	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2007	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2008			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2009			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2010			range of spyware available to us?"
2011
2012			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2013			%
2014			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2015			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2016			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2017			%
2018	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2019	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2020			%
2021			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2022			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2023			%
2024			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2025			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2026			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2027			shooter.
2028
2029			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2030			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2031			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2032			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2033			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2034			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2035
2036			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2037			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2038			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2039			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2040			way.
2041
2042			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2043			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2044			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2045
2046			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2047			%
2048			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2049			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2050			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2051			> above comment about Hitler).
2052
2053			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2054			mention Hitler loses.
2055			%
2056			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2057			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2058			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2059			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2060			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2061			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2062			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2063			including <windows.h>.
2064			[...]
2065			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2066			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2067			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2068			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2069			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2070			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2071			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2072			environments.
2073			%
2074			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2075			%
2076			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2077			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2078			%
2079			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2080			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2081			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2082			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2083			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2084			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2085			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2086			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2087			companies want to own your computer.
2088
2089			Some examples:
2090
2091			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2092			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2093			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2094			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2095			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2096			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2097			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2098			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2099			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2100	root	1.432
2101	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2102			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2103			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2104			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2105			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2106
2107			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2108			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2109			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2110			from Microsoft? You can't.
2111
2112			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2113			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2114			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2115			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2116			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2117			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2118			adversely affect its business partners.
2119
2120			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2121			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2122			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2123			about your behavior.
2124
2125			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2126			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2127			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2128			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2129			presumed infractions.
2130
2131			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2132			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2133			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2134
2135			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2136			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2137			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2138			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2139			user's device against him.
2140			[...]
2141			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2142			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2143			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2144			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2145			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2146			back-room marketing deals.
2147			%
2148			[John Carmack on Java]
2149			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2150			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2151			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2152			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2153			performance.
2154			%
2155			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2156
2157			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2158			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2159			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2160			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2161			%
2162			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2163			%
2164			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2165			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2166			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2167			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2168			%
2169			http://funroll-loops.org/
2170			%
2171			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2172			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2173			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2174			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2175			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2176			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2177			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2178			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2179			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2180			Fahrenheit documentation.
2181			%
2182			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2183			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2184			sure its much slower than CVS]
2185			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2186			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2187			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2188	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2189	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2190			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2191	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2192	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2193			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2194	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2195	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2196			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2197			%
2198	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2199
2200			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2201			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2202	root	1.431	%
2203	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2204
2205			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2206			> systems ?
2207
2208			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2209			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2210
2211			Jesper
2212			%
2213	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2214
2215			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2216			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2217
2218	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2219	root	1.429	%
2220	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2221			%
2222	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2223
2224			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2225			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2226			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2227			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2228			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2229			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2230			but that's the truth.
2231			%
2232	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2233
2234			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2235
2236	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2237			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2238			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2239			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2240	root	1.424
2241			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2242	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2243			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2244	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2245
2246			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2247			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2248	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2249	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2250			in Richtung Boden.
2251
2252			[...]
2253
2254	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2255	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2256	root	1.424
2257			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2258	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2259	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2260
2261			[...]
2262
2263			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2264	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2265	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2266	root	1.424
2267			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2268	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2269			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2270			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2271	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2272			sofort.
2273			%
2274	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2275			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2276			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2277			software from Microsoft.)
2278	root	1.424	%
2279	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2280	root	1.424	%
2281	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2282
2283			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2284			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2285			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2286			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2287	root	1.424	%
2288	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2289	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2290	root	1.424	%
2291	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2292			From: Rodrigo Severo
2293			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2294			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2295
2296			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2297
2298			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2299			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2300			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2301
2302			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2303			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2304			brazilian ;)
2305			Rodrigo Severo
2306	root	1.424	%
2307	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2308	root	1.417
2309			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2310	root	1.424	%
2311	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2312
2313			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2314
2315			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2316
2317			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2318			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2319
2320			sigh
2321	root	1.424	%
2322	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2323			By Bertrand Russell
2324
2325			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2326			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2327			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2328			might be set forth as follows:
2329
2330			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2331
2332			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2333			evidence is sure to come to light.
2334
2335			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2336
2337			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2338			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2339			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2340
2341			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2342			contrary authorities to be found.
2343
2344			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2345			do the opinions will suppress you.
2346
2347			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2348			was once eccentric.
2349
2350			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2351			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2352			agreement than the latter.
2353
2354			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2355			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2356
2357			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2358			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2359
2360			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2361			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2362	root	1.424	%
2363	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2364	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2365			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2366			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2367
2368			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2369			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2370			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2371			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2372			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2373			United States."
2374	root	1.413	---
2375			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2376			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2377			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2378	root	1.414	---
2379			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2380			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2381			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2382			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2383			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2384
2385			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2386			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2387	root	1.424	%
2388	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2389			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2390	root	1.424	%
2391	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2392
2393			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2394			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2395
2396			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2397			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2398
2399			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2400
2401			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2402			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2403	root	1.424	%
2404	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2405			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2406	root	1.424	%
2407	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2408			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2409			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2410			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2411			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2412			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2413	root	1.424	%
2414	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2415
2416			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2417			they care about it?"
2418			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2419	root	1.407
2420			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2421	root	1.424	%
2422	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2423			-- Gregory Chaitin
2424	root	1.424	%
2425	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2426	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2427			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2428			[...]
2429	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2430			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2431	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2432	root	1.424	%
2433	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2434			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2435			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2436			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2437			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2438			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2439	root	1.424	%
2440	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2441
2442			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2443	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2444			return 0;
2445	root	1.424	%
2446	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2447	root	1.401
2448			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2449			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2450			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2451			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2452			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2453			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2454			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2455			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2456			> transparent.
2457
2458			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2459			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2460			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2461			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2462	root	1.424	%
2463	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2464			aber falsche Lösungen.
2465	root	1.424	%
2466	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2467			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2468			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2469			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2470	root	1.424	%
2471	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2472			>
2473			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2474			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2475			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2476			> than useful to the user.
2477
2478			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2479
2480			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2481			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2482			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2483			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2484
2485			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2486
2487			Linus
2488	root	1.424	%
2489	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2490			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2491			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2492			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2493	root	1.424	%
2494	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2495			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2496
2497	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2498	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2499			--
2500			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2501
2502			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2503	root	1.424	%
2504	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2505			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2506
2507			Person: What do you do?
2508			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2509			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2510
2511			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2512			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2513			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2514	root	1.394
2515			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2516			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2517	root	1.424	%
2518	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2519			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2520			illegal downloaders."
2521
2522			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2523
2524			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2525			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2526			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2527			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2528			have to emerge."
2529
2530			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2531	root	1.424	%
2532	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2533	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2534
2535			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2536			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2537
2538			Bye, Andy
2539	root	1.424	%
2540	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2541	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2542	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2543	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2544	root	1.390
2545			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2546			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2547			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2548			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2549			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2550			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2551			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2552			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2553			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2554			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2555			alle Benutzer.
2556			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2557			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2558			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2559			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2560			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2561			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2562			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2563			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2564			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2565			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2566			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2567	root	1.424	%
2568	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2569
2570			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2571			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2572			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2573			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2574			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2575			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2576			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2577			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2578			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2579			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2580			unfinished operations, etc.
2581			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2582
2583			Valid options:
2584			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2585			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2586
2587			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2588	root	1.424	%
2589	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2590			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2591			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2592			to provide.
2593			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2594	root	1.424	%
2595	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2596
2597			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2598			alarm people more.
2599
2600			-Nate
2601
2602			[...]
2603
2604			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2605			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2606			image of the language that is created here.
2607
2608			Juerd
2609
2610			[...]
2611
2612			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2613			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2614			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2615
2616	root	1.432	--
2617	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2618	root	1.387	%
2619	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2620	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2621	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2622			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2623	root	1.387	%
2624	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2625			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2626	root	1.387	%
2627	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2628			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2629	root	1.387	%
2630	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2631			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2632			[...]
2633			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2634			"Windows is broken."
2635	root	1.387	%
2636	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2637			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2638			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2639	root	1.387	%
2640	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2641			on being able to kill their children legally]
2642			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2643	root	1.387	%
2644	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2645			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2646			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2647	root	1.387	%
2648	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2649			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2650			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2651			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2652			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2653			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2654	root	1.378	--
2655			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2656			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2657			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2658			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2659			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2660			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2661			wasteful government spending."
2662	root	1.387	%
2663	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2664			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2665	root	1.387	%
2666	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2667			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2668	root	1.387	%
2669	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2670			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2671	root	1.387	%
2672	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2673			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2674	root	1.387	%
2675	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2676	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2677	root	1.387	%
2678	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2679			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2680	root	1.387	%
2681	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2682			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2683	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2684	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2685			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2686	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2687	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
2688			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2689	root	1.387	%
2690	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2691			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2692	root	1.387	%
2693	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2694			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2695			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2696			their weapons over our heads."
2697			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2698	root	1.387	%
2699	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2700			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2701	root	1.387	%
2702	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2703			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2704			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2705			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2706			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2707	root	1.387	%
2708	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2709	root	1.387	%
2710	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2711			several requests for clarification.
2712
2713			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2714			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2715			unter TCG definitions.
2716	root	1.387	%
2717	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2718			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2719			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2720			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2721	root	1.387	%
2722	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2723			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2724			get people on board.
2725			%
2726	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2727			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2728			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2729			DRM.
2730
2731			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2732			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2733	root	1.387	%
2734	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2735			switch ($decade) {
2736			case "the 50's":
2737			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2738			break;
2739			case "the 60's":
2740			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2741			break;
2742			case "the 70's":
2743			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2744			break;
2745			case "the 80's":
2746			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2747			break;
2748			case "the 90's":
2749			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2750			break;
2751			case "the 00's":
2752			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2753			break;
2754			}
2755	root	1.387	%
2756	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2757
2758			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2759			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2760			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2761			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2762
2763			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2764			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2765			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2766
2767			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2768			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2769			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2770			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2771			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2772			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2773			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2774			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2775			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2776			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2777	root	1.387	%
2778	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2779			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2780			married or unmarried."
2781
2782			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2783			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2784			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2785			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2786			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2787	root	1.387	%
2788	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2789
2790			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2791			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2792			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2793			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2794			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2795			conditioning.
2796
2797			[And this is religion at its best:]
2798			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2799			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2800			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2801	root	1.387	%
2802	root	1.361	[Racism]
2803			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2804	root	1.387	%
2805	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2806			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2807	root	1.387	%
2808	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2809			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2810
2811			I apologise for this.
2812
2813			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2814			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2815	root	1.387	%
2816	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2817			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2818			el says: ich kenn da wen
2819			el says: bei dem wars so
2820			[...]
2821			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2822			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2823			el says: gehirntumor auch
2824			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2825	root	1.387	%
2826	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2827	root	1.387	%
2828	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2829			no sense in the kernel]
2830			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2831
2832			[...]
2833
2834			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2835			models.
2836
2837			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2838			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2839			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2840	root	1.387	%
2841	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2842			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2843			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2844			--
2845			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2846	root	1.355	--
2847			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2848			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2849			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2850			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2851	root	1.387	%
2852	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2853			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2854			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2855			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2856			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2857			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2858			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2859			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2860	root	1.387	%
2861	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2862			which you currently do not posess]
2863			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2864	root	1.387	%
2865	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2866			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2867	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2868	root	1.387	%
2869	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2870	root	1.387	%
2871	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2872			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2873	root	1.387	%
2874	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2875			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2876			paragraphs.
2877	root	1.387	%
2878	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2879			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2880			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2881	root	1.387	%
2882	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2883			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2884
2885			Most catholics aren't American.
2886	root	1.387	%
2887	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2888
2889			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2890			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2891			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2892			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2893			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2894
2895			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2896			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2897	root	1.387	%
2898	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2899			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2900			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2901			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2902			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2903			criminals."
2904	root	1.387	%
2905	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2906			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2907	root	1.387	%
2908	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2909			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2910	root	1.387	%
2911	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2912			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2913	root	1.387	%
2914	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2915			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2916			card (They went up in flames).
2917	root	1.387	%
2918	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2919			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2920			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2921			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2922	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2923	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2924	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2925	root	1.387	%
2926	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2927			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2928			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2929
2930			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2931
2932			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2933	root	1.387	%
2934	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2935			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2936			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2937			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2938			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2939			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2940			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2941			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2942			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2943			--
2944			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2945			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2946			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2947			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2948			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2949			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2950	root	1.387	%
2951	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2952			The Obfuscated V contest
2953	root	1.387	%
2954	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2955			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2956			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2957			cigarette lighters."
2958			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2959	root	1.387	%
2960	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2961			Does it run under Windows ?
2962			- Who cares?
2963	root	1.387	%
2964	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2965	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2966	root	1.387	%
2967	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2968			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2969			[...]
2970			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2971			[...]
2972			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2973			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2974			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2975	root	1.387	%
2976	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2977	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2978			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2979			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2980	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2981	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2982	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2983	root	1.330	> mehr!
2984			> richy.
2985
2986			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2987	root	1.387	%
2988	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2989	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2990			> zugetragen hat?
2991
2992			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2993			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2994	root	1.388	[später]
2995			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2996	root	1.329
2997			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2998			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2999			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3000			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3001			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3002
3003			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3004
3005			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3006			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3007			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3008	root	1.387	%
3009	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3010	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3011			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3012	root	1.387	%
3013	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3014			/* give the hook another try */
3015			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3016			break;
3017	root	1.387	%
3018	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3019	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3020	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3021			#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))
3022	root	1.387	%
3023	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3024	root	1.387	%
3025	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3026	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3027	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3028	root	1.432	>
3029			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3030			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3031	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3032	root	1.432	>
3033			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3034			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3035	root	1.324	> as TO).
3036	root	1.432	>
3037	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3038
3039			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3040			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3041			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3042			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3043			being discourteous to.
3044
3045			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3046			--
3047			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3048	root	1.387	%
3049	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3050	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3051	root	1.387	%
3052	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3053			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3054			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3055			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3056			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3057	root	1.387	%
3058	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3059			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3060			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3061			you don't have any'."
3062	root	1.323
3063			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3064			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3065			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3066			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3067	root	1.387	%
3068	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3069			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3070			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3071			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3072	root	1.387	%
3073	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3074			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3075			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3076			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3077			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3078			reason will not win many fans.
3079
3080			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3081			documents in the algorithm section]
3082	root	1.387	%
3083	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3084			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3085			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3086			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3087			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3088
3089			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3090	root	1.387	%
3091	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3092			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3093			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3094	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3095	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3096			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3097	root	1.387	%
3098	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3099	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3100	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3101	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3102			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3103	root	1.387	%
3104	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3105			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3106			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3107			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3108			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3109			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3110	root	1.387	%
3111	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3112			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3113	root	1.387	%
3114	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3115	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3116	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3117			* at their price list.
3118	root	1.387	%
3119	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3120			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3121			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3122			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3123			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3124			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3125			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3126	root	1.387	%
3127	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3128			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3129	root	1.387	%
3130	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3131			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3132			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3133			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3134	root	1.387	%
3135	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3136	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3137	root	1.387	%
3138	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3139			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3140	root	1.387	%
3141	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3142	root	1.387	%
3143	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3144			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3145			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3146			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3147			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3148			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3149			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3150			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3151	root	1.387	%
3152	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3153			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3154	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3155	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3156	root	1.387	%
3157	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3158	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3159	root	1.387	%
3160	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3161	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3162			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3163			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3164	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3165
3166			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3167
3168			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3169			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3170	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3171	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3172
3173			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3174
3175			[usw.]
3176
3177			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3178	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3179	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3180
3181			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3182			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3183			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3184			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3185			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3186	root	1.387	%
3187	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3188	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3189			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3190	root	1.387	%
3191	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3192			Which fanboy are you?
3193
3194			1. Windows
3195
3196			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3197			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3198			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3199			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3200			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3201			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3202			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3203			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3204			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3205
3206			2. Apple
3207
3208			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3209			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3210			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3211			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3212			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3213			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3214			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3215			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3216
3217			3. Linspire
3218
3219			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3220			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3221			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3222			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3223			installed Linspire on your machine.
3224
3225			4. Umbongo
3226
3227			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3228			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3229			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3230			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3231			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3232			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3233			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3234			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3235			themselves.
3236
3237			5. Gentoy
3238
3239			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3240			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3241			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3242			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3243			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3244			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3245			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3246			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3247
3248			6. Linux From Scratch
3249
3250			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3251			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3252			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3253			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3254			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3255			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3256			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3257	root	1.387	%
3258	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3259			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3260	root	1.387	%
3261	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3262
3263			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3264			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3265
3266			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3267	root	1.387	%
3268	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3269
3270			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3271	root	1.432	>
3272	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3273	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3274	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3275			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3276			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3277	root	1.432	>
3278			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3279	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3280	root	1.432	>
3281	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3282			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3283	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3284	root	1.387	%
3285	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3286	root	1.387	%
3287	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3288	root	1.387	%
3289	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3290	root	1.387	%
3291	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3292			show "Correspondent"]
3293	root	1.288
3294			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3295			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3296
3297			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3298			%
3299	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3300			cock sucking, blowjob
3301			=> fellatio, fellation
3302			=> oral sex, head
3303			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3304			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3305			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3306			=> organic process, biological process
3307			=> process
3308			=> phenomenon
3309	root	1.387	%
3310	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3311			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3312	root	1.387	%
3313	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3314			[slightly edited]
3315			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3316			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3317			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3318			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3319
3320			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3321			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3322			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3323
3324			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3325			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3326	root	1.387	%
3327	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3328			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3329	root	1.387	%
3330	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3331	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3332	root	1.387	%
3333	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3334	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3335			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3336	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3337	root	1.387	%
3338	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3339			- oesi
3340	root	1.387	%
3341	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3342			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3343	root	1.387	%
3344	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3345	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3346	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3347			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3348
3349			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3350			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3351			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3352			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3353			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3354			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3355			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3356			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3357			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3358			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3359			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3360			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3361			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3362			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3363			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3364			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3365			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3366			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3367			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3368			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3369			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3370			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3371			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3372			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3373
3374			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3375			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3376			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3377			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3378			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3379
3380			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3381			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3382			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3383			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3384			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3385			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3386			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3387			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3388			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3389			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3390			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3391
3392			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3393			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3394			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3395			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3396			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3397			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3398			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3399			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3400			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3401			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3402			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3403			sovereign nation.
3404
3405			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3406			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3407			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3408			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3409			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3410			CSPAN, don't post here.
3411
3412			-scott
3413	root	1.387	%
3414	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3415			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3416			capacity to feel pain.
3417
3418			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3419			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3420	root	1.387	%
3421	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3422			From: Sven Neumann
3423
3424			Hi,
3425
3426	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3427	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3428	root	1.273
3429			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3430			that
3431
3432			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3433
3434			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3435	root	1.387	%
3436	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3437	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3438			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3439			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3440	root	1.387	%
3441	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3442			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3443			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3444			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3445			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3446			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3447	root	1.387	%
3448	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3449	root	1.270	interesting read]
3450			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3451	root	1.387	%
3452	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3453			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3454			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3455	root	1.387	%
3456	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3457			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3458			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3459			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3460			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3461			locks can open the gate.
3462
3463			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3464			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3465			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3466	root	1.387	%
3467	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3468			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3469	root	1.387	%
3470	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3471
3472			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3473
3474			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3475			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3476			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3477			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3478			explanation of this.
3479
3480			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3481
3482			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3483			which explains why the hammer falls.
3484
3485			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3486			how a population's genome can change over time.
3487
3488	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3489			mathematical relationship between two values.
3490	root	1.265
3491			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3492			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3493
3494			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3495			acceleration.
3496
3497			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3498			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3499			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3500			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3501			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3502			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3503			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3504			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3505			false.
3506
3507			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3508	root	1.387	%
3509	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3510	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3511
3512			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3513			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3514	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3515			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3516			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3517	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3518
3519	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3520			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3521			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3522			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3523			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3524			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3525			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3526	root	1.264
3527			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3528	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3529			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3530			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3531			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3532	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3533	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3534	root	1.264	sportlich.
3535
3536	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3537			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3538			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3539			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3540			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3541	root	1.264
3542	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3543	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3544	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3545			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3546	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3547
3548			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3549			Forscher.
3550	root	1.387	%
3551	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3552			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3553			EULA-style license]
3554	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3555	root	1.387	%
3556	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3557			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3558			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3559			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3560			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3561			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3562			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3563	root	1.387	%
3564	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3565	root	1.387	%
3566	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3567			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3568			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3569			00:24 <schmorp> re
3570	root	1.387	%
3571	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3572	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3573			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3574	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3575			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3576	root	1.387	%
3577	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3578			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3579			proponents of such theories.]
3580			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3581			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3582			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3583			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3584			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3585			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3586			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3587			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3588			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3589			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3590			(below, right)."
3591	root	1.387	%
3592	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3593			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3594			[useful info...]
3595			http://www.snopes.com/
3596	root	1.387	%
3597	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3598			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3599	root	1.387	%
3600	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3601			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3602	root	1.387	%
3603	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3604	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3605			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3606	root	1.387	%
3607	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3608			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3609			#!/usr/bin/sh
3610			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3611			# All Rights Reserved
3612
3613			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3614			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3615			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3616
3617			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3618	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3619	root	1.387	%
3620	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3621			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3622			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3623	root	1.387	%
3624	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3625			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3626			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3627			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3628			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3629			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3630			#
3631			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3632	root	1.387	%
3633	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3634	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3635			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3636			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3637	root	1.387	%
3638	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3639	root	1.387	%
3640	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3641	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3642			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3643	root	1.387	%
3644	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3645			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3646			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3647	root	1.387	%
3648	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3649	root	1.387	%
3650	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3651			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3652			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3653			that you have a problem.)
3654			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3655	root	1.387	%
3656	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3657			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3658	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3659	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3660
3661			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3662			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3663	root	1.387	%
3664	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3665			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3666
3667			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3668			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3669			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3670			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3671			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3672			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3673			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3674			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3675			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3676			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3677			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3678			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3679			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3680			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3681
3682			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3683			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3684			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3685			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3686			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3687			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3688			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3689	root	1.387	%
3690	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3691	root	1.239
3692			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3693			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3694			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3695	root	1.387	%
3696	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3697			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3698			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3699	root	1.387	%
3700	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3701
3702			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3703			;)
3704	root	1.387	%
3705	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3706			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3707			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3708			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3709
3710			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3711
3712	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3713			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3714	root	1.387	%
3715	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3716			using so many abbreviations...]
3717
3718			Hi Volker -
3719
3720			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3721	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3722			spät ...
3723	root	1.234
3724			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3725
3726			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3727
3728	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3729			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3730	root	1.234
3731	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3732	root	1.234
3733			tom
3734	root	1.247
3735	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3736	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3737	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3738	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3739	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3740	root	1.387	%
3741	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3742			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3743			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3744
3745			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3746	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3747			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3748	root	1.233	> someone else?
3749
3750			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3751			===================================================================
3752			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3753			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3754			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3755			S: 79098 Freiburg
3756			S: Germany
3757
3758			+N: Hans Reiser
3759			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3760			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3761			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3762			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3763			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3764			+S: USA
3765			+
3766			N: Joerg Reuter
3767			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3768			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3769	root	1.387	%
3770	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3771			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3772	root	1.387	%
3773	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3774			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3775	root	1.387	%
3776	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3777			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3778	root	1.387	%
3779	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3780			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3781			[...]
3782			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3783			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3784			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3785			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3786			[...]
3787			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3788			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3789			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3790			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3791	root	1.387	%
3792	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3793			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3794			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3795			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3796			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3797			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3798	root	1.387	%
3799	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3800	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3801			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3802			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3803			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3804			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3805			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3806			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3807			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3808	root	1.387	%
3809	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3810			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3811	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3812	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3813	root	1.387	%
3814	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3815			[yes, the whole thing]
3816	root	1.387	%
3817	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3818	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3819			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3820			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3821	root	1.221	>
3822			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3823
3824			We'll use a larger wall.
3825	root	1.387	%
3826	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3827			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3828			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3829			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3830
3831			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3832			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3833
3834			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3835			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3836
3837			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3838			cost.
3839			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3840	root	1.387	%
3841	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3842
3843	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3844	root	1.219
3845			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3846
3847	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3848	root	1.387	%
3849	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3850			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3851	root	1.387	%
3852	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3853			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3854	root	1.387	%
3855	root	1.215	[translated]
3856			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3857			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3858			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3859			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3860			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3861			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3862			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3863			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3864	root	1.387	%
3865	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3866			-- Lord Balfour
3867	root	1.387	%
3868	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3869	root	1.387	%
3870	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3871			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3872			him to forgive me.
3873	root	1.387	%
3874	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3875			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3876
3877			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3878	root	1.387	%
3879	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3880			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3881			get bored during the sex scenes.
3882	root	1.387	%
3883	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3884			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3885			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3886	root	1.387	%
3887	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3888			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3889			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3890			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3891			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3892			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3893	root	1.387	%
3894	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3895			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3896			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3897			HP-UX customer. [...]
3898	root	1.387	%
3899	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3900			>>
3901			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3902			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3903			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3904			>>spelled it in UC.
3905	root	1.247	>
3906			>
3907	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3908
3909			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3910	root	1.387	%
3911	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3912			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3913
3914			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3915			usage.
3916
3917			Richard
3918	root	1.387	%
3919	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3920			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3921			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3922			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3923			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3924			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3925	root	1.387	%
3926	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3927			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3928	root	1.387	%
3929	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3930	root	1.387	%
3931	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3932			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3933			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3934			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3935			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3936			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3937			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3938			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3939			existence means and implies.
3940
3941			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3942	root	1.387	%
3943	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3944			>
3945			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3946			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3947			>
3948			> You're WRONG!
3949
3950	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3951			and §7.20.3.1).
3952	root	1.387	%
3953	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3954			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3955			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3956	root	1.387	%
3957	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3958			A. It should be obvious.
3959			Q. How is it hard?
3960			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3961			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3962	root	1.387	%
3963	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3964			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3965
3966			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3967			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3968
3969			- works ok on linux
3970			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3971
3972			Any clues why?
3973			I am new to the non windows world.
3974
3975			Thanks
3976	root	1.387	%
3977	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3978			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3979			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3980			> this ?
3981
3982			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3983			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3984	root	1.387	%
3985	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3986			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3987			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3988
3989			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3990	root	1.247	>
3991			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3992			>
3993	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3994	root	1.387	%
3995	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3996			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3997
3998			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3999	root	1.387	%
4000	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4001			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4002	root	1.387	%
4003	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4004	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4005	root	1.194
4006			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4007			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4008	root	1.387	%
4009	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4010			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4011	root	1.387	%
4012	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4013	root	1.387	%
4014	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4015			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4016	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4017	root	1.387	%
4018	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4019			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4020			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4021	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4022
4023	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4024	root	1.190
4025	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4026	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4027			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4028			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4029	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4030			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4031			schützen können.
4032	root	1.387	%
4033	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4034			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4035	root	1.387	%
4036	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4037			[...]
4038	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4039	root	1.188	[...]
4040	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4041			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4042			never get your message.
4043	root	1.387	%
4044	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4045			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4046			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4047	root	1.387	%
4048	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4049			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4050			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4051	root	1.387	%
4052	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4053			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4054			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4055			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4056			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4057			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4058			01:15 <schmorp> g
4059			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4060	root	1.387	%
4061	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4062			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4063			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4064			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4065			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4066			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4067			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4068			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4069	root	1.387	%
4070	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4071			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4072			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4073	root	1.387	%
4074	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4075			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4076			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4077			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4078			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4079			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4080			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4081	root	1.387	%
4082	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4083			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4084	root	1.387	%
4085	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4086			GNOME TERMINAL
4087			[...]
4088			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4089			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4090			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4091			[.. later]
4092			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4093			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4094			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4095	root	1.387	%
4096	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4097			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4098			/*
4099	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4100	root	1.179	*/
4101			void blip()
4102	root	1.247	{
4103	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4104			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4105			fflush(stderr);
4106	root	1.247	}
4107	root	1.387	%
4108	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4109			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4110
4111			Why not 666? :-).
4112	root	1.387	%
4113	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4114			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4115			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4116			users are clueless.
4117	root	1.387	%
4118	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4119			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4120	root	1.387	%
4121	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4122			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4123	root	1.387	%
4124	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4125			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4126	root	1.387	%
4127	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4128			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4129			and", and finally, ampersand.
4130	root	1.387	%
4131	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4132			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4133			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4134			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4135			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4136	root	1.387	%
4137	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4138			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4139			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4140			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4141			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4142	root	1.387	%
4143	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4144			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4145			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4146			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4147			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4148			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4149			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4150	root	1.387	%
4151	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4152	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4153			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4154	root	1.387	%
4155	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4156			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4157			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4158	root	1.387	%
4159	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4160	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4161	root	1.387	%
4162	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4163	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4164			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4165			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4166	root	1.167	%
4167	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4168	root	1.387	%
4169	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4170			<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
4171	root	1.387	%
4172	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4173			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4174	root	1.164	einfach :)
4175			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4176	root	1.387	%
4177	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4178			/*
4179			* Function compares two strings.
4180	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4181	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4182			*/
4183			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4184			{
4185			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4186			[...]
4187	root	1.387	%
4188	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4189	root	1.387	%
4190	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4191	root	1.387	%
4192	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4193			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4194			Get_Colours ();
4195	root	1.387	%
4196	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4197	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4198			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4199			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4200			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4201			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4202			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4203			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4204			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4205	root	1.161	[...]
4206			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4207			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4208			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4209			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4210			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4211	root	1.387	%
4212	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4213			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4214	root	1.387	%
4215	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4216			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4217	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4218	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4219			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4220			#endif
4221	root	1.387	%
4222	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4223			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4224			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4225	root	1.387	%
4226	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4227			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4228			>
4229			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4230
4231			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4232			--
4233			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4234	root	1.387	%
4235	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4236			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4237			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4238			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4239			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4240			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4241			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4242	root	1.387	%
4243	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4244			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4245	root	1.387	%
4246	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4247	root	1.387	%
4248	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4249			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4250			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4251			-- Robert Fisk
4252	root	1.387	%
4253	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4254			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4255	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4256			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4257	root	1.387	%
4258	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4259			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4260			high-violence culture"
4261			[...]
4262			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4263			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4264			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4265			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4266			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4267			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4268			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4269			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4270
4271			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4272			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4273	root	1.387	%
4274	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4275			Subject: Re: [...]
4276
4277			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4278
4279			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4280			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4281			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4282			> saved it :)
4283
4284			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4285			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4286			[...]
4287	root	1.387	%
4288	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4289			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4290			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4291			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4292			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4293
4294			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4295			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4296			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4297			[...]
4298	root	1.387	%
4299	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4300	root	1.387	%
4301	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4302	root	1.387	%
4303	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4304	root	1.387	%
4305	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4306			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4307			claim to have decades of java experience]
4308			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4309			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4310			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4311			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4312	root	1.387	%
4313	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4314	root	1.387	%
4315	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4316	root	1.387	%
4317	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4318	root	1.387	%
4319	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4320			[mail not to be delivered]
4321			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4322	root	1.247	>
4323	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4324
4325			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4326			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4327	root	1.387	%
4328	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4329
4330			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4331			>
4332			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4333			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4334			> >
4335			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4336			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4337			> > language which does support this?
4338			>
4339
4340			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4341
4342			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4343			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4344			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4345			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4346			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4347			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4348	root	1.387	%
4349	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4350			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4351			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4352	root	1.387	%
4353	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4354			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4355			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4356
4357			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4358			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4359			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4360			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4361			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4362
4363			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4364			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4365			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4366			and thwart them that way.
4367	root	1.387	%
4368	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4369			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4370			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4371			unfortunate decision.
4372	root	1.387	%
4373	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4374	root	1.146	fest ;)
4375	root	1.387	%
4376	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4377
4378			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4379	root	1.387	%
4380	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4381	root	1.387	%
4382	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4383			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4384	root	1.387	%
4385	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4386
4387			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4388			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4389			local object as a "he":
4390
4391			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4392			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4393			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4394			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4395			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4396			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4397			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4398			EX-PARROT!"
4399
4400			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4401	root	1.387	%
4402	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4403			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4404	root	1.387	%
4405	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4406			The police will shoot you.
4407
4408			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4409			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4410
4411	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4412	root	1.387	%
4413	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4414			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4415			reply.
4416
4417			pls. cc my email address
4418
4419			tia
4420			pd
4421
4422
4423	root	1.247	--
4424	root	1.141	^X^C
4425			q
4426			quit
4427			:q
4428			^C
4429			end
4430			x
4431			exit
4432			ZZ
4433			^D
4434			?
4435			help
4436			shit
4437			.
4438	root	1.387	%
4439	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4440	root	1.387	%
4441	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4442			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4443			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4444			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4445	root	1.387	%
4446	root	1.140	[I love it]
4447			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4448			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4449	root	1.387	%
4450	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4451			- Douglas Adams
4452	root	1.387	%
4453	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4454			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4455			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4456			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4457
4458	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4459			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4460			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4461			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4462			their software properly.
4463	root	1.138
4464			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4465			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4466			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4467			told the publication.
4468
4469	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4470			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4471			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4472			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4473			who want visibility and glory.
4474	root	1.387	%
4475	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4476
4477			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4478
4479			x Try not using it.
4480	root	1.387	%
4481	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4482			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4483			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4484			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4485			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4486			had given.
4487
4488			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4489			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4490			person as well."
4491	root	1.387	%
4492	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4493	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4494			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4495	root	1.387	%
4496	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4497	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4498	root	1.134
4499			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4500	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4501	root	1.135	[...]
4502	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4503	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4504	root	1.135	[...]
4505			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4506			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4507	root	1.387	%
4508	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4509	root	1.387	%
4510	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4511			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4512			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4513			-- Ulrich Drepper
4514	root	1.387	%
4515	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4516			-- Ulrich Drepper
4517	root	1.387	%
4518	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4519			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4520	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4521	root	1.387	%
4522	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4523			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4524			-- Ulrich Drepper
4525	root	1.387	%
4526	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4527			-- Ulrich Drepper
4528	root	1.387	%
4529	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4530	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4531			zuverlässiger
4532	root	1.387	%
4533	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4534			/*
4535			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4536			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4537			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4538			*/
4539	root	1.387	%
4540	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4541			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4542			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4543			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4544			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4545	root	1.387	%
4546	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4547			Pirating Movies
4548
4549			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4550			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4551			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4552	root	1.387	%
4553	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4554			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4555	root	1.387	%
4556	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4557			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4558	root	1.387	%
4559	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4560			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4561			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4562			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4563			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4564	root	1.387	%
4565	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4566			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4567			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4568			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4569			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4570
4571			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4572			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4573
4574			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4575			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4576			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4577			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4578			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4579			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4580			the first place!
4581	root	1.387	%
4582	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4583			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4584			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4585	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4586	root	1.387	%
4587	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4588			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4589	root	1.387	%
4590	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4591			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4592	root	1.387	%
4593	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4594			platform."
4595			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4596	root	1.387	%
4597	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4598			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4599			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4600			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4601			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4602	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4603	root	1.387	%
4604	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4605			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4606	root	1.387	%
4607	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4608			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4609			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4610			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4611			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4612			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4613			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4614			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4615			daily.
4616	root	1.387	%
4617	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4618	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4619			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4620	root	1.387	%
4621	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4622			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4623			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4624			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4625			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4626			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4627			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4628	root	1.387	%
4629	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4630	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4631	root	1.387	%
4632	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4633			[...so it must be good]
4634			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4635	root	1.387	%
4636	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4637			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4638			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4639	root	1.387	%
4640	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4641			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4642			No idea why I announce it here...
4643	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4644	root	1.387	%
4645	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4646			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4647	root	1.387	%
4648	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4649	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4650	root	1.387	%
4651	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4652			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4653			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4654			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4655			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4656
4657			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4658			Sacha.
4659	root	1.387	%
4660	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4661			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4662			desk one morning:
4663
4664			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4665
4666			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4667
4668			Employee: 123456
4669
4670			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4671			photograph of the employee.]
4672
4673			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4674			identification which has your picture on it?
4675
4676			Employee: Why would you need that?
4677
4678			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4679
4680			Employee: A picture of my face?
4681
4682			Security Guard: Yes
4683
4684			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4685
4686			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4687			compare against this one.
4688	root	1.387	%
4689	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4690			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4691			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4692	root	1.387	%
4693	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4694			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4695			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4696
4697			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4698			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4699	root	1.387	%
4700	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4701	root	1.387	%
4702	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4703			"RV K-17"
4704	root	1.387	%
4705	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4706			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4707	root	1.387	%
4708	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4709			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4710			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4711			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4712	root	1.387	%
4713	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4714			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4715	root	1.387	%
4716	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4717	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4718			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4719	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4720	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4721			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4722	root	1.387	%
4723	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4724	root	1.387	%
4725	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4726			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4727	root	1.387	%
4728	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4729			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4730			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4731			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4732	root	1.387	%
4733	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4734			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4735			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4736			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4737			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4738			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4739			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4740			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4741			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4742			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4743			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4744			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4745			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4746			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4747			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4748			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4749			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4750			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4751			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4752	root	1.387	%
4753	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4754			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4755	root	1.387	%
4756	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4757			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4758	root	1.387	%
4759	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4760			Lester Moore,
4761			Shot in the head with a .44.
4762			No Les, no more.
4763	root	1.387	%
4764	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4765			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4766
4767			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4768			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4769	root	1.387	%
4770	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4771			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4772			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4773	root	1.387	%
4774	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4775			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4776			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4777			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4778			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4779	root	1.112	[...]
4780			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4781			[...]
4782			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4783			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4784			the result with SHA.
4785	root	1.387	%
4786	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4787	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4788			> ist!
4789	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4790			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4791	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4792	root	1.387	%
4793	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4794			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4795	root	1.387	%
4796	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4797	root	1.387	%
4798	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4799			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4800			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4801			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4802			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4803			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4804	root	1.387	%
4805	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4806			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4807	root	1.387	%
4808	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4809			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4810	root	1.387	%
4811	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4812			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4813	root	1.387	%
4814	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4815
4816			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4817			* control history, is that we should at least
4818			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4819			* "initialisation"? */
4820			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4821	root	1.387	%
4822	root	1.105	[man pem]
4823			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4824	root	1.387	%
4825	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4826
4827			/* ``If you can't do it in
4828	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4829	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4830	root	1.387	%
4831	root	1.104	[subculture]
4832	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4833			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4834	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4835
4836			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4837	root	1.424	%
4838	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4839			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4840	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4841	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4842	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4843	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4844			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4845	root	1.387	%
4846	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4847	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4848			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4849			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4850	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4851	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4852			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4853			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4854	root	1.387	%
4855	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4856			aber wenig freude.
4857	root	1.387	%
4858	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4859			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4860			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4861			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4862			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4863			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4864			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4865			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4866			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4867			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4868	root	1.387	%
4869	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4870			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4871	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4872			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4873	root	1.387	%
4874	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4875			don't work well in practise.
4876			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4877	root	1.387	%
4878	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4879			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4880			"ready, fire, aim."
4881	root	1.387	%
4882	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4883			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4884			free countries like Germany [1].
4885			[...]
4886			Regards
4887			Henning
4888
4889			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4890			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4891			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4892	root	1.387	%
4893	root	1.98	[...]
4894			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4895			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4896			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4897			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4898			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4899			[...]
4900			Wolfgang Walter
4901	root	1.387	%
4902	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4903			burro: it seemed very clever
4904			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4905			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4906			burro: oops
4907			burro: accidental poetry
4908	root	1.387	%
4909	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4910			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4911			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4912	root	1.387	%
4913	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4914			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4915	root	1.387	%
4916	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4917			-- Oscar Wilde
4918	root	1.387	%
4919	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4920			"guilty until proven innocent"
4921			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4922	root	1.387	%
4923	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4924			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4925			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4926			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4927			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4928			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4929			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4930			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4931			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4932			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4933			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4934			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4935			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4936			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4937			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4938	root	1.387	%
4939	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4940			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4941			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4942			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4943			// suit particular needs.
4944			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4945	root	1.387	%
4946	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4947			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4948			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4949	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4950	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4951	root	1.387	%
4952	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4953			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4954	root	1.387	%
4955	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4956			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4957	root	1.387	%
4958	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4959			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4960			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4961	root	1.387	%
4962	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4963			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4964	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4965			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4966	root	1.387	%
4967	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4968
4969			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4970			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4971			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4972			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4973			is not [...]
4974	root	1.387	%
4975	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4976	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4977			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4978	root	1.387	%
4979	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4980			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4981
4982	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4983	root	1.94
4984			GUI
4985			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4986			Globale Variable
4987	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4988	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4989			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4990			strukturiert
4991			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4992			Multithreaded
4993	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4994	root	1.94	Windows 95
4995	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4996	root	1.94	Emacs
4997	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4998			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4999			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5000	root	1.94	IPv6
5001			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5002			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5003			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5004			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5005	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5006			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5007	root	1.247	PHP
5008	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5009	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5010	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5011			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5012	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5013	root	1.94	Bunt.
5014	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5015			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5016			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5017	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5018	root	1.387	%
5019	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5020			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5021	root	1.387	%
5022	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5023	root	1.387	%
5024	root	1.93	[nah]
5025			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5026			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5027			paint dry."
5028	root	1.387	%
5029	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5030			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5031			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5032	root	1.387	%
5033	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5034	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5035			importance.
5036	root	1.387	%
5037	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5038			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5039			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5040			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5041
5042			You have to trust Microsoft.
5043
5044			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5045			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5046			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5047			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5048			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5049			useless chrome.
5050
5051			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5052			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5053			I'd like to trust them with.
5054	root	1.93	[...]
5055	root	1.387	%
5056	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5057			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5058			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5059			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5060			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5061	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5062	root	1.91	--------------^
5063	root	1.387	%
5064	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5065			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5066			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5067			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5068			English grammar, I assure you.
5069	root	1.387	%
5070	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5071			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5072			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5073			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5074			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5075			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5076			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5077
5078			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5079			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5080			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5081			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5082			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5083			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5084			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5085			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5086			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5087			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5088
5089			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5090			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5091			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5092			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5093
5094			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5095			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5096	root	1.387	%
5097	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5098			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5099			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5100			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5101			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5102			work etc first:
5103
5104			#include <stdio.h>
5105
5106			int main (void) {
5107			while (1)
5108			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5109
5110			return 0;
5111			}
5112	root	1.387	%
5113	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5114			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5115	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5116	root	1.387	%
5117	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5118			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5119			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5120			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5121	root	1.387	%
5122	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5123			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5124			proprietary and patentend technology.
5125	root	1.387	%
5126	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5127	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5128	root	1.387	%
5129	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5130	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5131	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5132			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5133			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5134	root	1.387	%
5135	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5136			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5137	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5138	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5139			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5140	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5141	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5142	root	1.87
5143	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5144			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5145			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5146			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5147			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5148			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5149	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5150			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5151
5152	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5153			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5154			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5155			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5156			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5157			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5158			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5159			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5160			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5161			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5162	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5163	root	1.387	%
5164	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5165			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5166	root	1.387	%
5167	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5168			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5169			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5170	root	1.387	%
5171	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5172			"linux" thing will fail]
5173			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5174			[...]
5175	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5176	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5177			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5178			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5179
5180			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5181			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5182			life to the public good.
5183
5184			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5185			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5186			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5187			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5188			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5189
5190			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5191			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5192			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5193			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5194			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5195			software to work on the linux kernel!
5196
5197			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5198			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5199			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5200			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5201			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5202	root	1.387	%
5203	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5204	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5205			[...]
5206			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5207	root	1.387	%
5208	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5209			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5210			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5211			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5212	root	1.387	%
5213	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5214	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5215			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5216			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5217			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5218			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5219	root	1.387	%
5220	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5221			-- Leonard Brandwein
5222	root	1.387	%
5223	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5224	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5225			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5226			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5227			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5228			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5229			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5230			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5231			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5232			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5233			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5234			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5235	root	1.387	%
5236	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5237			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5238	root	1.387	%
5239	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5240			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5241			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5242			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5243			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5244			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5245			jurisprudence fun?
5246			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5247	root	1.387	%
5248	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5249			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5250			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5251	root	1.84	[...]
5252	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5253	root	1.387	%
5254	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5255			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5256			- Paul Ginsparg.
5257	root	1.387	%
5258	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5259			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5260			home.":))
5261			[erm...]
5262	root	1.387	%
5263	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5264
5265	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5266	root	1.387	%
5267	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5268	root	1.387	%
5269	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5270
5271			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5272			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5273			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5274			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5275	root	1.387	%
5276	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5277			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5278			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5279	root	1.387	%
5280	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5281	root	1.83
5282			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5283	root	1.82
5284			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5285			to use in future emails?
5286	root	1.387	%
5287	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5288			please?
5289
5290			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5291			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5292
5293	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5294	root	1.387	%
5295	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5296			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5297			last until February 16th 2003.
5298
5299			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5300			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5301			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5302			end.
5303
5304			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5305
5306			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5307			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5308			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5309			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5310			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5311			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5312			take place on October 27th.
5313
5314			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5315			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5316			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5317			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5318			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5319			the clock)...
5320	root	1.387	%
5321	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5322			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5323			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5324			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5325			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5326
5327			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5328			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5329			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5330			RedHat and SuSE).
5331
5332			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5333
5334			Pavel
5335	root	1.387	%
5336	root	1.81	Rik
5337	root	1.247	--
5338	root	1.81	A: No.
5339			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5340	root	1.387	%
5341	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5342	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5343			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5344	root	1.81
5345			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5346			no useful data.
5347
5348	root	1.247	--
5349	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5350	root	1.387	%
5351	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5352			there was a long do..while construct,
5353			which contained a switch statement,
5354			which contained an if clause,
5355			which contained a break,
5356			which was intended for the if clause,
5357			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5358
5359			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5360			network January 15, 1990
5361	root	1.387	%
5362	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5363
5364	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5365			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5366			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5367			violation of network policies.
5368	root	1.80
5369			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5370
5371			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5372			The format is as follows:
5373
5374			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5375	root	1.387	%
5376	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5377			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5378			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5379	root	1.387	%
5380	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5381			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5382			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5383			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5384			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5385			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5386			...
5387			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5388			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5389			the effort."
5390	root	1.387	%
5391	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5392	root	1.387	%
5393	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5394			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5395	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5396	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5397			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5398	root	1.387	%
5399	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5400	root	1.387	%
5401	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5402	root	1.387	%
5403	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5404			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5405			[Albert Cahalan]
5406	root	1.387	%
5407	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5408			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5409			least as bad, but lesser known.
5410	root	1.387	%
5411	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5412			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5413			different.
5414	root	1.387	%
5415	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.
5416	root	1.387	%
5417	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5418			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5419	root	1.387	%
5420	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5421			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5422			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5423			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5424			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5425			without a show.
5426	root	1.387	%
5427	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5428	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5429	root	1.387	%
5430	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5431	root	1.387	%
5432	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5433			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5434	root	1.387	%
5435	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5436			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5437			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5438	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5439	root	1.71	going on.
5440			[...]
5441	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5442			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5443			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5444	root	1.387	%
5445	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5446			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5447	root	1.387	%
5448	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5449	root	1.387	%
5450	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5451	root	1.387	%
5452	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5453			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5454			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5455	root	1.387	%
5456	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5457			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5458			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5459			returned data.
5460
5461	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5462			FindExInfoStandard
5463			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5464	root	1.387	%
5465	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5466	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5467			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5468	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5469	root	1.387	%
5470	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5471			it doesn't work:]
5472			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5473			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5474			this MIME type as the final determination.
5475	root	1.387	%
5476	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5477
5478			Recode 0.1.1
5479			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5480
5481			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5482			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5483
5484			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5485	root	1.387	%
5486	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5487	root	1.387	%
5488	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5489	root	1.387	%
5490	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5491
5492			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5493			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5494			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5495			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5496			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5497			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5498			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5499			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5500			century."
5501
5502			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5503			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5504			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5505			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5506			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5507			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5508			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5509			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5510			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5511			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5512			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5513			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5514			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5515			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5516
5517			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5518			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5519			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5520			hilarious in light of the above.
5521			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5522
5523			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5524			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5525			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5526			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5527			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5528			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5529			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5530
5531			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5532			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5533			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5534			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5535	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5536	root	1.387	%
5537	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5538	root	1.387	%
5539	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5540			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5541	root	1.387	%
5542	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5543			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5544			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5545
5546			Tony Hoare
5547	root	1.387	%
5548	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5549			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5550	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5551	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5552	root	1.387	%
5553	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5554
5555			[...]
5556			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5557			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5558			system. Basically its windows computer
5559	root	1.387	%
5560	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5561	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5562	root	1.387	%
5563	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5564
5565			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5566			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5567			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5568			> software developers...
5569
5570			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5571	root	1.387	%
5572	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5573			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5574			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5575			>
5576			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5577
5578			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5579			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5580
5581			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5582			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5583
5584			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5585			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5586			off by throwing away the patch.
5587
5588			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5589			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5590			patch any time soon.
5591
5592			--
5593			Daniel
5594	root	1.387	%
5595	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5596			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5597			[...]
5598			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5599			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5600			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5601	root	1.387	%
5602	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5603
5604			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5605			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5606			Is it realy needed?
5607	root	1.387	%
5608	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5609
5610			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5611
5612			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5613			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5614			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5615	root	1.387	%
5616	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5617			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5618			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5619			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5620			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5621			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5622			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5623	root	1.387	%
5624	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5625
5626			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5627			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5628			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5629			>
5630			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5631
5632			This is an ex-parrot
5633	root	1.387	%
5634	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5635
5636			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5637			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5638			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5639			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5640			>
5641			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5642			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5643
5644			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5645
5646			while (!sorted(data))
5647			;
5648	root	1.387	%
5649	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5650			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5651
5652			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5653
5654			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5655			to computing
5656	root	1.387	%
5657	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5658
5659			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5660			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5661
5662			Common sense, one would hope.
5663	root	1.387	%
5664	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5665			[...]
5666
5667			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5668			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5669			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5670
5671			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5672
5673			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5674			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5675			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5676			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5677
5678			:-)
5679	root	1.387	%
5680	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5681			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5682			their C programs."
5683	root	1.60
5684			Robert Firth
5685	root	1.387	%
5686	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5687	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5688	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5689			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5690	root	1.387	%
5691	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5692	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5693	root	1.387	%
5694	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5695			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5696	root	1.387	%
5697	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5698	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5699	root	1.387	%
5700	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5701	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5702			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5703	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5704			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5705	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5706			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5707
5708			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5709
5710			\Gisbert
5711	root	1.387	%
5712	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5713	root	1.387	%
5714	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5715			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5716			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5717	root	1.387	%
5718	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5719			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5720
5721			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5722			[...]
5723	root	1.387	%
5724	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5725			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5726			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5727
5728			ok 1
5729			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5730			not ok 2
5731			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5732	root	1.387	%
5733	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5734
5735			Cheers,
5736
5737			Andre Hedrick
5738			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5739	root	1.387	%
5740	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5741	root	1.247	>
5742	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5743
5744			Or mutabloat :-(
5745	root	1.387	%
5746	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5747			Outlook IS the solution.
5748	root	1.387	%
5749	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5750	root	1.387	%
5751	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5752
5753			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5754			never bought anything from UUNet.
5755	root	1.387	%
5756	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5757			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5758			by delving below its surface meaning)
5759	root	1.387	%
5760	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5761	root	1.387	%
5762	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5763
5764			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5765			> just go to court and say:
5766
5767			Oh glorious naivety.
5768
5769			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5770			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5771			> can do the work better than I).
5772
5773			You release the code
5774
5775			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5776
5777			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5778			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5779			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5780			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5781
5782			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5783			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5784
5785			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5786			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5787
5788			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5789
5790			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5791			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5792			or that the good guys win.
5793
5794			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5795			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5796	root	1.387	%
5797	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5798
5799			[...]
5800			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5801			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5802	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5803	root	1.51	year to kill.
5804	root	1.387	%
5805	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5806			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5807
5808			[...]
5809			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5810			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5811			of for Windows desktop systems."
5812			[...]
5813			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5814			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5815			[...]
5816			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5817			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5818			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5819			turned on by default.
5820			[...]
5821			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5822			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5823			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5824			[...]
5825			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5826			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5827			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5828			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5829			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5830			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5831			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5832			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5833			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5834	root	1.387	%
5835	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5836	root	1.387	%
5837	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5838	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5839	root	1.49
5840			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5841
5842			Monday, 06. November 2000
5843	root	1.387	%
5844	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5845			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5846	root	1.387	%
5847	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5848	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5849			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5850			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5851	root	1.387	%
5852	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5853			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5854			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5855			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5856	root	1.387	%
5857	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5858			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5859
5860			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5861			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5862			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5863	root	1.387	%
5864	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5865			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5866
5867			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5868			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5869			> dropped patches.
5870
5871			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5872	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5873	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5874			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5875			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5876			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5877	root	1.387	%
5878	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5879			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5880			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5881	root	1.387	%
5882	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5883
5884			From: Bill Huey
5885			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5886
5887			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5888
5889			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5890	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5891	root	1.45	themselves.
5892
5893			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5894			certain.
5895	root	1.387	%
5896	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5897			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5898			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5899
5900			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5901			appropriate approach to a problem.
5902	root	1.387	%
5903	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5904	root	1.44	^^^^
5905			[...]
5906			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5907			[...]
5908			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5909			-15 Nice winter day
5910			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5911			-5 Nice warm winter day
5912			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5913	root	1.387	%
5914	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5915			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5916			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5917			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5918	root	1.387	%
5919	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5920			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5921
5922			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5923
5924			-ben
5925	root	1.387	%
5926	root	1.43	[...]
5927	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5928			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5929			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5930			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5931			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5932			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5933			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5934			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5935			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5936			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5937			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5938	root	1.387	%
5939	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5940			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5941	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5942	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5943			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5944			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5945			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5946			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5947			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5948	root	1.43	statt...
5949	root	1.387	%
5950	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5951	root	1.387	%
5952	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5953			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5954			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5955			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5956			values." Who writes this stuff?
5957	root	1.387	%
5958	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5959	root	1.387	%
5960	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5961			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5962			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5963			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5964			> "Macao".
5965			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5966			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5967	root	1.387	%
5968	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5969	root	1.387	%
5970	root	1.40	Beitrag
5971	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5972	root	1.40
5973			fucklinux
5974
5975			IP: 217.83.123.198
5976
5977			1. FUCK LINUX
5978
5979	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5980	root	1.40
5981			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5982	root	1.387	%
5983	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5984	root	1.40
5985			[...]
5986			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5987			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5988			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5989			read...
5990	root	1.387	%
5991	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5992			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5993			depends on the unreasonable man.
5994
5995			-George Bernard Shaw
5996	root	1.387	%
5997	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5998
5999			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6000	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6001	root	1.387	%
6002	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:
6003	root	1.387	%
6004	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
6005			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6006			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6007			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6008			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6009	root	1.387	%
6010	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6011			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6012	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6013	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6014			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6015	root	1.387	%
6016	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6017			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6018			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6019			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6020			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6021			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6022			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6023			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).
6024			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6025			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6026	root	1.387	%
6027	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6028			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6029			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6030			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6031			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6032			removed in Windows XP.
6033
6034			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6035			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6036			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6037			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6038	root	1.387	%
6039	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6040			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6041			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6042			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6043			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6044			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6045			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6046			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6047			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6048			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6049
6050			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6051			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6052			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6053			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6054			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6055			you have no details?
6056			[...]
6057			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6058			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6059			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6060			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6061			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6062			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6063			the industrial terrorists want."
6064	root	1.387	%
6065	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6066			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6067	root	1.387	%
6068	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6069	root	1.387	%
6070	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6071			of each 50 days
6072	root	1.387	%
6073	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6074
6075			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6076			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6077			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6078	root	1.387	%
6079	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6080			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6081			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6082	root	1.387	%
6083	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6084			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6085	root	1.247	>
6086	root	1.35	> <...>
6087			>
6088			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6089			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6090			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6091	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6092	root	1.387	%
6093	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6094			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6095			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6096	root	1.387	%
6097	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6098			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6099			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6100
6101	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6102			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6103			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6104			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6105			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6106			changing run level, interactive boot.
6107	root	1.35
6108			Alan
6109	root	1.387	%
6110	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6111
6112			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6113			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6114
6115			First they came for the Communists,
6116			and I didn't speak up,
6117			because I wasn't a Communist.
6118			Then they came for the Jews,
6119			and I didn't speak up,
6120			because I wasn't a Jew.
6121			Then they came for the Catholics,
6122			and I didn't speak up,
6123			because I was a Protestant.
6124			Then they came for me,
6125			and by that time there was no one
6126			left to speak up for me.
6127
6128			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6129	root	1.387	%
6130	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6131	root	1.387	%
6132	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6133			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6134	root	1.387	%
6135	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6136			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6137			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6138			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6139
6140			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6141	root	1.387	%
6142	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6143
6144			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6145			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6146			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6147			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6148			used databases!"
6149	root	1.387	%
6150	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6151
6152			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6153
6154			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6155			change that was not?
6156			[...]
6157	root	1.387	%
6158	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6159
6160			[...]
6161
6162	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6163	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6164			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6165
6166	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6167	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6168			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6169			them anywhere else").
6170
6171			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6172			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6173	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6174	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6175			order..
6176
6177	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6178	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6179	root	1.387	%
6180	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6181			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6182			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6183
6184			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6185	root	1.387	%
6186	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6187	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6188			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6189			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6190			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6191	root	1.387	%
6192	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6193			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6194
6195			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6196			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6197			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6198			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6199			series.
6200
6201			[...]
6202	root	1.387	%
6203	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6204	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6205	root	1.387	%
6206	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6207			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6208			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6209
6210			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6211			then save." g
6212
6213			/* Steinar */
6214	root	1.387	%
6215	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6216			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6217
6218			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6219			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6220			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6221			a bill...
6222	root	1.387	%
6223	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6224			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6225			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6226
6227			Sorry. Mea culpa
6228
6229			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6230			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6231			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6232			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6233			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6234			*/
6235			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6236			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6237			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6238			int fpu_exception;
6239	root	1.387	%
6240	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6241
6242			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6243
6244			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6245			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6246			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6247			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6248			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6249	root	1.387	%
6250	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6251
6252			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6253			people.
6254	root	1.387	%
6255	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6256			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6257
6258			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6259			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6260			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6261			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6262			the question.
6263			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6264	root	1.387	%
6265	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6266			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6267			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6268			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6269			(September)
6270	root	1.387	%
6271	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6272	root	1.387	%
6273	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6274			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6275			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6276			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6277			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6278	root	1.387	%
6279	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6280			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6281	root	1.387	%
6282	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6283			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6284			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6285			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6286			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6287	root	1.387	%
6288	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6289	root	1.387	%
6290	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6291	root	1.387	%
6292	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6293			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6294			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6295			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6296			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6297			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6298			you tell them.
6299	root	1.387	%
6300	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6301			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6302			alcohol.
6303
6304			Regards
6305			Henning
6306	root	1.387	%
6307	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6308			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6309			> on a desktop system.
6310
6311			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6312			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6313
6314			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6315			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6316
6317			Alan
6318	root	1.387	%
6319	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6320			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6321
6322			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6323			>
6324			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6325			> Use Welsh
6326
6327			Don't forget
6328
6329			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6330			Use Finnish
6331
6332			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6333
6334			And while we're at it,
6335
6336			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6337			Use German
6338
6339			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6340			Use English
6341
6342			MfG Kai
6343	root	1.387	%
6344	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6345
6346			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6347			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6348			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6349			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6350			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6351			there's no one thinking there.
6352			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6353	root	1.387	%
6354	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6355			scores the rules:
6356
6357			[*]
6358			Score:: =-9999
6359	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6360	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6361			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6362			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6363			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6364
6365			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6366			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6367			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6368			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6369			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6370
6371			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6372			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6373			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6374			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6375	root	1.387	%
6376	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6377			98 IIS servers online...
6378	root	1.387	%
6379	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6380			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6381			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6382			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6383
6384			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6385			it to be otherwise.
6386
6387			Abigail
6388	root	1.387	%
6389	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6390	root	1.387	%
6391	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6392	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6393	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6394	root	1.387	%
6395	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6396	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6397	root	1.387	%
6398	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6399			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6400			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6401			software people doing the same)
6402
6403			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6404			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6405			irrelevant
6406
6407			Alan
6408	root	1.387	%
6409	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6410			Comments may nest.
6411	root	1.387	%
6412	root	1.22	[from findas]
6413			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6414			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6415			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6416			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6417			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6418			# address distributino is... arin.
6419	root	1.387	%
6420	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6421			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6422	root	1.387	%
6423	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6424			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6425			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6426			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6427			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6428	root	1.247	>
6429	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6430
6431			$foot->insert($mouth);
6432
6433			# or is that
6434
6435			$mouth->insert($foot);
6436
6437			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6438			How utterly optimistic :-)
6439	root	1.387	%
6440	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6441			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6442			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6443			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6444			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6445			>can see why it happens)
6446			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6447
6448			Well, there's perl... :)
6449	root	1.387	%
6450	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6451			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6452			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6453			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6454			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6455	root	1.247	* boxes.
6456	root	1.387	%
6457	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6458			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6459			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6460	root	1.387	%
6461	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6462			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6463	root	1.387	%
6464	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6465			From: Juergen Christoffel
6466			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6467			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6468
6469			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6470
6471			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6472			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6473			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6474			schon;
6475
6476			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6477			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6478			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6479
6480			Danke, JC
6481	root	1.387	%
6482	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6483			#undef REASONABLE
6484	root	1.387	%
6485	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6486			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6487
6488			Alan
6489	root	1.387	%
6490	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6491			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6492			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6493			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6494	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6495	root	1.18	> anything.
6496
6497			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6498			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6499	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6500			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6501	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6502			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6503
6504			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6505			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6506			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6507			always a good idea.
6508	root	1.387	%
6509	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6510			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6511
6512	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6513	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6514	root	1.387	%
6515	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6516			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6517			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6518			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6519	root	1.387	%
6520	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6521	root	1.387	%
6522	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6523	root	1.18
6524			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6525			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6526	root	1.387	%
6527	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6528			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6529			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6530			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6531	root	1.387	%
6532	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6533	root	1.387	%
6534	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6535			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6536			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6537			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6538			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6539			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6540	root	1.387	%
6541	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6542
6543			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6544			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6545			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6546			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6547			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6548			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6549			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6550	root	1.387	%
6551	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6552			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6553			future. Bleeeh]
6554
6555			From: Larry McVoy
6556
6557	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6558	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6559			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6560			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6561			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6562			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6563			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6564			not for the exceptional case.
6565	root	1.387	%
6566	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6567			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6568			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6569			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6570			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6571			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6572			stack.
6573
6574			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6575			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6576			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6577
6578			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6579			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6580	root	1.387	%
6581	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6582
6583	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6584			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6585			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6586			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6587	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6588	root	1.247	>
6589	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6590			> on the CPU?
6591
6592			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6593	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6594	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6595			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6596
6597			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6598			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6599			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6600			the point again".
6601	root	1.387	%
6602	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6603
6604	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6605			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6606	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6607	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6608	root	1.247	>
6609	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6610			> scenario.
6611
6612			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6613	root	1.387	%
6614	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6615	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6616			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6617			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6618	root	1.387	%
6619	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6620			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6621			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6622			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6623			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6624			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6625			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6626			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6627			anything.
6628	root	1.387	%
6629	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6630	root	1.387	%
6631	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6632			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6633	root	1.387	%
6634	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6635			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6636			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6637			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6638			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6639
6640			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6641	root	1.387	%
6642	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6643
6644			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6645
6646			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6647			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6648			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6649			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6650			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6651
6652			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6653			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6654			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6655			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6656			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6657			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6658			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6659			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6660			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6661			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6662			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6663			to work through the learning curve.
6664	root	1.387	%
6665	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6666	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6667	root	1.387	%
6668	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6669			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6670	root	1.387	%
6671	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6672			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6673	root	1.387	%
6674	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6675			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6676	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6677			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6678	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6679	root	1.387	%
6680	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6681	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6682	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6683	root	1.387	%
6684	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6685			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6686	root	1.387	%
6687	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6688			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6689			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6690			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6691			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6692			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6693			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6694			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6695
6696	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6697	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6698	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6699	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6700			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6701
6702			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6703			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6704			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6705			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6706			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6707			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6708			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6709	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6710	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6711			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6712			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6713	root	1.387	%
6714	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6715			/*---.
6716			\| ? \|
6717			`---*/
6718	root	1.387	%
6719	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6720	root	1.387	%
6721	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6722			From: Joe Buck
6723			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6724			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6725	root	1.387	%
6726	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6727			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6728	root	1.387	%
6729	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6730	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6731	root	1.387	%
6732	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6733	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6734	root	1.387	%
6735	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6736	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6737	root	1.4	...
6738			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6739	root	1.387	%
6740	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6741	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6742			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6743			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6744
6745			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6746
6747			Alan
6748	root	1.387	%
6749	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6750	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6751			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6752			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6753			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6754	root	1.387	%
6755	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6756	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6757			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6758			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6759			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6760			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6761			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6762	root	1.387	%
6763	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6764			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6765			will find an easier way to do it.
6766	root	1.387	%
6767	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6768	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6769			Paul wrote:
6770			>Marc wrote:
6771	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6772			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6773			> den richtigen.
6774	root	1.387	%
6775	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6776			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6777	root	1.387	%
6778	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6779			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6780	root	1.387	%
6781	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6782			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6783	root	1.387	%
6784	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6785			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6786			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6787			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6788			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6789	root	1.387	%
6790	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6791			[...]
6792
6793			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6794
6795			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6796	root	1.387	%
6797	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6798			> constants.
6799
6800			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6801	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6802	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6803	root	1.387	%
6804	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6805	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6806
6807			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6808			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6809			much to do with IRC.
6810	root	1.387	%
6811	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6812			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6813
6814			[...]
6815			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6816
6817			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6818			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6819	root	1.387	%
6820	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6821	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6822	root	1.387	%
6823	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6824
6825			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6826			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6827			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6828
6829			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6830			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6831			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6832			shows how much you know, pal.
6833
6834			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6835	root	1.387	%
6836	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6837			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6838			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6839	root	1.387	%
6840	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6841			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6842			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6843			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6844	root	1.387	%
6845	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6846			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6847			Your version of perl sucks.
6848	root	1.387	%
6849	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6850			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6851			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6852			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6853			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6854			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6855			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6856			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6857	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6858	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6859			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6860	root	1.387	%
6861	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6862			before you can understand it :)
6863	root	1.387	%
6864	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6865			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6866			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6867	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6868	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6869			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6870			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6871
6872			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6873			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6874			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6875			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6876			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6877			be worth attempting).
6878
6879			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6880			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6881			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6882
6883			Nick.
6884	root	1.387	%
6885	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6886			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6887			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6888
6889	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6890	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6891			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6892			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6893			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6894	root	1.387	%
6895	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6896			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6897			> > > to work :-)
6898	root	1.247	> >
6899	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6900	root	1.247	>
6901	root	1.1	> Eh?
6902	root	1.247	>
6903	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6904			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6905
6906			He didn't say it worked. :)
6907	root	1.387	%
6908	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6909
6910			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6911			> I find it irksome that
6912	root	1.247	>
6913	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6914
6915			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6916	root	1.387	%
6917	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6918			From: Simon Cozens
6919
6920			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6921			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6922			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6923
6924			Looks like a feature to me.
6925	root	1.387	%
6926	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6927	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6928	root	1.387	%
6929	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6930			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6931
6932			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6933			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6934			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6935			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6936
6937			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6938			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6939			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6940			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6941			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6942			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6943	root	1.387	%
6944	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6945			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6946			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6947			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6948			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6949			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6950			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6951			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6952			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6953			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6954			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6955			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6956
6957			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6958			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6959			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6960
6961			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6962	root	1.387	%
6963	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6964			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6965			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6966			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6967			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6968			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6969			replication."
6970			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6971	root	1.387	%
6972	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6973			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6974
6975			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6976			shows.
6977
6978			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6979			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6980			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6981
6982			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6983			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6984			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6985			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6986			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6987
6988			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6989			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6990			up with a saner protocol.
6991	root	1.387	%
6992	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6993			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6994			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6995
6996			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6997			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6998			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6999	root	1.387	%
7000	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7001			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7002			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7003			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7004			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7005			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7006	root	1.387	%
7007	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7008			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7009	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7010			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7011			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7012			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7013	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7014	root	1.387	%
7015	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7016	root	1.387	%
7017	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7018			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7019	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7020	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7021	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7022	root	1.387	%
7023	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7024			"ist mir egal"
7025	root	1.387	%
7026	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7027			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7028
7029			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7030	root	1.387	%
7031	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7032			hallole
7033	root	1.387	%
7034	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7035			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7036			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7037	root	1.387	%
7038	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7039			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7040			1929 The pause that refreshes
7041			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7042			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7043			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7044			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7045			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7046			1939 Thirst stops here
7047			1942 It's the real thing
7048			1947 Have a Coke
7049			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7050			1963 Things go better with Coke
7051			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7052			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7053			1982 Coke is it!
7054			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7055	root	1.387	%
7056	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7057			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7058	root	1.387	%
7059	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7060			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7061	root	1.387	%
7062	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7063	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7064			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7065			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7066			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7067			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7068			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7069			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7070			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7071			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7072			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7073			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7074			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7075			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7076			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7077
7078			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7079			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7080	root	1.387	%
7081	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7082			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7083
7084			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7085			uncool thing to do. [...]
7086	root	1.387	%
7087	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7088			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7089			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7090	root	1.387	%
7091	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7092	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7093	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7094	root	1.1
7095	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7096			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7097			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7098			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7099	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7100			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7101	root	1.387	%
7102	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7103			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7104			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7105			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7106			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7107			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7108			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7109
7110			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7111			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7112			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7113	root	1.387	%
7114	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7115
7116			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7117	root	1.387	%
7118	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7119			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7120			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7121			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7122			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7123	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7124	root	1.387	%
7125	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7126			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7127			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7128
7129			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7130			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7131
7132			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7133	root	1.387	%
7134	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7135	root	1.387	%
7136	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7137			From: Alan Cox
7138			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7139			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7140	root	1.247	>
7141			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7142	root	1.1
7143	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7144	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7145	root	1.387	%
7146	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7147			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7148			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7149
7150			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7151			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7152			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7153			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7154
7155			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7156
7157			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7158	root	1.387	%
7159	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7160	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7161			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7162	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7163	root	1.387	%
7164	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7165	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7166			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7167	root	1.387	%
7168	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7169			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7170	root	1.387	%
7171	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7172	root	1.387	%
7173	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7174			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7175			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7176	root	1.387	%
7177	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7178			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7179			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7180			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7181			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7182	root	1.387	%
7183	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7184	root	1.387	%
7185	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7186			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7187			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7188			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7189			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7190			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7191			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7192	root	1.387	%
7193	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7194			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7195	root	1.387	%
7196	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7197			perl:]
7198
7199			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7200
7201			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7202			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7203			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7204			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7205			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7206			disable the message and pray it works"]
7207	root	1.387	%
7208	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7209			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7210			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7211			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7212
7213			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7214			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7215			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7216			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7217			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7218	root	1.387	%
7219	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7220			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7221			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7222	root	1.387	%
7223	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7224			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7225			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7226			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7227			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7228	root	1.387	%
7229	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7230			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7231			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7232	root	1.387	%
7233	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7234			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7235	root	1.387	%
7236	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7237			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7238	root	1.387	%
7239	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7240			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7241			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7242			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7243			> it's a hard requirement.
7244
7245			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7246			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7247			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7248			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7249			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7250			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7251			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7252			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7253	root	1.387	%
7254	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7255			> Netscape?"
7256	root	1.247
7257	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7258			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7259	root	1.387	%
7260	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7261			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7262			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7263			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7264			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7265			the specified task step-by-step.
7266	root	1.387	%
7267	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7268
7269			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7270			be damned hard to understand."
7271	root	1.387	%
7272	root	1.1	[Linus]
7273			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7274			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7275			wrong. It's that simple.
7276	root	1.387	%
7277	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7278	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7279	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7280			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7281			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7282	root	1.247	Undernet>
7283	root	1.387	%
7284	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7285			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7286			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7287			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7288
7289			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7290			document that contains an element or attribute named
7291	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7292	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7293			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7294			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7295			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7296			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7297			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7298	root	1.387	%
7299	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7300			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7301			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7302			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7303			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7304			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7305	root	1.387	%
7306	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7307			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7308			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7309			[... snip ...]
7310			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7311			tragedy...
7312	root	1.387	%
7313	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7314	root	1.247
7315	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7316			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7317			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7318			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7319			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7320			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7321			>message plus attorney's fees.
7322			[SNIP long sig]
7323	root	1.247
7324	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7325			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7326			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7327	root	1.247
7328	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7329			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7330			procmailable address.
7331	root	1.247
7332	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7333			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7334			just a waste of bandwidth.
7335	root	1.387	%
7336	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7337	root	1.387	%
7338	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7339			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7340	root	1.387	%
7341	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7342	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7343	root	1.387	%
7344	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7345	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7346			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7347			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7348	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7349	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7350			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7351			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7352			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7353	root	1.387	%
7354	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7355	root	1.387	%
7356	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7357	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7358	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7359	root	1.387	%
7360	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7361			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7362			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7363			immediately and not block the calling process.
7364
7365			the man pages are wrong
7366
7367			--cw
7368	root	1.387	%
7369	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7370			...
7371			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7372	root	1.387	%
7373	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7374			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7375	root	1.387	%
7376	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7377			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7378			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7379
7380			How fast does it oops?
7381	root	1.387	%
7382	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7383
7384			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7385			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7386			> touch is 2Gig.
7387
7388			In theory, yes.
7389			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7390			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7391	root	1.387	%
7392	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7393			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7394			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7395			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7396			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7397			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7398			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7399			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7400			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7401			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7402			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7403			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7404			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7405			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7406			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7407			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7408	root	1.387	%
7409	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7410	root	1.387	%
7411	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7412			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7413			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7414			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7415			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7416	root	1.387	%
7417	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7418			[Lukas Grunwald]
7419	root	1.387	%
7420	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7421			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7422			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7423			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7424
7425			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7426			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7427			> > prompt.
7428			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7429			> /proc/info/authors?
7430	root	1.247
7431	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7432			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7433			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7434			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7435			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7436			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7437	root	1.247
7438	root	1.1	NOT.
7439			[...]
7440	root	1.387	%
7441	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7442			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7443			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7444	root	1.247
7445	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7446			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7447			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7448			> an interesting experiment.
7449	root	1.247
7450	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7451			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7452			to disagree...
7453	root	1.387	%
7454	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7455			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7456			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7457			[und Lukas sagt:]
7458			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7459	root	1.387	%
7460	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7461			report:]
7462			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7463			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7464			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7465			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7466	root	1.387	%
7467	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7468			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7469	root	1.387	%
7470	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7471			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7472			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7473
7474			Alexander Viro wrote:
7475			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7476			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7477			>
7478			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7479			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7480			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7481			> UNIX.
7482
7483			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7484			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7485			docs... ew!
7486	root	1.387	%
7487	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7488			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7489			> protected mode?
7490
7491			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7492			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7493			registers loaded ;)
7494	root	1.387	%
7495	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7496			[...]
7497			> backports hurt forward progress.
7498
7499			beware of content free dogma
7500	root	1.387	%
7501	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7502			> wondering.
7503
7504			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7505			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7506			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7507			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7508			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7509			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7510			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7511
7512			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7513	root	1.387	%
7514	root	1.1	>Keith,
7515	root	1.247	>
7516	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7517			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7518			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7519
7520			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7521			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7522			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7523			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7524			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7525			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7526			do the right thing.
7527
7528			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7529			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7530			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7531			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7532			and they have to fix it.
7533	root	1.387	%
7534	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7535			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7536			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7537			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7538	root	1.387	%
7539	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7540			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7541	root	1.387	%
7542	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7543			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7544			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7545			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7546
7547			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7548			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7549	root	1.387	%
7550	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7551			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7552	root	1.387	%
7553	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7554			glibc-2.2 was released]
7555			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7556	root	1.387	%
7557	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7558	root	1.387	%
7559	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7560			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7561			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7562	root	1.387	%
7563	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7564			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7565			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7566	root	1.387	%
7567	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7568
7569			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7570			standards-compliant.
7571			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7572			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7573			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7574			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7575			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7576			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7577	root	1.387	%
7578	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7579			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7580			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7581
7582			That's your problem.
7583
7584			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7585
7586			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7587			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7588	root	1.387	%
7589	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7590			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7591			> > out there) in the foot?
7592
7593			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7594
7595			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7596			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7597			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7598	root	1.387	%
7599	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7600			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7601			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7602
7603			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7604			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7605			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7606			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7607			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7608			--
7609			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7610	root	1.387	%
7611	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7612
7613			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7614			>
7615			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7616			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7617			>
7618			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7619
7620			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7621	root	1.387	%
7622	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7623			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7624			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7625	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7626	root	1.387	%
7627	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7628			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7629			Bullschildt below ;)]
7630
7631			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7632			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7633	root	1.387	%
7634	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7635			>
7636			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7637			>
7638			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7639			>
7640			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7641	root	1.387	%
7642	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7643
7644			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7645			it did the same thing.
7646
7647			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7648			a week ago. :(
7649
7650			--Jack
7651	root	1.387	%
7652	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7653	root	1.387	%
7654	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7655			-- K&R
7656	root	1.387	%
7657	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7658	root	1.387	%
7659	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7660			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7661	root	1.387	%
7662	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7663	root	1.387	%
7664	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7665			$modules => { "" => "" };
7666	root	1.387	%
7667	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7668	root	1.387	%
7669	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7670	root	1.387	%
7671	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7672			> --
7673			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7674			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7675	root	1.387	%
7676	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7677			From: "David Schwartz"
7678
7679			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7680			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7681			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7682			> pretty spiffy.
7683
7684			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7685			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7686			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7687			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7688	root	1.387	%
7689	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7690	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7691	root	1.387	%
7692	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7693			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7694			> of having bough one.
7695
7696			Not an uncommon thought :)
7697	root	1.387	%
7698	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7699
7700			Hi Marc !
7701
7702			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7703			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7704			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7705
7706			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7707	root	1.387	%
7708	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7709			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7710			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7711			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7712
7713			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7714			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7715			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7716
7717			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7718			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7719			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7720			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7721			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7722			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7723
7724			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7725			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7726
7727			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7728			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7729			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7730			right to left.
7731
7732			>But no culture
7733			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7734			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7735			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7736			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7737			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7738
7739			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7740
7741			--Alex
7742	root	1.387	%
7743	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7744			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7745			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7746
7747			[most of the reply snipped...]
7748
7749			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7750			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7751			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7752
7753			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7754
7755			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7756			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7757			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7758			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7759			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7760
7761			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7762			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7763			try to claim that they do?)
7764	root	1.387	%
7765	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7766
7767			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7768			> {
7769			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7770			> flush(load);
7771			> else
7772			> wear(load);
7773			> }
7774
7775			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7776			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7777
7778			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7779			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7780
7781			--
7782			dwmw2
7783	root	1.387	%
7784	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7785			are are overturned.
7786	root	1.387	%
7787	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7788	root	1.387	%
7789	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7790			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7791	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7792			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7793	root	1.387	%
7794	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7795			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7796			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7797			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7798			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7799			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7800			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7801	root	1.387	%
7802	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7803			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7804			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7805
7806			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7807			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7808			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7809	root	1.387	%
7810	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7811			Deadlock, n.:
7812			Deceased Rasterman.
7813	root	1.387	%
7814	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7815			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7816			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7817			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7818	root	1.387	%
7819	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7820			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7821	root	1.387	%
7822	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7823			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7824	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7825			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7826			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7827			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7828	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7829			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7830	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7831			Positionen für unwählbar.
7832	root	1.1
7833			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7834	root	1.387	%
7835	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7836			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7837			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7838
7839			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7840
7841			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7842			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7843			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7844			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7845			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7846
7847			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7848			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7849			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7850			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7851			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7852			results simply because I make a mistake!
7853
7854			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7855			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7856			errors.
7857
7858			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7859			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7860			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7861			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7862	root	1.387	%
7863	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7864			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7865			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7866			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7867			>
7868			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7869	root	1.387	%
7870	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7871			of nothing."
7872	root	1.387	%
7873	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7874			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7875			>
7876			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7877			> CPU?
7878
7879			Root password? :)
7880
7881			John.Fulmer
7882	root	1.387	%
7883	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7884
7885			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7886	root	1.387	%
7887	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7888			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7889			> which I prefer...
7890
7891			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7892			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7893			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7894			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7895			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7896			--
7897			Horst von Brand
7898	root	1.387	%
7899	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7900
7901			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7902
7903			[...]
7904
7905			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7906	root	1.387	%
7907	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7908			at your problem:]
7909
7910			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7911			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7912			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7913	root	1.387	%
7914	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7915			cp is inherently inefficient.
7916	root	1.387	%
7917	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7918			>breaking seals on them.
7919
7920			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7921			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7922			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7923
7924			...
7925
7926			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7927			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7928			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7929			could be just an urban myth though.
7930
7931			Russell Coker
7932	root	1.387	%
7933	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7934			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7935
7936			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7937	root	1.387	%
7938	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7939			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7940			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7941			> > deleting.
7942			>
7943			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7944
7945			Wrong. Yury does.
7946			:(
7947
7948			--
7949			Stefan
7950	root	1.387	%
7951	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7952			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7953			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7954			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7955			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7956			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7957			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7958
7959			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7960
7961			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7962	root	1.387	%
7963	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7964	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7965	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7966	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7967			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7968	root	1.387	%
7969	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7970			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7971			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7972			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7973			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7974			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7975			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7976			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7977			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7978			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7979	root	1.387	%
7980	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7981			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7982			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7983	root	1.1	aus!
7984	root	1.387	%
7985	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7986			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7987	root	1.387	%
7988	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7989			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7990			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7991			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7992	root	1.387	%
7993	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7994			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7995	root	1.387	%
7996	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7997			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7998			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7999			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8000
8001			--tom
8002	root	1.387	%
8003	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8004			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8005
8006			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8007			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8008			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8009			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8010			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8011	root	1.387	%
8012	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8013			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8014			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8015			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8016			solutions.
8017
8018			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8019
8020			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8021			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8022			the background]
8023	root	1.387	%
8024	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8025			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8026			Security Response Center:
8027
8028			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8029			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8030
8031			[and later]
8032			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8033
8034			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8035
8036			[Phil closes]
8037			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8038
8039			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8040			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8041	root	1.387	%
8042	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8043			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8044			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8045			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8046			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8047			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8048			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8049	root	1.387	%
8050	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8051			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8052			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8053			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8054
8055			[Trashey / Quasars]
8056	root	1.387	%
8057	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8058			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8059			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8060
8061			Irony potential in
8062
8063			man perlrtfm
8064
8065			is left to the reader.
8066
8067			Nat
8068	root	1.387	%
8069	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8070			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8071
8072			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8073			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8074	root	1.387	%
8075	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8076			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8077			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8078	root	1.387	%
8079	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8080			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8081			Paul Tomblin
8082	root	1.387	%
8083	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8084			>I am morally
8085			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8086
8087			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8088			possibility...
8089
8090			Dan
8091	root	1.387	%
8092	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8093	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8094	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 :)
8095			<Mr> zugabe
8096	root	1.387	%
8097	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8098			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8099	root	1.387	%
8100	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8101			[cobol, sigh]
8102	root	1.387	%
8103	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8104			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8105			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8106			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8107			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8108			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8109			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8110			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8111
8112			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8113	root	1.387	%
8114	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8115
8116			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8117			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8118			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8119			after they regain their composure."
8120
8121			-- Paul Rinaldo
8122			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8123	root	1.387	%
8124	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8125			>
8126			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8127			>
8128			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8129
8130			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8131
8132			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8133
8134			;-}
8135
8136			--
8137
8138			ciao -
8139			Stefan
8140
8141	root	1.387	%
8142	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8143			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8144
8145			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8146			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8147			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8148			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8149			one' type remarks.
8150			[Alan Cox]
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8153
8154			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8155			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8156
8157			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8158	root	1.387	%
8159	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8160
8161			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8162			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8163			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8164	root	1.387	%
8165	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8166			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8167			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8168			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8169	root	1.387	%
8170	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8171			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8172
8173			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8174			is to me ok.
8175	root	1.387	%
8176	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8177
8178			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8179	root	1.387	%
8180	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8181			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8182	root	1.387	%
8183	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8184			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8185	root	1.387	%
8186	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8187			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8188			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8189
8190			Ralf
8191	root	1.387	%
8192	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8193			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8194			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8195
8196			david parsons
8197	root	1.387	%
8198	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8199			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8200
8201			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8202			>so that trick is not portable.
8203
8204			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8205			127.0.0.1 localhost
8206
8207			--tom
8208	root	1.387	%
8209	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8210			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8211			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8212			> >the question is moot.
8213			>
8214			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8215
8216			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8217
8218			Ilya
8219	root	1.387	%
8220	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8221			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8222			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8223			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8224			> trying.
8225
8226			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8227			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8228	root	1.387	%
8229	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8230			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8231			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8232			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8233	root	1.387	%
8234	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8235			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8236			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8237	root	1.387	%
8238	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8239			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8240			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8241			> blocking :-)
8242
8243			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8244			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8245			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8246			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8247			reasons.
8248
8249			DS
8250	root	1.387	%
8251	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8252	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8253	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8254	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8255	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8256
8257			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8258	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8259	root	1.387	%
8260	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8261			[...]
8262			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8263			[...]
8264
8265			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8266			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8267			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8268			with each other on the same channel.
8269
8270			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8271			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8272
8273			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8274	root	1.387	%
8275	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8276			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8277	root	1.387	%
8278	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8279	root	1.387	%
8280	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8281			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8282			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8283			ok
8284	root	1.387	%
8285	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8286			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8287	root	1.387	%
8288	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8289			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8290			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8291			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8292			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8293			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8294			<Xach> burrito, focus
8295			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8296	root	1.387	%
8297	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8298			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8299			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8300			tested it." ...
8301	root	1.387	%
8302	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8303	root	1.387	%
8304	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8305
8306			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8307			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8308			>
8309			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8310			>
8311			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8312			>
8313			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8314			>
8315			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8316			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8317			>systems.
8318
8319
8320			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8321			had.
8322
8323			--
8324			Neal Bridges
8325	root	1.387	%
8326	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8327
8328			> Hi folks,
8329			> 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?
8330			> please reply to
8331			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8332			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8333
8334			Parse error.
8335
8336			---
8337			Alex
8338	root	1.387	%
8339	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8340
8341			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8342			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8343
8344			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8345			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8346			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8347
8348			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8349	root	1.387	%
8350	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8351	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8352	root	1.387	%
8353	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8354			ii = 44;
8355			p = &ii;
8356			p = ii/p;
8357			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8358			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8359	root	1.387	%
8360	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8361			> Linux time then.
8362
8363			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8364
8365			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8366			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8367
8368			Roger.
8369	root	1.387	%
8370	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8371	root	1.387	%
8372	root	1.1	auto accident;
8373			register voters;
8374			static electricity;
8375			struct by_lightning;
8376			void *where_prohibited;
8377			char broiled;
8378			short circuit;
8379			short changed;
8380			long johns;
8381			unsigned long letter;
8382			double entendre;
8383			double trouble;
8384			union organizer;
8385			float valve;
8386			short pants;
8387			union station;
8388			void check; unsigned check;
8389			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8390	root	1.387	%
8391	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8392			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8393			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8394	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8395	root	1.387	%
8396	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8397
8398			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8399			worstation.
8400	root	1.387	%
8401	root	1.1	I wrote
8402			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8403			$/
8404
8405			Damn shift key.
8406
8407
8408			Mike Guy
8409	root	1.387	%
8410	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8411			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8412			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8413			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8414			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8415			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8416			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8417			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8418			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8419	root	1.387	%
8420	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8421
8422			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8423
8424			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8425			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8426			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8427			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8428
8429			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8430	root	1.387	%
8431	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8432			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8433
8434			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8435			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8436			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8437			easy to bother.
8438
8439			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8440			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8441			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8442			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8443
8444			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8445
8446			Larry
8447	root	1.387	%
8448	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8449			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8450			Yeah. :-)
8451	root	1.387	%
8452	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8453			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8454			[...]
8455			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8456
8457			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8458			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8459			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8460			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8461
8462			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8463			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8464			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8465			receipts aren't used anymore.
8466	root	1.387	%
8467	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8468			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8469			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8470	root	1.387	%
8471	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8472			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8473			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8474			> versteht?"
8475	root	1.387	%
8476	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8477			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8478			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8479			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8480	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8481	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8482	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8483	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8484			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8485			ji!
8486	root	1.387	%
8487	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8488			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8489			[Larry Wall]
8490	root	1.387	%
8491	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8492			Altpreussen.
8493			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8494			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8495	root	1.387	%
8496	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8497			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8498			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8499			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8500			>
8501	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8502			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8503	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8504
8505	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8506	root	1.1	Norbert?
8507	root	1.387	%
8508	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8509	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8510			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8511	root	1.387	%
8512	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8513	root	1.387	%
8514	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8515	root	1.387	%
8516	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8517			From: "Steve"
8518			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8519			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8520			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8521
8522			[the following was a single line, of course]
8523			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8524			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8525			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8526			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8527			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8528
8529			Thanks,
8530
8531			Steve
8532	root	1.387	%
8533	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8534			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8535			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8536			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8537	root	1.387	%
8538	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8539			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8540			<tigert> ahem
8541	root	1.387	%
8542	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8543			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8544			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8545	root	1.387	%
8546	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8547			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8548			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8549			Subject: It's soup.
8550
8551			Okay, it's there.
8552
8553			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8554
8555			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8556
8557			Larry
8558	root	1.387	%
8559	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8560	root	1.387	%
8561	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8562			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8563			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8564			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8565			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8566	root	1.387	%
8567	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8568			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8569			>
8570			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8571			> And there's no mouse.
8572			>
8573			> Abigail
8574
8575			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8576
8577			Matt.
8578	root	1.387	%
8579	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8580			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8581
8582			- --tom
8583	root	1.387	%
8584	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8585			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8586
8587			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8588			>
8589			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8590			> 2.2.11 release?
8591
8592			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8593
8594			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8595
8596			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8597	root	1.387	%
8598	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8599	root	1.387	%
8600	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8601			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8602			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8603			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8604			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8605			> that much ;-)
8606
8607			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8608	root	1.387	%
8609	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8610			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8611	root	1.387	%
8612	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8613			<QUOTE>
8614			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8615
8616			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8617			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8618			</QUOTE>
8619	root	1.387	%
8620	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8621			and routes around it.
8622
8623			Roger Larsson
8624	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8625	root	1.387	%
8626	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8627			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8628	root	1.387	%
8629	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8630			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8631	root	1.387	%
8632	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8633
8634			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8635			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8636			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8637			on different JVMs.
8638
8639			[and later]
8640
8641			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8642			adventure gaming:
8643
8644			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8645			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8646	root	1.387	%
8647	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8648			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8649
8650			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8651
8652			NK> ?? -> huh?
8653
8654			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8655
8656			<chaim>
8657	root	1.387	%
8658	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8659			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8660			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8661			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8662			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8663			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8664	root	1.387	%
8665	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8666	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8667	root	1.387	%
8668	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8669			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8670			page]
8671			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8672			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8673			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8674			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8675			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8676			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8677			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8678			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8679			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8680			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8681	root	1.387	%
8682	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8683			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8684			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8685			don't actually get anything DONE.
8686	root	1.387	%
8687	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8688			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8689			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8690			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8691	root	1.387	%
8692	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8693			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8694			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8695			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8696
8697			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8698	root	1.387	%
8699	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8700			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8701			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8702	root	1.387	%
8703	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8704			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8705			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8706	root	1.387	%
8707	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8708
8709			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8710			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8711			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8712			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8713			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8714			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8715			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8716			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8717			got the T-shirt.
8718	root	1.387	%
8719	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8720			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8721			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8722			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8723			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8724			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8725			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8726
8727			Linus writes, to Craig:
8728
8729			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8730			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8731			> thus choices than gcc.
8732
8733			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8734			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8735			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8736			far more complex than the kernel.
8737
8738			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8739			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8740
8741			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8742	root	1.387	%
8743	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8744			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8745			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8746
8747			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8748			[...]
8749			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8750			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8751			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8752			>let the user be in control.
8753
8754			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8755			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8756			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8757			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8758			compilers?
8759	root	1.387	%
8760	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8761			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8762
8763			Linus writes:
8764			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8765			> gcc could do better?
8766
8767			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8768			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8769			before you had so many worshippers.
8770	root	1.387	%
8771	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8772			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8773			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8774			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8775			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8776
8777			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8778
8779			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8780			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8781			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8782			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8783
8784			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8785
8786			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8787
8788			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8789			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8790
8791			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8792
8793			>:->
8794
8795			Brane
8796
8797
8798			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8799			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8800			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8801			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8802			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8803
8804
8805			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8806	root	1.387	%
8807	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8808	root	1.387	%
8809	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8810			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8811			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8812	root	1.387	%
8813	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8814			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8815			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8816	root	1.387	%
8817	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8818
8819			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8820
8821			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8822	root	1.387	%
8823	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8824			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8825			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8826			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8827
8828			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8829
8830			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8831			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8832			:
8833			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8834			:
8835			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8836			:
8837			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8838	root	1.387	%
8839	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8840	root	1.387	%
8841	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8842			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8843			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8844			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8845			>
8846			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8847			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8848
8849			The classic example:
8850
8851			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8852			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8853	root	1.387	%
8854	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8855			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8856
8857			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8858			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8859			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8860
8861			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8862
8863			--tom
8864	root	1.387	%
8865	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8866			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8867			working on something for me
8868			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8869			to me nutting concerning y ok
8870			piece
8871			russ
8872	root	1.387	%
8873	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8874
8875			pico (text editor for beginners)
8876			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8877			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8878			ed (text editor for beginners)
8879	root	1.387	%
8880	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8881
8882			use Python;
8883
8884			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8885			Except maybe faster. :-)
8886
8887			Larry
8888	root	1.387	%
8889	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8890
8891			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8892			2010.
8893
8894			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8895	root	1.387	%
8896	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8897			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8898			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8899			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8900			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8901			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8902			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8903			been created.
8904	root	1.387	%
8905	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8906			>
8907			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8908			> $3.99.
8909			>
8910			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8911			>
8912			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8913			>
8914			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8915			>
8916			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8917			>
8918			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8919			>
8920			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8921			> got integrated Coke!
8922			>
8923			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8924			> to drink the Coke.
8925			>
8926			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8927			>
8928			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8929			>
8930			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8931			> inseparable.
8932			>
8933			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8934			>
8935			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8936			>
8937			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8938			>
8939			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8940			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8941			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8942	root	1.387	%
8943	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8944			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8945	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8946	root	1.387	%
8947	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8948
8949			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8950			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8951			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8952			for you to digest this book.
8953			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8954			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8955			Join The Trickle
8956			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8957			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8958			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8959	root	1.387	%
8960	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8961			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8962			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8963			complete and utter vapourware.
8964
8965			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8966	root	1.387	%
8967	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8968
8969			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8970			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8971	root	1.387	%
8972	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8973
8974			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8975			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8976			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8977			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8978			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8979			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8980			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8981			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8982			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8983			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8984			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8985			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8986			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8987			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8988			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8989			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8990			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8991			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8992			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8993			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8994			work.
8995			[...]
8996			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8997			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8998			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8999			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9000			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9001			search generically - then it has some potential.
9002			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9003			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9004			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9005			intellectual value whatsoever.
9006
9007			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9008			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9009			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9010	root	1.387	%
9011	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9012	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9013	root	1.387	%
9014	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9015			#!/usr/bin/sh
9016			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9017			# All Rights Reserved
9018
9019			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9020			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9021			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9022
9023			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9024			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9025	root	1.387	%
9026	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.
9027	root	1.387	%
9028	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9029			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9030			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9031	root	1.387	%
9032	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9033
9034			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9035			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9036
9037			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9038			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9039			machine]
9040
9041			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9042			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9043			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9044
9045			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9046	root	1.387	%
9047	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9048			spamming:]
9049
9050			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9051			>>
9052			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9053			>>------------------------------------------------------
9054			>>
9055			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9056			>>
9057			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9058
9059			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9060			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9061	root	1.387	%
9062	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9063			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9064	root	1.387	%
9065	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9066			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9067	root	1.387	%
9068	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9069			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9070
9071			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9072	root	1.387	%
9073	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9074
9075			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9076			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9077			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9078			he's full of.
9079
9080			Support BSD/Linux.
9081
9082			--tom
9083	root	1.387	%
9084	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9085	root	1.387	%
9086	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9087	root	1.387	%
9088	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9089			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9090
9091			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9092			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9093			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9094			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9095	root	1.387	%
9096	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9097
9098			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9099			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9100	root	1.387	%
9101	root	1.1	[the creation]
9102			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9103	root	1.387	%
9104	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9105
9106			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9107			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9108			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9109	root	1.387	%
9110	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9111			selbst schliesse.
9112			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9113			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9114	root	1.387	%
9115	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9116			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9117
9118			No:
9119
9120			use Borg;
9121			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9122
9123			--
9124			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9125	root	1.387	%
9126	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9127			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9128			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9129			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9130			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9131			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9132			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9133			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9134			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9135			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9136			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9137			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9138			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9139			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9140			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9141			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9142			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9143			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9144			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9145			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9146			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9147			dispensers."
9148
9149			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9150	root	1.387	%
9151	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9152			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9153			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9154			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9155	root	1.387	%
9156	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9157			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9158			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9159	root	1.387	%
9160	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9161	root	1.1
9162			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9163	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9164	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9165	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9166	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9167			Student: "..."
9168			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9169			Student: "..."
9170			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9171	root	1.387	%
9172	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9173
9174			> Just morbid curiosity,
9175			>
9176			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9177
9178			Yes. Broken ones.
9179
9180			dgris
9181	root	1.387	%
9182	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9183			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9184	root	1.387	%
9185	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9186			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9187	root	1.387	%
9188	root	1.1	...
9189
9190			<AOL>
9191
9192			Me too!
9193
9194			</AOL>
9195
9196			Tig
9197	root	1.387	%
9198	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9199	root	1.387	%
9200	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9201	root	1.387	%
9202	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9203
9204			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9205			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9206			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9207			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9208			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9209			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9210			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9211
9212			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9213
9214			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9215			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9216			get really really pissed.
9217
9218			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9219			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9220	root	1.387	%
9221	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9222			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9223			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9224			> period.
9225			>
9226			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9227			> Nic
9228			>
9229
9230			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9231
9232			-hpa
9233	root	1.387	%
9234	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9235	root	1.387	%
9236	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9237			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9238			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9239			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9240			happy."
9241			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9242	root	1.387	%
9243	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9244			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9245			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9246
9247			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9248			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9249			I also forwarded the offending code.
9250
9251			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9252			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9253			service.
9254
9255			Daniel
9256	root	1.387	%
9257	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9258			...
9259			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9260	root	1.387	%
9261	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9262			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9263			[RJL]
9264	root	1.387	%
9265	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9266			right.''
9267	root	1.387	%
9268	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9269
9270			Amazing--they actually listened.
9271	root	1.387	%
9272	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9273			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9274			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9275
9276			# less foo
9277			sh: command not found
9278			# more foo
9279			sh: command not found
9280			# emacs foo
9281			sh: command not found
9282			# ed foo
9283			0
9284			help
9285			?
9286			quit
9287			?
9288			exit
9289			?
9290			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9291			?
9292
9293			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9294	root	1.387	%
9295	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9296			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9297			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9298
9299			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9300
9301			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9302
9303			tim> would be most correct in style.
9304
9305			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9306			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9307	root	1.387	%
9308	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9309			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9310			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9311			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9312			too bad --- ]
9313	root	1.387	%
9314	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9315	root	1.387	%
9316	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9317
9318			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9319			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9320
9321			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9322			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9323	root	1.387	%
9324	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9325			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9326			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9327			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9328			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9329	root	1.387	%
9330	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9331
9332			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9333			include wrong #include files in their source.
9334	root	1.387	%
9335	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9336
9337			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9338			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9339			Consider it a rite of passage.
9340	root	1.387	%
9341	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9342			"Oops."
9343			-- MST3K
9344	root	1.387	%
9345	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9346			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9347			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9348
9349			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9350			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9351			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9352			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9353			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9354			it. ;)
9355	root	1.387	%
9356	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9357			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9358			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9359			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9360			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9361
9362			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9363			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9364			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9365			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9366
9367			--tom
9368	root	1.387	%
9369	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9370
9371			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9372
9373			>Why does it end ?
9374
9375			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9376
9377			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9378			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9379
9380			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9381	root	1.387	%
9382	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9383			-- Tom Christiansen
9384	root	1.387	%
9385	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9386
9387			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9388			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9389			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9390			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9391			of Sputnik.
9392	root	1.387	%
9393	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9394			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9395			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9396			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9397			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9398	root	1.387	%
9399	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9400			- Hanlons razor -
9401	root	1.387	%
9402	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9403			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9404	root	1.387	%
9405	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9406			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9407			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9408			> offered no significant advantages.
9409
9410			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9411	root	1.387	%
9412	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9413			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9414			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9415			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9416			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9417			in front of me says so."
9418
9419			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9420	root	1.387	%
9421	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9422			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9423			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9424			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9425			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9426			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9427			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9428			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9429			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9430			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9431			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9432	root	1.387	%
9433	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9434			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9435			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9436			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9437			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9438	root	1.387	%
9439	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9440	root	1.387	%
9441	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9442	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9443			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9444			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9445			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9446	root	1.387	%
9447	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9448			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9449			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9450			>
9451			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9452			> and/or screen.
9453
9454			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9455	root	1.387	%
9456	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9457			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9458
9459			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9460			> use pedantic;
9461			> use strict 'code';
9462			>
9463			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9464
9465			use syntax 'python';
9466
9467			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9468
9469	root	1.387	%
9470	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9471			>
9472			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9473			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9474			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9475			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9476			>
9477			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9478	root	1.387	%
9479	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9480			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9481	root	1.387	%
9482	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9483			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9484			> be time-consuming.
9485
9486			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9487	root	1.387	%
9488	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9489			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9490			however, they do not handle C++...
9491			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9492	root	1.387	%
9493	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9494			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9495
9496			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9497
9498			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9499
9500			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9501
9502			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9503			already of old time, which was before us.
9504			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9505			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9506
9507			Regards,
9508			Tigran.
9509	root	1.387	%
9510	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9511	root	1.387	%
9512	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9513			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9514			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9515			main(){
9516			extrn hw;
9517			putchar(0[hw]);
9518			hw=+1;
9519			putchar(0[hw]);
9520			}
9521	root	1.387	%
9522	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9523
9524			The egg. Always. By definition.
9525	root	1.387	%
9526	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9527			>
9528			> Better check your scsi cables.
9529	root	1.387	%
9530	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9531			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9532	root	1.387	%
9533	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9534			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9535			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9536			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9537
9538	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9539	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9540			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9541
9542	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9543	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9544	root	1.387	%
9545	root	1.1	>James :\
9546			>
9547			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9548
9549			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9550	root	1.387	%
9551	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9552			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9553			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9554	root	1.387	%
9555	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9556			> is just asking for a black eye.
9557
9558			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9559
9560			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9561			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9562			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9563
9564			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9565			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9566			area.
9567	root	1.387	%
9568	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9569			[Lukas Grunwald]
9570	root	1.387	%
9571	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9572
9573			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9574			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9575			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9576			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9577			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9578	root	1.387	%
9579	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9580			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9581
9582			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9583	root	1.387	%
9584	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9585			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9586			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9587
9588			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9589
9590			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9591
9592			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9593
9594			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9595			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9596	root	1.387	%
9597	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9598	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9599	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9600	root	1.387	%
9601	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9602			longer...
9603	root	1.387	%
9604	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9605			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9606			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9607	root	1.387	%
9608	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9609			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9610			> > world :) I just love it...
9611			>
9612			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9613			>
9614			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9615			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9616			practical...
9617			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9618			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9619			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9620			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9621			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9622
9623			Jan Hubicka
9624	root	1.387	%
9625	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9626			[...]
9627			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9628
9629			No, it is not. What you meant is
9630
9631			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9632	root	1.387	%
9633	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9634			> A) perl-5.00553
9635			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9636			> cc = cl.exe
9637			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9638
9639			[...]
9640
9641			Ilya
9642	root	1.387	%
9643	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9644
9645			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9646
9647			p.
9648	root	1.387	%
9649	root	1.1	[tomc]
9650			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9651			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9652
9653			+------------------------------------------+
9654			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9655			+------------------------------------------+
9656
9657			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9658			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9659
9660			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9661			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9662			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9663			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9664			interesting way.
9665			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9666			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9667			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9668			interesting things.
9669			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9670			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9671			things.
9672	root	1.387	%
9673	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9674			--Dennis Ritchie
9675	root	1.387	%
9676	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9677	root	1.387	%
9678	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9679
9680			switch (x)
9681			default:
9682			if (prime(x))
9683			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9684			process_prime(x);
9685			else
9686			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9687			process_composite(x);
9688	root	1.387	%
9689	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9690			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9691			in megabytes, required for execution?
9692
9693			Craig Milo Rogers
9694	root	1.387	%
9695	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9696			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9697			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9698
9699			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9700			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9701
9702			Ilya
9703	root	1.387	%
9704	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9705			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9706
9707			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9708			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9709			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9710
9711			Nat
9712	root	1.387	%
9713	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9714			much steroids for a while. =)
9715
9716			--Albert Dvornik
9717			<bert@genscan.com>
9718	root	1.387	%
9719	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9720			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9721			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9722
9723			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9724
9725			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9726			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9727
9728			--tom
9729	root	1.387	%
9730	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9731
9732			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9733
9734			Linus
9735	root	1.387	%
9736	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9737			devil added HTML mail...
9738	root	1.387	%
9739	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9740			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9741			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9742	root	1.387	%
9743	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9744			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9745
9746			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9747			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9748			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9749
9750			Arm the gnus!
9751	root	1.387	%
9752	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9753
9754			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9755			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9756			gcc, so go away.
9757	root	1.387	%
9758	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9759			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9760
9761			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9762
9763			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9764			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9765	root	1.387	%
9766	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9767			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9768			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9769			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9770
9771			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9772			was released today" madness.
9773	root	1.387	%
9774	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9775			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9776			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9777			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9778			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9779			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9780			>
9781			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9782			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9783			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9784			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9785			> marketing name, anyway.
9786
9787			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9788			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9789			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9790
9791			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9792			violence..." :-)
9793	root	1.387	%
9794	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9795			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9796	root	1.387	%
9797	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9798			> >poor drivers
9799			>
9800			> No it doesn't.
9801
9802			Indeed. Its down to
9803
9804			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9805
9806			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9807			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9808			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9809			or binaries.
9810	root	1.387	%
9811	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9812	root	1.387	%
9813	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9814	root	1.387	%
9815	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9816
9817			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9818			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9819			\|>
9820			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9821
9822			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9823
9824			Andreas.
9825	root	1.387	%
9826	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9827			...
9828			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9829
9830			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9831			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9832			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9833			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9834			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9835			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9836	root	1.387	%
9837	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9838
9839			Paul Eggert writes:
9840			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9841
9842			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9843			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9844	root	1.387	%
9845	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9846			however.
9847
9848			"We don't have the tools"
9849			"We can't support a non intel build"
9850			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9851			"Its not worth the time cost"
9852			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9853	root	1.387	%
9854	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9855
9856			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9857			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9858			>
9859			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9860			> <mailproc@fred>
9861			>
9862			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9863			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9864			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9865			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9866			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9867	root	1.387	%
9868	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9869			> No documented problem
9870			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9871			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9872			>
9873			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9874	root	1.387	%
9875	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9876			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9877	root	1.387	%
9878	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9879			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9880
9881			dave
9882	root	1.387	%
9883	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9884			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9885
9886			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9887	root	1.387	%
9888	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9889
9890			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9891			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9892
9893			Paul Eggert writes:
9894			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9895
9896			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9897			1 month before 29 March?
9898
9899			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9900
9901			1 month before 28 March?
9902
9903			28 February.
9904
9905			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9906			_before_ 27 February?
9907
9908			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9909	root	1.387	%
9910	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9911
9912			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9913			>> So make a security check first:
9914			>>
9915			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9916			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9917			>
9918			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9919			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9920			>
9921			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9922			> = instead of == error*/
9923			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9924			>
9925			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9926			>
9927			>--
9928			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9929
9930			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9931
9932			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9933			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9934	root	1.387	%
9935	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9936			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9937
9938			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9939			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9940			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9941			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9942			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9943			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9944			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9945			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9946
9947			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9948			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9949			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9950			available for that hardware from any source.
9951			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9952			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9953			sniffing!
9954	root	1.387	%
9955	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9956			technical support line that isn't"
9957	root	1.387	%
9958	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9959			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	[...]
9962			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9963			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9964
9965			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9966			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9967			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9968			"Nothing else"
9969			"Sorry"
9970			[Click]
9971
9972			Alan
9973	root	1.387	%
9974	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9975			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9976	root	1.387	%
9977	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9978			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9979			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9980			> users excepted, of course!).
9981
9982			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9983			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9984			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9985			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9986			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9987			is installed"
9988
9989			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9990	root	1.387	%
9991	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9992
9993			L. Harris wrote:
9994			>
9995			> Testing
9996
9997			you failed.
9998	root	1.387	%
9999	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10000			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10001	root	1.387	%
10002	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10003			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10004			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10005			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10006	root	1.387	%
10007	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10008			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10009			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10010
10011			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10012	root	1.387	%
10013	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10014			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10015			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10016			where else...
10017	root	1.387	%
10018	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10019			[...]
10020			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10021			: about a certain topic.
10022	root	1.387	%
10023	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10024			>
10025			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10026			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10027
10028			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10029			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10030
10031			void main (void)
10032			{
10033			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10034			printf ("\n");
10035			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10036			printf ("You have died.\n");
10037			printf ("\n");
10038			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10039			}
10040
10041			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10042
10043			--
10044			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10045	root	1.387	%
10046	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10047			mistake I ever made]
10048
10049			From: "Tom Miller"
10050			Subject: Can
10051			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10052
10053			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10054			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10055			my name is Tom Miller
10056
10057			From: "Tom Miller"
10058			Subject: Wait
10059			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10060
10061			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10062			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10063	root	1.387	%
10064	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10065
10066			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10067			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10068			so why bother? [...]
10069	root	1.387	%
10070	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10071	root	1.1
10072			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10073
10074			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10075			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10076			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10077			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10078			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10079			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10080			sich dann.
10081	root	1.387	%
10082	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10083			no fs
10084			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10085			Definitely hardware or software error.
10086
10087			Unix Version 7 Manual
10088	root	1.387	%
10089	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10090			>
10091			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10092			>
10093			> =for C
10094			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10095			> =end
10096			> =for C++
10097			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10098			> =end
10099			> =for Java
10100			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10101			> =end
10102			>
10103			> :-)
10104	root	1.387	%
10105	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10106	root	1.387	%
10107	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10108
10109			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10110			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10111			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10112			turn it on.
10113	root	1.387	%
10114	root	1.1	[...]
10115			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10116			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10117			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10118			[...]
10119	root	1.387	%
10120	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10121
10122			Chad C Giffin
10123	root	1.387	%
10124	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10125			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10126			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10127			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10128			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10129			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10130
10131			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10132			through the door.
10133			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10134			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10135			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10136			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10137			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10138			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10139			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10140			usually.)
10141
10142			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10143			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10144			your tire pressure..."
10145			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10146			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10147			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10148			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10149			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10150			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10151			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10152			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10153	root	1.387	%
10154	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10155
10156			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10157	root	1.387	%
10158	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10159
10160			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10161			:-(
10162	root	1.387	%
10163	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10164			>dies alles geschieht.
10165			>Und es verging nicht.
10166
10167			So what?
10168
10169			Ich dachte eher an:
10170
10171			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10172			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10173			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10174			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10175			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10176			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10177			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10178			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10179			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10180			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10181			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10182			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10183
10184			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10185
10186			Antje
10187	root	1.387	%
10188	root	1.1	[....]
10189
10190			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10191			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10192			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10193			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10194			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10195			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10196
10197			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10198
10199			Antje
10200	root	1.387	%
10201	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10202			lalala, I love you baby..."
10203			--
10204			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10205	root	1.387	%
10206	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10207			>
10208			> Kubys
10209
10210			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10211
10212			Linus
10213	root	1.387	%
10214	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10215
10216			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10217			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10218			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10219	root	1.387	%
10220	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10221
10222			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10223			out what it means.
10224			--
10225			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10226	root	1.387	%
10227	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10228			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10229	root	1.387	%
10230	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10231			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10232
10233			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10234
10235			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10236			> is being discussed.
10237
10238			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10239	root	1.387	%
10240	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10241
10242			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10243
10244			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10245
10246			[and the button reads]
10247
10248			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10249	root	1.387	%
10250	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10251
10252			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10253
10254			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10255			certain amount of redundancy.
10256	root	1.387	%
10257	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10258			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10259
10260			...
10261
10262			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10263	root	1.387	%
10264	root	1.1	>Hello,
10265			>
10266			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10267			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10268			>
10269
10270			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10271			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10272			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10273			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10274	root	1.387	%
10275	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10276			on the country as a whole.
10277			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10278			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10279			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10280	root	1.387	%
10281	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10282			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10283	root	1.387	%
10284	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10285	root	1.387	%
10286	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10287			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10288			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10289
10290			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10291
10292			--tom
10293			--
10294			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10295			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10296	root	1.387	%
10297	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10298			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10299	root	1.387	%
10300	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10301
10302			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10303			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10304			> NO CARRIER
10305			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10306	root	1.387	%
10307	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10308			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10309			> better.
10310
10311			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10312			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10313	root	1.387	%
10314	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10315			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10316	root	1.387	%
10317	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10318			\|>
10319			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10320			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10321			\|>
10322			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10323			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10324
10325			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10326			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10327			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10328			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10329			build Bison, and then cook it.
10330
10331			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10332	root	1.387	%
10333	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10334			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10335			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10336			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10337			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10338	root	1.387	%
10339	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10340			-- lbxproxy(1)
10341	root	1.387	%
10342	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10343
10344			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10345
10346			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10347			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10348	root	1.387	%
10349	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10350
10351			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10352	root	1.387	%
10353	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10354			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10355			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10356			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10357			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10358
10359			\|> What does this mean.
10360
10361			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10362			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10363	root	1.387	%
10364	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10365
10366			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10367			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10368
10369			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10370	root	1.387	%
10371	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10372			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10373			streams)."
10374			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10375	root	1.387	%
10376	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10377			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10378	root	1.387	%
10379	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10380
10381			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10382
10383			Klaro.
10384
10385			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10386			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10387			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10388			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10389
10390	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10391	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10392
10393			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10394			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10395			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10396			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10397			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10398			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10399			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10400
10401			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10402			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10403			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10404	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10405			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10406			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10407			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10408	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10409
10410			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10411	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10412			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10413			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10414			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10415			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10416			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10417			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10418	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10419			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10420
10421			cu in hell 2002
10422	root	1.387	%
10423	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10424	root	1.387	%
10425	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10426
10427			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10428			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10429			the man page for crypt(1).
10430
10431			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10432			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10433			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10434
10435			man -s3 crypt
10436
10437			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10438			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10439
10440			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10441			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10442			he can figure out to use the command
10443
10444			man -s3 Intro.3
10445
10446			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10447			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10448
10449			man -s3c crypt
10450
10451			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10452			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10453			any trouble.
10454			--
10455			Michael M Rubenstein
10456	root	1.387	%
10457	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10458
10459			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10460
10461			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10462
10463			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10464
10465			Regards,
10466			Tim Bunce.
10467
10468			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10469			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10470			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10471	root	1.387	%
10472	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10473
10474			...
10475
10476			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10477			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10478			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10479
10480			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10481			its unusable, believe me I do.
10482	root	1.387	%
10483	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10484
10485			Semour Cray
10486	root	1.387	%
10487	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10488
10489			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10490	root	1.387	%
10491	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10492			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10493
10494			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10495			it only supports parts of it
10496	root	1.387	%
10497	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10498			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10499	root	1.387	%
10500	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10501			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10502			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10503			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10504			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10505			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10506			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10507
10508			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10509			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10510			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10511			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10512			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10513			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10514			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10515			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10516			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10517			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10518
10519			tq vm, (burley)
10520	root	1.387	%
10521	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10522			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10523			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10524			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10525			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10526			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10527			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10528	root	1.387	%
10529	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10530			/*
10531			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10532			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10533			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10534			* files won't compile.
10535			*/
10536	root	1.387	%
10537	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10538			> great.
10539
10540			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10541
10542			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10543
10544			This rock is below water half of the time!
10545			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10546			on a regular basis! ;-)
10547	root	1.387	%
10548	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10549			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10550			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10551	root	1.387	%
10552	root	1.1	>
10553			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10554			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10555			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10556
10557			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10558	root	1.387	%
10559	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10560
10561			>Hello!
10562
10563			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10564			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10565			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10566
10567
10568			Perl.
10569
10570			regards
10571			jobst
10572	root	1.387	%
10573	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10574			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10575			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10576
10577			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10578			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10579
10580			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10581			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10582			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10583			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10584			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10585			the absolute pits.
10586	root	1.387	%
10587	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10588	root	1.387	%
10589	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10590			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10591
10592			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10593	root	1.387	%
10594	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10595			ketchup and mustard
10596	root	1.387	%
10597	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10598
10599			vimal gajjar wrote:
10600			>
10601			> Hi there,
10602			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10603			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10604			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10605			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10606			> 5% of cpu
10607			> 2 Mb of RAM
10608			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10609			>
10610			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10611
10612			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10613			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10614			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10615	root	1.387	%
10616	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10617			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10618			>
10619			> >s/usually/never/
10620			>
10621			> s/sometimes/never/
10622
10623			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10624	root	1.387	%
10625	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10626			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10627			:Perl, IMO.
10628
10629			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10630
10631			TC
10632	root	1.387	%
10633	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10634	root	1.387	%
10635	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10636
10637			Hi guys!
10638
10639			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10640	root	1.387	%
10641	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10642
10643			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10644			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10645			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10646			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10647			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10648			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10649	root	1.387	%
10650	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10651			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10652			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10653
10654			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10655			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10656			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10657			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10658
10659			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10660			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10661			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10662			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10663
10664			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10665
10666			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10667
10668			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10669			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10670			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10671
10672			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10673			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10674
10675			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10676			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10677
10678			Did I miss any? ;-)
10679
10680			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10681			Laugh. Please.
10682
10683			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10684			--Scott
10685	root	1.387	%
10686	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10687
10688			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10689			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10690			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10691			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10692	root	1.387	%
10693	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10694			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10695
10696			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10697
10698			This is not mail.
10699
10700			This is Usenet.
10701
10702			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10703	root	1.387	%
10704	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10705			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10706			--- ide1: reset: success
10707			-----------> I like Linux !
10708	root	1.387	%
10709	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10710			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10711
10712			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10713			do.
10714	root	1.387	%
10715	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10716			++ PLONK.
10717	root	1.387	%
10718	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10719			Re: Subraumfunk
10720
10721			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10722			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10723
10724			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10725			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10726			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10727			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10728			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10729	root	1.387	%
10730	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10731			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10732			>
10733			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10734
10735			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10736	root	1.387	%
10737	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10738			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10739	root	1.387	%
10740	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10741			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10742
10743			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10744			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10745
10746			Bill Jones
10747	root	1.387	%
10748	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10749
10750			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10751			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10752			#include <windows.h>
10753			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10754			#endif
10755	root	1.387	%
10756	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10757
10758			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10759			is, invoking the URL
10760
10761			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10762
10763			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10764	root	1.387	%
10765	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10766			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10767			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10768			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10769			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10770			"I am using CGI!"
10771
10772			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10773	root	1.387	%
10774	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10775			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10776			>
10777	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10778	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10779
10780			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10781	root	1.387	%
10782	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10783			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10784	root	1.387	%
10785	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10786			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10787			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10788			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10789	root	1.387	%
10790	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10791
10792			pcg@goof.com said:
10793			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10794
10795			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10796
10797			"It's broken."
10798			"What's wrong with it?."
10799			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10800			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10801			"It just doesn't work."
10802			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10803			"It gives an error message."
10804			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10805			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10806			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10807			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10808			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10809			letter for letter this time."
10810	root	1.387	%
10811	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10812
10813			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10814			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10815			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10816
10817			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10818			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10819			perms.
10820
10821			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10822	root	1.387	%
10823	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10824			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10825
10826			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10827
10828			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10829			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10830			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10831
10832			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10833			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10834	root	1.387	%
10835	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10836			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10837	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10838
10839			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10840			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10841			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10842			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10843			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10844			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10845			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10846			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10847			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10848			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10849			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10850
10851			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10852
10853			normarz@aol.com
10854	root	1.387	%
10855	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10856	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10857	root	1.1	>Legion
10858			>schlagen?
10859
10860			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10861
10862			Bye
10863			Andreas
10864	root	1.387	%
10865	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10866
10867			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10868			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10869
10870			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10871			companies.
10872
10873			Kind regards
10874			Henning
10875	root	1.387	%
10876	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10877			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10878			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10879
10880			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10881			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10882			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10883
10884			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10885			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10886			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10887			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10888			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10889			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10890			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10891			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10892			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10893			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10894	root	1.387	%
10895	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10896			We might support that sometime next year.
10897			-=- Microsoft
10898			(But I doubt it.)
10899			-=- Me
10900			-=- James Mastros
10901	root	1.387	%
10902	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10903			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10904			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10905			>lines.
10906
10907			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10908			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10909	root	1.387	%
10910	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10911	root	1.387	%
10912	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10913			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10914			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10915			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10916	root	1.387	%
10917	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10918
10919			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10920			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10921			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10922			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10923			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10924			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10925			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10926			it's not all his fault.
10927
10928			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10929			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10930			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10931			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10932			content.
10933
10934			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10935			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10936			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10937			learn (or pay for it;)
10938
10939			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10940			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10941			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10942			just for fun or to get the op.
10943
10944			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10945			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10946			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10947			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10948
10949			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10950
10951			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10952			course, Linux and Linux people.
10953	root	1.387	%
10954	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10955			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10956
10957			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10958			--
10959			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10960	root	1.387	%
10961	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10962
10963			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10964			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10965			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10966
10967			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10968			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10969			tradition.
10970	root	1.387	%
10971	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10972			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10973	root	1.387	%
10974	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10975			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10976	root	1.387	%
10977	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10978			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10979			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10980			Or GIRLS for short.
10981	root	1.387	%
10982	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10983	root	1.387	%
10984	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10985			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10986			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10987			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10988			5_004_03 to build!"
10989
10990			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10991			have no patience."
10992
10993			xoxo,
10994			Andy
10995	root	1.387	%
10996	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10997			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10998			We all have our cross to bear.
10999	root	1.387	%
11000	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11001
11002			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11003			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11004			Subject: Re: system() question
11005
11006			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11007			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11008			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11009			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11010			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11011			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11012			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11013			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11014			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11015			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11016			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11017			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11018			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11019			humiliating for me!)
11020
11021			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11022			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11023			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11024			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11025			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11026			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11027			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11028			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11029			really knows the answer.
11030
11031			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11032			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11033			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11034			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11035
11036			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11037			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11038			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11039			for that.
11040
11041			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11042			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11043			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11044			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11045			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11046			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11047			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11048
11049			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11050
11051			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11052			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11053			something for free.''
11054
11055			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11056
11057			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11058			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11059
11060			(Good question.)
11061
11062			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11063			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11064			once I have run it.''
11065			(Good question.)
11066
11067			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11068
11069			(Good question.)
11070
11071			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11072			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11073			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11074			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11075			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11076
11077			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11078			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11079			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11080			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11081			comp.lang.perl?
11082			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11083			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11084			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11085			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11086			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11087			in comp.lang.perl?
11088
11089			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11090			you my rate card.
11091
11092			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11093			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11094			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11095			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11096			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11097			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11098			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11099			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11100			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11101			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11102
11103			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11104			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11105			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11106			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11107			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11108			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11109			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11110			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11111			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11112			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11113			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11114			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11115			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11116			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11117			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11118			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11119
11120			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11121			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11122			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11123			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11124			someone will. Maybe I will.
11125
11126			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11127			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11128			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11129			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11130			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11131			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11132			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11133			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11134
11135			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11136			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11137			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11138			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11139			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11140			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11141			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11142			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11143			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11144			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11145			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11146			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11147			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11148			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11149
11150			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11151			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11152			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11153			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11154
11155			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11156
11157			`I want to accomplish X.
11158
11159			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11160
11161			...
11162
11163			But instead it does Y.
11164
11165			Why is that?''
11166
11167			This one is also pretty good:
11168
11169			`I want to accomplish X.
11170			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11171
11172			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11173			because of Z.
11174
11175			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11176
11177			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11178			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11179
11180
11181			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11182			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11183
11184			--
11185			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11186			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11187	root	1.387	%
11188	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11189			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11190
11191			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11192			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11193			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11194
11195			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11196
11197			bye, Georg
11198	root	1.387	%
11199	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11200			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11201			convince me.
11202
11203			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11204
11205			Linus
11206	root	1.387	%
11207	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11208			++
11209
11210			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11211			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11212
11213	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11214	root	1.1
11215			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11216			understanding the above line.
11217
11218			Abigail
11219	root	1.387	%
11220	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11221			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11222	root	1.387	%
11223	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11224			++ button?
11225			Yes.
11226
11227			++ 100 pictures or so?
11228			Yes.
11229
11230			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11231			Yes.
11232
11233			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11234			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11235
11236			Abigail
11237	root	1.387	%
11238	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11239
11240			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11241
11242			Martien
11243	root	1.387	%
11244	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11245			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11246			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11247			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11248	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11249	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11250			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11251			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11252			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11253	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11254	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11255			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11256	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11257			nicht. ;)
11258
11259	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11260			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11261			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11262	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11263			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11264	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11265	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11266
11267	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11268			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11269	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11270	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11271	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11272
11273	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11274	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11275	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11276			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11277	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11278	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11279	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11280			"unvorstellbar".
11281
11282			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11283	root	1.387	%
11284	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11285			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11286			^^^
11287			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11288	root	1.387	%
11289	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11290			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11291	root	1.387	%
11292	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11293			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11294	root	1.387	%
11295	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11296			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11297			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11298
11299			An artificial pile of rocks.
11300	root	1.387	%
11301	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11302			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11303			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11304			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11305			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11306			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11307
11308			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11309			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11310			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11311			grosser Flipperautomat.
11312
11313			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11314	root	1.387	%
11315	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11316			>
11317			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11318			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11319			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11320			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11321			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11322	root	1.387	%
11323	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11324			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11325	root	1.1
11326			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11327	root	1.387	%
11328	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11329
11330			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11331
11332			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11333			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11334			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11335			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11336			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11337			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11338			Unix environment.
11339	root	1.387	%
11340	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11341			between these:
11342
11343			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11344			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11345
11346			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11347			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11348			;#", and the print gets executed!
11349
11350			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11351			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11352			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11353			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11354
11355			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11356			'perl'".
11357
11358			--
11359			Randal L. Schwartz
11360	root	1.387	%
11361	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11362
11363			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11364			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11365			>
11366			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11367
11368			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11369
11370			--
11371			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11372	root	1.387	%
11373	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11374	root	1.387	%
11375	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11376			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11377	root	1.387	%
11378	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11379			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11380	root	1.387	%
11381	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11382			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11383			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11384			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11385			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11386			example.
11387	root	1.387	%
11388	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11389			resemble a nail.
11390	root	1.387	%
11391	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11392			> I did wrong.
11393
11394			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11395			newsgroup.
11396	root	1.387	%
11397	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11398	root	1.387	%
11399	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11400			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11401	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11402
11403			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11404	root	1.387	%
11405	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11406	root	1.1
11407	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11408	root	1.387	%
11409	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11410			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11411			expired instantly!!!
11412	root	1.387	%
11413	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11414			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11415
11416			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11417			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11418			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11419
11420			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11421			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11422			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11423			than double Linus's programming experience?
11424
11425			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11426			> pretty straight forward.
11427
11428			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11429			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11430	root	1.387	%
11431	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11432			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11433			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11434			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11435			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11436			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11437	root	1.387	%
11438	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11439	root	1.387	%
11440	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11441			Example:
11442			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11443	root	1.387	%
11444	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11445			Randal gets his hands on it
11446	root	1.387	%
11447	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11448	root	1.387	%
11449	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11450
11451			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11452			first if you get it working.
11453	root	1.387	%
11454	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11455			> Think different.
11456
11457			Think Again.
11458	root	1.387	%
11459	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11460	root	1.387	%
11461	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11462			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11463			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11464
11465			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11466	root	1.387	%
11467	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11468			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11469	root	1.387	%
11470	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11471			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11472			\| top.
11473	root	1.387	%
11474	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11475			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11476	root	1.387	%
11477	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11478			^^^^^^^^^
11479			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11480
11481			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11482	root	1.387	%
11483	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11484			>gehen soll?
11485
11486	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11487	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11488			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11489	root	1.387	%
11490	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11491	root	1.387	%
11492	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11493			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11494	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11495			>
11496			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11497
11498			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11499			Schuh aus!
11500	root	1.387	%
11501	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11502
11503	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11504	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11505	root	1.387	%
11506	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11507
11508
11509			First opportunity
11510			Approximate
11511			Orbit Internet
11512			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11513
11514			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11515			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11516			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11517			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11518
11519			Second opportunity
11520			Approximate
11521			Orbit Internet
11522			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11523
11524			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11525			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11526			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11527			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11528
11529			Third opportunity
11530			Approximate
11531			Orbit Internet
11532			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11533
11534			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11535			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11536			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11537			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11538
11539	root	1.387	%
11540	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11541	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11542			> >würden.
11543	root	1.1	>
11544			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11545			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11546			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11547			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11548			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11549			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11550			implizierst.
11551	root	1.387	%
11552	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11553			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11554	root	1.387	%
11555	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11556			Big improvement.
11557	root	1.387	%
11558	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11559			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11560			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11561			-- "Why that one?"
11562			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11563			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11564	root	1.387	%
11565	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11566			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11567			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11568	root	1.387	%
11569	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11570			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11571			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11572
11573			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11574
11575			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11576			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11577			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11578
11579			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11580
11581			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11582			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11583			> er eigentlich ist?
11584
11585	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11586	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11587	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11588	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11589	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11590	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11591	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11592	root	1.1	Ciao
11593			Stefan
11594	root	1.387	%
11595	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11596			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11597			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11598			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11599	root	1.387	%
11600	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11601			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11602			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11603			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11604			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11605			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11606			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11607			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11608			off.
11609	root	1.387	%
11610	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11611			Meet interesting people,
11612			Kill them.
11613	root	1.387	%
11614	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11615			> umwandelbar ist.
11616
11617			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11618	root	1.387	%
11619	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11620	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11621	root	1.387	%
11622	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11623			>
11624			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11625			> >> ruckartig.
11626			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11627			>
11628	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11629	root	1.1
11630			:-)
11631	root	1.387	%
11632	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11633	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11634			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11635	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11636			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11637			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11638			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11639
11640			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11641			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11642	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11643			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11644	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11645	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11646			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11647			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11648	root	1.1	Union.
11649
11650	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11651			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11652	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11653	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11654			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11655			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11656	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11657	root	1.387	%
11658	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11659			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11660	root	1.387	%
11661	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11662	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11663	root	1.1	>>
11664			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11665	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11666			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11667	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11668			>
11669			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11670			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11671	root	1.387	%
11672	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11673	root	1.387	%
11674	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11675			> into a random order???
11676			>
11677
11678			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11679			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11680
11681			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11682			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11683			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11684			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11685			number less than 42.
11686	root	1.387	%
11687	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11688			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11689			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11690			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11691			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11692			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11693			eventually invent Unix.
11694	root	1.387	%
11695	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11696			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11697			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11698			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11699			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11700			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11701			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11702			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11703			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11704			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11705			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11706			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11707			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11708			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11709			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11710			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11711	root	1.387	%
11712	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11713			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11714			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11715	root	1.387	%
11716	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11717			using a Perl CGI script?
11718	root	1.387	%
11719	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11720
11721			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11722			week.
11723	root	1.387	%
11724	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11725			Brieweb> of PERL.
11726			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11727			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11728			[Randal Schwartz]
11729	root	1.387	%
11730	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11731			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11732			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11733			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11734	root	1.387	%
11735	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11736			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11737			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11738			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11739			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11740			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11741			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11742			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11743			system and restricting their options.
11744			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11745	root	1.387	%
11746	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11747			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11748			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11751			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11752			Ernie Hai
11753			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11754	root	1.387	%
11755	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11756			: results" report from the users.
11757
11758			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11759			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11760			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11761			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11762	root	1.387	%
11763	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11764			They are all owned by cats.
11765	root	1.387	%
11766	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11767			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11768			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11769	root	1.387	%
11770	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11771			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11772
11773			Yesterday it worked
11774			Today it is not working
11775			Windows is like that
11776			- - -
11777			wind catches lily
11778			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11779			segmentation fault
11780			- - -
11781			Three things are certain:
11782			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11783			Guess which has occurred.
11784			- - -
11785			A file that big?
11786			It might be very useful.
11787			But now it is gone.
11788			- - -
11789			Windows NT crashed.
11790			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11791			No one hears your screams.
11792			- - -
11793			Errors have occurred.
11794			We won't tell you where or why.
11795			Lazy programmers.
11796			- - -
11797			Seeing my great fault
11798			Through darkening blue windows
11799			I begin again
11800			- - -
11801			The code was willing,
11802			It considered your request,
11803			But the chips were weak.
11804			- - -
11805			Printer not ready.
11806			Could be a fatal error.
11807			Have a pen handy?
11808			- - -
11809			Server's poor response
11810			Not quick enough for browser.
11811			Timed out, plum blossom.
11812			- - -
11813			Chaos reigns within.
11814			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11815			Order shall return.
11816			- - -
11817			Login incorrect.
11818			Only perfect spellers may
11819			enter this system.
11820			- - -
11821			This site has been moved.
11822			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11823			have to delete you.
11824			- - -
11825			ABORTED effort:
11826			Close all that you have.
11827			You ask way too much.
11828			- - -
11829			First snow, then silence.
11830			This thousand dollar screen dies
11831			so beautifully.
11832			- - -
11833			With searching comes loss
11834			and the presence of absence:
11835			"My Novel" not found.
11836			- - -
11837			The Tao that is seen
11838			Is not the true Tao, until
11839			You bring fresh toner.
11840			- - -
11841			The Web site you seek
11842			cannot be located but
11843			endless others exist
11844			- - -
11845			Stay the patient course
11846			Of little worth is your ire
11847			The network is down
11848			- - -
11849			A crash reduces
11850			your expensive computer
11851			to a simple stone.
11852			- - -
11853			There is a chasm
11854			of carbon and silicon
11855			the software can't bridge
11856			- - -
11857			To have no errors
11858			Would be life without meaning
11859			No struggle, no joy
11860			- - -
11861			You step in the stream,
11862			but the water has moved on.
11863			This page is not here.
11864			- - -
11865			No keyboard present
11866			Hit F1 to continue
11867			Zen engineering?
11868			- - -
11869			Hal, open the file
11870			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11871			open it, please Hal
11872			- - -
11873			Out of memory.
11874			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11875			But we never will.
11876			- - -
11877			Having been erased,
11878			The document you're seeking
11879			Must now be retyped.
11880			- - -
11881			The ten thousand things
11882			How long do any persist?
11883			Netscape, too, has gone.
11884			- - -
11885			Rather than a beep
11886			Or a rude error message,
11887			These words: "File not found."
11888			- - -
11889			Serious error.
11890			All shortcuts have disappeared
11891			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11892	root	1.387	%
11893	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11894			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11895	root	1.387	%
11896	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11897			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11898
11899			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11900			early 1980s.
11901	root	1.387	%
11902	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11903			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11904			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11905			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11906
11907			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11908			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11909			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11910			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11911			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11912			many new features that it just stops working.
11913
11914			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11915
11916			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11917			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11918
11919			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11920			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11921			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11922
11923			Hope this explains what's going on
11924			Martien Verbruggen
11925	root	1.387	%
11926	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11927	root	1.387	%
11928	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11929	root	1.387	%
11930	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11931	root	1.387	%
11932	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11933			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11934			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11935	root	1.387	%
11936	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11937			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11938			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11939			>
11940			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11941
11942			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11943			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11944	root	1.387	%
11945	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11946			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11947			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11948			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11949	root	1.387	%
11950	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11951			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11952			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11953			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11954			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11955			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11956			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11957			convienience store.")
11958	root	1.387	%
11959	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11960			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11961	root	1.387	%
11962	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11963	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11964	root	1.1
11965			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11966			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11967	root	1.387	%
11968	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11969			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11970			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11971			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11972	root	1.387	%
11973	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11974			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11975			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11976	root	1.387	%
11977	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11978			(A => B) => (B => A)
11979			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11980			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11981	root	1.387	%
11982	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11983	root	1.387	%
11984	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11985			-Barry Shein
11986	root	1.387	%
11987	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11988			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11989			read the manual.
11990	root	1.387	%
11991	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11992	root	1.387	%
11993	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11994			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11995			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11996			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11997			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11998			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11999			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12000			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12001			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12002	root	1.387	%
12003	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12004	root	1.387	%
12005	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12006			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12007			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12008	root	1.387	%
12009	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12010
12011			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12012			need.
12013	root	1.387	%
12014	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12015			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12016			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12017	root	1.387	%
12018	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12019			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12020			newsreaders. You know,
12021			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12022			back
12023			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12024			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12025			out what they're saying.
12026	root	1.387	%
12027	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12028			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12029	root	1.387	%
12030	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12031			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12032			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12033
12034			But the combination.... sutters
12035	root	1.387	%
12036	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12037			Darn it.
12038	root	1.387	%
12039	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12040	root	1.387	%
12041	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12042	root	1.387	%
12043	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12044			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12045			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12046			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12047			trying to use it.
12048	root	1.387	%
12049	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12050	root	1.387	%
12051	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12052			>
12053			> Is this group active?
12054			No.
12055
12056			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12057			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12058
12059			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12060			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12061	root	1.387	%
12062	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12063			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12064	root	1.387	%
12065	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12066			Press any key to continue..."
12067	root	1.387	%
12068	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12069			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12070			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12071	root	1.387	%
12072	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12073			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12074			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12075			adjust your travel plans.
12076	root	1.387	%
12077	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12078			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12079	root	1.387	%
12080	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12081			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12082
12083			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12084			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12085
12086			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12087
12088			tak 18 12 6
12089	root	1.387	%
12090	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12091			-- Bill Gates
12092			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12093			-- Bill Gates
12094			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12095			-- logical conclusion
12096	root	1.387	%
12097	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12098			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12099			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12100			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12101			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12102			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12103			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12104			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12105			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12106			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12107			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12108			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12109			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12110			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12111			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12112			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12113			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12114			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12115			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12116			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12117			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12118	root	1.387	%
12119	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12120			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12121			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12122			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12123	root	1.387	%
12124	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.