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#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
2
3			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
4			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
5			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
6			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
7			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
8			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
9			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
10			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
11			time. There is no other significance to these files.
12			%
13	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
14			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
15			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
16			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
17			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
18			- John Rogers
19			%
20	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
21			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
22			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
23			become witches.
24
25			– Bret Weinstein
26			%
27	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
28			- Rumsfeld 2003
29			%
30	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
31
32			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
33
34			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
35
36			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
37
38			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
39
40			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
41			%
42	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
43			- a rust tutorial
44			%
45	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
46			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
47			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
48
49			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
50			%
51			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
52			that has been problematic for a long time.
53
54			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
55			%
56	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
57			GPL Protected it
58			GOD Blessed it
59
60			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
61			%
62	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
63			kinship term she'd ever heard.
64
65			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
66			%
67			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
68			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
69			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
70
71			I don't agree.
72
73			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
74			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
75			> is not as clear as it could be.
76
77			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
78			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
79			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
80			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
81			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
82
83			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
84			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
85			%
86			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
87
88			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
89			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
90			other conventions exist for a very long time.
91
92			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
93			%
94			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
95
96			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
97			%
98	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
99			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
100			and government agency portal.
101
102			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
103			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
104
105			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
106			%
107			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
108
109			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
110			%
111			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
112			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
113			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
114
115			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
116			%
117			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
118			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
119			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
120			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
121			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
122			%
123	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
124			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
125			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
126			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
127			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
128			penalty. This makes really a difference.
129
130			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
131			%
132			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
133			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
134
135			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
136			%
137	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
138
139			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
140			%
141	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
142
143			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
144			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
145
146			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
147			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
148			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
149
150			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
151			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
152
153			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
154			%
155	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
156
157			Vim 15.2%
158			Emacs 3.8%
159
160			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
161
162			Vim 26.1%
163			Emacs 5.2%
164			%
165	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
166
167			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
168
169			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
170
171			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?"
172
173			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
174
175			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
176
177			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
178
179			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
180
181			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
182
183			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."
184
185			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
186
187			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
188			%
189			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
190
191			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
192			>>> their own servers.
193			>>
194			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
195			>
196			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
197
198			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
199			%
200	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
201
202			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
203			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
204			%
205	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
206			================================
207
208	root	1.449	November 2002
209
210			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
211			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
212			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
213
214			---
215
216			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
217			dehydration and fatigue.
218
219			---
220
221			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
222			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
223
224			---
225
226			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
227
228			November 19 2200 hrs
229			guard check - Rahman is alive.
230
231			2300 hrs
232			guard check - Rahman is alive.
233
234			November 20 0400 hrs
235			guard check - Rahman is alive.
236
237			0800 hrs
238			guard check - Rahman is alive.
239
240			1000 hrs
241			guard check - Rahman is dead.
242
243			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
244			%
245	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
246			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
247			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
248			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
249			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
250			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
251			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
252			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
253			be a better place.
254
255			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
256			%
257	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
258			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
259			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
260			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
261			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
262			> in technology.
263
264			-P
265			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
266
267			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
268			%
269			> Simon Cooke wrote:
270			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
271
272			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
273
274			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
275			%
276	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
277			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
278			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
279			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
280			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
281
282			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
283			%
284	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
285			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
286			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
287			hashtag #sexualassault.
288
289			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
290			%
291	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
292
293			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
294			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
295
296			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
297			%
298			> How is the old way a problem?
299
300			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
301			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
302			it's smarter than you.
303
304			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
305			%
306	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
307			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
308			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
309			less lethal.
310
311			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
312			%
313	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
314
315			[...]
316
317			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
318
319			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
320			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
321			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
322			%
323	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
324			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
325			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
326			"also now legal names for the UK.
327
328			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
329			%
330			From: Russ Allbery
331			To: tz@iana.org
332			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
333
334			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
335			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
336			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
337			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
338			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
339			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
340			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
341
342			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
343			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
344
345			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
346			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
347			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
348			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
349			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
350
351			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
352			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
353			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
354			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
355			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
356			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
357			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
358			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
359			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
360
361			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
362			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
363			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
364			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
365			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
366			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
367			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
368			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
369			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
370			maintainer.
371			%
372	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
373
374			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
375			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
376			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
377			"BST", but no:
378			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
379			%
380			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
381			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
382
383			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
384			> When can we expect the updated version
385
386			About three weeks ago.
387			%
388	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
389			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
390			%
391			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
392
393			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
394			%
395	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
396			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
397			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
398
399			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
400			%
401			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
402
403			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
404
405			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
406			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
407
408			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
409			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
410			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
411
412			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
413			full day per year.
414			%
415	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
416			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
417			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
418			%
419			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
420			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
421			%
422			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
423			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
424			me - lately?".
425			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
426			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
427
428			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
429			%
430			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
431			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
432			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
433			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
434
435			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
436			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
437			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
438			your lives be a living hell.
439
440			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
441			%
442	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
443			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
444			%
445			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
446			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
447			out with a problem I'm having?
448
449			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
450
451			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
452
453			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
454			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
455			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
456			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
457
458			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
459
460			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
461
462			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
463
464			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
465			[http://c2.com/]
466			%
467			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
468			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
469			right-parenthesis.
470			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
471			%
472			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
473			yourself?
474			Software development is the career for you!
475
476			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
477			%
478	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
479			-- Richard Dawkins
480			%
481			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
482			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
483			and security.
484
485			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
486			%
487			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
488
489			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
490			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
491			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
492			%
493			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
494			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
495			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
496			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
497			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
498			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
499
500			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
501			%
502			tiny hsv2rgb
503			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;}
504
505			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
506			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
507			}
508			%
509			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
510			Only Java makes it possible!
511
512			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
513			%
514			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
515			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
516			extremely poettering''
517			%
518			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
519			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
520			%
521			"I drank what?!"
522			-- Socrates
523			%
524			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
525			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
526			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
527
528			Jon Callas in
529			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
530			%
531			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
532			-- Conway's Law
533			%
534			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
535			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
536			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
537			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
538			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
539			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
540			untangling this mess right now so).
541
542			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
543			%
544			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
545			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
546			enabled on platforms that support it.
547			[xorg.conf(5)]
548			%
549			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
550			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
551			> would work on code.
552
553			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
554			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
555			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
556			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
557			%
558	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
559			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
560			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
561			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
562			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
563			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
564			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
565			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
566			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
567			%
568			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
569			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
570			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
571			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
572			very beginning.
573			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
574			%
575			systemd creates user session information in
576			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
577			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
578			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
579			allowed one session per user.
580			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
581			%
582	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
583			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
584			> about anything else.
585			>
586			> Why is it like that?
587
588			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
589
590			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
591			%
592			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
593
594			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
595			>>
596			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
597			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
598			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
599			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
600			>
601			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
602
603			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
604			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
605			%
606			(partial) Beaufort Table
607			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
608			Calm 0 0 0
609			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
610			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
611			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
612			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
613			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
614			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
615			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
616			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
617			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
618			%
619			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
620			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
621			%
622			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
623			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
624			%
625			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
626			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
627			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
628			on the cards.
629			%
630			[random comment from amule sources]
631			// trust noone ;-)
632			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
633			// wtf you guys are weird.
634			%
635	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
636			- Kin Hubbard
637			%
638			[random .sig]
639			I'm a muslim.
640
641			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
642			%
643			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
644			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
645			before.
646
647			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
648			%
649			<imho>
650
651			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
652			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
653			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
654			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
655
656			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
657			Java - public static void not fun.
658			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
659			C - usually not fun.
660
661			What about modern scripting languages?
662
663			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
664			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
665			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
666
667			</imho>
668
669			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
670			%
671			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
672			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
673			%
674
675			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
676			*
677			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
678
679			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
680			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
681			%
682			# The user is always right.
683			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
684			[autoconf]
685			%
686			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
687
688			/*
689			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
690			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
691			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
692			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
693			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
694			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
695			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
696			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
697			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
698			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
699			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
700			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
701			*/
702			%
703			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
704			was new to me:
705
706			switch(c)
707			{
708			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
709			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
710			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
711			case 'd': base=-10; }
712			switch(type)
713			{
714			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
715			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
716			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
717			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
718			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
719			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
720			default:val=0; break;
721			}
722			cp = __numout(val,base);
723			if(0) {
724			case 's':
725			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
726			}
727			%
728			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
729			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
730			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
731			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
732			extra second and see how far you get :-)
733			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
734			%
735			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
736			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
737			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
738			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
739			>
740			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
741			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
742
743			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
744			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
745
746			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
747			%
748			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
749			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
750			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
751
752			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
753
754			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
755			%
756			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
757			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
758			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
759			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
760			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
761			settings)
762
763			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
764			%
765			How do I deal with memory leaks?
766
767			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
768
769			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
770			%
771			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
772			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
773
774			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
775			%
776			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
777			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
778			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
779			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
780
781			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
782			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
783			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
784			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
785			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
786			rewarded for their creativity.
787
788			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
789			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
790			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
791			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
792			would never have made it in the first place.
793
794			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
795			%
796			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
797			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
798			%
799			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
800			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
801			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
802			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
803			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
804
805			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
806			%
807			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
808			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
809			- Mohandas Gandhi
810			%
811			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
812			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
813			handiwork of the Lord."
814			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
815			%
816			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
817
818			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
819			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
820			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
821
822			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
823			Scientist A publishes results.
824
825			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
826			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
827			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
828
829			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
830			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
831			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
832			A: ...
833			B: You fraud!
834
835			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
836
837			A publishes results.
838
839			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
840			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
841			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
842			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
843			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
844			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
845
846			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
847			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
848			%
849			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
850			them because they need the money to operate]
851
852			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
853			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
854			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
855			site or its bottom line."
856			%
857			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
858			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
859			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
860			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
861			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
862			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
863			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
864			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
865			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
866			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
867			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
868			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
869			%
870			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
871
872			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
873
874			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
875			%
876			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
877
878			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
879			>>>> and the beating of children?
880			>>>
881			>>> Subjugation of women...
882			>>
883			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
884			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
885			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
886			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
887			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
888			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
889			>> shake partner.
890			>
891			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
892			>
893			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
894			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
895			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
896			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
897			>
898
899			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
900			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
901			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
902			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
903			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
904			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
905			and your wife.
906			%
907			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
908			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
909			still kill you. - arestheblue
910			%
911			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
912			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
913			specifications for GSS-API.
914
915			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
916			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
917
918			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
919			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
920
921			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
922			%
923			[from the minix 3 users guide]
924
925			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
926			%
927			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
928
929			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
930			[...]
931			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
932			complaintant to guess this is true.
933			%
934			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
935			- Ken Thompson.
936			%
937			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
938
939			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
940
941			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
942			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
943			source code excerpt:
944
945			int sn()
946			{
947			char pwr;
948
949			int input1 = 0;
950			double output1 = 0;
951
952			system("clear");
953			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
954			cin>>input1;
955			output1 = (sin(input1));
956			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
957			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
958			cin>>pwr;
959			if(pwr == 'a')
960			sq();
961			if(pwr == 'm')
962			system("pause");
963
964			}
965			%
966			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
967			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
968
969			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
970
971			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
972			%
973			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
974			app for me" department:
975
976			From: Evan LeCompte
977
978			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
979			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
980			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
981			%
982			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
983			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
984			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
985
986			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
987			%
988			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
989			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
990			– Steve Jobs[47]
991
992			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
993			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
994			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
995			%
996			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
997			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
998			%
999			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1000			From: Patrick Horgan
1001			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1002			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1003
1004			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1005			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1006			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1007			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1008			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1009			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1010
1011			[...]
1012			%
1013	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1014			— Peter Abelard
1015			%
1016			A man said to the universe:
1017			"Sir I exist!"
1018			"However," replied the universe,
1019			"The fact has not created in me
1020	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1021			- Steven Crane
1022	root	1.431	%
1023			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1024
1025			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1026
1027			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1028
1029			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1030
1031			– Sanskrit Saying
1032			%
1033			[anonymised discussion]
1034			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1035			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1036			%
1037			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1038
1039	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1040	root	1.431
1041			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1042			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1043			appear.
1044			%
1045			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1046			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1047			- Douglas Adams
1048			%
1049			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1050			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1051			%
1052	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1053			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1054	root	1.431	%
1055			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1056			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1057			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1058			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1059			%
1060			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1061			%
1062			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1063			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1064			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1065			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1066			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1067			%
1068			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1069			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1070			or her career.
1071			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1072			%
1073			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1074			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1075			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1076			%
1077			I LOVE YOU
1078			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1079			%
1080			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1081			the air impeller.
1082
1083			Alan Cox
1084			%
1085			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1086			with a minimum computer science background."
1087			%
1088			From: Eric Sosman
1089			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1090			Subject: Re: about graphics
1091
1092			prince wrote:
1093			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1094
1095			#include <stdio.h>
1096			int main(void) {
1097			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1098			return 0;
1099			}
1100			%
1101			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1102			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1103			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1104			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1105			%
1106			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1107
1108			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
1109			it still is a constant-time attack.
1110			%
1111			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1112			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1113			%
1114			From: David Damerell
1115
1116			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1117			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1118			>caps to make it different.
1119
1120			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1121			painful but will take less typing.
1122			%
1123			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1124			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1125			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1126
1127			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1128			%
1129			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1130
1131			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1132			> free than the BSD.
1133			>
1134			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1135
1136			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1137			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1138			%
1139			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1140
1141			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1142			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1143			from incompatible pointer type
1144			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1145			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1146			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1147			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1148			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1149			%
1150			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1151			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1152			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1153			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1154			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1155			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1156
1157			[Chandon Seldon]
1158			%
1159			[Wikipedia]
1160			Differences between vi and Emacs
1161
1162			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1163			%
1164			[lost the reference]
1165			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1166			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1167			%
1168			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1169			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1170			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1171			%
1172			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1173
1174			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1175			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1176			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1177			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1178			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1179
1180			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1181			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1182			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1183			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1184			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1185			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1186			piss on your leg.
1187
1188			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1189			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1190			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1191
1192			[then, a day later]
1193
1194			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1195			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1196			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1197			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1198			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1199
1200			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1201			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1202			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1203			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1204			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1205			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1206			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1207			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1208			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1209
1210
1211			-----Original Message-----
1212			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1213			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1214			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1215			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1216
1217
1218
1219			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1220	root	1.432	>
1221	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1222
1223			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1224
1225			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1226			I hope you don't object :)
1227			%
1228			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1229			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1230
1231			You made my day
1232			%
1233			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1234
1235			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1236			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1237			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1238
1239			Linus
1240			%
1241			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1242
1243			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1244
1245			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 ...
1246
1247			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1248
1249			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1250			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1251			when sending emails to other people:
1252			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1253
1254			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1255
1256			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1257			%
1258			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1259			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1260			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1261			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1262			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1263			%
1264			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1265			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1266
1267			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1268			%
1269			[on italy]
1270
1271			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1272
1273			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1274			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1275			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1276			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1277
1278			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1279			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1280			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1281			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1282			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1283			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1284
1285			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1286
1287			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1288			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1289			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1290			from fascism period.
1291
1292			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1293			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1294			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1295			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1296			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1297			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1298			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1299			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1300			SIAE.
1301
1302			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1303			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1304			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1305			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1306			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1307			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1308			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1309			electronic ones
1310
1311			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1312
1313			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1314			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1315			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1316			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1317			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1318			western country.
1319
1320			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1321			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1322			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1323			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1324			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1325			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1326			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1327			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1328			also the governments of "center-left".
1329
1330			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1331
1332			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1333			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1334			without any restriction.
1335
1336			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1337			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1338			world.
1339
1340			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1341			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1342			Thank you for reading.
1343			%
1344			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1345			>
1346			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1347
1348			How very ironic.
1349			%
1350			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1351			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1352			takes religion."
1353
1354			--Steve Weinberg
1355			%
1356			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1357			%
1358			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1359			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1360			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1361
1362			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1363			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1364			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1365			%
1366			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1367			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1368			the right tool for me.
1369			%
1370			[deliantra]
1371			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1372			%
1373			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1374			%
1375			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1376			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1377			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1378			%
1379			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1380
1381			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1382			%
1383			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1384			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1385
1386			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1387			actually tells you it's American.
1388			%
1389			[better do not hire this programmer]
1390			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1391			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1392			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1393
1394			Hi
1395
1396			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1397			someone here can advise me.
1398
1399			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1400			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1401			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1402			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1403			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1404
1405			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1406			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1407			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1408			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1409			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1410			corresponding thing in C?
1411
1412			Thanks!
1413			%
1414			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1415
1416			// See bug 53763.
1417			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1418			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1419			if (shell) {
1420			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1421			%
1422			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1423			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1424
1425			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1426			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1427			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1428			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1429			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1430			%
1431			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1432			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1433			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1434			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1435	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1436	root	1.431
1437			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1438			%
1439			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1440
1441	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1442	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1443
1444			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1445
1446			x / y * z
1447
1448			and
1449
1450			x / y * z
1451
1452			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1453
1454			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1455			design decisions.)
1456			%
1457			endergt:
1458			> snoofle:
1459			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1460			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1461			> > you understand what you are doing...
1462			>
1463	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1464	root	1.431
1465	root	1.432	debug
1466	root	1.431	%
1467			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%.
1468
1469			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1470			%
1471			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1472			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1473			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1474
1475			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1476			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1477			6 Decompilation
1478
1479			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1480			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1481			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1482			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1483			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1484			conditions are met: [...]"
1485			%
1486			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1487			%
1488			Why Linux Sux ?
1489
1490			Easy .
1491			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1492			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1493			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 .
1494			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1495			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1496			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1497			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! ) .
1498			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 .
1499			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1500
1501			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1502			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1503			working ones . Screw linux users .
1504			%
1505			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1506			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1507			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1508			%
1509			> The Dell 30"...
1510
1511			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1512			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1513			%
1514	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1515	root	1.431
1516			> > 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".
1517	root	1.432	>
1518	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!
1519	root	1.432	>
1520	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1521	root	1.432
1522	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1523
1524			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1525			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.
1526			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1527	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.
1528	root	1.431	%
1529			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1530			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1531			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1532			%
1533			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1534
1535			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1536			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1537			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1538
1539			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1540			anderen betriebssystemen.
1541
1542			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1543			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1544
1545			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1546			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1547			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1548			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1549			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1550
1551			Frage?
1552			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1553			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1554			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1555
1556			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1557			%
1558			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1559			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1560			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1561			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1562			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1563			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1564			%
1565			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1566			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1567			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1568			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1569			%
1570			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1571			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1572
1573			God bless the re-inventers
1574
1575			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1576			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1577
1578	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1579	root	1.431
1580			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1581			one.
1582			%
1583			[rfc2665]
1584			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1585			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1586			useful in theory than in practice.
1587			%
1588			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1589	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1590	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1591			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1592			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1593			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1594			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1595			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1596	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1597	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1598			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1599	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1600	root	1.431	15:30
1601			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1602			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1603			%
1604			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1605			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1606			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1607			%
1608			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1609
1610			Strictly for beginners
1611
1612			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1613			[...]
1614			%
1615			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1616			%
1617			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1618			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1619			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1620			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1621			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1622			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1623			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1624			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1625			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1626			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1627			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1628			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1629			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1630			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1631			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1632			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1633			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1634			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1635			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1636			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1637			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1638			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1639			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1640			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1641			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1642			%
1643			[A Gentoo User]
1644			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1645			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1646			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1647			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1648			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1649			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1650			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1651			%
1652			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1653			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1654			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1655			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1656			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1657	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1658			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1659	root	1.431	can do
1660			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1661			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1662			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1663			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1664			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1665			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1666			%
1667			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1668	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1669			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1670			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1671	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1672			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1673	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1674			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1675	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1676			%
1677			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1678			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1679			%
1680			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1681
1682			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1683			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1684			be slow in Windows 2000"
1685
1686			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1687			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1688			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1689			%
1690			[so much for type-safety]
1691			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1692			lst.add(null);
1693			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1694			%
1695			[just for reference]
1696			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1697			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1698			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1699			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1700			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1701			es nicht.
1702
1703			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1704			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1705			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1706			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1707			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1708			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1709
1710			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1711			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1712			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1713			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1714			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1715			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1716			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1717			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1718			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1719			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1720			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1721			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1722			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1723			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1724
1725			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1726			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1727			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1728			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1729			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1730			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1731			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1732
1733			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1734			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1735			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1736			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1737			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1738			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1739			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1740			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1741			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1742			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1743			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1744			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1745			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1746			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1747			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1748			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1749			alternativ' Idioten!
1750
1751			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1752			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1753			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1754			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1755			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1756			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1757			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1758			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1759			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1760			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1761			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1762			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1763			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1764			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1765
1766			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1767			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1768			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1769
1770			Ich will R A C H E !
1771
1772			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1773			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1774			Dinge zu sagen:
1775
1776			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1777
1778			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1779			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1780			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1781			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1782			anfange.
1783
1784			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1785			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1786			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1787			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1788			dieser verdammten schule!
1789
1790			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1791			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1792
1793			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1794
1795			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1796			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1797			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1798			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1799			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1800			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1801			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1802			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1803			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1804			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1805
1806			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1807			Einschulung.
1808
1809			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1810			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1811			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1812			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1813			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1814			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1815			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1816			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1817			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1818			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1819
1820			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1821			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1822
1823			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1824			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1825			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1826			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1827			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1828			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1829			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1830			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1831
1832			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1833			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1834			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1835			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1836			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1837			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1838			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1839			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1840
1841			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1842			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1843
1844			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1845			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1846			Hand genommen.
1847
1848			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1849			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1850
1851			Ich bin weg...
1852			%
1853			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1854			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1855			%
1856	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1857			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1858			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1859			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1860	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1861			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1862			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1863			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1864			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1865			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1866			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1867			%
1868			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1869			%
1870			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1871			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1872
1873			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1874			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1875			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1876			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1877			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1878			%
1879			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1880			%
1881			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1882			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1883			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1884			%
1885			[very funny read]
1886			Hack-a-Bike
1887			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1888			%
1889			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1890			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1891			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1892			still can.
1893
1894			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1895			%
1896	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1897			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1898	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1899			%
1900			[without words]
1901			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1902			%
1903			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1904			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1905			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1906			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1907			actual kid in an actual bath.
1908			%
1909			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1910			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1911			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1912			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1913			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1914			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1915			what happened to you.
1916			%
1917	root	1.432	--
1918	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1919
1920			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1921			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1922			%
1923			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1924	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1925			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1926	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1927
1928			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1929			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1930			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1931			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1932			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1933
1934			- Ted
1935			%
1936			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1937			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1938			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1939			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1940			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1941			me, but we have the truth!"
1942			%
1943			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1944			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1945			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1946			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1947			%
1948			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1949			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1950			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1951			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1952			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1953			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1954			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1955			genociding every monster.
1956
1957			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1958			genocide them for good measure!
1959			%%
1960			[nethack instadeath faq]
1961
1962			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1963
1964			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1965			%
1966			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1967			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1968	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1969	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1970			17:58 <Murch> lol
1971			%
1972			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1973			%
1974			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1975			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1976			%
1977			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1978			%
1979			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1980
1981			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1982			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1983			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1984			%
1985			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1986
1987			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1988			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1989			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1990			the Eastern Time Zone.
1991			[...]
1992			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1993			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1994			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1995			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1996			%
1997			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1998
1999			_dl_profile_output
2000			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2001			%
2002			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2003			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2004			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2005			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2006			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2007			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2008			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2009
2010			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2011			%
2012			[famous last words]
2013			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2014			%
2015			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2016
2017			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2018
2019			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2020
2021			--
2022			Jay Hennigan
2023			%
2024			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2025			%
2026			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2027			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2028			of homeland security]
2029			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2030			%
2031			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2032	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2033	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2034			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2035			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2036			range of spyware available to us?"
2037
2038			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2039			%
2040			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2041			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2042			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2043			%
2044	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2045	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2046			%
2047			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2048			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2049			%
2050			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2051			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2052			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2053			shooter.
2054
2055			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2056			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2057			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2058			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2059			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2060			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2061
2062			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2063			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2064			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2065			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2066			way.
2067
2068			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2069			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2070			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2071
2072			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2073			%
2074			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2075			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2076			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2077			> above comment about Hitler).
2078
2079			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2080			mention Hitler loses.
2081			%
2082			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2083			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2084			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2085			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2086			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2087			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2088			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2089			including <windows.h>.
2090			[...]
2091			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2092			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2093			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2094			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2095			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2096			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2097			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2098			environments.
2099			%
2100			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2101			%
2102			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2103			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2104			%
2105			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2106			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2107			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2108			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2109			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2110			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2111			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2112			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2113			companies want to own your computer.
2114
2115			Some examples:
2116
2117			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2118			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2119			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2120			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2121			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2122			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2123			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2124			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2125			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2126	root	1.432
2127	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2128			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2129			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2130			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2131			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2132
2133			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2134			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2135			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2136			from Microsoft? You can't.
2137
2138			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2139			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2140			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2141			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2142			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2143			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2144			adversely affect its business partners.
2145
2146			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2147			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2148			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2149			about your behavior.
2150
2151			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2152			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2153			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2154			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2155			presumed infractions.
2156
2157			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2158			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2159			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2160
2161			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2162			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2163			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2164			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2165			user's device against him.
2166			[...]
2167			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2168			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2169			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2170			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2171			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2172			back-room marketing deals.
2173			%
2174			[John Carmack on Java]
2175			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2176			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2177			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2178			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2179			performance.
2180			%
2181			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2182
2183			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2184			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2185			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2186			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2187			%
2188			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2189			%
2190			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2191			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2192			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2193			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2194			%
2195			http://funroll-loops.org/
2196			%
2197			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2198			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2199			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2200			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2201			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2202			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2203			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2204			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2205			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2206			Fahrenheit documentation.
2207			%
2208			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2209			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2210			sure its much slower than CVS]
2211			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2212			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2213			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2214	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2215	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2216			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2217	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2218	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2219			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2220	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2221	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2222			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2223			%
2224	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2225
2226			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2227			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2228	root	1.431	%
2229	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2230
2231			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2232			> systems ?
2233
2234			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2235			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2236
2237			Jesper
2238			%
2239	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2240
2241			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2242			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2243
2244	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2245	root	1.429	%
2246	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2247			%
2248	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2249
2250			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2251			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2252			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2253			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2254			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2255			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2256			but that's the truth.
2257			%
2258	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2259
2260			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2261
2262	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2263			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2264			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2265			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2266	root	1.424
2267			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2268	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2269			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2270	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2271
2272			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2273			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2274	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2275	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2276			in Richtung Boden.
2277
2278			[...]
2279
2280	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2281	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2282	root	1.424
2283			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2284	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2285	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2286
2287			[...]
2288
2289			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2290	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2291	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2292	root	1.424
2293			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2294	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2295			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2296			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2297	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2298			sofort.
2299			%
2300	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2301			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2302			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2303			software from Microsoft.)
2304	root	1.424	%
2305	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2306	root	1.424	%
2307	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2308
2309			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2310			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2311			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2312			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2313	root	1.424	%
2314	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2315	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2316	root	1.424	%
2317	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2318			From: Rodrigo Severo
2319			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2320			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2321
2322			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2323
2324			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2325			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2326			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2327
2328			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2329			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2330			brazilian ;)
2331			Rodrigo Severo
2332	root	1.424	%
2333	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2334	root	1.417
2335			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2336	root	1.424	%
2337	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2338
2339			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2340
2341			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2342
2343			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2344			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2345
2346			sigh
2347	root	1.424	%
2348	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2349			By Bertrand Russell
2350
2351			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2352			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2353			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2354			might be set forth as follows:
2355
2356			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2357
2358			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2359			evidence is sure to come to light.
2360
2361			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2362
2363			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2364			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2365			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2366
2367			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2368			contrary authorities to be found.
2369
2370			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2371			do the opinions will suppress you.
2372
2373			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2374			was once eccentric.
2375
2376			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2377			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2378			agreement than the latter.
2379
2380			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2381			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2382
2383			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2384			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2385
2386			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2387			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2388	root	1.424	%
2389	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2390	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2391			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2392			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2393
2394			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2395			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2396			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2397			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2398			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2399			United States."
2400	root	1.413	---
2401			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2402			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2403			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2404	root	1.414	---
2405			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2406			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2407			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2408			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2409			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2410
2411			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2412			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2413	root	1.424	%
2414	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2415			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2416	root	1.424	%
2417	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2418
2419			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2420			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2421
2422			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2423			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2424
2425			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2426
2427			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2428			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2429	root	1.424	%
2430	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2431			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2432	root	1.424	%
2433	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2434			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2435			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2436			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2437			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2438			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2439	root	1.424	%
2440	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2441
2442			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2443			they care about it?"
2444			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2445	root	1.407
2446			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2447	root	1.424	%
2448	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2449			-- Gregory Chaitin
2450	root	1.424	%
2451	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2452	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2453			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2454			[...]
2455	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2456			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2457	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2458	root	1.424	%
2459	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2460			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2461			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2462			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2463			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2464			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2465	root	1.424	%
2466	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2467
2468			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2469	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2470			return 0;
2471	root	1.424	%
2472	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2473	root	1.401
2474			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2475			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2476			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2477			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2478			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2479			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2480			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2481			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2482			> transparent.
2483
2484			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2485			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2486			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2487			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2488	root	1.424	%
2489	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2490			aber falsche Lösungen.
2491	root	1.424	%
2492	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2493			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2494			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2495			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2496	root	1.424	%
2497	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2498			>
2499			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2500			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2501			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2502			> than useful to the user.
2503
2504			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2505
2506			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2507			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2508			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2509			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2510
2511			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2512
2513			Linus
2514	root	1.424	%
2515	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2516			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2517			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2518			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2519	root	1.424	%
2520	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2521			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2522
2523	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2524	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2525			--
2526			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2527
2528			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2529	root	1.424	%
2530	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2531			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2532
2533			Person: What do you do?
2534			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2535			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2536
2537			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2538			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2539			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2540	root	1.394
2541			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2542			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2543	root	1.424	%
2544	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2545			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2546			illegal downloaders."
2547
2548			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2549
2550			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2551			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2552			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2553			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2554			have to emerge."
2555
2556			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2557	root	1.424	%
2558	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2559	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2560
2561			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2562			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2563
2564			Bye, Andy
2565	root	1.424	%
2566	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2567	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2568	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2569	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2570	root	1.390
2571			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2572			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2573			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2574			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2575			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2576			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2577			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2578			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2579			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2580			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2581			alle Benutzer.
2582			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2583			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2584			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2585			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2586			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2587			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2588			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2589			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2590			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2591			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2592			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2593	root	1.424	%
2594	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2595
2596			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2597			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2598			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2599			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2600			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2601			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2602			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2603			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2604			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2605			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2606			unfinished operations, etc.
2607			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2608
2609			Valid options:
2610			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2611			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2612
2613			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2614	root	1.424	%
2615	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2616			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2617			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2618			to provide.
2619			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2620	root	1.424	%
2621	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2622
2623			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2624			alarm people more.
2625
2626			-Nate
2627
2628			[...]
2629
2630			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2631			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2632			image of the language that is created here.
2633
2634			Juerd
2635
2636			[...]
2637
2638			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2639			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2640			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2641
2642	root	1.432	--
2643	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2644	root	1.387	%
2645	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2646	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2647	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2648			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2649	root	1.387	%
2650	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2651			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2652	root	1.387	%
2653	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2654			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2655	root	1.387	%
2656	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2657			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2658			[...]
2659			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2660			"Windows is broken."
2661	root	1.387	%
2662	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2663			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2664			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2665	root	1.387	%
2666	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2667			on being able to kill their children legally]
2668			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2669	root	1.387	%
2670	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2671			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2672			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2673	root	1.387	%
2674	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2675			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2676			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2677			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2678			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2679			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2680	root	1.378	--
2681			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2682			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2683			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2684			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2685			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2686			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2687			wasteful government spending."
2688	root	1.387	%
2689	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2690			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2691	root	1.387	%
2692	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2693			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2694	root	1.387	%
2695	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2696			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2697	root	1.387	%
2698	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2699			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2700	root	1.387	%
2701	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2702	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2703	root	1.387	%
2704	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2705			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2706	root	1.387	%
2707	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2708			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2709	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2710	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2711			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2712	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2713	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
2714			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2715	root	1.387	%
2716	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2717			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2718	root	1.387	%
2719	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2720			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2721			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2722			their weapons over our heads."
2723			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2724	root	1.387	%
2725	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2726			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2727	root	1.387	%
2728	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2729			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2730			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2731			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2732			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2733	root	1.387	%
2734	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2735	root	1.387	%
2736	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2737			several requests for clarification.
2738
2739			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2740			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2741			unter TCG definitions.
2742	root	1.387	%
2743	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2744			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2745			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2746			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2747	root	1.387	%
2748	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2749			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2750			get people on board.
2751			%
2752	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2753			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2754			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2755			DRM.
2756
2757			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2758			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2759	root	1.387	%
2760	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2761			switch ($decade) {
2762			case "the 50's":
2763			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2764			break;
2765			case "the 60's":
2766			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2767			break;
2768			case "the 70's":
2769			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2770			break;
2771			case "the 80's":
2772			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2773			break;
2774			case "the 90's":
2775			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2776			break;
2777			case "the 00's":
2778			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2779			break;
2780			}
2781	root	1.387	%
2782	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2783
2784			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2785			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2786			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2787			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2788
2789			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2790			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2791			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2792
2793			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2794			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2795			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2796			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2797			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2798			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2799			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2800			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2801			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2802			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2803	root	1.387	%
2804	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2805			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2806			married or unmarried."
2807
2808			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2809			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2810			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2811			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2812			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2813	root	1.387	%
2814	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2815
2816			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2817			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2818			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2819			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2820			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2821			conditioning.
2822
2823			[And this is religion at its best:]
2824			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2825			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2826			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2827	root	1.387	%
2828	root	1.361	[Racism]
2829			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2830	root	1.387	%
2831	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2832			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2833	root	1.387	%
2834	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2835			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2836
2837			I apologise for this.
2838
2839			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2840			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2841	root	1.387	%
2842	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2843			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2844			el says: ich kenn da wen
2845			el says: bei dem wars so
2846			[...]
2847			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2848			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2849			el says: gehirntumor auch
2850			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2851	root	1.387	%
2852	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2853	root	1.387	%
2854	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2855			no sense in the kernel]
2856			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2857
2858			[...]
2859
2860			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2861			models.
2862
2863			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2864			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2865			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2866	root	1.387	%
2867	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2868			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2869			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2870			--
2871			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2872	root	1.355	--
2873			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2874			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2875			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2876			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2877	root	1.387	%
2878	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2879			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2880			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2881			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2882			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2883			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2884			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2885			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2886	root	1.387	%
2887	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2888			which you currently do not posess]
2889			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2890	root	1.387	%
2891	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2892			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2893	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2894	root	1.387	%
2895	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2896	root	1.387	%
2897	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2898			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2899	root	1.387	%
2900	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2901			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2902			paragraphs.
2903	root	1.387	%
2904	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2905			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2906			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2907	root	1.387	%
2908	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2909			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2910
2911			Most catholics aren't American.
2912	root	1.387	%
2913	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2914
2915			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2916			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2917			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2918			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2919			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2920
2921			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2922			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2923	root	1.387	%
2924	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2925			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2926			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2927			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2928			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2929			criminals."
2930	root	1.387	%
2931	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2932			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2933	root	1.387	%
2934	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2935			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2936	root	1.387	%
2937	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2938			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2939	root	1.387	%
2940	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2941			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2942			card (They went up in flames).
2943	root	1.387	%
2944	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2945			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2946			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2947			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2948	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2949	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2950	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2951	root	1.387	%
2952	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2953			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2954			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2955
2956			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2957
2958			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2959	root	1.387	%
2960	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2961			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2962			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2963			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2964			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2965			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2966			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2967			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2968			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2969			--
2970			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2971			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2972			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2973			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2974			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2975			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2976	root	1.387	%
2977	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2978			The Obfuscated V contest
2979	root	1.387	%
2980	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2981			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2982			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2983			cigarette lighters."
2984			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2985	root	1.387	%
2986	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2987			Does it run under Windows ?
2988			- Who cares?
2989	root	1.387	%
2990	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2991	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2992	root	1.387	%
2993	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2994			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2995			[...]
2996			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2997			[...]
2998			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2999			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3000			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3001	root	1.387	%
3002	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3003	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3004			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3005			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3006	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3007	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3008	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3009	root	1.330	> mehr!
3010			> richy.
3011
3012			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3013	root	1.387	%
3014	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3015	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3016			> zugetragen hat?
3017
3018			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3019			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3020	root	1.388	[später]
3021			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3022	root	1.329
3023			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3024			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3025			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3026			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3027			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3028
3029			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3030
3031			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3032			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3033			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3034	root	1.387	%
3035	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3036	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3037			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3038	root	1.387	%
3039	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3040			/* give the hook another try */
3041			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3042			break;
3043	root	1.387	%
3044	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3045	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3046	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3047			#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))
3048	root	1.387	%
3049	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3050	root	1.387	%
3051	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3052	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3053	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3054	root	1.432	>
3055			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3056			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3057	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3058	root	1.432	>
3059			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3060			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3061	root	1.324	> as TO).
3062	root	1.432	>
3063	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3064
3065			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3066			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3067			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3068			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3069			being discourteous to.
3070
3071			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3072			--
3073			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3074	root	1.387	%
3075	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3076	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3077	root	1.387	%
3078	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3079			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3080			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3081			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3082			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3083	root	1.387	%
3084	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3085			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3086			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3087			you don't have any'."
3088	root	1.323
3089			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3090			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3091			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3092			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3093	root	1.387	%
3094	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3095			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3096			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3097			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3098	root	1.387	%
3099	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3100			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3101			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3102			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3103			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3104			reason will not win many fans.
3105
3106			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3107			documents in the algorithm section]
3108	root	1.387	%
3109	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3110			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3111			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3112			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3113			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3114
3115			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3116	root	1.387	%
3117	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3118			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3119			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3120	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3121	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3122			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3123	root	1.387	%
3124	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3125	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3126	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3127	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3128			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3129	root	1.387	%
3130	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3131			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3132			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3133			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3134			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3135			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3136	root	1.387	%
3137	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3138			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3139	root	1.387	%
3140	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3141	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3142	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3143			* at their price list.
3144	root	1.387	%
3145	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3146			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3147			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3148			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3149			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3150			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3151			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3152	root	1.387	%
3153	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3154			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3155	root	1.387	%
3156	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3157			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3158			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3159			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3160	root	1.387	%
3161	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3162	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3163	root	1.387	%
3164	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3165			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3166	root	1.387	%
3167	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3168	root	1.387	%
3169	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3170			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3171			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3172			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3173			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3174			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3175			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3176			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3177	root	1.387	%
3178	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3179			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3180	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3181	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3182	root	1.387	%
3183	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3184	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3185	root	1.387	%
3186	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3187	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3188			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3189			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3190	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3191
3192			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3193
3194			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3195			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3196	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3197	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3198
3199			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3200
3201			[usw.]
3202
3203			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3204	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3205	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3206
3207			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3208			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3209			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3210			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3211			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3212	root	1.387	%
3213	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3214	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3215			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3216	root	1.387	%
3217	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3218			Which fanboy are you?
3219
3220			1. Windows
3221
3222			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3223			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3224			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3225			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3226			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3227			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3228			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3229			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3230			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3231
3232			2. Apple
3233
3234			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3235			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3236			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3237			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3238			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3239			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3240			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3241			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3242
3243			3. Linspire
3244
3245			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3246			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3247			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3248			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3249			installed Linspire on your machine.
3250
3251			4. Umbongo
3252
3253			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3254			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3255			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3256			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3257			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3258			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3259			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3260			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3261			themselves.
3262
3263			5. Gentoy
3264
3265			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3266			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3267			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3268			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3269			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3270			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3271			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3272			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3273
3274			6. Linux From Scratch
3275
3276			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3277			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3278			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3279			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3280			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3281			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3282			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3283	root	1.387	%
3284	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3285			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3286	root	1.387	%
3287	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3288
3289			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3290			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3291
3292			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3293	root	1.387	%
3294	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3295
3296			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3297	root	1.432	>
3298	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3299	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3300	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3301			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3302			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3303	root	1.432	>
3304			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3305	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3306	root	1.432	>
3307	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3308			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3309	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3310	root	1.387	%
3311	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3312	root	1.387	%
3313	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3314	root	1.387	%
3315	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3316	root	1.387	%
3317	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3318			show "Correspondent"]
3319	root	1.288
3320			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3321			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3322
3323			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3324			%
3325	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3326			cock sucking, blowjob
3327			=> fellatio, fellation
3328			=> oral sex, head
3329			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3330			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3331			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3332			=> organic process, biological process
3333			=> process
3334			=> phenomenon
3335	root	1.387	%
3336	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3337			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3338	root	1.387	%
3339	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3340			[slightly edited]
3341			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3342			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3343			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3344			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3345
3346			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3347			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3348			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3349
3350			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3351			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3352	root	1.387	%
3353	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3354			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3355	root	1.387	%
3356	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3357	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3358	root	1.387	%
3359	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3360	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3361			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3362	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3363	root	1.387	%
3364	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3365			- oesi
3366	root	1.387	%
3367	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3368			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3369	root	1.387	%
3370	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3371	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3372	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3373			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3374
3375			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3376			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3377			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3378			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3379			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3380			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3381			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3382			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3383			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3384			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3385			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3386			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3387			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3388			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3389			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3390			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3391			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3392			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3393			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3394			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3395			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3396			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3397			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3398			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3399
3400			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3401			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3402			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3403			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3404			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3405
3406			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3407			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3408			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3409			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3410			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3411			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3412			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3413			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3414			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3415			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3416			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3417
3418			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3419			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3420			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3421			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3422			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3423			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3424			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3425			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3426			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3427			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3428			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3429			sovereign nation.
3430
3431			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3432			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3433			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3434			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3435			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3436			CSPAN, don't post here.
3437
3438			-scott
3439	root	1.387	%
3440	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3441			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3442			capacity to feel pain.
3443
3444			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3445			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3446	root	1.387	%
3447	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3448			From: Sven Neumann
3449
3450			Hi,
3451
3452	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3453	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3454	root	1.273
3455			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3456			that
3457
3458			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3459
3460			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3461	root	1.387	%
3462	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3463	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3464			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3465			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3466	root	1.387	%
3467	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3468			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3469			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3470			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3471			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3472			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3473	root	1.387	%
3474	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3475	root	1.270	interesting read]
3476			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3477	root	1.387	%
3478	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3479			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3480			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3481	root	1.387	%
3482	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3483			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3484			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3485			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3486			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3487			locks can open the gate.
3488
3489			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3490			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3491			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3492	root	1.387	%
3493	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3494			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3495	root	1.387	%
3496	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3497
3498			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3499
3500			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3501			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3502			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3503			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3504			explanation of this.
3505
3506			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3507
3508			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3509			which explains why the hammer falls.
3510
3511			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3512			how a population's genome can change over time.
3513
3514	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3515			mathematical relationship between two values.
3516	root	1.265
3517			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3518			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3519
3520			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3521			acceleration.
3522
3523			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3524			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3525			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3526			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3527			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3528			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3529			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3530			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3531			false.
3532
3533			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3534	root	1.387	%
3535	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3536	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3537
3538			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3539			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3540	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3541			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3542			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3543	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3544
3545	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3546			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3547			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3548			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3549			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3550			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3551			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3552	root	1.264
3553			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3554	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3555			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3556			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3557			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3558	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3559	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3560	root	1.264	sportlich.
3561
3562	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3563			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3564			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3565			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3566			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3567	root	1.264
3568	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3569	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3570	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3571			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3572	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3573
3574			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3575			Forscher.
3576	root	1.387	%
3577	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3578			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3579			EULA-style license]
3580	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3581	root	1.387	%
3582	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3583			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3584			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3585			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3586			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3587			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3588			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3589	root	1.387	%
3590	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3591	root	1.387	%
3592	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3593			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3594			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3595			00:24 <schmorp> re
3596	root	1.387	%
3597	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3598	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3599			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3600	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3601			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3602	root	1.387	%
3603	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3604			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3605			proponents of such theories.]
3606			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3607			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3608			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3609			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3610			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3611			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3612			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3613			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3614			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3615			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3616			(below, right)."
3617	root	1.387	%
3618	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3619			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3620			[useful info...]
3621			http://www.snopes.com/
3622	root	1.387	%
3623	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3624			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3625	root	1.387	%
3626	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3627			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3628	root	1.387	%
3629	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3630	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3631			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3632	root	1.387	%
3633	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3634			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3635			#!/usr/bin/sh
3636			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3637			# All Rights Reserved
3638
3639			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3640			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3641			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3642
3643			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3644	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3645	root	1.387	%
3646	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3647			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3648			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3649	root	1.387	%
3650	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3651			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3652			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3653			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3654			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3655			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3656			#
3657			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3658	root	1.387	%
3659	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3660	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3661			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3662			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3663	root	1.387	%
3664	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3665	root	1.387	%
3666	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3667	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3668			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3669	root	1.387	%
3670	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3671			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3672			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3673	root	1.387	%
3674	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3675	root	1.387	%
3676	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3677			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3678			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3679			that you have a problem.)
3680			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3681	root	1.387	%
3682	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3683			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3684	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3685	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3686
3687			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3688			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3689	root	1.387	%
3690	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3691			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3692
3693			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3694			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3695			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3696			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3697			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3698			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3699			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3700			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3701			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3702			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3703			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3704			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3705			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3706			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3707
3708			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3709			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3710			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3711			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3712			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3713			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3714			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3715	root	1.387	%
3716	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3717	root	1.239
3718			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3719			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3720			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3721	root	1.387	%
3722	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3723			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3724			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3725	root	1.387	%
3726	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3727
3728			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3729			;)
3730	root	1.387	%
3731	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3732			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3733			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3734			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3735
3736			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3737
3738	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3739			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3740	root	1.387	%
3741	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3742			using so many abbreviations...]
3743
3744			Hi Volker -
3745
3746			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3747	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3748			spät ...
3749	root	1.234
3750			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3751
3752			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3753
3754	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3755			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3756	root	1.234
3757	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3758	root	1.234
3759			tom
3760	root	1.247
3761	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3762	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3763	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3764	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3765	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3766	root	1.387	%
3767	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3768			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3769			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3770
3771			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3772	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3773			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3774	root	1.233	> someone else?
3775
3776			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3777			===================================================================
3778			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3779			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3780			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3781			S: 79098 Freiburg
3782			S: Germany
3783
3784			+N: Hans Reiser
3785			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3786			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3787			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3788			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3789			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3790			+S: USA
3791			+
3792			N: Joerg Reuter
3793			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3794			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3795	root	1.387	%
3796	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3797			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3798	root	1.387	%
3799	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3800			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3801	root	1.387	%
3802	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3803			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3804	root	1.387	%
3805	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3806			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3807			[...]
3808			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3809			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3810			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3811			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3812			[...]
3813			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3814			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3815			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3816			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3817	root	1.387	%
3818	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3819			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3820			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3821			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3822			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3823			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3824	root	1.387	%
3825	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3826	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3827			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3828			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3829			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3830			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3831			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3832			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3833			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3834	root	1.387	%
3835	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3836			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3837	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3838	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3839	root	1.387	%
3840	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3841			[yes, the whole thing]
3842	root	1.387	%
3843	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3844	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3845			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3846			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3847	root	1.221	>
3848			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3849
3850			We'll use a larger wall.
3851	root	1.387	%
3852	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3853			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3854			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3855			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3856
3857			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3858			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3859
3860			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3861			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3862
3863			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3864			cost.
3865			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3866	root	1.387	%
3867	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3868
3869	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3870	root	1.219
3871			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3872
3873	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3874	root	1.387	%
3875	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3876			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3877	root	1.387	%
3878	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3879			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3880	root	1.387	%
3881	root	1.215	[translated]
3882			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3883			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3884			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3885			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3886			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3887			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3888			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3889			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3890	root	1.387	%
3891	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3892			-- Lord Balfour
3893	root	1.387	%
3894	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3895	root	1.387	%
3896	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3897			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3898			him to forgive me.
3899	root	1.387	%
3900	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3901			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3902
3903			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3904	root	1.387	%
3905	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3906			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3907			get bored during the sex scenes.
3908	root	1.387	%
3909	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3910			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3911			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3912	root	1.387	%
3913	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3914			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3915			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3916			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3917			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3918			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3919	root	1.387	%
3920	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3921			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3922			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3923			HP-UX customer. [...]
3924	root	1.387	%
3925	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3926			>>
3927			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3928			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3929			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3930			>>spelled it in UC.
3931	root	1.247	>
3932			>
3933	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3934
3935			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3936	root	1.387	%
3937	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3938			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3939
3940			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3941			usage.
3942
3943			Richard
3944	root	1.387	%
3945	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3946			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3947			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3948			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3949			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3950			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3951	root	1.387	%
3952	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3953			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3954	root	1.387	%
3955	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3956	root	1.387	%
3957	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3958			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3959			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3960			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3961			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3962			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3963			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3964			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3965			existence means and implies.
3966
3967			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3968	root	1.387	%
3969	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3970			>
3971			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3972			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3973			>
3974			> You're WRONG!
3975
3976	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3977			and §7.20.3.1).
3978	root	1.387	%
3979	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3980			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3981			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3982	root	1.387	%
3983	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3984			A. It should be obvious.
3985			Q. How is it hard?
3986			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3987			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3988	root	1.387	%
3989	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3990			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3991
3992			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3993			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3994
3995			- works ok on linux
3996			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3997
3998			Any clues why?
3999			I am new to the non windows world.
4000
4001			Thanks
4002	root	1.387	%
4003	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4004			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4005			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4006			> this ?
4007
4008			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4009			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4010	root	1.387	%
4011	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4012			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4013			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4014
4015			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4016	root	1.247	>
4017			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4018			>
4019	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4020	root	1.387	%
4021	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4022			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4023
4024			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4025	root	1.387	%
4026	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4027			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4028	root	1.387	%
4029	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4030	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4031	root	1.194
4032			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4033			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4034	root	1.387	%
4035	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4036			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4037	root	1.387	%
4038	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4039	root	1.387	%
4040	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4041			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4042	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4043	root	1.387	%
4044	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4045			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4046			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4047	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4048
4049	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4050	root	1.190
4051	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4052	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4053			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4054			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4055	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4056			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4057			schützen können.
4058	root	1.387	%
4059	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4060			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4061	root	1.387	%
4062	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4063			[...]
4064	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4065	root	1.188	[...]
4066	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4067			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4068			never get your message.
4069	root	1.387	%
4070	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4071			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4072			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4073	root	1.387	%
4074	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4075			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4076			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4077	root	1.387	%
4078	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4079			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4080			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4081			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4082			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4083			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4084			01:15 <schmorp> g
4085			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4086	root	1.387	%
4087	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4088			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4089			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4090			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4091			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4092			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4093			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4094			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4095	root	1.387	%
4096	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4097			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4098			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4099	root	1.387	%
4100	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4101			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4102			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4103			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4104			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4105			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4106			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4107	root	1.387	%
4108	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4109			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4110	root	1.387	%
4111	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4112			GNOME TERMINAL
4113			[...]
4114			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4115			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4116			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4117			[.. later]
4118			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4119			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4120			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4121	root	1.387	%
4122	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4123			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4124			/*
4125	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4126	root	1.179	*/
4127			void blip()
4128	root	1.247	{
4129	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4130			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4131			fflush(stderr);
4132	root	1.247	}
4133	root	1.387	%
4134	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4135			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4136
4137			Why not 666? :-).
4138	root	1.387	%
4139	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4140			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4141			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4142			users are clueless.
4143	root	1.387	%
4144	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4145			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4146	root	1.387	%
4147	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4148			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4149	root	1.387	%
4150	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4151			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4152	root	1.387	%
4153	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4154			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4155			and", and finally, ampersand.
4156	root	1.387	%
4157	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4158			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4159			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4160			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4161			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4162	root	1.387	%
4163	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4164			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4165			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4166			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4167			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4168	root	1.387	%
4169	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4170			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4171			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4172			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4173			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4174			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4175			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4176	root	1.387	%
4177	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4178	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4179			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4180	root	1.387	%
4181	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4182			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4183			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4184	root	1.387	%
4185	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4186	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4187	root	1.387	%
4188	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4189	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4190			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4191			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4192	root	1.167	%
4193	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4194	root	1.387	%
4195	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4196			<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
4197	root	1.387	%
4198	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4199			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4200	root	1.164	einfach :)
4201			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4202	root	1.387	%
4203	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4204			/*
4205			* Function compares two strings.
4206	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4207	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4208			*/
4209			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4210			{
4211			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4212			[...]
4213	root	1.387	%
4214	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4215	root	1.387	%
4216	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4217	root	1.387	%
4218	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4219			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4220			Get_Colours ();
4221	root	1.387	%
4222	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4223	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4224			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4225			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4226			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4227			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4228			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4229			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4230			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4231	root	1.161	[...]
4232			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4233			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4234			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4235			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4236			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4237	root	1.387	%
4238	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4239			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4240	root	1.387	%
4241	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4242			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4243	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4244	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4245			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4246			#endif
4247	root	1.387	%
4248	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4249			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4250			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4251	root	1.387	%
4252	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4253			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4254			>
4255			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4256
4257			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4258			--
4259			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4260	root	1.387	%
4261	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4262			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4263			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4264			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4265			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4266			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4267			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4268	root	1.387	%
4269	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4270			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4271	root	1.387	%
4272	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4273	root	1.387	%
4274	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4275			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4276			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4277			-- Robert Fisk
4278	root	1.387	%
4279	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4280			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4281	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4282			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4283	root	1.387	%
4284	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4285			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4286			high-violence culture"
4287			[...]
4288			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4289			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4290			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4291			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4292			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4293			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4294			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4295			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4296
4297			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4298			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4299	root	1.387	%
4300	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4301			Subject: Re: [...]
4302
4303			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4304
4305			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4306			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4307			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4308			> saved it :)
4309
4310			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4311			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4312			[...]
4313	root	1.387	%
4314	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4315			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4316			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4317			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4318			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4319
4320			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4321			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4322			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4323			[...]
4324	root	1.387	%
4325	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4326	root	1.387	%
4327	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4328	root	1.387	%
4329	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4330	root	1.387	%
4331	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4332			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4333			claim to have decades of java experience]
4334			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4335			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4336			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4337			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4338	root	1.387	%
4339	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4340	root	1.387	%
4341	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4342	root	1.387	%
4343	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4344	root	1.387	%
4345	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4346			[mail not to be delivered]
4347			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4348	root	1.247	>
4349	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4350
4351			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4352			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4353	root	1.387	%
4354	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4355
4356			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4357			>
4358			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4359			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4360			> >
4361			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4362			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4363			> > language which does support this?
4364			>
4365
4366			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4367
4368			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4369			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4370			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4371			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4372			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4373			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4374	root	1.387	%
4375	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4376			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4377			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4378	root	1.387	%
4379	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4380			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4381			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4382
4383			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4384			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4385			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4386			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4387			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4388
4389			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4390			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4391			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4392			and thwart them that way.
4393	root	1.387	%
4394	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4395			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4396			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4397			unfortunate decision.
4398	root	1.387	%
4399	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4400	root	1.146	fest ;)
4401	root	1.387	%
4402	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4403
4404			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4405	root	1.387	%
4406	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4407	root	1.387	%
4408	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4409			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4410	root	1.387	%
4411	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4412
4413			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4414			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4415			local object as a "he":
4416
4417			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4418			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4419			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4420			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4421			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4422			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4423			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4424			EX-PARROT!"
4425
4426			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4427	root	1.387	%
4428	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4429			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4430	root	1.387	%
4431	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4432			The police will shoot you.
4433
4434			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4435			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4436
4437	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4438	root	1.387	%
4439	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4440			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4441			reply.
4442
4443			pls. cc my email address
4444
4445			tia
4446			pd
4447
4448
4449	root	1.247	--
4450	root	1.141	^X^C
4451			q
4452			quit
4453			:q
4454			^C
4455			end
4456			x
4457			exit
4458			ZZ
4459			^D
4460			?
4461			help
4462			shit
4463			.
4464	root	1.387	%
4465	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4466	root	1.387	%
4467	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4468			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4469			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4470			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4471	root	1.387	%
4472	root	1.140	[I love it]
4473			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4474			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4475	root	1.387	%
4476	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4477			- Douglas Adams
4478	root	1.387	%
4479	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4480			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4481			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4482			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4483
4484	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4485			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4486			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4487			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4488			their software properly.
4489	root	1.138
4490			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4491			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4492			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4493			told the publication.
4494
4495	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4496			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4497			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4498			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4499			who want visibility and glory.
4500	root	1.387	%
4501	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4502
4503			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4504
4505			x Try not using it.
4506	root	1.387	%
4507	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4508			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4509			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4510			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4511			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4512			had given.
4513
4514			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4515			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4516			person as well."
4517	root	1.387	%
4518	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4519	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4520			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4521	root	1.387	%
4522	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4523	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4524	root	1.134
4525			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4526	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4527	root	1.135	[...]
4528	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4529	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4530	root	1.135	[...]
4531			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4532			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4533	root	1.387	%
4534	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4535	root	1.387	%
4536	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4537			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4538			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4539			-- Ulrich Drepper
4540	root	1.387	%
4541	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4542			-- Ulrich Drepper
4543	root	1.387	%
4544	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4545			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4546	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4547	root	1.387	%
4548	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4549			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4550			-- Ulrich Drepper
4551	root	1.387	%
4552	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4553			-- Ulrich Drepper
4554	root	1.387	%
4555	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4556	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4557			zuverlässiger
4558	root	1.387	%
4559	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4560			/*
4561			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4562			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4563			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4564			*/
4565	root	1.387	%
4566	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4567			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4568			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4569			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4570			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4571	root	1.387	%
4572	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4573			Pirating Movies
4574
4575			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4576			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4577			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4578	root	1.387	%
4579	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4580			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4581	root	1.387	%
4582	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4583			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4584	root	1.387	%
4585	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4586			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4587			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4588			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4589			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4590	root	1.387	%
4591	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4592			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4593			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4594			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4595			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4596
4597			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4598			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4599
4600			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4601			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4602			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4603			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4604			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4605			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4606			the first place!
4607	root	1.387	%
4608	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4609			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4610			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4611	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4612	root	1.387	%
4613	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4614			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4615	root	1.387	%
4616	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4617			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4618	root	1.387	%
4619	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4620			platform."
4621			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4622	root	1.387	%
4623	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4624			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4625			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4626			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4627			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4628	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4629	root	1.387	%
4630	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4631			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4632	root	1.387	%
4633	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4634			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4635			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4636			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4637			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4638			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4639			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4640			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4641			daily.
4642	root	1.387	%
4643	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4644	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4645			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4646	root	1.387	%
4647	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4648			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4649			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4650			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4651			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4652			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4653			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4654	root	1.387	%
4655	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4656	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4657	root	1.387	%
4658	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4659			[...so it must be good]
4660			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4661	root	1.387	%
4662	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4663			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4664			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4665	root	1.387	%
4666	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4667			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4668			No idea why I announce it here...
4669	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4670	root	1.387	%
4671	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4672			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4673	root	1.387	%
4674	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4675	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4676	root	1.387	%
4677	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4678			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4679			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4680			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4681			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4682
4683			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4684			Sacha.
4685	root	1.387	%
4686	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4687			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4688			desk one morning:
4689
4690			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4691
4692			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4693
4694			Employee: 123456
4695
4696			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4697			photograph of the employee.]
4698
4699			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4700			identification which has your picture on it?
4701
4702			Employee: Why would you need that?
4703
4704			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4705
4706			Employee: A picture of my face?
4707
4708			Security Guard: Yes
4709
4710			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4711
4712			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4713			compare against this one.
4714	root	1.387	%
4715	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4716			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4717			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4718	root	1.387	%
4719	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4720			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4721			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4722
4723			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4724			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4725	root	1.387	%
4726	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4727	root	1.387	%
4728	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4729			"RV K-17"
4730	root	1.387	%
4731	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4732			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4733	root	1.387	%
4734	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4735			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4736			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4737			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4738	root	1.387	%
4739	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4740			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4741	root	1.387	%
4742	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4743	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4744			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4745	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4746	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4747			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4748	root	1.387	%
4749	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4750	root	1.387	%
4751	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4752			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4753	root	1.387	%
4754	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4755			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4756			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4757			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4758	root	1.387	%
4759	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4760			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4761			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4762			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4763			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4764			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4765			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4766			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4767			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4768			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4769			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4770			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4771			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4772			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4773			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4774			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4775			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4776			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4777			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4778	root	1.387	%
4779	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4780			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4781	root	1.387	%
4782	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4783			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4784	root	1.387	%
4785	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4786			Lester Moore,
4787			Shot in the head with a .44.
4788			No Les, no more.
4789	root	1.387	%
4790	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4791			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4792
4793			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4794			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4795	root	1.387	%
4796	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4797			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4798			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4799	root	1.387	%
4800	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4801			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4802			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4803			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4804			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4805	root	1.112	[...]
4806			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4807			[...]
4808			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4809			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4810			the result with SHA.
4811	root	1.387	%
4812	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4813	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4814			> ist!
4815	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4816			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4817	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4818	root	1.387	%
4819	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4820			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4821	root	1.387	%
4822	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4823	root	1.387	%
4824	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4825			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4826			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4827			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4828			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4829			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4830	root	1.387	%
4831	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4832			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4833	root	1.387	%
4834	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4835			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4836	root	1.387	%
4837	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4838			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4839	root	1.387	%
4840	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4841
4842			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4843			* control history, is that we should at least
4844			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4845			* "initialisation"? */
4846			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4847	root	1.387	%
4848	root	1.105	[man pem]
4849			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4850	root	1.387	%
4851	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4852
4853			/* ``If you can't do it in
4854	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4855	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4856	root	1.387	%
4857	root	1.104	[subculture]
4858	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4859			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4860	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4861
4862			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4863	root	1.424	%
4864	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4865			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4866	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4867	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4868	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4869	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4870			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4871	root	1.387	%
4872	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4873	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4874			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4875			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4876	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4877	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4878			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4879			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4880	root	1.387	%
4881	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4882			aber wenig freude.
4883	root	1.387	%
4884	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4885			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4886			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4887			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4888			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4889			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4890			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4891			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4892			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4893			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4894	root	1.387	%
4895	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4896			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4897	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4898			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4899	root	1.387	%
4900	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4901			don't work well in practise.
4902			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4903	root	1.387	%
4904	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4905			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4906			"ready, fire, aim."
4907	root	1.387	%
4908	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4909			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4910			free countries like Germany [1].
4911			[...]
4912			Regards
4913			Henning
4914
4915			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4916			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4917			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4918	root	1.387	%
4919	root	1.98	[...]
4920			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4921			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4922			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4923			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4924			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4925			[...]
4926			Wolfgang Walter
4927	root	1.387	%
4928	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4929			burro: it seemed very clever
4930			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4931			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4932			burro: oops
4933			burro: accidental poetry
4934	root	1.387	%
4935	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4936			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4937			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4938	root	1.387	%
4939	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4940			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4941	root	1.387	%
4942	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4943			-- Oscar Wilde
4944	root	1.387	%
4945	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4946			"guilty until proven innocent"
4947			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4948	root	1.387	%
4949	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4950			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4951			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4952			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4953			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4954			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4955			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4956			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4957			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4958			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4959			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4960			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4961			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4962			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4963			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4964	root	1.387	%
4965	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4966			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4967			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4968			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4969			// suit particular needs.
4970			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4971	root	1.387	%
4972	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4973			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4974			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4975	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4976	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4977	root	1.387	%
4978	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4979			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4980	root	1.387	%
4981	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4982			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4985			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4986			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4987	root	1.387	%
4988	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4989			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4990	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4991			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4992	root	1.387	%
4993	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4994
4995			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4996			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4997			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4998			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4999			is not [...]
5000	root	1.387	%
5001	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5002	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5003			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5004	root	1.387	%
5005	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5006			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5007
5008	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5009	root	1.94
5010			GUI
5011			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5012			Globale Variable
5013	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5014	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5015			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5016			strukturiert
5017			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5018			Multithreaded
5019	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5020	root	1.94	Windows 95
5021	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5022	root	1.94	Emacs
5023	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5024			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5025			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5026	root	1.94	IPv6
5027			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5028			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5029			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5030			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5031	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5032			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5033	root	1.247	PHP
5034	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5035	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5036	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5037			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5038	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5039	root	1.94	Bunt.
5040	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5041			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5042			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5043	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5044	root	1.387	%
5045	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5046			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5047	root	1.387	%
5048	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5049	root	1.387	%
5050	root	1.93	[nah]
5051			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5052			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5053			paint dry."
5054	root	1.387	%
5055	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5056			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5057			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5058	root	1.387	%
5059	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5060	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5061			importance.
5062	root	1.387	%
5063	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5064			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5065			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5066			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5067
5068			You have to trust Microsoft.
5069
5070			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5071			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5072			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5073			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5074			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5075			useless chrome.
5076
5077			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5078			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5079			I'd like to trust them with.
5080	root	1.93	[...]
5081	root	1.387	%
5082	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5083			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5084			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5085			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5086			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5087	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5088	root	1.91	--------------^
5089	root	1.387	%
5090	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5091			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5092			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5093			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5094			English grammar, I assure you.
5095	root	1.387	%
5096	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5097			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5098			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5099			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5100			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5101			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5102			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5103
5104			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5105			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5106			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5107			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5108			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5109			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5110			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5111			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5112			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5113			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5114
5115			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5116			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5117			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5118			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5119
5120			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5121			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5122	root	1.387	%
5123	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5124			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5125			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5126			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5127			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5128			work etc first:
5129
5130			#include <stdio.h>
5131
5132			int main (void) {
5133			while (1)
5134			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5135
5136			return 0;
5137			}
5138	root	1.387	%
5139	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5140			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5141	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5142	root	1.387	%
5143	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5144			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5145			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5146			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5147	root	1.387	%
5148	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5149			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5150			proprietary and patentend technology.
5151	root	1.387	%
5152	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5153	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5154	root	1.387	%
5155	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5156	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5157	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5158			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5159			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5160	root	1.387	%
5161	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5162			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5163	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5164	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5165			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5166	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5167	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5168	root	1.87
5169	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5170			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5171			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5172			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5173			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5174			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5175	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5176			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5177
5178	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5179			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5180			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5181			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5182			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5183			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5184			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5185			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5186			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5187			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5188	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5189	root	1.387	%
5190	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5191			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5192	root	1.387	%
5193	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5194			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5195			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5196	root	1.387	%
5197	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5198			"linux" thing will fail]
5199			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5200			[...]
5201	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5202	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5203			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5204			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5205
5206			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5207			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5208			life to the public good.
5209
5210			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5211			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5212			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5213			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5214			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5215
5216			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5217			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5218			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5219			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5220			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5221			software to work on the linux kernel!
5222
5223			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5224			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5225			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5226			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5227			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5228	root	1.387	%
5229	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5230	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5231			[...]
5232			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5233	root	1.387	%
5234	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5235			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5236			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5237			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5238	root	1.387	%
5239	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5240	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5241			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5242			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5243			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5244			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5245	root	1.387	%
5246	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5247			-- Leonard Brandwein
5248	root	1.387	%
5249	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5250	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5251			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5252			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5253			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5254			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5255			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5256			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5257			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5258			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5259			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5260			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5261	root	1.387	%
5262	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5263			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5264	root	1.387	%
5265	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5266			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5267			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5268			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5269			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5270			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5271			jurisprudence fun?
5272			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5273	root	1.387	%
5274	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5275			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5276			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5277	root	1.84	[...]
5278	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5279	root	1.387	%
5280	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5281			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5282			- Paul Ginsparg.
5283	root	1.387	%
5284	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5285			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5286			home.":))
5287			[erm...]
5288	root	1.387	%
5289	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5290
5291	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5292	root	1.387	%
5293	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5294	root	1.387	%
5295	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5296
5297			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5298			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5299			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5300			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5301	root	1.387	%
5302	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5303			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5304			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5305	root	1.387	%
5306	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5307	root	1.83
5308			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5309	root	1.82
5310			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5311			to use in future emails?
5312	root	1.387	%
5313	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5314			please?
5315
5316			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5317			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5318
5319	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5320	root	1.387	%
5321	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5322			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5323			last until February 16th 2003.
5324
5325			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5326			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5327			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5328			end.
5329
5330			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5331
5332			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5333			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5334			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5335			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5336			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5337			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5338			take place on October 27th.
5339
5340			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5341			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5342			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5343			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5344			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5345			the clock)...
5346	root	1.387	%
5347	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5348			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5349			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5350			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5351			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5352
5353			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5354			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5355			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5356			RedHat and SuSE).
5357
5358			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5359
5360			Pavel
5361	root	1.387	%
5362	root	1.81	Rik
5363	root	1.247	--
5364	root	1.81	A: No.
5365			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5366	root	1.387	%
5367	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5368	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5369			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5370	root	1.81
5371			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5372			no useful data.
5373
5374	root	1.247	--
5375	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5376	root	1.387	%
5377	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5378			there was a long do..while construct,
5379			which contained a switch statement,
5380			which contained an if clause,
5381			which contained a break,
5382			which was intended for the if clause,
5383			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5384
5385			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5386			network January 15, 1990
5387	root	1.387	%
5388	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5389
5390	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5391			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5392			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5393			violation of network policies.
5394	root	1.80
5395			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5396
5397			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5398			The format is as follows:
5399
5400			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5401	root	1.387	%
5402	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5403			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5404			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5405	root	1.387	%
5406	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5407			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5408			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5409			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5410			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5411			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5412			...
5413			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5414			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5415			the effort."
5416	root	1.387	%
5417	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5418	root	1.387	%
5419	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5420			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5421	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5422	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5423			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5424	root	1.387	%
5425	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5426	root	1.387	%
5427	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5428	root	1.387	%
5429	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5430			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5431			[Albert Cahalan]
5432	root	1.387	%
5433	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5434			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5435			least as bad, but lesser known.
5436	root	1.387	%
5437	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5438			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5439			different.
5440	root	1.387	%
5441	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.
5442	root	1.387	%
5443	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5444			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5445	root	1.387	%
5446	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5447			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5448			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5449			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5450			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5451			without a show.
5452	root	1.387	%
5453	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5454	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5455	root	1.387	%
5456	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5457	root	1.387	%
5458	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5459			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5460	root	1.387	%
5461	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5462			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5463			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5464	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5465	root	1.71	going on.
5466			[...]
5467	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5468			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5469			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5470	root	1.387	%
5471	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5472			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5473	root	1.387	%
5474	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5475	root	1.387	%
5476	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5477	root	1.387	%
5478	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5479			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5480			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5481	root	1.387	%
5482	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5483			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5484			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5485			returned data.
5486
5487	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5488			FindExInfoStandard
5489			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5490	root	1.387	%
5491	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5492	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5493			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5494	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5495	root	1.387	%
5496	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5497			it doesn't work:]
5498			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5499			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5500			this MIME type as the final determination.
5501	root	1.387	%
5502	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5503
5504			Recode 0.1.1
5505			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5506
5507			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5508			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5509
5510			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5511	root	1.387	%
5512	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5513	root	1.387	%
5514	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5515	root	1.387	%
5516	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5517
5518			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5519			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5520			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5521			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5522			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5523			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5524			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5525			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5526			century."
5527
5528			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5529			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5530			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5531			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5532			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5533			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5534			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5535			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5536			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5537			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5538			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5539			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5540			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5541			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5542
5543			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5544			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5545			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5546			hilarious in light of the above.
5547			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5548
5549			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5550			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5551			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5552			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5553			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5554			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5555			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5556
5557			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5558			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5559			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5560			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5561	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5562	root	1.387	%
5563	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5564	root	1.387	%
5565	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5566			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5567	root	1.387	%
5568	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5569			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5570			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5571
5572			Tony Hoare
5573	root	1.387	%
5574	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5575			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5576	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5577	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5578	root	1.387	%
5579	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5580
5581			[...]
5582			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5583			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5584			system. Basically its windows computer
5585	root	1.387	%
5586	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5587	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5588	root	1.387	%
5589	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5590
5591			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5592			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5593			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5594			> software developers...
5595
5596			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5597	root	1.387	%
5598	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5599			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5600			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5601			>
5602			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5603
5604			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5605			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5606
5607			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5608			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5609
5610			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5611			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5612			off by throwing away the patch.
5613
5614			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5615			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5616			patch any time soon.
5617
5618			--
5619			Daniel
5620	root	1.387	%
5621	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5622			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5623			[...]
5624			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5625			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5626			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5627	root	1.387	%
5628	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5629
5630			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5631			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5632			Is it realy needed?
5633	root	1.387	%
5634	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5635
5636			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5637
5638			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5639			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5640			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5641	root	1.387	%
5642	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5643			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5644			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5645			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5646			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5647			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5648			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5649	root	1.387	%
5650	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5651
5652			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5653			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5654			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5655			>
5656			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5657
5658			This is an ex-parrot
5659	root	1.387	%
5660	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5661
5662			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5663			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5664			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5665			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5666			>
5667			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5668			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5669
5670			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5671
5672			while (!sorted(data))
5673			;
5674	root	1.387	%
5675	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5676			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5677
5678			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5679
5680			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5681			to computing
5682	root	1.387	%
5683	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5684
5685			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5686			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5687
5688			Common sense, one would hope.
5689	root	1.387	%
5690	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5691			[...]
5692
5693			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5694			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5695			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5696
5697			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5698
5699			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5700			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5701			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5702			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5703
5704			:-)
5705	root	1.387	%
5706	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5707			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5708			their C programs."
5709	root	1.60
5710			Robert Firth
5711	root	1.387	%
5712	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5713	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5714	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5715			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5716	root	1.387	%
5717	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5718	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5719	root	1.387	%
5720	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5721			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5722	root	1.387	%
5723	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5724	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5725	root	1.387	%
5726	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5727	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5728			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5729	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5730			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5731	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5732			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5733
5734			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5735
5736			\Gisbert
5737	root	1.387	%
5738	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5739	root	1.387	%
5740	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5741			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5742			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5743	root	1.387	%
5744	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5745			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5746
5747			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5748			[...]
5749	root	1.387	%
5750	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5751			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5752			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5753
5754			ok 1
5755			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5756			not ok 2
5757			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5758	root	1.387	%
5759	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5760
5761			Cheers,
5762
5763			Andre Hedrick
5764			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5765	root	1.387	%
5766	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5767	root	1.247	>
5768	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5769
5770			Or mutabloat :-(
5771	root	1.387	%
5772	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5773			Outlook IS the solution.
5774	root	1.387	%
5775	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5776	root	1.387	%
5777	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5778
5779			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5780			never bought anything from UUNet.
5781	root	1.387	%
5782	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5783			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5784			by delving below its surface meaning)
5785	root	1.387	%
5786	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5787	root	1.387	%
5788	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5789
5790			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5791			> just go to court and say:
5792
5793			Oh glorious naivety.
5794
5795			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5796			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5797			> can do the work better than I).
5798
5799			You release the code
5800
5801			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5802
5803			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5804			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5805			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5806			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5807
5808			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5809			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5810
5811			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5812			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5813
5814			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5815
5816			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5817			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5818			or that the good guys win.
5819
5820			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5821			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5822	root	1.387	%
5823	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5824
5825			[...]
5826			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5827			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5828	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5829	root	1.51	year to kill.
5830	root	1.387	%
5831	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5832			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5833
5834			[...]
5835			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5836			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5837			of for Windows desktop systems."
5838			[...]
5839			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5840			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5841			[...]
5842			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5843			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5844			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5845			turned on by default.
5846			[...]
5847			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5848			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5849			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5850			[...]
5851			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5852			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5853			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5854			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5855			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5856			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5857			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5858			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5859			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5860	root	1.387	%
5861	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5862	root	1.387	%
5863	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5864	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5865	root	1.49
5866			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5867
5868			Monday, 06. November 2000
5869	root	1.387	%
5870	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5871			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5872	root	1.387	%
5873	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5874	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5875			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5876			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5877	root	1.387	%
5878	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5879			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5880			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5881			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5882	root	1.387	%
5883	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5884			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5885
5886			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5887			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5888			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5889	root	1.387	%
5890	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5891			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5892
5893			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5894			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5895			> dropped patches.
5896
5897			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5898	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5899	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5900			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5901			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5902			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5903	root	1.387	%
5904	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5905			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5906			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5907	root	1.387	%
5908	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5909
5910			From: Bill Huey
5911			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5912
5913			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5914
5915			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5916	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5917	root	1.45	themselves.
5918
5919			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5920			certain.
5921	root	1.387	%
5922	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5923			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5924			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5925
5926			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5927			appropriate approach to a problem.
5928	root	1.387	%
5929	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5930	root	1.44	^^^^
5931			[...]
5932			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5933			[...]
5934			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5935			-15 Nice winter day
5936			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5937			-5 Nice warm winter day
5938			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5939	root	1.387	%
5940	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5941			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5942			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5943			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5944	root	1.387	%
5945	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5946			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5947
5948			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5949
5950			-ben
5951	root	1.387	%
5952	root	1.43	[...]
5953	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5954			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5955			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5956			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5957			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5958			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5959			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5960			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5961			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5962			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5963			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5964	root	1.387	%
5965	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5966			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5967	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5968	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5969			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5970			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5971			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5972			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5973			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5974	root	1.43	statt...
5975	root	1.387	%
5976	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5977	root	1.387	%
5978	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5979			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5980			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5981			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5982			values." Who writes this stuff?
5983	root	1.387	%
5984	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5985	root	1.387	%
5986	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5987			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5988			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5989			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5990			> "Macao".
5991			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5992			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5993	root	1.387	%
5994	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5995	root	1.387	%
5996	root	1.40	Beitrag
5997	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5998	root	1.40
5999			fucklinux
6000
6001			IP: 217.83.123.198
6002
6003			1. FUCK LINUX
6004
6005	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6006	root	1.40
6007			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6008	root	1.387	%
6009	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6010	root	1.40
6011			[...]
6012			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6013			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6014			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6015			read...
6016	root	1.387	%
6017	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6018			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6019			depends on the unreasonable man.
6020
6021			-George Bernard Shaw
6022	root	1.387	%
6023	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6024
6025			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6026	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6027	root	1.387	%
6028	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:
6029	root	1.387	%
6030	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
6031			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6032			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6033			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6034			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6035	root	1.387	%
6036	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6037			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6038	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6039	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6040			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6041	root	1.387	%
6042	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6043			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6044			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6045			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6046			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6047			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6048			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6049			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).
6050			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6051			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6052	root	1.387	%
6053	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6054			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6055			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6056			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6057			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6058			removed in Windows XP.
6059
6060			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6061			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6062			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6063			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6064	root	1.387	%
6065	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6066			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6067			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6068			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6069			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6070			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6071			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6072			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6073			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6074			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6075
6076			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6077			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6078			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6079			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6080			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6081			you have no details?
6082			[...]
6083			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6084			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6085			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6086			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6087			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6088			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6089			the industrial terrorists want."
6090	root	1.387	%
6091	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6092			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6093	root	1.387	%
6094	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6095	root	1.387	%
6096	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6097			of each 50 days
6098	root	1.387	%
6099	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6100
6101			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6102			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6103			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6104	root	1.387	%
6105	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6106			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6107			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6108	root	1.387	%
6109	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6110			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6111	root	1.247	>
6112	root	1.35	> <...>
6113			>
6114			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6115			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6116			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6117	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6118	root	1.387	%
6119	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6120			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6121			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6122	root	1.387	%
6123	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6124			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6125			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6126
6127	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6128			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6129			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6130			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6131			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6132			changing run level, interactive boot.
6133	root	1.35
6134			Alan
6135	root	1.387	%
6136	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6137
6138			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6139			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6140
6141			First they came for the Communists,
6142			and I didn't speak up,
6143			because I wasn't a Communist.
6144			Then they came for the Jews,
6145			and I didn't speak up,
6146			because I wasn't a Jew.
6147			Then they came for the Catholics,
6148			and I didn't speak up,
6149			because I was a Protestant.
6150			Then they came for me,
6151			and by that time there was no one
6152			left to speak up for me.
6153
6154			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6155	root	1.387	%
6156	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6157	root	1.387	%
6158	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6159			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6160	root	1.387	%
6161	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6162			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6163			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6164			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6165
6166			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6167	root	1.387	%
6168	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6169
6170			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6171			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6172			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6173			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6174			used databases!"
6175	root	1.387	%
6176	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6177
6178			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6179
6180			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6181			change that was not?
6182			[...]
6183	root	1.387	%
6184	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6185
6186			[...]
6187
6188	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6189	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6190			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6191
6192	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6193	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6194			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6195			them anywhere else").
6196
6197			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6198			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6199	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6200	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6201			order..
6202
6203	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6204	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6205	root	1.387	%
6206	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6207			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6208			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6209
6210			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6211	root	1.387	%
6212	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6213	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6214			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6215			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6216			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6217	root	1.387	%
6218	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6219			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6220
6221			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6222			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6223			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6224			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6225			series.
6226
6227			[...]
6228	root	1.387	%
6229	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6230	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6231	root	1.387	%
6232	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6233			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6234			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6235
6236			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6237			then save." g
6238
6239			/* Steinar */
6240	root	1.387	%
6241	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6242			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6243
6244			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6245			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6246			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6247			a bill...
6248	root	1.387	%
6249	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6250			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6251			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6252
6253			Sorry. Mea culpa
6254
6255			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6256			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6257			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6258			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6259			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6260			*/
6261			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6262			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6263			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6264			int fpu_exception;
6265	root	1.387	%
6266	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6267
6268			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6269
6270			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6271			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6272			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6273			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6274			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6275	root	1.387	%
6276	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6277
6278			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6279			people.
6280	root	1.387	%
6281	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6282			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6283
6284			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6285			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6286			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6287			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6288			the question.
6289			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6290	root	1.387	%
6291	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6292			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6293			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6294			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6295			(September)
6296	root	1.387	%
6297	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6298	root	1.387	%
6299	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6300			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6301			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6302			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6303			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6304	root	1.387	%
6305	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6306			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6307	root	1.387	%
6308	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6309			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6310			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6311			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6312			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6313	root	1.387	%
6314	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6315	root	1.387	%
6316	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6317	root	1.387	%
6318	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6319			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6320			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6321			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6322			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6323			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6324			you tell them.
6325	root	1.387	%
6326	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6327			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6328			alcohol.
6329
6330			Regards
6331			Henning
6332	root	1.387	%
6333	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6334			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6335			> on a desktop system.
6336
6337			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6338			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6339
6340			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6341			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6342
6343			Alan
6344	root	1.387	%
6345	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6346			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6347
6348			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6349			>
6350			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6351			> Use Welsh
6352
6353			Don't forget
6354
6355			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6356			Use Finnish
6357
6358			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6359
6360			And while we're at it,
6361
6362			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6363			Use German
6364
6365			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6366			Use English
6367
6368			MfG Kai
6369	root	1.387	%
6370	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6371
6372			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6373			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6374			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6375			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6376			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6377			there's no one thinking there.
6378			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6379	root	1.387	%
6380	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6381			scores the rules:
6382
6383			[*]
6384			Score:: =-9999
6385	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6386	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6387			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6388			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6389			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6390
6391			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6392			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6393			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6394			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6395			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6396
6397			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6398			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6399			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6400			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6401	root	1.387	%
6402	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6403			98 IIS servers online...
6404	root	1.387	%
6405	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6406			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6407			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6408			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6409
6410			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6411			it to be otherwise.
6412
6413			Abigail
6414	root	1.387	%
6415	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6416	root	1.387	%
6417	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6418	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6419	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6420	root	1.387	%
6421	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6422	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6423	root	1.387	%
6424	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6425			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6426			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6427			software people doing the same)
6428
6429			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6430			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6431			irrelevant
6432
6433			Alan
6434	root	1.387	%
6435	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6436			Comments may nest.
6437	root	1.387	%
6438	root	1.22	[from findas]
6439			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6440			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6441			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6442			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6443			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6444			# address distributino is... arin.
6445	root	1.387	%
6446	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6447			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6448	root	1.387	%
6449	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6450			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6451			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6452			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6453			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6454	root	1.247	>
6455	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6456
6457			$foot->insert($mouth);
6458
6459			# or is that
6460
6461			$mouth->insert($foot);
6462
6463			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6464			How utterly optimistic :-)
6465	root	1.387	%
6466	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6467			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6468			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6469			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6470			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6471			>can see why it happens)
6472			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6473
6474			Well, there's perl... :)
6475	root	1.387	%
6476	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6477			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6478			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6479			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6480			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6481	root	1.247	* boxes.
6482	root	1.387	%
6483	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6484			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6485			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6486	root	1.387	%
6487	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6488			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6489	root	1.387	%
6490	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6491			From: Juergen Christoffel
6492			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6493			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6494
6495			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6496
6497			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6498			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6499			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6500			schon;
6501
6502			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6503			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6504			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6505
6506			Danke, JC
6507	root	1.387	%
6508	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6509			#undef REASONABLE
6510	root	1.387	%
6511	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6512			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6513
6514			Alan
6515	root	1.387	%
6516	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6517			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6518			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6519			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6520	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6521	root	1.18	> anything.
6522
6523			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6524			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6525	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6526			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6527	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6528			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6529
6530			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6531			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6532			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6533			always a good idea.
6534	root	1.387	%
6535	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6536			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6537
6538	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6539	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6540	root	1.387	%
6541	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6542			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6543			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6544			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6545	root	1.387	%
6546	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6547	root	1.387	%
6548	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6549	root	1.18
6550			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6551			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6552	root	1.387	%
6553	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6554			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6555			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6556			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6557	root	1.387	%
6558	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6559	root	1.387	%
6560	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6561			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6562			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6563			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6564			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6565			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6566	root	1.387	%
6567	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6568
6569			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6570			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6571			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6572			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6573			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6574			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6575			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6576	root	1.387	%
6577	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6578			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6579			future. Bleeeh]
6580
6581			From: Larry McVoy
6582
6583	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6584	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6585			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6586			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6587			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6588			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6589			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6590			not for the exceptional case.
6591	root	1.387	%
6592	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6593			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6594			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6595			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6596			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6597			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6598			stack.
6599
6600			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6601			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6602			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6603
6604			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6605			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6606	root	1.387	%
6607	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6608
6609	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6610			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6611			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6612			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6613	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6614	root	1.247	>
6615	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6616			> on the CPU?
6617
6618			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6619	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6620	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6621			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6622
6623			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6624			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6625			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6626			the point again".
6627	root	1.387	%
6628	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6629
6630	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6631			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6632	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6633	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6634	root	1.247	>
6635	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6636			> scenario.
6637
6638			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6639	root	1.387	%
6640	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6641	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6642			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6643			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6644	root	1.387	%
6645	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6646			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6647			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6648			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6649			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6650			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6651			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6652			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6653			anything.
6654	root	1.387	%
6655	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6656	root	1.387	%
6657	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6658			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6659	root	1.387	%
6660	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6661			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6662			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6663			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6664			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6665
6666			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6667	root	1.387	%
6668	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6669
6670			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6671
6672			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6673			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6674			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6675			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6676			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6677
6678			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6679			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6680			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6681			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6682			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6683			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6684			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6685			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6686			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6687			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6688			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6689			to work through the learning curve.
6690	root	1.387	%
6691	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6692	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6693	root	1.387	%
6694	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6695			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6696	root	1.387	%
6697	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6698			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6699	root	1.387	%
6700	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6701			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6702	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6703			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6704	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6705	root	1.387	%
6706	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6707	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6708	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6709	root	1.387	%
6710	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6711			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6712	root	1.387	%
6713	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6714			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6715			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6716			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6717			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6718			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6719			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6720			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6721
6722	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6723	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6724	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6725	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6726			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6727
6728			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6729			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6730			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6731			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6732			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6733			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6734			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6735	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6736	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6737			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6738			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6739	root	1.387	%
6740	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6741			/*---.
6742			\| ? \|
6743			`---*/
6744	root	1.387	%
6745	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6746	root	1.387	%
6747	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6748			From: Joe Buck
6749			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6750			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6751	root	1.387	%
6752	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6753			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6754	root	1.387	%
6755	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6756	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6757	root	1.387	%
6758	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6759	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6760	root	1.387	%
6761	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6762	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6763	root	1.4	...
6764			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6765	root	1.387	%
6766	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6767	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6768			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6769			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6770
6771			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6772
6773			Alan
6774	root	1.387	%
6775	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6776	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6777			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6778			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6779			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6780	root	1.387	%
6781	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6782	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6783			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6784			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6785			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6786			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6787			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6788	root	1.387	%
6789	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6790			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6791			will find an easier way to do it.
6792	root	1.387	%
6793	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6794	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6795			Paul wrote:
6796			>Marc wrote:
6797	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6798			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6799			> den richtigen.
6800	root	1.387	%
6801	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6802			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6803	root	1.387	%
6804	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6805			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6806	root	1.387	%
6807	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6808			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6809	root	1.387	%
6810	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6811			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6812			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6813			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6814			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6815	root	1.387	%
6816	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6817			[...]
6818
6819			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6820
6821			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6822	root	1.387	%
6823	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6824			> constants.
6825
6826			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6827	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6828	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6829	root	1.387	%
6830	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6831	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6832
6833			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6834			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6835			much to do with IRC.
6836	root	1.387	%
6837	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6838			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6839
6840			[...]
6841			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6842
6843			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6844			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6845	root	1.387	%
6846	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6847	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6848	root	1.387	%
6849	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6850
6851			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6852			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6853			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6854
6855			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6856			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6857			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6858			shows how much you know, pal.
6859
6860			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6861	root	1.387	%
6862	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6863			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6864			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6865	root	1.387	%
6866	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6867			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6868			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6869			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6870	root	1.387	%
6871	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6872			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6873			Your version of perl sucks.
6874	root	1.387	%
6875	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6876			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6877			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6878			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6879			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6880			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6881			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6882			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6883	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6884	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6885			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6886	root	1.387	%
6887	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6888			before you can understand it :)
6889	root	1.387	%
6890	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6891			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6892			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6893	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6894	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6895			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6896			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6897
6898			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6899			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6900			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6901			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6902			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6903			be worth attempting).
6904
6905			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6906			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6907			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6908
6909			Nick.
6910	root	1.387	%
6911	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6912			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6913			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6914
6915	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6916	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6917			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6918			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6919			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6920	root	1.387	%
6921	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6922			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6923			> > > to work :-)
6924	root	1.247	> >
6925	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6926	root	1.247	>
6927	root	1.1	> Eh?
6928	root	1.247	>
6929	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6930			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6931
6932			He didn't say it worked. :)
6933	root	1.387	%
6934	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6935
6936			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6937			> I find it irksome that
6938	root	1.247	>
6939	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6940
6941			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6942	root	1.387	%
6943	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6944			From: Simon Cozens
6945
6946			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6947			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6948			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6949
6950			Looks like a feature to me.
6951	root	1.387	%
6952	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6953	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6954	root	1.387	%
6955	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6956			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6957
6958			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6959			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6960			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6961			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6962
6963			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6964			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6965			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6966			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6967			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6968			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6969	root	1.387	%
6970	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6971			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6972			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6973			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6974			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6975			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6976			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6977			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6978			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6979			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6980			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6981			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6982
6983			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6984			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6985			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6986
6987			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6988	root	1.387	%
6989	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6990			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6991			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6992			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6993			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6994			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6995			replication."
6996			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6997	root	1.387	%
6998	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6999			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7000
7001			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7002			shows.
7003
7004			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7005			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7006			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7007
7008			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7009			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7010			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7011			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7012			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7013
7014			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7015			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7016			up with a saner protocol.
7017	root	1.387	%
7018	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7019			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7020			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7021
7022			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7023			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7024			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7025	root	1.387	%
7026	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7027			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7028			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7029			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7030			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7031			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7032	root	1.387	%
7033	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7034			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7035	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7036			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7037			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7038			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7039	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7040	root	1.387	%
7041	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7042	root	1.387	%
7043	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7044			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7045	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7046	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7047	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7048	root	1.387	%
7049	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7050			"ist mir egal"
7051	root	1.387	%
7052	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7053			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7054
7055			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7056	root	1.387	%
7057	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7058			hallole
7059	root	1.387	%
7060	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7061			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7062			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7063	root	1.387	%
7064	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7065			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7066			1929 The pause that refreshes
7067			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7068			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7069			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7070			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7071			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7072			1939 Thirst stops here
7073			1942 It's the real thing
7074			1947 Have a Coke
7075			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7076			1963 Things go better with Coke
7077			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7078			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7079			1982 Coke is it!
7080			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7081	root	1.387	%
7082	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7083			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7084	root	1.387	%
7085	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7086			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7087	root	1.387	%
7088	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7089	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7090			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7091			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7092			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7093			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7094			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7095			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7096			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7097			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7098			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7099			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7100			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7101			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7102			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7103
7104			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7105			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7106	root	1.387	%
7107	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7108			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7109
7110			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7111			uncool thing to do. [...]
7112	root	1.387	%
7113	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7114			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7115			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7116	root	1.387	%
7117	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7118	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7119	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7120	root	1.1
7121	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7122			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7123			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7124			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7125	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7126			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7127	root	1.387	%
7128	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7129			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7130			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7131			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7132			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7133			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7134			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7135
7136			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7137			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7138			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7139	root	1.387	%
7140	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7141
7142			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7143	root	1.387	%
7144	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7145			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7146			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7147			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7148			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7149	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7150	root	1.387	%
7151	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7152			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7153			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7154
7155			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7156			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7157
7158			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7159	root	1.387	%
7160	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7161	root	1.387	%
7162	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7163			From: Alan Cox
7164			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7165			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7166	root	1.247	>
7167			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7168	root	1.1
7169	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7170	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7171	root	1.387	%
7172	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7173			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7174			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7175
7176			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7177			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7178			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7179			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7180
7181			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7182
7183			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7184	root	1.387	%
7185	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7186	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7187			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7188	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7189	root	1.387	%
7190	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7191	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7192			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7193	root	1.387	%
7194	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7195			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7196	root	1.387	%
7197	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7198	root	1.387	%
7199	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7200			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7201			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7202	root	1.387	%
7203	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7204			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7205			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7206			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7207			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7208	root	1.387	%
7209	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7210	root	1.387	%
7211	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7212			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7213			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7214			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7215			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7216			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7217			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7218	root	1.387	%
7219	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7220			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7221	root	1.387	%
7222	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7223			perl:]
7224
7225			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7226
7227			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7228			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7229			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7230			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7231			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7232			disable the message and pray it works"]
7233	root	1.387	%
7234	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7235			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7236			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7237			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7238
7239			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7240			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7241			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7242			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7243			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7244	root	1.387	%
7245	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7246			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7247			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7248	root	1.387	%
7249	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7250			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7251			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7252			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7253			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7254	root	1.387	%
7255	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7256			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7257			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7258	root	1.387	%
7259	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7260			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7261	root	1.387	%
7262	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7263			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7264	root	1.387	%
7265	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7266			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7267			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7268			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7269			> it's a hard requirement.
7270
7271			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7272			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7273			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7274			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7275			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7276			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7277			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7278			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7279	root	1.387	%
7280	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7281			> Netscape?"
7282	root	1.247
7283	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7284			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7285	root	1.387	%
7286	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7287			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7288			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7289			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7290			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7291			the specified task step-by-step.
7292	root	1.387	%
7293	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7294
7295			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7296			be damned hard to understand."
7297	root	1.387	%
7298	root	1.1	[Linus]
7299			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7300			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7301			wrong. It's that simple.
7302	root	1.387	%
7303	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7304	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7305	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7306			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7307			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7308	root	1.247	Undernet>
7309	root	1.387	%
7310	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7311			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7312			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7313			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7314
7315			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7316			document that contains an element or attribute named
7317	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7318	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7319			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7320			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7321			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7322			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7323			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7324	root	1.387	%
7325	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7326			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7327			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7328			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7329			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7330			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7331	root	1.387	%
7332	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7333			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7334			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7335			[... snip ...]
7336			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7337			tragedy...
7338	root	1.387	%
7339	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7340	root	1.247
7341	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7342			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7343			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7344			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7345			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7346			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7347			>message plus attorney's fees.
7348			[SNIP long sig]
7349	root	1.247
7350	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7351			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7352			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7353	root	1.247
7354	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7355			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7356			procmailable address.
7357	root	1.247
7358	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7359			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7360			just a waste of bandwidth.
7361	root	1.387	%
7362	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7363	root	1.387	%
7364	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7365			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7366	root	1.387	%
7367	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7368	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7369	root	1.387	%
7370	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7371	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7372			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7373			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7374	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7375	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7376			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7377			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7378			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7379	root	1.387	%
7380	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7381	root	1.387	%
7382	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7383	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7384	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7385	root	1.387	%
7386	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7387			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7388			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7389			immediately and not block the calling process.
7390
7391			the man pages are wrong
7392
7393			--cw
7394	root	1.387	%
7395	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7396			...
7397			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7398	root	1.387	%
7399	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7400			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7401	root	1.387	%
7402	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7403			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7404			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7405
7406			How fast does it oops?
7407	root	1.387	%
7408	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7409
7410			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7411			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7412			> touch is 2Gig.
7413
7414			In theory, yes.
7415			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7416			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7417	root	1.387	%
7418	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7419			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7420			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7421			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7422			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7423			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7424			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7425			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7426			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7427			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7428			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7429			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7430			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7431			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7432			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7433			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7434	root	1.387	%
7435	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7436	root	1.387	%
7437	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7438			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7439			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7440			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7441			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7442	root	1.387	%
7443	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7444			[Lukas Grunwald]
7445	root	1.387	%
7446	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7447			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7448			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7449			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7450
7451			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7452			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7453			> > prompt.
7454			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7455			> /proc/info/authors?
7456	root	1.247
7457	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7458			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7459			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7460			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7461			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7462			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7463	root	1.247
7464	root	1.1	NOT.
7465			[...]
7466	root	1.387	%
7467	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7468			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7469			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7470	root	1.247
7471	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7472			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7473			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7474			> an interesting experiment.
7475	root	1.247
7476	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7477			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7478			to disagree...
7479	root	1.387	%
7480	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7481			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7482			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7483			[und Lukas sagt:]
7484			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7485	root	1.387	%
7486	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7487			report:]
7488			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7489			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7490			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7491			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7492	root	1.387	%
7493	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7494			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7495	root	1.387	%
7496	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7497			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7498			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7499
7500			Alexander Viro wrote:
7501			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7502			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7503			>
7504			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7505			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7506			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7507			> UNIX.
7508
7509			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7510			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7511			docs... ew!
7512	root	1.387	%
7513	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7514			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7515			> protected mode?
7516
7517			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7518			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7519			registers loaded ;)
7520	root	1.387	%
7521	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7522			[...]
7523			> backports hurt forward progress.
7524
7525			beware of content free dogma
7526	root	1.387	%
7527	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7528			> wondering.
7529
7530			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7531			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7532			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7533			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7534			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7535			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7536			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7537
7538			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7539	root	1.387	%
7540	root	1.1	>Keith,
7541	root	1.247	>
7542	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7543			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7544			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7545
7546			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7547			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7548			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7549			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7550			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7551			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7552			do the right thing.
7553
7554			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7555			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7556			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7557			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7558			and they have to fix it.
7559	root	1.387	%
7560	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7561			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7562			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7563			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7564	root	1.387	%
7565	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7566			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7567	root	1.387	%
7568	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7569			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7570			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7571			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7572
7573			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7574			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7575	root	1.387	%
7576	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7577			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7578	root	1.387	%
7579	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7580			glibc-2.2 was released]
7581			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7582	root	1.387	%
7583	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7584	root	1.387	%
7585	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7586			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7587			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7588	root	1.387	%
7589	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7590			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7591			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7592	root	1.387	%
7593	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7594
7595			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7596			standards-compliant.
7597			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7598			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7599			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7600			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7601			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7602			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7603	root	1.387	%
7604	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7605			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7606			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7607
7608			That's your problem.
7609
7610			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7611
7612			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7613			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7614	root	1.387	%
7615	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7616			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7617			> > out there) in the foot?
7618
7619			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7620
7621			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7622			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7623			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7624	root	1.387	%
7625	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7626			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7627			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7628
7629			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7630			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7631			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7632			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7633			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7634			--
7635			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7636	root	1.387	%
7637	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7638
7639			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7640			>
7641			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7642			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7643			>
7644			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7645
7646			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7647	root	1.387	%
7648	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7649			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7650			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7651	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7652	root	1.387	%
7653	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7654			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7655			Bullschildt below ;)]
7656
7657			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7658			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7659	root	1.387	%
7660	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7661			>
7662			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7663			>
7664			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7665			>
7666			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7667	root	1.387	%
7668	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7669
7670			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7671			it did the same thing.
7672
7673			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7674			a week ago. :(
7675
7676			--Jack
7677	root	1.387	%
7678	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7679	root	1.387	%
7680	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7681			-- K&R
7682	root	1.387	%
7683	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7684	root	1.387	%
7685	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7686			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7687	root	1.387	%
7688	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7689	root	1.387	%
7690	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7691			$modules => { "" => "" };
7692	root	1.387	%
7693	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7694	root	1.387	%
7695	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7696	root	1.387	%
7697	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7698			> --
7699			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7700			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7701	root	1.387	%
7702	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7703			From: "David Schwartz"
7704
7705			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7706			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7707			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7708			> pretty spiffy.
7709
7710			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7711			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7712			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7713			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7714	root	1.387	%
7715	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7716	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7717	root	1.387	%
7718	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7719			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7720			> of having bough one.
7721
7722			Not an uncommon thought :)
7723	root	1.387	%
7724	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7725
7726			Hi Marc !
7727
7728			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7729			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7730			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7731
7732			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7733	root	1.387	%
7734	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7735			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7736			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7737			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7738
7739			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7740			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7741			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7742
7743			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7744			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7745			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7746			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7747			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7748			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7749
7750			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7751			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7752
7753			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7754			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7755			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7756			right to left.
7757
7758			>But no culture
7759			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7760			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7761			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7762			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7763			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7764
7765			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7766
7767			--Alex
7768	root	1.387	%
7769	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7770			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7771			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7772
7773			[most of the reply snipped...]
7774
7775			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7776			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7777			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7778
7779			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7780
7781			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7782			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7783			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7784			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7785			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7786
7787			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7788			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7789			try to claim that they do?)
7790	root	1.387	%
7791	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7792
7793			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7794			> {
7795			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7796			> flush(load);
7797			> else
7798			> wear(load);
7799			> }
7800
7801			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7802			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7803
7804			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7805			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7806
7807			--
7808			dwmw2
7809	root	1.387	%
7810	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7811			are are overturned.
7812	root	1.387	%
7813	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7814	root	1.387	%
7815	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7816			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7817	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7818			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7819	root	1.387	%
7820	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7821			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7822			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7823			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7824			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7825			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7826			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7827	root	1.387	%
7828	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7829			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7830			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7831
7832			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7833			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7834			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7835	root	1.387	%
7836	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7837			Deadlock, n.:
7838			Deceased Rasterman.
7839	root	1.387	%
7840	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7841			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7842			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7843			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7844	root	1.387	%
7845	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7846			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7847	root	1.387	%
7848	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7849			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7850	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7851			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7852			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7853			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7854	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7855			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7856	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7857			Positionen für unwählbar.
7858	root	1.1
7859			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7860	root	1.387	%
7861	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7862			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7863			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7864
7865			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7866
7867			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7868			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7869			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7870			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7871			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7872
7873			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7874			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7875			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7876			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7877			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7878			results simply because I make a mistake!
7879
7880			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7881			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7882			errors.
7883
7884			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7885			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7886			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7887			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7888	root	1.387	%
7889	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7890			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7891			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7892			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7893			>
7894			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7895	root	1.387	%
7896	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7897			of nothing."
7898	root	1.387	%
7899	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7900			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7901			>
7902			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7903			> CPU?
7904
7905			Root password? :)
7906
7907			John.Fulmer
7908	root	1.387	%
7909	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7910
7911			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7912	root	1.387	%
7913	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7914			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7915			> which I prefer...
7916
7917			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7918			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7919			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7920			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7921			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7922			--
7923			Horst von Brand
7924	root	1.387	%
7925	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7926
7927			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7928
7929			[...]
7930
7931			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7932	root	1.387	%
7933	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7934			at your problem:]
7935
7936			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7937			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7938			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7939	root	1.387	%
7940	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7941			cp is inherently inefficient.
7942	root	1.387	%
7943	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7944			>breaking seals on them.
7945
7946			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7947			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7948			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7949
7950			...
7951
7952			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7953			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7954			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7955			could be just an urban myth though.
7956
7957			Russell Coker
7958	root	1.387	%
7959	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7960			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7961
7962			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7963	root	1.387	%
7964	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7965			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7966			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7967			> > deleting.
7968			>
7969			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7970
7971			Wrong. Yury does.
7972			:(
7973
7974			--
7975			Stefan
7976	root	1.387	%
7977	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7978			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7979			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7980			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7981			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7982			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7983			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7984
7985			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7986
7987			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7988	root	1.387	%
7989	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7990	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7991	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7992	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7993			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7994	root	1.387	%
7995	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7996			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7997			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7998			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7999			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8000			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8001			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8002			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8003			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8004			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8005	root	1.387	%
8006	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8007			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8008			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8009	root	1.1	aus!
8010	root	1.387	%
8011	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8012			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8013	root	1.387	%
8014	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8015			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8016			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8017			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8018	root	1.387	%
8019	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8020			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8021	root	1.387	%
8022	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8023			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8024			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8025			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8026
8027			--tom
8028	root	1.387	%
8029	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8030			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8031
8032			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8033			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8034			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8035			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8036			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8037	root	1.387	%
8038	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8039			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8040			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8041			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8042			solutions.
8043
8044			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8045
8046			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8047			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8048			the background]
8049	root	1.387	%
8050	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8051			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8052			Security Response Center:
8053
8054			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8055			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8056
8057			[and later]
8058			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8059
8060			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8061
8062			[Phil closes]
8063			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8064
8065			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8066			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8067	root	1.387	%
8068	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8069			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8070			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8071			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8072			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8073			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8074			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8075	root	1.387	%
8076	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8077			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8078			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8079			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8080
8081			[Trashey / Quasars]
8082	root	1.387	%
8083	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8084			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8085			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8086
8087			Irony potential in
8088
8089			man perlrtfm
8090
8091			is left to the reader.
8092
8093			Nat
8094	root	1.387	%
8095	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8096			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8097
8098			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8099			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8100	root	1.387	%
8101	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8102			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8103			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8104	root	1.387	%
8105	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8106			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8107			Paul Tomblin
8108	root	1.387	%
8109	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8110			>I am morally
8111			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8112
8113			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8114			possibility...
8115
8116			Dan
8117	root	1.387	%
8118	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8119	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8120	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 :)
8121			<Mr> zugabe
8122	root	1.387	%
8123	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8124			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8125	root	1.387	%
8126	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8127			[cobol, sigh]
8128	root	1.387	%
8129	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8130			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8131			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8132			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8133			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8134			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8135			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8136			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8137
8138			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8139	root	1.387	%
8140	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8141
8142			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8143			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8144			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8145			after they regain their composure."
8146
8147			-- Paul Rinaldo
8148			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8149	root	1.387	%
8150	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8151			>
8152			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8153			>
8154			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8155
8156			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8157
8158			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8159
8160			;-}
8161
8162			--
8163
8164			ciao -
8165			Stefan
8166
8167	root	1.387	%
8168	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8169			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8170
8171			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8172			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8173			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8174			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8175			one' type remarks.
8176			[Alan Cox]
8177	root	1.387	%
8178	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8179
8180			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8181			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8182
8183			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8184	root	1.387	%
8185	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8186
8187			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8188			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8189			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8190	root	1.387	%
8191	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8192			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8193			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8194			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8195	root	1.387	%
8196	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8197			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8198
8199			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8200			is to me ok.
8201	root	1.387	%
8202	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8203
8204			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8205	root	1.387	%
8206	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8207			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8208	root	1.387	%
8209	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8210			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8211	root	1.387	%
8212	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8213			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8214			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8215
8216			Ralf
8217	root	1.387	%
8218	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8219			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8220			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8221
8222			david parsons
8223	root	1.387	%
8224	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8225			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8226
8227			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8228			>so that trick is not portable.
8229
8230			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8231			127.0.0.1 localhost
8232
8233			--tom
8234	root	1.387	%
8235	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8236			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8237			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8238			> >the question is moot.
8239			>
8240			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8241
8242			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8243
8244			Ilya
8245	root	1.387	%
8246	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8247			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8248			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8249			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8250			> trying.
8251
8252			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8253			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8254	root	1.387	%
8255	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8256			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8257			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8258			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8259	root	1.387	%
8260	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8261			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8262			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8263	root	1.387	%
8264	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8265			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8266			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8267			> blocking :-)
8268
8269			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8270			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8271			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8272			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8273			reasons.
8274
8275			DS
8276	root	1.387	%
8277	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8278	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8279	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8280	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8281	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8282
8283			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8284	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8285	root	1.387	%
8286	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8287			[...]
8288			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8289			[...]
8290
8291			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8292			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8293			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8294			with each other on the same channel.
8295
8296			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8297			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8298
8299			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8300	root	1.387	%
8301	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8302			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8303	root	1.387	%
8304	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8305	root	1.387	%
8306	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8307			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8308			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8309			ok
8310	root	1.387	%
8311	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8312			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8313	root	1.387	%
8314	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8315			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8316			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8317			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8318			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8319			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8320			<Xach> burrito, focus
8321			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8322	root	1.387	%
8323	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8324			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8325			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8326			tested it." ...
8327	root	1.387	%
8328	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8329	root	1.387	%
8330	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8331
8332			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8333			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8334			>
8335			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8336			>
8337			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8338			>
8339			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8340			>
8341			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8342			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8343			>systems.
8344
8345
8346			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8347			had.
8348
8349			--
8350			Neal Bridges
8351	root	1.387	%
8352	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8353
8354			> Hi folks,
8355			> 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?
8356			> please reply to
8357			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8358			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8359
8360			Parse error.
8361
8362			---
8363			Alex
8364	root	1.387	%
8365	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8366
8367			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8368			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8369
8370			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8371			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8372			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8373
8374			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8375	root	1.387	%
8376	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8377	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8378	root	1.387	%
8379	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8380			ii = 44;
8381			p = &ii;
8382			p = ii/p;
8383			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8384			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8385	root	1.387	%
8386	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8387			> Linux time then.
8388
8389			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8390
8391			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8392			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8393
8394			Roger.
8395	root	1.387	%
8396	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8397	root	1.387	%
8398	root	1.1	auto accident;
8399			register voters;
8400			static electricity;
8401			struct by_lightning;
8402			void *where_prohibited;
8403			char broiled;
8404			short circuit;
8405			short changed;
8406			long johns;
8407			unsigned long letter;
8408			double entendre;
8409			double trouble;
8410			union organizer;
8411			float valve;
8412			short pants;
8413			union station;
8414			void check; unsigned check;
8415			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8416	root	1.387	%
8417	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8418			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8419			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8420	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8421	root	1.387	%
8422	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8423
8424			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8425			worstation.
8426	root	1.387	%
8427	root	1.1	I wrote
8428			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8429			$/
8430
8431			Damn shift key.
8432
8433
8434			Mike Guy
8435	root	1.387	%
8436	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8437			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8438			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8439			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8440			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8441			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8442			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8443			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8444			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8445	root	1.387	%
8446	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8447
8448			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8449
8450			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8451			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8452			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8453			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8454
8455			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8456	root	1.387	%
8457	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8458			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8459
8460			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8461			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8462			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8463			easy to bother.
8464
8465			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8466			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8467			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8468			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8469
8470			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8471
8472			Larry
8473	root	1.387	%
8474	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8475			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8476			Yeah. :-)
8477	root	1.387	%
8478	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8479			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8480			[...]
8481			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8482
8483			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8484			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8485			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8486			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8487
8488			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8489			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8490			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8491			receipts aren't used anymore.
8492	root	1.387	%
8493	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8494			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8495			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8496	root	1.387	%
8497	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8498			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8499			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8500			> versteht?"
8501	root	1.387	%
8502	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8503			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8504			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8505			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8506	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8507	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8508	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8509	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8510			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8511			ji!
8512	root	1.387	%
8513	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8514			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8515			[Larry Wall]
8516	root	1.387	%
8517	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8518			Altpreussen.
8519			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8520			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8521	root	1.387	%
8522	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8523			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8524			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8525			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8526			>
8527	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8528			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8529	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8530
8531	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8532	root	1.1	Norbert?
8533	root	1.387	%
8534	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8535	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8536			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8537	root	1.387	%
8538	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8539	root	1.387	%
8540	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8541	root	1.387	%
8542	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8543			From: "Steve"
8544			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8545			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8546			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8547
8548			[the following was a single line, of course]
8549			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8550			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8551			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8552			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8553			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8554
8555			Thanks,
8556
8557			Steve
8558	root	1.387	%
8559	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8560			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8561			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8562			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8563	root	1.387	%
8564	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8565			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8566			<tigert> ahem
8567	root	1.387	%
8568	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8569			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8570			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8571	root	1.387	%
8572	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8573			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8574			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8575			Subject: It's soup.
8576
8577			Okay, it's there.
8578
8579			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8580
8581			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8582
8583			Larry
8584	root	1.387	%
8585	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8586	root	1.387	%
8587	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8588			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8589			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8590			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8591			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8592	root	1.387	%
8593	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8594			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8595			>
8596			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8597			> And there's no mouse.
8598			>
8599			> Abigail
8600
8601			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8602
8603			Matt.
8604	root	1.387	%
8605	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8606			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8607
8608			- --tom
8609	root	1.387	%
8610	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8611			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8612
8613			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8614			>
8615			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8616			> 2.2.11 release?
8617
8618			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8619
8620			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8621
8622			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8623	root	1.387	%
8624	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8625	root	1.387	%
8626	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8627			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8628			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8629			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8630			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8631			> that much ;-)
8632
8633			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8634	root	1.387	%
8635	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8636			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8637	root	1.387	%
8638	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8639			<QUOTE>
8640			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8641
8642			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8643			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8644			</QUOTE>
8645	root	1.387	%
8646	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8647			and routes around it.
8648
8649			Roger Larsson
8650	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8651	root	1.387	%
8652	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8653			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8654	root	1.387	%
8655	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8656			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8657	root	1.387	%
8658	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8659
8660			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8661			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8662			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8663			on different JVMs.
8664
8665			[and later]
8666
8667			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8668			adventure gaming:
8669
8670			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8671			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8672	root	1.387	%
8673	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8674			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8675
8676			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8677
8678			NK> ?? -> huh?
8679
8680			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8681
8682			<chaim>
8683	root	1.387	%
8684	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8685			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8686			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8687			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8688			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8689			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8690	root	1.387	%
8691	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8692	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8693	root	1.387	%
8694	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8695			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8696			page]
8697			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8698			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8699			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8700			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8701			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8702			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8703			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8704			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8705			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8706			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8707	root	1.387	%
8708	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8709			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8710			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8711			don't actually get anything DONE.
8712	root	1.387	%
8713	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8714			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8715			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8716			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8717	root	1.387	%
8718	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8719			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8720			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8721			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8722
8723			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8724	root	1.387	%
8725	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8726			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8727			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8728	root	1.387	%
8729	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8730			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8731			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8732	root	1.387	%
8733	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8734
8735			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8736			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8737			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8738			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8739			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8740			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8741			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8742			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8743			got the T-shirt.
8744	root	1.387	%
8745	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8746			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8747			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8748			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8749			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8750			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8751			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8752
8753			Linus writes, to Craig:
8754
8755			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8756			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8757			> thus choices than gcc.
8758
8759			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8760			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8761			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8762			far more complex than the kernel.
8763
8764			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8765			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8766
8767			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8768	root	1.387	%
8769	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8770			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8771			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8772
8773			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8774			[...]
8775			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8776			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8777			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8778			>let the user be in control.
8779
8780			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8781			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8782			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8783			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8784			compilers?
8785	root	1.387	%
8786	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8787			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8788
8789			Linus writes:
8790			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8791			> gcc could do better?
8792
8793			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8794			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8795			before you had so many worshippers.
8796	root	1.387	%
8797	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8798			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8799			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8800			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8801			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8802
8803			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8804
8805			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8806			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8807			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8808			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8809
8810			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8811
8812			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8813
8814			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8815			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8816
8817			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8818
8819			>:->
8820
8821			Brane
8822
8823
8824			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8825			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8826			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8827			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8828			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8829
8830
8831			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8832	root	1.387	%
8833	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8834	root	1.387	%
8835	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8836			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8837			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8838	root	1.387	%
8839	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8840			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8841			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8842	root	1.387	%
8843	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8844
8845			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8846
8847			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8848	root	1.387	%
8849	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8850			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8851			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8852			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8853
8854			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8855
8856			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8857			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8858			:
8859			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8860			:
8861			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8862			:
8863			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8864	root	1.387	%
8865	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8866	root	1.387	%
8867	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8868			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8869			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8870			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8871			>
8872			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8873			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8874
8875			The classic example:
8876
8877			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8878			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8879	root	1.387	%
8880	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8881			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8882
8883			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8884			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8885			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8886
8887			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8888
8889			--tom
8890	root	1.387	%
8891	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8892			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8893			working on something for me
8894			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8895			to me nutting concerning y ok
8896			piece
8897			russ
8898	root	1.387	%
8899	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8900
8901			pico (text editor for beginners)
8902			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8903			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8904			ed (text editor for beginners)
8905	root	1.387	%
8906	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8907
8908			use Python;
8909
8910			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8911			Except maybe faster. :-)
8912
8913			Larry
8914	root	1.387	%
8915	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8916
8917			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8918			2010.
8919
8920			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8921	root	1.387	%
8922	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8923			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8924			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8925			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8926			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8927			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8928			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8929			been created.
8930	root	1.387	%
8931	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8932			>
8933			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8934			> $3.99.
8935			>
8936			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8937			>
8938			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8939			>
8940			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8941			>
8942			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8943			>
8944			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8945			>
8946			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8947			> got integrated Coke!
8948			>
8949			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8950			> to drink the Coke.
8951			>
8952			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8953			>
8954			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8955			>
8956			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8957			> inseparable.
8958			>
8959			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8960			>
8961			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8962			>
8963			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8964			>
8965			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8966			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8967			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8968	root	1.387	%
8969	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8970			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8971	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8972	root	1.387	%
8973	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8974
8975			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8976			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8977			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8978			for you to digest this book.
8979			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8980			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8981			Join The Trickle
8982			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8983			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8984			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8985	root	1.387	%
8986	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8987			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8988			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8989			complete and utter vapourware.
8990
8991			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8992	root	1.387	%
8993	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8994
8995			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8996			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8997	root	1.387	%
8998	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8999
9000			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9001			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9002			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9003			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9004			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9005			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9006			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9007			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9008			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9009			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9010			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9011			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9012			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9013			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9014			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9015			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9016			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9017			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9018			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9019			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9020			work.
9021			[...]
9022			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9023			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9024			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9025			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9026			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9027			search generically - then it has some potential.
9028			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9029			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9030			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9031			intellectual value whatsoever.
9032
9033			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9034			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9035			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9036	root	1.387	%
9037	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9038	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9039	root	1.387	%
9040	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9041			#!/usr/bin/sh
9042			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9043			# All Rights Reserved
9044
9045			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9046			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9047			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9048
9049			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9050			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9051	root	1.387	%
9052	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.
9053	root	1.387	%
9054	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9055			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9056			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9057	root	1.387	%
9058	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9059
9060			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9061			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9062
9063			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9064			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9065			machine]
9066
9067			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9068			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9069			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9070
9071			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9072	root	1.387	%
9073	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9074			spamming:]
9075
9076			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9077			>>
9078			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9079			>>------------------------------------------------------
9080			>>
9081			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9082			>>
9083			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9084
9085			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9086			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9087	root	1.387	%
9088	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9089			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9090	root	1.387	%
9091	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9092			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9093	root	1.387	%
9094	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9095			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9096
9097			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9098	root	1.387	%
9099	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9100
9101			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9102			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9103			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9104			he's full of.
9105
9106			Support BSD/Linux.
9107
9108			--tom
9109	root	1.387	%
9110	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9111	root	1.387	%
9112	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9113	root	1.387	%
9114	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9115			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9116
9117			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9118			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9119			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9120			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9121	root	1.387	%
9122	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9123
9124			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9125			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9126	root	1.387	%
9127	root	1.1	[the creation]
9128			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9129	root	1.387	%
9130	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9131
9132			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9133			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9134			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9135	root	1.387	%
9136	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9137			selbst schliesse.
9138			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9139			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9140	root	1.387	%
9141	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9142			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9143
9144			No:
9145
9146			use Borg;
9147			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9148
9149			--
9150			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9151	root	1.387	%
9152	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9153			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9154			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9155			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9156			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9157			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9158			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9159			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9160			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9161			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9162			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9163			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9164			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9165			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9166			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9167			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9168			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9169			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9170			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9171			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9172			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9173			dispensers."
9174
9175			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9176	root	1.387	%
9177	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9178			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9179			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9180			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9181	root	1.387	%
9182	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9183			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9184			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9185	root	1.387	%
9186	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9187	root	1.1
9188			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9189	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9190	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9191	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9192	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9193			Student: "..."
9194			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9195			Student: "..."
9196			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9197	root	1.387	%
9198	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9199
9200			> Just morbid curiosity,
9201			>
9202			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9203
9204			Yes. Broken ones.
9205
9206			dgris
9207	root	1.387	%
9208	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9209			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9210	root	1.387	%
9211	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9212			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9213	root	1.387	%
9214	root	1.1	...
9215
9216			<AOL>
9217
9218			Me too!
9219
9220			</AOL>
9221
9222			Tig
9223	root	1.387	%
9224	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9225	root	1.387	%
9226	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9227	root	1.387	%
9228	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9229
9230			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9231			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9232			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9233			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9234			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9235			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9236			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9237
9238			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9239
9240			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9241			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9242			get really really pissed.
9243
9244			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9245			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9246	root	1.387	%
9247	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9248			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9249			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9250			> period.
9251			>
9252			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9253			> Nic
9254			>
9255
9256			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9257
9258			-hpa
9259	root	1.387	%
9260	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9261	root	1.387	%
9262	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9263			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9264			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9265			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9266			happy."
9267			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9268	root	1.387	%
9269	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9270			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9271			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9272
9273			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9274			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9275			I also forwarded the offending code.
9276
9277			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9278			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9279			service.
9280
9281			Daniel
9282	root	1.387	%
9283	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9284			...
9285			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9286	root	1.387	%
9287	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9288			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9289			[RJL]
9290	root	1.387	%
9291	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9292			right.''
9293	root	1.387	%
9294	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9295
9296			Amazing--they actually listened.
9297	root	1.387	%
9298	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9299			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9300			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9301
9302			# less foo
9303			sh: command not found
9304			# more foo
9305			sh: command not found
9306			# emacs foo
9307			sh: command not found
9308			# ed foo
9309			0
9310			help
9311			?
9312			quit
9313			?
9314			exit
9315			?
9316			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9317			?
9318
9319			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9320	root	1.387	%
9321	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9322			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9323			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9324
9325			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9326
9327			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9328
9329			tim> would be most correct in style.
9330
9331			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9332			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9333	root	1.387	%
9334	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9335			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9336			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9337			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9338			too bad --- ]
9339	root	1.387	%
9340	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9341	root	1.387	%
9342	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9343
9344			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9345			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9346
9347			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9348			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9349	root	1.387	%
9350	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9351			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9352			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9353			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9354			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9355	root	1.387	%
9356	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9357
9358			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9359			include wrong #include files in their source.
9360	root	1.387	%
9361	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9362
9363			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9364			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9365			Consider it a rite of passage.
9366	root	1.387	%
9367	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9368			"Oops."
9369			-- MST3K
9370	root	1.387	%
9371	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9372			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9373			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9374
9375			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9376			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9377			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9378			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9379			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9380			it. ;)
9381	root	1.387	%
9382	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9383			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9384			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9385			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9386			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9387
9388			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9389			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9390			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9391			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9392
9393			--tom
9394	root	1.387	%
9395	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9396
9397			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9398
9399			>Why does it end ?
9400
9401			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9402
9403			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9404			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9405
9406			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9407	root	1.387	%
9408	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9409			-- Tom Christiansen
9410	root	1.387	%
9411	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9412
9413			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9414			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9415			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9416			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9417			of Sputnik.
9418	root	1.387	%
9419	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9420			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9421			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9422			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9423			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9424	root	1.387	%
9425	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9426			- Hanlons razor -
9427	root	1.387	%
9428	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9429			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9430	root	1.387	%
9431	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9432			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9433			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9434			> offered no significant advantages.
9435
9436			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9437	root	1.387	%
9438	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9439			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9440			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9441			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9442			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9443			in front of me says so."
9444
9445			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9446	root	1.387	%
9447	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9448			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9449			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9450			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9451			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9452			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9453			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9454			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9455			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9456			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9457			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9458	root	1.387	%
9459	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9460			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9461			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9462			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9463			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9464	root	1.387	%
9465	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9466	root	1.387	%
9467	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9468	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9469			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9470			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9471			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9472	root	1.387	%
9473	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9474			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9475			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9476			>
9477			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9478			> and/or screen.
9479
9480			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9481	root	1.387	%
9482	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9483			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9484
9485			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9486			> use pedantic;
9487			> use strict 'code';
9488			>
9489			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9490
9491			use syntax 'python';
9492
9493			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9494
9495	root	1.387	%
9496	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9497			>
9498			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9499			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9500			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9501			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9502			>
9503			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9504	root	1.387	%
9505	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9506			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9507	root	1.387	%
9508	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9509			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9510			> be time-consuming.
9511
9512			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9513	root	1.387	%
9514	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9515			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9516			however, they do not handle C++...
9517			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9518	root	1.387	%
9519	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9520			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9521
9522			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9523
9524			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9525
9526			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9527
9528			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9529			already of old time, which was before us.
9530			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9531			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9532
9533			Regards,
9534			Tigran.
9535	root	1.387	%
9536	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9537	root	1.387	%
9538	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9539			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9540			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9541			main(){
9542			extrn hw;
9543			putchar(0[hw]);
9544			hw=+1;
9545			putchar(0[hw]);
9546			}
9547	root	1.387	%
9548	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9549
9550			The egg. Always. By definition.
9551	root	1.387	%
9552	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9553			>
9554			> Better check your scsi cables.
9555	root	1.387	%
9556	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9557			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9558	root	1.387	%
9559	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9560			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9561			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9562			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9563
9564	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9565	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9566			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9567
9568	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9569	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9570	root	1.387	%
9571	root	1.1	>James :\
9572			>
9573			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9574
9575			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9576	root	1.387	%
9577	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9578			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9579			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9580	root	1.387	%
9581	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9582			> is just asking for a black eye.
9583
9584			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9585
9586			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9587			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9588			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9589
9590			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9591			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9592			area.
9593	root	1.387	%
9594	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9595			[Lukas Grunwald]
9596	root	1.387	%
9597	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9598
9599			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9600			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9601			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9602			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9603			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9604	root	1.387	%
9605	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9606			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9607
9608			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9609	root	1.387	%
9610	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9611			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9612			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9613
9614			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9615
9616			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9617
9618			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9619
9620			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9621			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9622	root	1.387	%
9623	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9624	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9625	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9626	root	1.387	%
9627	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9628			longer...
9629	root	1.387	%
9630	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9631			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9632			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9633	root	1.387	%
9634	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9635			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9636			> > world :) I just love it...
9637			>
9638			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9639			>
9640			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9641			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9642			practical...
9643			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9644			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9645			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9646			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9647			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9648
9649			Jan Hubicka
9650	root	1.387	%
9651	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9652			[...]
9653			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9654
9655			No, it is not. What you meant is
9656
9657			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9658	root	1.387	%
9659	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9660			> A) perl-5.00553
9661			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9662			> cc = cl.exe
9663			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9664
9665			[...]
9666
9667			Ilya
9668	root	1.387	%
9669	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9670
9671			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9672
9673			p.
9674	root	1.387	%
9675	root	1.1	[tomc]
9676			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9677			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9678
9679			+------------------------------------------+
9680			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9681			+------------------------------------------+
9682
9683			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9684			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9685
9686			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9687			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9688			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9689			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9690			interesting way.
9691			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9692			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9693			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9694			interesting things.
9695			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9696			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9697			things.
9698	root	1.387	%
9699	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9700			--Dennis Ritchie
9701	root	1.387	%
9702	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9703	root	1.387	%
9704	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9705
9706			switch (x)
9707			default:
9708			if (prime(x))
9709			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9710			process_prime(x);
9711			else
9712			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9713			process_composite(x);
9714	root	1.387	%
9715	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9716			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9717			in megabytes, required for execution?
9718
9719			Craig Milo Rogers
9720	root	1.387	%
9721	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9722			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9723			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9724
9725			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9726			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9727
9728			Ilya
9729	root	1.387	%
9730	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9731			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9732
9733			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9734			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9735			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9736
9737			Nat
9738	root	1.387	%
9739	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9740			much steroids for a while. =)
9741
9742			--Albert Dvornik
9743			<bert@genscan.com>
9744	root	1.387	%
9745	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9746			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9747			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9748
9749			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9750
9751			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9752			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9753
9754			--tom
9755	root	1.387	%
9756	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9757
9758			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9759
9760			Linus
9761	root	1.387	%
9762	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9763			devil added HTML mail...
9764	root	1.387	%
9765	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9766			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9767			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9768	root	1.387	%
9769	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9770			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9771
9772			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9773			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9774			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9775
9776			Arm the gnus!
9777	root	1.387	%
9778	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9779
9780			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9781			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9782			gcc, so go away.
9783	root	1.387	%
9784	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9785			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9786
9787			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9788
9789			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9790			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9791	root	1.387	%
9792	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9793			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9794			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9795			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9796
9797			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9798			was released today" madness.
9799	root	1.387	%
9800	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9801			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9802			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9803			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9804			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9805			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9806			>
9807			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9808			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9809			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9810			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9811			> marketing name, anyway.
9812
9813			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9814			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9815			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9816
9817			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9818			violence..." :-)
9819	root	1.387	%
9820	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9821			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9822	root	1.387	%
9823	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9824			> >poor drivers
9825			>
9826			> No it doesn't.
9827
9828			Indeed. Its down to
9829
9830			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9831
9832			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9833			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9834			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9835			or binaries.
9836	root	1.387	%
9837	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9838	root	1.387	%
9839	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9840	root	1.387	%
9841	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9842
9843			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9844			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9845			\|>
9846			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9847
9848			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9849
9850			Andreas.
9851	root	1.387	%
9852	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9853			...
9854			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9855
9856			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9857			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9858			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9859			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9860			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9861			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9862	root	1.387	%
9863	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9864
9865			Paul Eggert writes:
9866			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9867
9868			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9869			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9870	root	1.387	%
9871	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9872			however.
9873
9874			"We don't have the tools"
9875			"We can't support a non intel build"
9876			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9877			"Its not worth the time cost"
9878			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9879	root	1.387	%
9880	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9881
9882			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9883			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9884			>
9885			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9886			> <mailproc@fred>
9887			>
9888			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9889			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9890			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9891			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9892			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9893	root	1.387	%
9894	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9895			> No documented problem
9896			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9897			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9898			>
9899			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9900	root	1.387	%
9901	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9902			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9903	root	1.387	%
9904	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9905			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9906
9907			dave
9908	root	1.387	%
9909	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9910			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9911
9912			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9913	root	1.387	%
9914	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9915
9916			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9917			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9918
9919			Paul Eggert writes:
9920			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9921
9922			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9923			1 month before 29 March?
9924
9925			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9926
9927			1 month before 28 March?
9928
9929			28 February.
9930
9931			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9932			_before_ 27 February?
9933
9934			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9935	root	1.387	%
9936	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9937
9938			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9939			>> So make a security check first:
9940			>>
9941			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9942			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9943			>
9944			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9945			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9946			>
9947			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9948			> = instead of == error*/
9949			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9950			>
9951			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9952			>
9953			>--
9954			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9955
9956			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9957
9958			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9959			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9962			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9963
9964			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9965			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9966			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9967			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9968			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9969			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9970			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9971			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9972
9973			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9974			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9975			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9976			available for that hardware from any source.
9977			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9978			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9979			sniffing!
9980	root	1.387	%
9981	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9982			technical support line that isn't"
9983	root	1.387	%
9984	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9985			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9986	root	1.387	%
9987	root	1.1	[...]
9988			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9989			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9990
9991			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9992			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9993			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9994			"Nothing else"
9995			"Sorry"
9996			[Click]
9997
9998			Alan
9999	root	1.387	%
10000	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10001			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10002	root	1.387	%
10003	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10004			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10005			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10006			> users excepted, of course!).
10007
10008			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10009			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10010			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10011			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10012			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10013			is installed"
10014
10015			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10016	root	1.387	%
10017	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10018
10019			L. Harris wrote:
10020			>
10021			> Testing
10022
10023			you failed.
10024	root	1.387	%
10025	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10026			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10027	root	1.387	%
10028	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10029			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10030			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10031			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10032	root	1.387	%
10033	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10034			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10035			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10036
10037			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10038	root	1.387	%
10039	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10040			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10041			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10042			where else...
10043	root	1.387	%
10044	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10045			[...]
10046			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10047			: about a certain topic.
10048	root	1.387	%
10049	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10050			>
10051			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10052			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10053
10054			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10055			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10056
10057			void main (void)
10058			{
10059			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10060			printf ("\n");
10061			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10062			printf ("You have died.\n");
10063			printf ("\n");
10064			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10065			}
10066
10067			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10068
10069			--
10070			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10071	root	1.387	%
10072	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10073			mistake I ever made]
10074
10075			From: "Tom Miller"
10076			Subject: Can
10077			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10078
10079			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10080			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10081			my name is Tom Miller
10082
10083			From: "Tom Miller"
10084			Subject: Wait
10085			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10086
10087			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10088			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10089	root	1.387	%
10090	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10091
10092			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10093			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10094			so why bother? [...]
10095	root	1.387	%
10096	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10097	root	1.1
10098			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10099
10100			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10101			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10102			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10103			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10104			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10105			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10106			sich dann.
10107	root	1.387	%
10108	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10109			no fs
10110			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10111			Definitely hardware or software error.
10112
10113			Unix Version 7 Manual
10114	root	1.387	%
10115	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10116			>
10117			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10118			>
10119			> =for C
10120			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10121			> =end
10122			> =for C++
10123			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10124			> =end
10125			> =for Java
10126			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10127			> =end
10128			>
10129			> :-)
10130	root	1.387	%
10131	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10132	root	1.387	%
10133	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10134
10135			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10136			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10137			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10138			turn it on.
10139	root	1.387	%
10140	root	1.1	[...]
10141			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10142			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10143			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10144			[...]
10145	root	1.387	%
10146	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10147
10148			Chad C Giffin
10149	root	1.387	%
10150	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10151			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10152			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10153			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10154			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10155			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10156
10157			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10158			through the door.
10159			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10160			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10161			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10162			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10163			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10164			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10165			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10166			usually.)
10167
10168			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10169			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10170			your tire pressure..."
10171			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10172			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10173			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10174			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10175			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10176			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10177			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10178			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10179	root	1.387	%
10180	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10181
10182			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10183	root	1.387	%
10184	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10185
10186			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10187			:-(
10188	root	1.387	%
10189	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10190			>dies alles geschieht.
10191			>Und es verging nicht.
10192
10193			So what?
10194
10195			Ich dachte eher an:
10196
10197			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10198			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10199			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10200			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10201			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10202			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10203			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10204			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10205			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10206			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10207			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10208			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10209
10210			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10211
10212			Antje
10213	root	1.387	%
10214	root	1.1	[....]
10215
10216			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10217			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10218			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10219			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10220			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10221			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10222
10223			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10224
10225			Antje
10226	root	1.387	%
10227	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10228			lalala, I love you baby..."
10229			--
10230			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10231	root	1.387	%
10232	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10233			>
10234			> Kubys
10235
10236			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10237
10238			Linus
10239	root	1.387	%
10240	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10241
10242			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10243			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10244			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10245	root	1.387	%
10246	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10247
10248			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10249			out what it means.
10250			--
10251			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10252	root	1.387	%
10253	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10254			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10255	root	1.387	%
10256	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10257			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10258
10259			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10260
10261			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10262			> is being discussed.
10263
10264			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10265	root	1.387	%
10266	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10267
10268			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10269
10270			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10271
10272			[and the button reads]
10273
10274			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10275	root	1.387	%
10276	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10277
10278			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10279
10280			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10281			certain amount of redundancy.
10282	root	1.387	%
10283	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10284			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10285
10286			...
10287
10288			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10289	root	1.387	%
10290	root	1.1	>Hello,
10291			>
10292			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10293			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10294			>
10295
10296			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10297			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10298			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10299			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10300	root	1.387	%
10301	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10302			on the country as a whole.
10303			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10304			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10305			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10306	root	1.387	%
10307	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10308			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10309	root	1.387	%
10310	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10311	root	1.387	%
10312	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10313			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10314			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10315
10316			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10317
10318			--tom
10319			--
10320			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10321			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10322	root	1.387	%
10323	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10324			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10325	root	1.387	%
10326	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10327
10328			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10329			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10330			> NO CARRIER
10331			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10332	root	1.387	%
10333	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10334			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10335			> better.
10336
10337			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10338			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10339	root	1.387	%
10340	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10341			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10342	root	1.387	%
10343	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10344			\|>
10345			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10346			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10347			\|>
10348			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10349			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10350
10351			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10352			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10353			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10354			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10355			build Bison, and then cook it.
10356
10357			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10358	root	1.387	%
10359	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10360			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10361			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10362			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10363			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10364	root	1.387	%
10365	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10366			-- lbxproxy(1)
10367	root	1.387	%
10368	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10369
10370			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10371
10372			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10373			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10374	root	1.387	%
10375	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10376
10377			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10378	root	1.387	%
10379	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10380			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10381			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10382			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10383			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10384
10385			\|> What does this mean.
10386
10387			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10388			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10389	root	1.387	%
10390	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10391
10392			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10393			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10394
10395			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10396	root	1.387	%
10397	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10398			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10399			streams)."
10400			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10401	root	1.387	%
10402	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10403			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10404	root	1.387	%
10405	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10406
10407			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10408
10409			Klaro.
10410
10411			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10412			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10413			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10414			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10415
10416	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10417	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10418
10419			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10420			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10421			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10422			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10423			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10424			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10425			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10426
10427			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10428			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10429			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10430	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10431			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10432			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10433			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10434	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10435
10436			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10437	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10438			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10439			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10440			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10441			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10442			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10443			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10444	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10445			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10446
10447			cu in hell 2002
10448	root	1.387	%
10449	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10450	root	1.387	%
10451	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10452
10453			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10454			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10455			the man page for crypt(1).
10456
10457			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10458			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10459			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10460
10461			man -s3 crypt
10462
10463			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10464			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10465
10466			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10467			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10468			he can figure out to use the command
10469
10470			man -s3 Intro.3
10471
10472			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10473			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10474
10475			man -s3c crypt
10476
10477			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10478			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10479			any trouble.
10480			--
10481			Michael M Rubenstein
10482	root	1.387	%
10483	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10484
10485			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10486
10487			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10488
10489			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10490
10491			Regards,
10492			Tim Bunce.
10493
10494			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10495			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10496			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10497	root	1.387	%
10498	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10499
10500			...
10501
10502			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10503			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10504			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10505
10506			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10507			its unusable, believe me I do.
10508	root	1.387	%
10509	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10510
10511			Semour Cray
10512	root	1.387	%
10513	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10514
10515			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10516	root	1.387	%
10517	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10518			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10519
10520			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10521			it only supports parts of it
10522	root	1.387	%
10523	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10524			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10525	root	1.387	%
10526	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10527			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10528			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10529			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10530			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10531			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10532			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10533
10534			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10535			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10536			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10537			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10538			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10539			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10540			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10541			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10542			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10543			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10544
10545			tq vm, (burley)
10546	root	1.387	%
10547	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10548			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10549			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10550			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10551			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10552			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10553			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10554	root	1.387	%
10555	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10556			/*
10557			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10558			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10559			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10560			* files won't compile.
10561			*/
10562	root	1.387	%
10563	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10564			> great.
10565
10566			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10567
10568			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10569
10570			This rock is below water half of the time!
10571			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10572			on a regular basis! ;-)
10573	root	1.387	%
10574	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10575			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10576			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10577	root	1.387	%
10578	root	1.1	>
10579			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10580			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10581			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10582
10583			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10584	root	1.387	%
10585	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10586
10587			>Hello!
10588
10589			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10590			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10591			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10592
10593
10594			Perl.
10595
10596			regards
10597			jobst
10598	root	1.387	%
10599	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10600			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10601			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10602
10603			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10604			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10605
10606			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10607			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10608			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10609			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10610			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10611			the absolute pits.
10612	root	1.387	%
10613	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10614	root	1.387	%
10615	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10616			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10617
10618			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10619	root	1.387	%
10620	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10621			ketchup and mustard
10622	root	1.387	%
10623	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10624
10625			vimal gajjar wrote:
10626			>
10627			> Hi there,
10628			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10629			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10630			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10631			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10632			> 5% of cpu
10633			> 2 Mb of RAM
10634			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10635			>
10636			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10637
10638			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10639			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10640			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10641	root	1.387	%
10642	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10643			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10644			>
10645			> >s/usually/never/
10646			>
10647			> s/sometimes/never/
10648
10649			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10650	root	1.387	%
10651	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10652			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10653			:Perl, IMO.
10654
10655			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10656
10657			TC
10658	root	1.387	%
10659	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10660	root	1.387	%
10661	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10662
10663			Hi guys!
10664
10665			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10666	root	1.387	%
10667	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10668
10669			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10670			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10671			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10672			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10673			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10674			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10675	root	1.387	%
10676	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10677			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10678			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10679
10680			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10681			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10682			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10683			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10684
10685			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10686			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10687			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10688			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10689
10690			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10691
10692			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10693
10694			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10695			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10696			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10697
10698			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10699			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10700
10701			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10702			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10703
10704			Did I miss any? ;-)
10705
10706			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10707			Laugh. Please.
10708
10709			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10710			--Scott
10711	root	1.387	%
10712	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10713
10714			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10715			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10716			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10717			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10718	root	1.387	%
10719	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10720			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10721
10722			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10723
10724			This is not mail.
10725
10726			This is Usenet.
10727
10728			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10729	root	1.387	%
10730	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10731			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10732			--- ide1: reset: success
10733			-----------> I like Linux !
10734	root	1.387	%
10735	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10736			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10737
10738			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10739			do.
10740	root	1.387	%
10741	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10742			++ PLONK.
10743	root	1.387	%
10744	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10745			Re: Subraumfunk
10746
10747			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10748			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10749
10750			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10751			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10752			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10753			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10754			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10755	root	1.387	%
10756	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10757			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10758			>
10759			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10760
10761			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10762	root	1.387	%
10763	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10764			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10765	root	1.387	%
10766	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10767			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10768
10769			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10770			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10771
10772			Bill Jones
10773	root	1.387	%
10774	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10775
10776			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10777			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10778			#include <windows.h>
10779			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10780			#endif
10781	root	1.387	%
10782	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10783
10784			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10785			is, invoking the URL
10786
10787			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10788
10789			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10790	root	1.387	%
10791	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10792			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10793			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10794			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10795			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10796			"I am using CGI!"
10797
10798			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10799	root	1.387	%
10800	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10801			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10802			>
10803	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10804	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10805
10806			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10807	root	1.387	%
10808	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10809			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10810	root	1.387	%
10811	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10812			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10813			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10814			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10815	root	1.387	%
10816	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10817
10818			pcg@goof.com said:
10819			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10820
10821			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10822
10823			"It's broken."
10824			"What's wrong with it?."
10825			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10826			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10827			"It just doesn't work."
10828			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10829			"It gives an error message."
10830			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10831			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10832			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10833			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10834			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10835			letter for letter this time."
10836	root	1.387	%
10837	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10838
10839			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10840			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10841			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10842
10843			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10844			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10845			perms.
10846
10847			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10848	root	1.387	%
10849	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10850			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10851
10852			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10853
10854			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10855			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10856			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10857
10858			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10859			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10860	root	1.387	%
10861	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10862			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10863	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10864
10865			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10866			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10867			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10868			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10869			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10870			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10871			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10872			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10873			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10874			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10875			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10876
10877			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10878
10879			normarz@aol.com
10880	root	1.387	%
10881	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10882	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10883	root	1.1	>Legion
10884			>schlagen?
10885
10886			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10887
10888			Bye
10889			Andreas
10890	root	1.387	%
10891	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10892
10893			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10894			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10895
10896			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10897			companies.
10898
10899			Kind regards
10900			Henning
10901	root	1.387	%
10902	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10903			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10904			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10905
10906			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10907			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10908			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10909
10910			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10911			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10912			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10913			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10914			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10915			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10916			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10917			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10918			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10919			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10920	root	1.387	%
10921	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10922			We might support that sometime next year.
10923			-=- Microsoft
10924			(But I doubt it.)
10925			-=- Me
10926			-=- James Mastros
10927	root	1.387	%
10928	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10929			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10930			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10931			>lines.
10932
10933			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10934			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10935	root	1.387	%
10936	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10937	root	1.387	%
10938	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10939			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10940			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10941			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10942	root	1.387	%
10943	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10944
10945			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10946			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10947			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10948			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10949			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10950			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10951			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10952			it's not all his fault.
10953
10954			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10955			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10956			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10957			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10958			content.
10959
10960			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10961			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10962			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10963			learn (or pay for it;)
10964
10965			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10966			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10967			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10968			just for fun or to get the op.
10969
10970			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10971			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10972			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10973			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10974
10975			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10976
10977			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10978			course, Linux and Linux people.
10979	root	1.387	%
10980	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10981			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10982
10983			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10984			--
10985			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10986	root	1.387	%
10987	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10988
10989			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10990			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10991			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10992
10993			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10994			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10995			tradition.
10996	root	1.387	%
10997	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10998			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10999	root	1.387	%
11000	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11001			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11002	root	1.387	%
11003	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11004			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11005			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11006			Or GIRLS for short.
11007	root	1.387	%
11008	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11009	root	1.387	%
11010	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11011			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11012			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11013			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11014			5_004_03 to build!"
11015
11016			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11017			have no patience."
11018
11019			xoxo,
11020			Andy
11021	root	1.387	%
11022	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11023			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11024			We all have our cross to bear.
11025	root	1.387	%
11026	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11027
11028			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11029			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11030			Subject: Re: system() question
11031
11032			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11033			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11034			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11035			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11036			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11037			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11038			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11039			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11040			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11041			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11042			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11043			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11044			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11045			humiliating for me!)
11046
11047			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11048			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11049			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11050			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11051			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11052			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11053			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11054			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11055			really knows the answer.
11056
11057			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11058			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11059			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11060			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11061
11062			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11063			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11064			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11065			for that.
11066
11067			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11068			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11069			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11070			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11071			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11072			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11073			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11074
11075			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11076
11077			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11078			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11079			something for free.''
11080
11081			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11082
11083			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11084			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11085
11086			(Good question.)
11087
11088			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11089			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11090			once I have run it.''
11091			(Good question.)
11092
11093			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11094
11095			(Good question.)
11096
11097			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11098			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11099			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11100			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11101			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11102
11103			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11104			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11105			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11106			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11107			comp.lang.perl?
11108			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11109			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11110			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11111			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11112			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11113			in comp.lang.perl?
11114
11115			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11116			you my rate card.
11117
11118			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11119			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11120			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11121			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11122			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11123			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11124			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11125			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11126			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11127			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11128
11129			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11130			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11131			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11132			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11133			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11134			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11135			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11136			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11137			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11138			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11139			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11140			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11141			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11142			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11143			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11144			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11145
11146			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11147			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11148			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11149			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11150			someone will. Maybe I will.
11151
11152			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11153			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11154			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11155			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11156			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11157			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11158			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11159			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11160
11161			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11162			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11163			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11164			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11165			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11166			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11167			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11168			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11169			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11170			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11171			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11172			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11173			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11174			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11175
11176			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11177			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11178			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11179			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11180
11181			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11182
11183			`I want to accomplish X.
11184
11185			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11186
11187			...
11188
11189			But instead it does Y.
11190
11191			Why is that?''
11192
11193			This one is also pretty good:
11194
11195			`I want to accomplish X.
11196			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11197
11198			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11199			because of Z.
11200
11201			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11202
11203			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11204			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11205
11206
11207			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11208			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11209
11210			--
11211			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11212			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11213	root	1.387	%
11214	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11215			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11216
11217			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11218			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11219			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11220
11221			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11222
11223			bye, Georg
11224	root	1.387	%
11225	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11226			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11227			convince me.
11228
11229			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11230
11231			Linus
11232	root	1.387	%
11233	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11234			++
11235
11236			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11237			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11238
11239	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11240	root	1.1
11241			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11242			understanding the above line.
11243
11244			Abigail
11245	root	1.387	%
11246	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11247			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11248	root	1.387	%
11249	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11250			++ button?
11251			Yes.
11252
11253			++ 100 pictures or so?
11254			Yes.
11255
11256			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11257			Yes.
11258
11259			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11260			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11261
11262			Abigail
11263	root	1.387	%
11264	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11265
11266			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11267
11268			Martien
11269	root	1.387	%
11270	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11271			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11272			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11273			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11274	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11275	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11276			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11277			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11278			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11279	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11280	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11281			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11282	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11283			nicht. ;)
11284
11285	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11286			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11287			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11288	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11289			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11290	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11291	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11292
11293	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11294			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11295	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11296	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11297	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11298
11299	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11300	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11301	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11302			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11303	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11304	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11305	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11306			"unvorstellbar".
11307
11308			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11309	root	1.387	%
11310	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11311			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11312			^^^
11313			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11314	root	1.387	%
11315	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11316			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11317	root	1.387	%
11318	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11319			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11320	root	1.387	%
11321	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11322			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11323			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11324
11325			An artificial pile of rocks.
11326	root	1.387	%
11327	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11328			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11329			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11330			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11331			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11332			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11333
11334			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11335			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11336			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11337			grosser Flipperautomat.
11338
11339			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11340	root	1.387	%
11341	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11342			>
11343			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11344			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11345			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11346			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11347			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11348	root	1.387	%
11349	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11350			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11351	root	1.1
11352			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11353	root	1.387	%
11354	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11355
11356			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11357
11358			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11359			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11360			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11361			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11362			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11363			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11364			Unix environment.
11365	root	1.387	%
11366	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11367			between these:
11368
11369			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11370			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11371
11372			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11373			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11374			;#", and the print gets executed!
11375
11376			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11377			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11378			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11379			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11380
11381			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11382			'perl'".
11383
11384			--
11385			Randal L. Schwartz
11386	root	1.387	%
11387	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11388
11389			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11390			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11391			>
11392			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11393
11394			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11395
11396			--
11397			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11398	root	1.387	%
11399	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11400	root	1.387	%
11401	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11402			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11403	root	1.387	%
11404	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11405			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11406	root	1.387	%
11407	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11408			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11409			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11410			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11411			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11412			example.
11413	root	1.387	%
11414	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11415			resemble a nail.
11416	root	1.387	%
11417	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11418			> I did wrong.
11419
11420			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11421			newsgroup.
11422	root	1.387	%
11423	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11424	root	1.387	%
11425	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11426			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11427	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11428
11429			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11430	root	1.387	%
11431	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11432	root	1.1
11433	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11434	root	1.387	%
11435	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11436			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11437			expired instantly!!!
11438	root	1.387	%
11439	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11440			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11441
11442			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11443			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11444			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11445
11446			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11447			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11448			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11449			than double Linus's programming experience?
11450
11451			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11452			> pretty straight forward.
11453
11454			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11455			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11456	root	1.387	%
11457	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11458			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11459			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11460			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11461			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11462			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11463	root	1.387	%
11464	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11465	root	1.387	%
11466	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11467			Example:
11468			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11469	root	1.387	%
11470	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11471			Randal gets his hands on it
11472	root	1.387	%
11473	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11474	root	1.387	%
11475	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11476
11477			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11478			first if you get it working.
11479	root	1.387	%
11480	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11481			> Think different.
11482
11483			Think Again.
11484	root	1.387	%
11485	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11486	root	1.387	%
11487	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11488			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11489			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11490
11491			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11492	root	1.387	%
11493	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11494			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11495	root	1.387	%
11496	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11497			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11498			\| top.
11499	root	1.387	%
11500	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11501			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11502	root	1.387	%
11503	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11504			^^^^^^^^^
11505			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11506
11507			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11508	root	1.387	%
11509	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11510			>gehen soll?
11511
11512	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11513	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11514			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11515	root	1.387	%
11516	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11517	root	1.387	%
11518	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11519			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11520	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11521			>
11522			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11523
11524			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11525			Schuh aus!
11526	root	1.387	%
11527	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11528
11529	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11530	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11531	root	1.387	%
11532	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11533
11534
11535			First opportunity
11536			Approximate
11537			Orbit Internet
11538			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11539
11540			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11541			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11542			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11543			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11544
11545			Second opportunity
11546			Approximate
11547			Orbit Internet
11548			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11549
11550			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11551			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11552			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11553			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11554
11555			Third opportunity
11556			Approximate
11557			Orbit Internet
11558			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11559
11560			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11561			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11562			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11563			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11564
11565	root	1.387	%
11566	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11567	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11568			> >würden.
11569	root	1.1	>
11570			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11571			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11572			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11573			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11574			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11575			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11576			implizierst.
11577	root	1.387	%
11578	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11579			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11580	root	1.387	%
11581	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11582			Big improvement.
11583	root	1.387	%
11584	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11585			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11586			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11587			-- "Why that one?"
11588			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11589			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11590	root	1.387	%
11591	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11592			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11593			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11594	root	1.387	%
11595	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11596			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11597			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11598
11599			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11600
11601			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11602			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11603			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11604
11605			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11606
11607			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11608			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11609			> er eigentlich ist?
11610
11611	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11612	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11613	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11614	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11615	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11616	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11617	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11618	root	1.1	Ciao
11619			Stefan
11620	root	1.387	%
11621	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11622			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11623			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11624			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11625	root	1.387	%
11626	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11627			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11628			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11629			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11630			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11631			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11632			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11633			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11634			off.
11635	root	1.387	%
11636	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11637			Meet interesting people,
11638			Kill them.
11639	root	1.387	%
11640	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11641			> umwandelbar ist.
11642
11643			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11644	root	1.387	%
11645	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11646	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11647	root	1.387	%
11648	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11649			>
11650			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11651			> >> ruckartig.
11652			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11653			>
11654	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11655	root	1.1
11656			:-)
11657	root	1.387	%
11658	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11659	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11660			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11661	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11662			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11663			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11664			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11665
11666			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11667			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11668	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11669			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11670	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11671	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11672			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11673			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11674	root	1.1	Union.
11675
11676	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11677			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11678	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11679	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11680			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11681			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11682	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11683	root	1.387	%
11684	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11685			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11686	root	1.387	%
11687	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11688	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11689	root	1.1	>>
11690			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11691	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11692			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11693	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11694			>
11695			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11696			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11697	root	1.387	%
11698	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11699	root	1.387	%
11700	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11701			> into a random order???
11702			>
11703
11704			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11705			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11706
11707			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11708			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11709			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11710			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11711			number less than 42.
11712	root	1.387	%
11713	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11714			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11715			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11716			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11717			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11718			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11719			eventually invent Unix.
11720	root	1.387	%
11721	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11722			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11723			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11724			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11725			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11726			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11727			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11728			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11729			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11730			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11731			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11732			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11733			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11734			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11735			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11736			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11737	root	1.387	%
11738	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11739			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11740			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11741	root	1.387	%
11742	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11743			using a Perl CGI script?
11744	root	1.387	%
11745	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11746
11747			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11748			week.
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11751			Brieweb> of PERL.
11752			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11753			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11754			[Randal Schwartz]
11755	root	1.387	%
11756	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11757			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11758			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11759			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11760	root	1.387	%
11761	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11762			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11763			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11764			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11765			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11766			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11767			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11768			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11769			system and restricting their options.
11770			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11771	root	1.387	%
11772	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11773			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11774			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11775	root	1.387	%
11776	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11777			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11778			Ernie Hai
11779			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11780	root	1.387	%
11781	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11782			: results" report from the users.
11783
11784			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11785			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11786			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11787			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11788	root	1.387	%
11789	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11790			They are all owned by cats.
11791	root	1.387	%
11792	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11793			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11794			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11795	root	1.387	%
11796	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11797			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11798
11799			Yesterday it worked
11800			Today it is not working
11801			Windows is like that
11802			- - -
11803			wind catches lily
11804			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11805			segmentation fault
11806			- - -
11807			Three things are certain:
11808			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11809			Guess which has occurred.
11810			- - -
11811			A file that big?
11812			It might be very useful.
11813			But now it is gone.
11814			- - -
11815			Windows NT crashed.
11816			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11817			No one hears your screams.
11818			- - -
11819			Errors have occurred.
11820			We won't tell you where or why.
11821			Lazy programmers.
11822			- - -
11823			Seeing my great fault
11824			Through darkening blue windows
11825			I begin again
11826			- - -
11827			The code was willing,
11828			It considered your request,
11829			But the chips were weak.
11830			- - -
11831			Printer not ready.
11832			Could be a fatal error.
11833			Have a pen handy?
11834			- - -
11835			Server's poor response
11836			Not quick enough for browser.
11837			Timed out, plum blossom.
11838			- - -
11839			Chaos reigns within.
11840			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11841			Order shall return.
11842			- - -
11843			Login incorrect.
11844			Only perfect spellers may
11845			enter this system.
11846			- - -
11847			This site has been moved.
11848			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11849			have to delete you.
11850			- - -
11851			ABORTED effort:
11852			Close all that you have.
11853			You ask way too much.
11854			- - -
11855			First snow, then silence.
11856			This thousand dollar screen dies
11857			so beautifully.
11858			- - -
11859			With searching comes loss
11860			and the presence of absence:
11861			"My Novel" not found.
11862			- - -
11863			The Tao that is seen
11864			Is not the true Tao, until
11865			You bring fresh toner.
11866			- - -
11867			The Web site you seek
11868			cannot be located but
11869			endless others exist
11870			- - -
11871			Stay the patient course
11872			Of little worth is your ire
11873			The network is down
11874			- - -
11875			A crash reduces
11876			your expensive computer
11877			to a simple stone.
11878			- - -
11879			There is a chasm
11880			of carbon and silicon
11881			the software can't bridge
11882			- - -
11883			To have no errors
11884			Would be life without meaning
11885			No struggle, no joy
11886			- - -
11887			You step in the stream,
11888			but the water has moved on.
11889			This page is not here.
11890			- - -
11891			No keyboard present
11892			Hit F1 to continue
11893			Zen engineering?
11894			- - -
11895			Hal, open the file
11896			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11897			open it, please Hal
11898			- - -
11899			Out of memory.
11900			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11901			But we never will.
11902			- - -
11903			Having been erased,
11904			The document you're seeking
11905			Must now be retyped.
11906			- - -
11907			The ten thousand things
11908			How long do any persist?
11909			Netscape, too, has gone.
11910			- - -
11911			Rather than a beep
11912			Or a rude error message,
11913			These words: "File not found."
11914			- - -
11915			Serious error.
11916			All shortcuts have disappeared
11917			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11918	root	1.387	%
11919	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11920			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11921	root	1.387	%
11922	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11923			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11924
11925			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11926			early 1980s.
11927	root	1.387	%
11928	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11929			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11930			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11931			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11932
11933			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11934			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11935			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11936			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11937			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11938			many new features that it just stops working.
11939
11940			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11941
11942			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11943			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11944
11945			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11946			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11947			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11948
11949			Hope this explains what's going on
11950			Martien Verbruggen
11951	root	1.387	%
11952	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11953	root	1.387	%
11954	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11955	root	1.387	%
11956	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11957	root	1.387	%
11958	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11959			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11960			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11961	root	1.387	%
11962	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11963			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11964			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11965			>
11966			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11967
11968			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11969			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11970	root	1.387	%
11971	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11972			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11973			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11974			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11975	root	1.387	%
11976	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11977			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11978			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11979			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11980			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11981			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11982			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11983			convienience store.")
11984	root	1.387	%
11985	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11986			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11987	root	1.387	%
11988	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11989	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11990	root	1.1
11991			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11992			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11993	root	1.387	%
11994	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11995			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11996			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11997			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11998	root	1.387	%
11999	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12000			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12001			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12002	root	1.387	%
12003	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12004			(A => B) => (B => A)
12005			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12006			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12007	root	1.387	%
12008	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12009	root	1.387	%
12010	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12011			-Barry Shein
12012	root	1.387	%
12013	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12014			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12015			read the manual.
12016	root	1.387	%
12017	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12018	root	1.387	%
12019	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12020			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12021			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12022			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12023			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12024			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12025			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12026			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12027			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12028	root	1.387	%
12029	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12030	root	1.387	%
12031	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12032			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12033			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12034	root	1.387	%
12035	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12036
12037			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12038			need.
12039	root	1.387	%
12040	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12041			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12042			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12043	root	1.387	%
12044	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12045			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12046			newsreaders. You know,
12047			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12048			back
12049			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12050			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12051			out what they're saying.
12052	root	1.387	%
12053	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12054			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12055	root	1.387	%
12056	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12057			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12058			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12059
12060			But the combination.... sutters
12061	root	1.387	%
12062	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12063			Darn it.
12064	root	1.387	%
12065	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12066	root	1.387	%
12067	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12068	root	1.387	%
12069	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12070			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12071			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12072			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12073			trying to use it.
12074	root	1.387	%
12075	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12076	root	1.387	%
12077	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12078			>
12079			> Is this group active?
12080			No.
12081
12082			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12083			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12084
12085			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12086			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12087	root	1.387	%
12088	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12089			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12090	root	1.387	%
12091	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12092			Press any key to continue..."
12093	root	1.387	%
12094	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12095			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12096			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12097	root	1.387	%
12098	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12099			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12100			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12101			adjust your travel plans.
12102	root	1.387	%
12103	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12104			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12105	root	1.387	%
12106	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12107			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12108
12109			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12110			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12111
12112			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12113
12114			tak 18 12 6
12115	root	1.387	%
12116	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12117			-- Bill Gates
12118			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12119			-- Bill Gates
12120			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12121			-- logical conclusion
12122	root	1.387	%
12123	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12124			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12125			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12126			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12127			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12128			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12129			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12130			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12131			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12132			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12133			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12134			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12135			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12136			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12137			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12138			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12139			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12140			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12141			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12142			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12143			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12144	root	1.387	%
12145	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12146			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12147			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12148			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12149	root	1.387	%
12150	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.