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1	root	1.467	You know what they say though, if the punishment for a crime is a fee
2			then it’s only a crime for the poor.
3			%
4	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
5
6			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
7			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
8			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
9			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
10			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
11			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
12			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
13			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
14			time. There is no other significance to these files.
15			%
16	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
17			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
18			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
19			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
20			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
21			- John Rogers
22			%
23	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
24			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
25			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
26			become witches.
27
28			– Bret Weinstein
29			%
30	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
31			- Rumsfeld 2003
32			%
33	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
34
35			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
36
37			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
38
39			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
40
41			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
42
43			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
44			%
45	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
46			- a rust tutorial
47			%
48	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
49			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
50			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
51
52			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
53			%
54			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
55			that has been problematic for a long time.
56
57			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
58			%
59	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
60			GPL Protected it
61			GOD Blessed it
62
63			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
64			%
65	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
66			kinship term she'd ever heard.
67
68			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
69			%
70			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
71			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
72			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
73
74			I don't agree.
75
76			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
77			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
78			> is not as clear as it could be.
79
80			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
81			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
82			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
83			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
84			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
85
86			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
87			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
88			%
89			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
90
91			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
92			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
93			other conventions exist for a very long time.
94
95			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
96			%
97			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
98
99			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
100			%
101	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
102			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
103			and government agency portal.
104
105			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
106			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
107
108			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
109			%
110			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
111
112			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
113			%
114			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
115			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
116			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
117
118			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
119			%
120			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
121			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
122			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
123			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
124			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
125			%
126	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
127			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
128			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
129			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
130			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
131			penalty. This makes really a difference.
132
133			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
134			%
135			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
136			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
137
138			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
139			%
140	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
141
142			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
143			%
144	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
145
146			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
147			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
148
149			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
150			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
151			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
152
153			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
154			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
155
156			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
157			%
158	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
159
160			Vim 15.2%
161			Emacs 3.8%
162
163			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
164
165			Vim 26.1%
166			Emacs 5.2%
167			%
168	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
169
170			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
171
172			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
173
174			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?"
175
176			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
177
178			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
179
180			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
181
182			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
183
184			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
185
186			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."
187
188			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
189
190			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
191			%
192			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
193
194			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
195			>>> their own servers.
196			>>
197			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
198			>
199			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
200
201			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
202			%
203	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
204
205			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
206			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
207			%
208	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
209			================================
210
211	root	1.449	November 2002
212
213			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
214			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
215			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
216
217			---
218
219			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
220			dehydration and fatigue.
221
222			---
223
224			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
225			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
226
227			---
228
229			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
230
231			November 19 2200 hrs
232			guard check - Rahman is alive.
233
234			2300 hrs
235			guard check - Rahman is alive.
236
237			November 20 0400 hrs
238			guard check - Rahman is alive.
239
240			0800 hrs
241			guard check - Rahman is alive.
242
243			1000 hrs
244			guard check - Rahman is dead.
245
246			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
247			%
248	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
249			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
250			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
251			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
252			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
253			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
254			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
255			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
256			be a better place.
257
258			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
259			%
260	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
261			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
262			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
263			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
264			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
265			> in technology.
266
267			-P
268			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
269
270			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
271			%
272			> Simon Cooke wrote:
273			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
274
275			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
276
277			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
278			%
279	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
280			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
281			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
282			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
283			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
284
285			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
286			%
287	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
288			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
289			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
290			hashtag #sexualassault.
291
292			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
293			%
294	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
295
296			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
297			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
298
299			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
300			%
301			> How is the old way a problem?
302
303			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
304			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
305			it's smarter than you.
306
307			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
308			%
309	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
310			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
311			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
312			less lethal.
313
314			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
315			%
316	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
317
318			[...]
319
320			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
321
322			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
323			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
324			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
325			%
326	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
327			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
328			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
329			"also now legal names for the UK.
330
331			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
332			%
333			From: Russ Allbery
334			To: tz@iana.org
335			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
336
337			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
338			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
339			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
340			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
341			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
342			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
343			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
344
345			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
346			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
347
348			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
349			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
350			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
351			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
352			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
353
354			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
355			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
356			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
357			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
358			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
359			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
360			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
361			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
362			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
363
364			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
365			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
366			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
367			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
368			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
369			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
370			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
371			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
372			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
373			maintainer.
374			%
375	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
376
377			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
378			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
379			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
380			"BST", but no:
381			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
382			%
383			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
384			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
385
386			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
387			> When can we expect the updated version
388
389			About three weeks ago.
390			%
391	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
392			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
393			%
394			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
395
396			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
397			%
398	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
399			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
400			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
401
402			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
403			%
404			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
405
406			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
407
408			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
409			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
410
411			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
412			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
413			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
414
415			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
416			full day per year.
417			%
418	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
419			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
420			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
421			%
422			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
423			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
424			%
425			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
426			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
427			me - lately?".
428			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
429			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
430
431			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
432			%
433			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
434			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
435			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
436			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
437
438			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
439			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
440			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
441			your lives be a living hell.
442
443			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
444			%
445	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
446			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
447			%
448			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
449			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
450			out with a problem I'm having?
451
452			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
453
454			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
455
456			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
457			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
458			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
459			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
460
461			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
462
463			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
464
465			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
466
467			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
468			[http://c2.com/]
469			%
470			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
471			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
472			right-parenthesis.
473			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
474			%
475			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
476			yourself?
477			Software development is the career for you!
478
479			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
480			%
481	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
482			-- Richard Dawkins
483			%
484			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
485			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
486			and security.
487
488			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
489			%
490			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
491
492			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
493			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
494			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
495			%
496			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
497			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
498			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
499			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
500			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
501			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
502
503			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
504			%
505			tiny hsv2rgb
506			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;}
507
508			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
509			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
510			}
511			%
512			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
513			Only Java makes it possible!
514
515			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
516			%
517			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
518			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
519			extremely poettering''
520			%
521			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
522			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
523			%
524			"I drank what?!"
525			-- Socrates
526			%
527			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
528			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
529			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
530
531			Jon Callas in
532			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
533			%
534			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
535			-- Conway's Law
536			%
537			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
538			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
539			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
540			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
541			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
542			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
543			untangling this mess right now so).
544
545			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
546			%
547			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
548			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
549			enabled on platforms that support it.
550			[xorg.conf(5)]
551			%
552			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
553			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
554			> would work on code.
555
556			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
557			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
558			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
559			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
560			%
561	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
562			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
563			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
564			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
565			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
566			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
567			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
568			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
569			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
570			%
571			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
572			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
573			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
574			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
575			very beginning.
576			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
577			%
578			systemd creates user session information in
579			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
580			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
581			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
582			allowed one session per user.
583			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
584			%
585	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
586			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
587			> about anything else.
588			>
589			> Why is it like that?
590
591			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
592
593			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
594			%
595			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
596
597			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
598			>>
599			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
600			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
601			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
602			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
603			>
604			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
605
606			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
607			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
608			%
609			(partial) Beaufort Table
610			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
611			Calm 0 0 0
612			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
613			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
614			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
615			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
616			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
617			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
618			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
619			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
620			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
621			%
622			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
623			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
624			%
625			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
626			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
627			%
628			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
629			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
630			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
631			on the cards.
632			%
633			[random comment from amule sources]
634			// trust noone ;-)
635			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
636			// wtf you guys are weird.
637			%
638	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
639			- Kin Hubbard
640			%
641			[random .sig]
642			I'm a muslim.
643
644			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
645			%
646			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
647			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
648			before.
649
650			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
651			%
652			<imho>
653
654			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
655			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
656			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
657			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
658
659			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
660			Java - public static void not fun.
661			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
662			C - usually not fun.
663
664			What about modern scripting languages?
665
666			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
667			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
668			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
669
670			</imho>
671
672			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
673			%
674			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
675			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
676			%
677
678			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
679			*
680			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
681
682			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
683			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
684			%
685			# The user is always right.
686			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
687			[autoconf]
688			%
689			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
690
691			/*
692			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
693			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
694			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
695			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
696			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
697			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
698			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
699			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
700			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
701			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
702			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
703			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
704			*/
705			%
706			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
707			was new to me:
708
709			switch(c)
710			{
711			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
712			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
713			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
714			case 'd': base=-10; }
715			switch(type)
716			{
717			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
718			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
719			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
720			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
721			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
722			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
723			default:val=0; break;
724			}
725			cp = __numout(val,base);
726			if(0) {
727			case 's':
728			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
729			}
730			%
731			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
732			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
733			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
734			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
735			extra second and see how far you get :-)
736			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
737			%
738			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
739			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
740			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
741			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
742			>
743			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
744			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
745
746			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
747			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
748
749			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
750			%
751			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
752			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
753			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
754
755			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
756
757			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
758			%
759			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
760			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
761			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
762			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
763			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
764			settings)
765
766			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
767			%
768			How do I deal with memory leaks?
769
770			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
771
772			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
773			%
774			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
775			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
776
777			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
778			%
779			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
780			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
781			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
782			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
783
784			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
785			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
786			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
787			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
788			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
789			rewarded for their creativity.
790
791			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
792			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
793			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
794			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
795			would never have made it in the first place.
796
797			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
798			%
799			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
800			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
801			%
802			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
803			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
804			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
805			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
806			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
807
808			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
809			%
810			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
811			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
812			- Mohandas Gandhi
813			%
814			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
815			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
816			handiwork of the Lord."
817			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
818			%
819			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
820
821			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
822			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
823			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
824
825			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
826			Scientist A publishes results.
827
828			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
829			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
830			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
831
832			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
833			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
834			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
835			A: ...
836			B: You fraud!
837
838			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
839
840			A publishes results.
841
842			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
843			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
844			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
845			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
846			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
847			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
848
849			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
850			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
851			%
852			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
853			them because they need the money to operate]
854
855			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
856			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
857			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
858			site or its bottom line."
859			%
860			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
861			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
862			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
863			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
864			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
865			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
866			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
867			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
868			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
869			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
870			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
871			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
872			%
873			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
874
875			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
876
877			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
878			%
879			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
880
881			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
882			>>>> and the beating of children?
883			>>>
884			>>> Subjugation of women...
885			>>
886			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
887			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
888			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
889			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
890			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
891			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
892			>> shake partner.
893			>
894			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
895			>
896			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
897			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
898			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
899			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
900			>
901
902			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
903			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
904			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
905			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
906			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
907			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
908			and your wife.
909			%
910			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
911			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
912			still kill you. - arestheblue
913			%
914			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
915			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
916			specifications for GSS-API.
917
918			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
919			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
920
921			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
922			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
923
924			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
925			%
926			[from the minix 3 users guide]
927
928			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
929			%
930			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
931
932			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
933			[...]
934			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
935			complaintant to guess this is true.
936			%
937			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
938			- Ken Thompson.
939			%
940			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
941
942			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
943
944			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
945			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
946			source code excerpt:
947
948			int sn()
949			{
950			char pwr;
951
952			int input1 = 0;
953			double output1 = 0;
954
955			system("clear");
956			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
957			cin>>input1;
958			output1 = (sin(input1));
959			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
960			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
961			cin>>pwr;
962			if(pwr == 'a')
963			sq();
964			if(pwr == 'm')
965			system("pause");
966
967			}
968			%
969			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
970			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
971
972			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
973
974			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
975			%
976			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
977			app for me" department:
978
979			From: Evan LeCompte
980
981			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
982			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
983			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
984			%
985			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
986			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
987			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
988
989			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
990			%
991			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
992			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
993			– Steve Jobs[47]
994
995			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
996			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
997			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
998			%
999			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
1000			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
1001			%
1002			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1003			From: Patrick Horgan
1004			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1005			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1006
1007			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1008			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1009			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1010			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1011			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1012			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1013
1014			[...]
1015			%
1016	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1017			— Peter Abelard
1018			%
1019			A man said to the universe:
1020			"Sir I exist!"
1021			"However," replied the universe,
1022			"The fact has not created in me
1023	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1024			- Steven Crane
1025	root	1.431	%
1026			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1027
1028			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1029
1030			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1031
1032			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1033
1034			– Sanskrit Saying
1035			%
1036			[anonymised discussion]
1037			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1038			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1039			%
1040			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1041
1042	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1043	root	1.431
1044			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1045			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1046			appear.
1047			%
1048			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1049			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1050			- Douglas Adams
1051			%
1052			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1053			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1054			%
1055	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1056			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1057	root	1.431	%
1058			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1059			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1060			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1061			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1062			%
1063			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1064			%
1065			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1066			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1067			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1068			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1069			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1070			%
1071			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1072			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1073			or her career.
1074			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1075			%
1076			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1077			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1078			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1079			%
1080			I LOVE YOU
1081			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1082			%
1083			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1084			the air impeller.
1085
1086			Alan Cox
1087			%
1088			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1089			with a minimum computer science background."
1090			%
1091			From: Eric Sosman
1092			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1093			Subject: Re: about graphics
1094
1095			prince wrote:
1096			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1097
1098			#include <stdio.h>
1099			int main(void) {
1100			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1101			return 0;
1102			}
1103			%
1104			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1105			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1106			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1107			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1108			%
1109			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1110
1111			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
1112			it still is a constant-time attack.
1113			%
1114			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1115			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1116			%
1117			From: David Damerell
1118
1119			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1120			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1121			>caps to make it different.
1122
1123			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1124			painful but will take less typing.
1125			%
1126			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1127			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1128			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1129
1130			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1131			%
1132			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1133
1134			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1135			> free than the BSD.
1136			>
1137			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1138
1139			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1140			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1141			%
1142			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1143
1144			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 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			from incompatible pointer type
1147			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1148			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1149			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1150			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1151			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1152			%
1153			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1154			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1155			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1156			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1157			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1158			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1159
1160			[Chandon Seldon]
1161			%
1162			[Wikipedia]
1163			Differences between vi and Emacs
1164
1165			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1166			%
1167			[lost the reference]
1168			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1169			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1170			%
1171			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1172			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1173			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1174			%
1175			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1176
1177			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1178			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1179			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1180			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1181			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1182
1183			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1184			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1185			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1186			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1187			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1188			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1189			piss on your leg.
1190
1191			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1192			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1193			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1194
1195			[then, a day later]
1196
1197			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1198			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1199			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1200			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1201			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1202
1203			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1204			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1205			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1206			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1207			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1208			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1209			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1210			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1211			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1212
1213
1214			-----Original Message-----
1215			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1216			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1217			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1218			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1219
1220
1221
1222			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1223	root	1.432	>
1224	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1225
1226			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1227
1228			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1229			I hope you don't object :)
1230			%
1231			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1232			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1233
1234			You made my day
1235			%
1236			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1237
1238			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1239			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1240			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1241
1242			Linus
1243			%
1244			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1245
1246			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1247
1248			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 ...
1249
1250			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1251
1252			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1253			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1254			when sending emails to other people:
1255			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1256
1257			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1258
1259			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1260			%
1261			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1262			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1263			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1264			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1265			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1266			%
1267			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1268			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1269
1270			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1271			%
1272			[on italy]
1273
1274			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1275
1276			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1277			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1278			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1279			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1280
1281			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1282			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1283			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1284			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1285			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1286			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1287
1288			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1289
1290			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1291			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1292			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1293			from fascism period.
1294
1295			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1296			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1297			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1298			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1299			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1300			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1301			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1302			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1303			SIAE.
1304
1305			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1306			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1307			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1308			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1309			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1310			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1311			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1312			electronic ones
1313
1314			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1315
1316			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1317			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1318			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1319			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1320			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1321			western country.
1322
1323			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1324			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1325			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1326			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1327			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1328			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1329			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1330			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1331			also the governments of "center-left".
1332
1333			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1334
1335			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1336			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1337			without any restriction.
1338
1339			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1340			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1341			world.
1342
1343			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1344			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1345			Thank you for reading.
1346			%
1347			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1348			>
1349			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1350
1351			How very ironic.
1352			%
1353			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1354			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1355			takes religion."
1356
1357			--Steve Weinberg
1358			%
1359			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1360			%
1361			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1362			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1363			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1364
1365			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1366			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1367			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1368			%
1369			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1370			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1371			the right tool for me.
1372			%
1373			[deliantra]
1374			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1375			%
1376			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1377			%
1378			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1379			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1380			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1381			%
1382			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1383
1384			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1385			%
1386			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1387			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1388
1389			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1390			actually tells you it's American.
1391			%
1392			[better do not hire this programmer]
1393			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1394			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1395			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1396
1397			Hi
1398
1399			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1400			someone here can advise me.
1401
1402			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1403			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1404			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1405			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1406			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1407
1408			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1409			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1410			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1411			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1412			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1413			corresponding thing in C?
1414
1415			Thanks!
1416			%
1417			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1418
1419			// See bug 53763.
1420			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1421			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1422			if (shell) {
1423			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1424			%
1425			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1426			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1427
1428			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1429			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1430			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1431			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1432			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1433			%
1434			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1435			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1436			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1437			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1438	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1439	root	1.431
1440			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1441			%
1442			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1443
1444	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1445	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1446
1447			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1448
1449			x / y * z
1450
1451			and
1452
1453			x / y * z
1454
1455			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1456
1457			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1458			design decisions.)
1459			%
1460			endergt:
1461			> snoofle:
1462			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1463			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1464			> > you understand what you are doing...
1465			>
1466	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1467	root	1.431
1468	root	1.432	debug
1469	root	1.431	%
1470			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%.
1471
1472			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1473			%
1474			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1475			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1476			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1477
1478			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1479			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1480			6 Decompilation
1481
1482			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1483			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1484			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1485			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1486			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1487			conditions are met: [...]"
1488			%
1489			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1490			%
1491			Why Linux Sux ?
1492
1493			Easy .
1494			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1495			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1496			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 .
1497			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1498			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1499			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1500			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! ) .
1501			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 .
1502			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1503
1504			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1505			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1506			working ones . Screw linux users .
1507			%
1508			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1509			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1510			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1511			%
1512			> The Dell 30"...
1513
1514			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1515			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1516			%
1517	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1518	root	1.431
1519			> > 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".
1520	root	1.432	>
1521	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!
1522	root	1.432	>
1523	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1524	root	1.432
1525	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1526
1527			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1528			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.
1529			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1530	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.
1531	root	1.431	%
1532			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1533			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1534			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1535			%
1536			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1537
1538			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1539			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1540			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1541
1542			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1543			anderen betriebssystemen.
1544
1545			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1546			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1547
1548			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1549			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1550			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1551			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1552			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1553
1554			Frage?
1555			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1556			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1557			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1558
1559			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1560			%
1561			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1562			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1563			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1564			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1565			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1566			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1567			%
1568			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1569			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1570			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1571			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1572			%
1573			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1574			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1575
1576			God bless the re-inventers
1577
1578			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1579			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1580
1581	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1582	root	1.431
1583			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1584			one.
1585			%
1586			[rfc2665]
1587			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1588			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1589			useful in theory than in practice.
1590			%
1591			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1592	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1593	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1594			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1595			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1596			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1597			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1598			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1599	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1600	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1601			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1602	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1603	root	1.431	15:30
1604			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1605			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1606			%
1607			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1608			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1609			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1610			%
1611			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1612
1613			Strictly for beginners
1614
1615			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1616			[...]
1617			%
1618			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1619			%
1620			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1621			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1622			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1623			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1624			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1625			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1626			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1627			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1628			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1629			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1630			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1631			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1632			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1633			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1634			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1635			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1636			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1637			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1638			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1639			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1640			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1641			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1642			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1643			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1644			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1645			%
1646			[A Gentoo User]
1647			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1648			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1649			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1650			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1651			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1652			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1653			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1654			%
1655			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1656			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1657			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1658			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1659			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1660	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1661			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1662	root	1.431	can do
1663			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1664			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1665			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1666			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1667			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1668			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1669			%
1670			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1671	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1672			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1673			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1674	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1675			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1676	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1677			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1678	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1679			%
1680			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1681			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1682			%
1683			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1684
1685			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1686			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1687			be slow in Windows 2000"
1688
1689			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1690			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1691			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1692			%
1693			[so much for type-safety]
1694			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1695			lst.add(null);
1696			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1697			%
1698			[just for reference]
1699			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1700			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1701			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1702			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1703			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1704			es nicht.
1705
1706			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1707			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1708			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1709			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1710			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1711			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1712
1713			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1714			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1715			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1716			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1717			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1718			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1719			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1720			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1721			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1722			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1723			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1724			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1725			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1726			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1727
1728			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1729			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1730			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1731			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1732			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1733			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1734			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1735
1736			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1737			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1738			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1739			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1740			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1741			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1742			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1743			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1744			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1745			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1746			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1747			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1748			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1749			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1750			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1751			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1752			alternativ' Idioten!
1753
1754			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1755			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1756			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1757			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1758			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1759			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1760			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1761			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1762			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1763			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1764			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1765			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1766			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1767			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1768
1769			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1770			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1771			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1772
1773			Ich will R A C H E !
1774
1775			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1776			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1777			Dinge zu sagen:
1778
1779			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1780
1781			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1782			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1783			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1784			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1785			anfange.
1786
1787			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1788			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1789			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1790			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1791			dieser verdammten schule!
1792
1793			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1794			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1795
1796			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1797
1798			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1799			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1800			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1801			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1802			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1803			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1804			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1805			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1806			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1807			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1808
1809			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1810			Einschulung.
1811
1812			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1813			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1814			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1815			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1816			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1817			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1818			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1819			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1820			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1821			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1822
1823			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1824			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1825
1826			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1827			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1828			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1829			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1830			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1831			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1832			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1833			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1834
1835			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1836			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1837			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1838			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1839			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1840			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1841			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1842			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1843
1844			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1845			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1846
1847			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1848			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1849			Hand genommen.
1850
1851			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1852			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1853
1854			Ich bin weg...
1855			%
1856			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1857			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1858			%
1859	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1860			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1861			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1862			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1863	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1864			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1865			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1866			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1867			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1868			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1869			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1870			%
1871			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1872			%
1873			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1874			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1875
1876			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1877			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1878			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1879			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1880			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1881			%
1882			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1883			%
1884			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1885			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1886			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1887			%
1888			[very funny read]
1889			Hack-a-Bike
1890			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1891			%
1892			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1893			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1894			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1895			still can.
1896
1897			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1898			%
1899	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1900			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1901	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1902			%
1903			[without words]
1904			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1905			%
1906			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1907			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1908			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1909			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1910			actual kid in an actual bath.
1911			%
1912			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1913			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1914			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1915			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1916			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1917			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1918			what happened to you.
1919			%
1920	root	1.432	--
1921	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1922
1923			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1924			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1925			%
1926			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1927	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1928			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1929	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1930
1931			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1932			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1933			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1934			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1935			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1936
1937			- Ted
1938			%
1939			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1940			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1941			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1942			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1943			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1944			me, but we have the truth!"
1945			%
1946			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1947			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1948			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1949			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1950			%
1951			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1952			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1953			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1954			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1955			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1956			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1957			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1958			genociding every monster.
1959
1960			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1961			genocide them for good measure!
1962			%%
1963			[nethack instadeath faq]
1964
1965			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1966
1967			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1968			%
1969			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1970			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1971	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1972	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1973			17:58 <Murch> lol
1974			%
1975			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1976			%
1977			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1978			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1979			%
1980			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1981			%
1982			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1983
1984			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1985			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1986			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1987			%
1988			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1989
1990			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1991			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1992			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1993			the Eastern Time Zone.
1994			[...]
1995			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1996			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1997			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1998			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1999			%
2000			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
2001
2002			_dl_profile_output
2003			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2004			%
2005			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2006			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2007			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2008			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2009			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2010			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2011			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2012
2013			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2014			%
2015			[famous last words]
2016			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2017			%
2018			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2019
2020			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2021
2022			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2023
2024			--
2025			Jay Hennigan
2026			%
2027			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2028			%
2029			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2030			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2031			of homeland security]
2032			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2033			%
2034			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2035	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2036	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2037			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2038			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2039			range of spyware available to us?"
2040
2041			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2042			%
2043			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2044			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2045			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2046			%
2047	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2048	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2049			%
2050			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2051			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2052			%
2053			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2054			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2055			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2056			shooter.
2057
2058			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2059			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2060			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2061			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2062			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2063			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2064
2065			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2066			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2067			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2068			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2069			way.
2070
2071			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2072			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2073			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2074
2075			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2076			%
2077			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2078			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2079			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2080			> above comment about Hitler).
2081
2082			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2083			mention Hitler loses.
2084			%
2085			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2086			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2087			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2088			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2089			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2090			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2091			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2092			including <windows.h>.
2093			[...]
2094			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2095			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2096			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2097			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2098			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2099			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2100			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2101			environments.
2102			%
2103			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2104			%
2105			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2106			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2107			%
2108			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2109			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2110			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2111			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2112			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2113			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2114			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2115			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2116			companies want to own your computer.
2117
2118			Some examples:
2119
2120			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2121			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2122			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2123			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2124			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2125			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2126			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2127			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2128			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2129	root	1.432
2130	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2131			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2132			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2133			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2134			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2135
2136			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2137			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2138			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2139			from Microsoft? You can't.
2140
2141			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2142			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2143			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2144			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2145			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2146			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2147			adversely affect its business partners.
2148
2149			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2150			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2151			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2152			about your behavior.
2153
2154			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2155			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2156			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2157			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2158			presumed infractions.
2159
2160			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2161			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2162			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2163
2164			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2165			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2166			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2167			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2168			user's device against him.
2169			[...]
2170			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2171			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2172			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2173			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2174			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2175			back-room marketing deals.
2176			%
2177			[John Carmack on Java]
2178			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2179			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2180			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2181			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2182			performance.
2183			%
2184			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2185
2186			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2187			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2188			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2189			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2190			%
2191			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2192			%
2193			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2194			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2195			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2196			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2197			%
2198			http://funroll-loops.org/
2199			%
2200			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2201			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2202			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2203			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2204			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2205			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2206			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2207			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2208			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2209			Fahrenheit documentation.
2210			%
2211			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2212			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2213			sure its much slower than CVS]
2214			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2215			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2216			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2217	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2218	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2219			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2220	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2221	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2222			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2223	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2224	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2225			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2226			%
2227	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2228
2229			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2230			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2231	root	1.431	%
2232	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2233
2234			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2235			> systems ?
2236
2237			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2238			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2239
2240			Jesper
2241			%
2242	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2243
2244			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2245			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2246
2247	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2248	root	1.429	%
2249	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2250			%
2251	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2252
2253			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2254			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2255			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2256			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2257			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2258			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2259			but that's the truth.
2260			%
2261	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2262
2263			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2264
2265	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2266			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2267			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2268			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2269	root	1.424
2270			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2271	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2272			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2273	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2274
2275			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2276			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2277	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2278	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2279			in Richtung Boden.
2280
2281			[...]
2282
2283	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2284	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2285	root	1.424
2286			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2287	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2288	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2289
2290			[...]
2291
2292			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2293	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2294	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2295	root	1.424
2296			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2297	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2298			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2299			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2300	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2301			sofort.
2302			%
2303	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2304			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2305			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2306			software from Microsoft.)
2307	root	1.424	%
2308	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2309	root	1.424	%
2310	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2311
2312			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2313			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2314			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2315			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2316	root	1.424	%
2317	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2318	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2319	root	1.424	%
2320	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2321			From: Rodrigo Severo
2322			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2323			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2324
2325			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2326
2327			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2328			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2329			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2330
2331			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2332			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2333			brazilian ;)
2334			Rodrigo Severo
2335	root	1.424	%
2336	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2337	root	1.417
2338			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2339	root	1.424	%
2340	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2341
2342			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2343
2344			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2345
2346			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2347			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2348
2349			sigh
2350	root	1.424	%
2351	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2352			By Bertrand Russell
2353
2354			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2355			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2356			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2357			might be set forth as follows:
2358
2359			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2360
2361			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2362			evidence is sure to come to light.
2363
2364			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2365
2366			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2367			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2368			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2369
2370			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2371			contrary authorities to be found.
2372
2373			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2374			do the opinions will suppress you.
2375
2376			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2377			was once eccentric.
2378
2379			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2380			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2381			agreement than the latter.
2382
2383			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2384			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2385
2386			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2387			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2388
2389			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2390			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2391	root	1.424	%
2392	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2393	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2394			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2395			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2396
2397			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2398			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2399			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2400			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2401			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2402			United States."
2403	root	1.413	---
2404			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2405			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2406			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2407	root	1.414	---
2408			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2409			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2410			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2411			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2412			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2413
2414			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2415			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2416	root	1.424	%
2417	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2418			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2419	root	1.424	%
2420	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2421
2422			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2423			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2424
2425			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2426			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2427
2428			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2429
2430			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2431			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2432	root	1.424	%
2433	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2434			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2435	root	1.424	%
2436	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2437			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2438			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2439			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2440			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2441			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2442	root	1.424	%
2443	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2444
2445			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2446			they care about it?"
2447			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2448	root	1.407
2449			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2450	root	1.424	%
2451	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2452			-- Gregory Chaitin
2453	root	1.424	%
2454	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2455	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2456			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2457			[...]
2458	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2459			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2460	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2461	root	1.424	%
2462	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2463			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2464			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2465			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2466			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2467			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2468	root	1.424	%
2469	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2470
2471			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2472	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2473			return 0;
2474	root	1.424	%
2475	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2476	root	1.401
2477			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2478			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2479			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2480			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2481			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2482			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2483			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2484			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2485			> transparent.
2486
2487			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2488			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2489			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2490			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2491	root	1.424	%
2492	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2493			aber falsche Lösungen.
2494	root	1.424	%
2495	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2496			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2497			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2498			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2499	root	1.424	%
2500	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2501			>
2502			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2503			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2504			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2505			> than useful to the user.
2506
2507			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2508
2509			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2510			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2511			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2512			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2513
2514			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2515
2516			Linus
2517	root	1.424	%
2518	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2519			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2520			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2521			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2522	root	1.424	%
2523	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2524			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2525
2526	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2527	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2528			--
2529			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2530
2531			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2532	root	1.424	%
2533	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2534			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2535
2536			Person: What do you do?
2537			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2538			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2539
2540			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2541			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2542			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2543	root	1.394
2544			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2545			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2546	root	1.424	%
2547	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2548			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2549			illegal downloaders."
2550
2551			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2552
2553			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2554			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2555			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2556			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2557			have to emerge."
2558
2559			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2560	root	1.424	%
2561	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2562	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2563
2564			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2565			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2566
2567			Bye, Andy
2568	root	1.424	%
2569	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2570	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2571	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2572	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2573	root	1.390
2574			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2575			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2576			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2577			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2578			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2579			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2580			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2581			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2582			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2583			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2584			alle Benutzer.
2585			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2586			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2587			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2588			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2589			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2590			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2591			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2592			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2593			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2594			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2595			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2596	root	1.424	%
2597	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2598
2599			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2600			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2601			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2602			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2603			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2604			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2605			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2606			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2607			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2608			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2609			unfinished operations, etc.
2610			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2611
2612			Valid options:
2613			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2614			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2615
2616			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2617	root	1.424	%
2618	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2619			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2620			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2621			to provide.
2622			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2623	root	1.424	%
2624	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2625
2626			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2627			alarm people more.
2628
2629			-Nate
2630
2631			[...]
2632
2633			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2634			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2635			image of the language that is created here.
2636
2637			Juerd
2638
2639			[...]
2640
2641			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2642			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2643			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2644
2645	root	1.432	--
2646	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2647	root	1.387	%
2648	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2649	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2650	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2651			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2652	root	1.387	%
2653	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2654			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2655	root	1.387	%
2656	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2657			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2658	root	1.387	%
2659	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2660			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2661			[...]
2662			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2663			"Windows is broken."
2664	root	1.387	%
2665	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2666			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2667			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2668	root	1.387	%
2669	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2670			on being able to kill their children legally]
2671			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2672	root	1.387	%
2673	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2674			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2675			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2676	root	1.387	%
2677	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2678			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2679			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2680			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2681			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2682			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2683	root	1.378	--
2684			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2685			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2686			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2687			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2688			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2689			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2690			wasteful government spending."
2691	root	1.387	%
2692	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2693			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2694	root	1.387	%
2695	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2696			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2697	root	1.387	%
2698	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2699			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2700	root	1.387	%
2701	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2702			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2703	root	1.387	%
2704	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2705	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2706	root	1.387	%
2707	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2708			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2709	root	1.387	%
2710	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2711			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2712	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2713	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2714			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2715	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2716	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
2717			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2718	root	1.387	%
2719	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2720			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2721	root	1.387	%
2722	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2723			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2724			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2725			their weapons over our heads."
2726			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2727	root	1.387	%
2728	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2729			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2730	root	1.387	%
2731	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2732			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2733			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2734			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2735			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2736	root	1.387	%
2737	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2738	root	1.387	%
2739	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2740			several requests for clarification.
2741
2742			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2743			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2744			unter TCG definitions.
2745	root	1.387	%
2746	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2747			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2748			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2749			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2750	root	1.387	%
2751	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2752			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2753			get people on board.
2754			%
2755	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2756			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2757			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2758			DRM.
2759
2760			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2761			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2762	root	1.387	%
2763	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2764			switch ($decade) {
2765			case "the 50's":
2766			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2767			break;
2768			case "the 60's":
2769			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2770			break;
2771			case "the 70's":
2772			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2773			break;
2774			case "the 80's":
2775			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2776			break;
2777			case "the 90's":
2778			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2779			break;
2780			case "the 00's":
2781			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2782			break;
2783			}
2784	root	1.387	%
2785	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2786
2787			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2788			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2789			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2790			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2791
2792			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2793			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2794			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2795
2796			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2797			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2798			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2799			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2800			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2801			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2802			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2803			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2804			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2805			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2806	root	1.387	%
2807	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2808			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2809			married or unmarried."
2810
2811			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2812			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2813			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2814			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2815			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2816	root	1.387	%
2817	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2818
2819			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2820			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2821			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2822			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2823			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2824			conditioning.
2825
2826			[And this is religion at its best:]
2827			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2828			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2829			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2830	root	1.387	%
2831	root	1.361	[Racism]
2832			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2833	root	1.387	%
2834	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2835			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2836	root	1.387	%
2837	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2838			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2839
2840			I apologise for this.
2841
2842			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2843			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2844	root	1.387	%
2845	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2846			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2847			el says: ich kenn da wen
2848			el says: bei dem wars so
2849			[...]
2850			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2851			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2852			el says: gehirntumor auch
2853			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2854	root	1.387	%
2855	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2856	root	1.387	%
2857	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2858			no sense in the kernel]
2859			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2860
2861			[...]
2862
2863			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2864			models.
2865
2866			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2867			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2868			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2869	root	1.387	%
2870	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2871			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2872			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2873			--
2874			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2875	root	1.355	--
2876			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2877			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2878			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2879			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2880	root	1.387	%
2881	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2882			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2883			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2884			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2885			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2886			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2887			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2888			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2889	root	1.387	%
2890	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2891			which you currently do not posess]
2892			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2893	root	1.387	%
2894	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2895			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2896	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2897	root	1.387	%
2898	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2899	root	1.387	%
2900	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2901			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2902	root	1.387	%
2903	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2904			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2905			paragraphs.
2906	root	1.387	%
2907	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2908			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2909			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2910	root	1.387	%
2911	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2912			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2913
2914			Most catholics aren't American.
2915	root	1.387	%
2916	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2917
2918			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2919			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2920			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2921			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2922			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2923
2924			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2925			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2926	root	1.387	%
2927	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2928			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2929			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2930			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2931			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2932			criminals."
2933	root	1.387	%
2934	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2935			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2936	root	1.387	%
2937	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2938			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2939	root	1.387	%
2940	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2941			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2942	root	1.387	%
2943	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2944			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2945			card (They went up in flames).
2946	root	1.387	%
2947	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2948			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2949			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2950			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2951	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2952	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2953	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2954	root	1.387	%
2955	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2956			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2957			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2958
2959			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2960
2961			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2962	root	1.387	%
2963	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2964			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2965			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2966			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2967			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2968			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2969			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2970			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2971			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2972			--
2973			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2974			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2975			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2976			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2977			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2978			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2979	root	1.387	%
2980	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2981			The Obfuscated V contest
2982	root	1.387	%
2983	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2984			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2985			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2986			cigarette lighters."
2987			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2988	root	1.387	%
2989	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2990			Does it run under Windows ?
2991			- Who cares?
2992	root	1.387	%
2993	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2994	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2995	root	1.387	%
2996	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2997			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2998			[...]
2999			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
3000			[...]
3001			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
3002			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3003			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3004	root	1.387	%
3005	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3006	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3007			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3008			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3009	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3010	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3011	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3012	root	1.330	> mehr!
3013			> richy.
3014
3015			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3016	root	1.387	%
3017	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3018	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3019			> zugetragen hat?
3020
3021			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3022			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3023	root	1.388	[später]
3024			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3025	root	1.329
3026			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3027			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3028			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3029			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3030			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3031
3032			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3033
3034			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3035			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3036			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3037	root	1.387	%
3038	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3039	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3040			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3041	root	1.387	%
3042	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3043			/* give the hook another try */
3044			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3045			break;
3046	root	1.387	%
3047	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3048	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3049	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3050			#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))
3051	root	1.387	%
3052	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3053	root	1.387	%
3054	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3055	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3056	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3057	root	1.432	>
3058			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3059			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3060	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3061	root	1.432	>
3062			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3063			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3064	root	1.324	> as TO).
3065	root	1.432	>
3066	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3067
3068			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3069			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3070			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3071			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3072			being discourteous to.
3073
3074			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3075			--
3076			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3077	root	1.387	%
3078	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3079	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3080	root	1.387	%
3081	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3082			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3083			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3084			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3085			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3086	root	1.387	%
3087	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3088			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3089			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3090			you don't have any'."
3091	root	1.323
3092			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3093			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3094			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3095			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3096	root	1.387	%
3097	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3098			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3099			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3100			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3101	root	1.387	%
3102	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3103			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3104			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3105			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3106			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3107			reason will not win many fans.
3108
3109			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3110			documents in the algorithm section]
3111	root	1.387	%
3112	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3113			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3114			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3115			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3116			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3117
3118			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3119	root	1.387	%
3120	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3121			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3122			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3123	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3124	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3125			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3126	root	1.387	%
3127	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3128	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3129	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3130	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3131			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3132	root	1.387	%
3133	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3134			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3135			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3136			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3137			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3138			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3139	root	1.387	%
3140	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3141			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3142	root	1.387	%
3143	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3144	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3145	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3146			* at their price list.
3147	root	1.387	%
3148	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3149			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3150			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3151			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3152			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3153			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3154			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3155	root	1.387	%
3156	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3157			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3158	root	1.387	%
3159	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3160			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3161			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3162			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3163	root	1.387	%
3164	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3165	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3166	root	1.387	%
3167	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3168			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3169	root	1.387	%
3170	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3171	root	1.387	%
3172	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3173			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3174			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3175			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3176			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3177			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3178			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3179			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3180	root	1.387	%
3181	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3182			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3183	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3184	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3185	root	1.387	%
3186	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3187	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3188	root	1.387	%
3189	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3190	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3191			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3192			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3193	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3194
3195			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3196
3197			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3198			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3199	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3200	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3201
3202			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3203
3204			[usw.]
3205
3206			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3207	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3208	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3209
3210			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3211			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3212			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3213			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3214			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3215	root	1.387	%
3216	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3217	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3218			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3219	root	1.387	%
3220	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3221			Which fanboy are you?
3222
3223			1. Windows
3224
3225			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3226			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3227			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3228			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3229			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3230			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3231			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3232			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3233			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3234
3235			2. Apple
3236
3237			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3238			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3239			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3240			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3241			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3242			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3243			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3244			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3245
3246			3. Linspire
3247
3248			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3249			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3250			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3251			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3252			installed Linspire on your machine.
3253
3254			4. Umbongo
3255
3256			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3257			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3258			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3259			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3260			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3261			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3262			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3263			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3264			themselves.
3265
3266			5. Gentoy
3267
3268			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3269			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3270			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3271			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3272			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3273			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3274			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3275			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3276
3277			6. Linux From Scratch
3278
3279			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3280			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3281			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3282			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3283			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3284			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3285			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3286	root	1.387	%
3287	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3288			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3289	root	1.387	%
3290	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3291
3292			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3293			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3294
3295			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3296	root	1.387	%
3297	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3298
3299			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3300	root	1.432	>
3301	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3302	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3303	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3304			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3305			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3306	root	1.432	>
3307			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3308	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3309	root	1.432	>
3310	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3311			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3312	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3313	root	1.387	%
3314	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3315	root	1.387	%
3316	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3317	root	1.387	%
3318	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3319	root	1.387	%
3320	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3321			show "Correspondent"]
3322	root	1.288
3323			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3324			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3325
3326			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3327			%
3328	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3329			cock sucking, blowjob
3330			=> fellatio, fellation
3331			=> oral sex, head
3332			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3333			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3334			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3335			=> organic process, biological process
3336			=> process
3337			=> phenomenon
3338	root	1.387	%
3339	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3340			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3341	root	1.387	%
3342	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3343			[slightly edited]
3344			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3345			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3346			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3347			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3348
3349			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3350			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3351			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3352
3353			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3354			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3355	root	1.387	%
3356	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3357			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3358	root	1.387	%
3359	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3360	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3361	root	1.387	%
3362	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3363	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3364			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3365	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3366	root	1.387	%
3367	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3368			- oesi
3369	root	1.387	%
3370	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3371			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3372	root	1.387	%
3373	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3374	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3375	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3376			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3377
3378			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3379			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3380			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3381			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3382			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3383			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3384			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3385			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3386			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3387			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3388			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3389			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3390			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3391			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3392			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3393			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3394			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3395			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3396			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3397			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3398			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3399			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3400			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3401			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3402
3403			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3404			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3405			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3406			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3407			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3408
3409			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3410			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3411			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3412			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3413			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3414			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3415			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3416			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3417			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3418			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3419			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3420
3421			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3422			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3423			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3424			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3425			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3426			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3427			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3428			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3429			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3430			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3431			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3432			sovereign nation.
3433
3434			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3435			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3436			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3437			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3438			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3439			CSPAN, don't post here.
3440
3441			-scott
3442	root	1.387	%
3443	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3444			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3445			capacity to feel pain.
3446
3447			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3448			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3449	root	1.387	%
3450	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3451			From: Sven Neumann
3452
3453			Hi,
3454
3455	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3456	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3457	root	1.273
3458			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3459			that
3460
3461			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3462
3463			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3464	root	1.387	%
3465	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3466	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3467			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3468			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3469	root	1.387	%
3470	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3471			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3472			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3473			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3474			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3475			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3476	root	1.387	%
3477	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3478	root	1.270	interesting read]
3479			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3480	root	1.387	%
3481	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3482			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3483			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3484	root	1.387	%
3485	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3486			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3487			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3488			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3489			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3490			locks can open the gate.
3491
3492			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3493			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3494			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3495	root	1.387	%
3496	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3497			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3498	root	1.387	%
3499	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3500
3501			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3502
3503			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3504			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3505			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3506			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3507			explanation of this.
3508
3509			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3510
3511			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3512			which explains why the hammer falls.
3513
3514			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3515			how a population's genome can change over time.
3516
3517	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3518			mathematical relationship between two values.
3519	root	1.265
3520			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3521			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3522
3523			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3524			acceleration.
3525
3526			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3527			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3528			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3529			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3530			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3531			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3532			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3533			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3534			false.
3535
3536			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3537	root	1.387	%
3538	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3539	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3540
3541			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3542			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3543	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3544			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3545			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3546	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3547
3548	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3549			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3550			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3551			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3552			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3553			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3554			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3555	root	1.264
3556			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3557	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3558			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3559			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3560			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3561	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3562	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3563	root	1.264	sportlich.
3564
3565	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3566			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3567			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3568			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3569			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3570	root	1.264
3571	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3572	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3573	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3574			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3575	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3576
3577			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3578			Forscher.
3579	root	1.387	%
3580	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3581			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3582			EULA-style license]
3583	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3584	root	1.387	%
3585	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3586			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3587			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3588			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3589			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3590			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3591			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3592	root	1.387	%
3593	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3594	root	1.387	%
3595	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3596			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3597			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3598			00:24 <schmorp> re
3599	root	1.387	%
3600	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3601	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3602			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3603	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3604			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3605	root	1.387	%
3606	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3607			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3608			proponents of such theories.]
3609			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3610			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3611			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3612			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3613			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3614			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3615			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3616			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3617			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3618			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3619			(below, right)."
3620	root	1.387	%
3621	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3622			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3623			[useful info...]
3624			http://www.snopes.com/
3625	root	1.387	%
3626	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3627			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3628	root	1.387	%
3629	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3630			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3631	root	1.387	%
3632	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3633	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3634			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3635	root	1.387	%
3636	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3637			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3638			#!/usr/bin/sh
3639			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3640			# All Rights Reserved
3641
3642			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3643			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3644			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3645
3646			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3647	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3648	root	1.387	%
3649	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3650			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3651			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3652	root	1.387	%
3653	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3654			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3655			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3656			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3657			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3658			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3659			#
3660			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3661	root	1.387	%
3662	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3663	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3664			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3665			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3666	root	1.387	%
3667	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3668	root	1.387	%
3669	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3670	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3671			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3672	root	1.387	%
3673	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3674			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3675			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3676	root	1.387	%
3677	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3678	root	1.387	%
3679	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3680			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3681			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3682			that you have a problem.)
3683			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3684	root	1.387	%
3685	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3686			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3687	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3688	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3689
3690			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3691			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3692	root	1.387	%
3693	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3694			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3695
3696			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3697			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3698			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3699			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3700			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3701			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3702			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3703			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3704			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3705			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3706			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3707			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3708			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3709			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3710
3711			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3712			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3713			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3714			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3715			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3716			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3717			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3718	root	1.387	%
3719	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3720	root	1.239
3721			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3722			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3723			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3724	root	1.387	%
3725	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3726			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3727			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3728	root	1.387	%
3729	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3730
3731			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3732			;)
3733	root	1.387	%
3734	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3735			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3736			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3737			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3738
3739			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3740
3741	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3742			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3743	root	1.387	%
3744	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3745			using so many abbreviations...]
3746
3747			Hi Volker -
3748
3749			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3750	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3751			spät ...
3752	root	1.234
3753			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3754
3755			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3756
3757	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3758			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3759	root	1.234
3760	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3761	root	1.234
3762			tom
3763	root	1.247
3764	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3765	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3766	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3767	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3768	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3769	root	1.387	%
3770	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3771			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3772			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3773
3774			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3775	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3776			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3777	root	1.233	> someone else?
3778
3779			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3780			===================================================================
3781			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3782			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3783			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3784			S: 79098 Freiburg
3785			S: Germany
3786
3787			+N: Hans Reiser
3788			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3789			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3790			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3791			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3792			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3793			+S: USA
3794			+
3795			N: Joerg Reuter
3796			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3797			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3798	root	1.387	%
3799	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3800			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3801	root	1.387	%
3802	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3803			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3804	root	1.387	%
3805	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3806			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3807	root	1.387	%
3808	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3809			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3810			[...]
3811			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3812			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3813			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3814			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3815			[...]
3816			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3817			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3818			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3819			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3820	root	1.387	%
3821	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3822			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3823			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3824			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3825			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3826			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3827	root	1.387	%
3828	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3829	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3830			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3831			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3832			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3833			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3834			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3835			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3836			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3837	root	1.387	%
3838	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3839			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3840	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3841	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3842	root	1.387	%
3843	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3844			[yes, the whole thing]
3845	root	1.387	%
3846	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3847	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3848			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3849			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3850	root	1.221	>
3851			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3852
3853			We'll use a larger wall.
3854	root	1.387	%
3855	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3856			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3857			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3858			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3859
3860			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3861			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3862
3863			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3864			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3865
3866			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3867			cost.
3868			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3869	root	1.387	%
3870	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3871
3872	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3873	root	1.219
3874			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3875
3876	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3877	root	1.387	%
3878	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3879			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3880	root	1.387	%
3881	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3882			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3883	root	1.387	%
3884	root	1.215	[translated]
3885			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3886			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3887			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3888			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3889			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3890			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3891			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3892			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3893	root	1.387	%
3894	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3895			-- Lord Balfour
3896	root	1.387	%
3897	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3898	root	1.387	%
3899	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3900			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3901			him to forgive me.
3902	root	1.387	%
3903	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3904			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3905
3906			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3907	root	1.387	%
3908	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3909			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3910			get bored during the sex scenes.
3911	root	1.387	%
3912	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3913			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3914			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3915	root	1.387	%
3916	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3917			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3918			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3919			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3920			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3921			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3922	root	1.387	%
3923	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3924			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3925			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3926			HP-UX customer. [...]
3927	root	1.387	%
3928	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3929			>>
3930			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3931			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3932			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3933			>>spelled it in UC.
3934	root	1.247	>
3935			>
3936	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3937
3938			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3939	root	1.387	%
3940	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3941			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3942
3943			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3944			usage.
3945
3946			Richard
3947	root	1.387	%
3948	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3949			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3950			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3951			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3952			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3953			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3954	root	1.387	%
3955	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3956			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3957	root	1.387	%
3958	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3959	root	1.387	%
3960	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3961			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3962			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3963			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3964			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3965			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3966			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3967			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3968			existence means and implies.
3969
3970			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3971	root	1.387	%
3972	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3973			>
3974			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3975			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3976			>
3977			> You're WRONG!
3978
3979	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3980			and §7.20.3.1).
3981	root	1.387	%
3982	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3983			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3984			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3985	root	1.387	%
3986	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3987			A. It should be obvious.
3988			Q. How is it hard?
3989			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3990			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3991	root	1.387	%
3992	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3993			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3994
3995			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3996			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3997
3998			- works ok on linux
3999			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
4000
4001			Any clues why?
4002			I am new to the non windows world.
4003
4004			Thanks
4005	root	1.387	%
4006	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4007			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4008			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4009			> this ?
4010
4011			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4012			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4013	root	1.387	%
4014	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4015			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4016			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4017
4018			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4019	root	1.247	>
4020			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4021			>
4022	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4023	root	1.387	%
4024	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4025			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4026
4027			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4028	root	1.387	%
4029	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4030			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4031	root	1.387	%
4032	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4033	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4034	root	1.194
4035			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4036			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4037	root	1.387	%
4038	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4039			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4040	root	1.387	%
4041	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4042	root	1.387	%
4043	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4044			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4045	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4046	root	1.387	%
4047	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4048			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4049			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4050	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4051
4052	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4053	root	1.190
4054	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4055	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4056			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4057			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4058	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4059			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4060			schützen können.
4061	root	1.387	%
4062	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4063			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4064	root	1.387	%
4065	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4066			[...]
4067	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4068	root	1.188	[...]
4069	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4070			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4071			never get your message.
4072	root	1.387	%
4073	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4074			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4075			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4076	root	1.387	%
4077	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4078			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4079			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4080	root	1.387	%
4081	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4082			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4083			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4084			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4085			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4086			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4087			01:15 <schmorp> g
4088			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4089	root	1.387	%
4090	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4091			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4092			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4093			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4094			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4095			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4096			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4097			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4098	root	1.387	%
4099	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4100			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4101			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4102	root	1.387	%
4103	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4104			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4105			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4106			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4107			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4108			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4109			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4110	root	1.387	%
4111	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4112			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4113	root	1.387	%
4114	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4115			GNOME TERMINAL
4116			[...]
4117			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4118			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4119			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4120			[.. later]
4121			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4122			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4123			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4124	root	1.387	%
4125	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4126			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4127			/*
4128	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4129	root	1.179	*/
4130			void blip()
4131	root	1.247	{
4132	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4133			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4134			fflush(stderr);
4135	root	1.247	}
4136	root	1.387	%
4137	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4138			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4139
4140			Why not 666? :-).
4141	root	1.387	%
4142	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4143			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4144			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4145			users are clueless.
4146	root	1.387	%
4147	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4148			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4149	root	1.387	%
4150	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4151			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4152	root	1.387	%
4153	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4154			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4155	root	1.387	%
4156	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4157			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4158			and", and finally, ampersand.
4159	root	1.387	%
4160	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4161			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4162			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4163			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4164			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4165	root	1.387	%
4166	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4167			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4168			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4169			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4170			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4171	root	1.387	%
4172	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4173			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4174			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4175			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4176			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4177			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4178			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4179	root	1.387	%
4180	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4181	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4182			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4183	root	1.387	%
4184	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4185			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4186			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4187	root	1.387	%
4188	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4189	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4190	root	1.387	%
4191	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4192	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4193			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4194			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4195	root	1.167	%
4196	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4197	root	1.387	%
4198	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4199			<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
4200	root	1.387	%
4201	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4202			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4203	root	1.164	einfach :)
4204			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4205	root	1.387	%
4206	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4207			/*
4208			* Function compares two strings.
4209	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4210	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4211			*/
4212			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4213			{
4214			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4215			[...]
4216	root	1.387	%
4217	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4218	root	1.387	%
4219	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4220	root	1.387	%
4221	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4222			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4223			Get_Colours ();
4224	root	1.387	%
4225	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4226	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4227			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4228			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4229			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4230			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4231			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4232			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4233			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4234	root	1.161	[...]
4235			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4236			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4237			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4238			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4239			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4240	root	1.387	%
4241	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4242			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4243	root	1.387	%
4244	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4245			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4246	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4247	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4248			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4249			#endif
4250	root	1.387	%
4251	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4252			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4253			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4254	root	1.387	%
4255	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4256			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4257			>
4258			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4259
4260			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4261			--
4262			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4263	root	1.387	%
4264	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4265			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4266			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4267			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4268			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4269			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4270			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4271	root	1.387	%
4272	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4273			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4274	root	1.387	%
4275	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4276	root	1.387	%
4277	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4278			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4279			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4280			-- Robert Fisk
4281	root	1.387	%
4282	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4283			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4284	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4285			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4286	root	1.387	%
4287	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4288			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4289			high-violence culture"
4290			[...]
4291			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4292			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4293			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4294			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4295			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4296			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4297			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4298			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4299
4300			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4301			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4302	root	1.387	%
4303	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4304			Subject: Re: [...]
4305
4306			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4307
4308			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4309			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4310			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4311			> saved it :)
4312
4313			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4314			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4315			[...]
4316	root	1.387	%
4317	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4318			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4319			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4320			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4321			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4322
4323			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4324			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4325			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4326			[...]
4327	root	1.387	%
4328	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4329	root	1.387	%
4330	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4331	root	1.387	%
4332	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4333	root	1.387	%
4334	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4335			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4336			claim to have decades of java experience]
4337			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4338			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4339			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4340			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4341	root	1.387	%
4342	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4343	root	1.387	%
4344	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4345	root	1.387	%
4346	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4347	root	1.387	%
4348	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4349			[mail not to be delivered]
4350			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4351	root	1.247	>
4352	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4353
4354			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4355			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4356	root	1.387	%
4357	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4358
4359			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4360			>
4361			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4362			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4363			> >
4364			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4365			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4366			> > language which does support this?
4367			>
4368
4369			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4370
4371			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4372			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4373			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4374			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4375			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4376			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4377	root	1.387	%
4378	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4379			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4380			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4381	root	1.387	%
4382	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4383			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4384			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4385
4386			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4387			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4388			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4389			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4390			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4391
4392			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4393			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4394			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4395			and thwart them that way.
4396	root	1.387	%
4397	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4398			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4399			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4400			unfortunate decision.
4401	root	1.387	%
4402	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4403	root	1.146	fest ;)
4404	root	1.387	%
4405	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4406
4407			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4408	root	1.387	%
4409	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4410	root	1.387	%
4411	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4412			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4413	root	1.387	%
4414	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4415
4416			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4417			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4418			local object as a "he":
4419
4420			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4421			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4422			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4423			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4424			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4425			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4426			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4427			EX-PARROT!"
4428
4429			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4430	root	1.387	%
4431	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4432			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4433	root	1.387	%
4434	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4435			The police will shoot you.
4436
4437			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4438			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4439
4440	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4441	root	1.387	%
4442	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4443			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4444			reply.
4445
4446			pls. cc my email address
4447
4448			tia
4449			pd
4450
4451
4452	root	1.247	--
4453	root	1.141	^X^C
4454			q
4455			quit
4456			:q
4457			^C
4458			end
4459			x
4460			exit
4461			ZZ
4462			^D
4463			?
4464			help
4465			shit
4466			.
4467	root	1.387	%
4468	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4469	root	1.387	%
4470	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4471			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4472			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4473			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4474	root	1.387	%
4475	root	1.140	[I love it]
4476			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4477			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4478	root	1.387	%
4479	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4480			- Douglas Adams
4481	root	1.387	%
4482	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4483			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4484			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4485			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4486
4487	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4488			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4489			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4490			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4491			their software properly.
4492	root	1.138
4493			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4494			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4495			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4496			told the publication.
4497
4498	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4499			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4500			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4501			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4502			who want visibility and glory.
4503	root	1.387	%
4504	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4505
4506			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4507
4508			x Try not using it.
4509	root	1.387	%
4510	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4511			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4512			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4513			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4514			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4515			had given.
4516
4517			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4518			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4519			person as well."
4520	root	1.387	%
4521	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4522	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4523			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4524	root	1.387	%
4525	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4526	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4527	root	1.134
4528			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4529	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4530	root	1.135	[...]
4531	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4532	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4533	root	1.135	[...]
4534			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4535			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4536	root	1.387	%
4537	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4538	root	1.387	%
4539	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4540			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4541			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4542			-- Ulrich Drepper
4543	root	1.387	%
4544	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4545			-- Ulrich Drepper
4546	root	1.387	%
4547	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4548			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4549	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4550	root	1.387	%
4551	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4552			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4553			-- Ulrich Drepper
4554	root	1.387	%
4555	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4556			-- Ulrich Drepper
4557	root	1.387	%
4558	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4559	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4560			zuverlässiger
4561	root	1.387	%
4562	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4563			/*
4564			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4565			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4566			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4567			*/
4568	root	1.387	%
4569	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4570			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4571			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4572			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4573			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4574	root	1.387	%
4575	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4576			Pirating Movies
4577
4578			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4579			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4580			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4581	root	1.387	%
4582	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4583			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4584	root	1.387	%
4585	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4586			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4587	root	1.387	%
4588	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4589			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4590			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4591			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4592			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4593	root	1.387	%
4594	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4595			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4596			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4597			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4598			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4599
4600			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4601			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4602
4603			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4604			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4605			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4606			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4607			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4608			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4609			the first place!
4610	root	1.387	%
4611	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4612			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4613			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4614	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4615	root	1.387	%
4616	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4617			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4618	root	1.387	%
4619	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4620			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4621	root	1.387	%
4622	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4623			platform."
4624			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4625	root	1.387	%
4626	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4627			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4628			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4629			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4630			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4631	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4632	root	1.387	%
4633	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4634			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4635	root	1.387	%
4636	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4637			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4638			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4639			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4640			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4641			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4642			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4643			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4644			daily.
4645	root	1.387	%
4646	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4647	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4648			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4649	root	1.387	%
4650	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4651			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4652			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4653			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4654			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4655			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4656			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4657	root	1.387	%
4658	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4659	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4660	root	1.387	%
4661	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4662			[...so it must be good]
4663			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4664	root	1.387	%
4665	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4666			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4667			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4668	root	1.387	%
4669	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4670			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4671			No idea why I announce it here...
4672	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4673	root	1.387	%
4674	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4675			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4676	root	1.387	%
4677	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4678	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4679	root	1.387	%
4680	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4681			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4682			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4683			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4684			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4685
4686			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4687			Sacha.
4688	root	1.387	%
4689	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4690			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4691			desk one morning:
4692
4693			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4694
4695			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4696
4697			Employee: 123456
4698
4699			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4700			photograph of the employee.]
4701
4702			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4703			identification which has your picture on it?
4704
4705			Employee: Why would you need that?
4706
4707			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4708
4709			Employee: A picture of my face?
4710
4711			Security Guard: Yes
4712
4713			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4714
4715			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4716			compare against this one.
4717	root	1.387	%
4718	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4719			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4720			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4721	root	1.387	%
4722	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4723			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4724			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4725
4726			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4727			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4728	root	1.387	%
4729	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4730	root	1.387	%
4731	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4732			"RV K-17"
4733	root	1.387	%
4734	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4735			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4736	root	1.387	%
4737	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4738			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4739			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4740			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4741	root	1.387	%
4742	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4743			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4744	root	1.387	%
4745	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4746	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4747			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4748	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4749	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4750			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4751	root	1.387	%
4752	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4753	root	1.387	%
4754	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4755			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4756	root	1.387	%
4757	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4758			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4759			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4760			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4761	root	1.387	%
4762	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4763			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4764			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4765			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4766			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4767			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4768			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4769			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4770			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4771			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4772			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4773			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4774			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4775			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4776			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4777			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4778			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4779			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4780			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4781	root	1.387	%
4782	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4783			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4784	root	1.387	%
4785	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4786			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4787	root	1.387	%
4788	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4789			Lester Moore,
4790			Shot in the head with a .44.
4791			No Les, no more.
4792	root	1.387	%
4793	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4794			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4795
4796			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4797			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4798	root	1.387	%
4799	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4800			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4801			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4802	root	1.387	%
4803	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4804			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4805			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4806			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4807			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4808	root	1.112	[...]
4809			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4810			[...]
4811			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4812			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4813			the result with SHA.
4814	root	1.387	%
4815	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4816	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4817			> ist!
4818	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4819			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4820	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4821	root	1.387	%
4822	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4823			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4824	root	1.387	%
4825	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4826	root	1.387	%
4827	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4828			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4829			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4830			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4831			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4832			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4833	root	1.387	%
4834	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4835			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4836	root	1.387	%
4837	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4838			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4839	root	1.387	%
4840	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4841			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4842	root	1.387	%
4843	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4844
4845			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4846			* control history, is that we should at least
4847			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4848			* "initialisation"? */
4849			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4850	root	1.387	%
4851	root	1.105	[man pem]
4852			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4853	root	1.387	%
4854	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4855
4856			/* ``If you can't do it in
4857	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4858	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4859	root	1.387	%
4860	root	1.104	[subculture]
4861	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4862			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4863	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4864
4865			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4866	root	1.424	%
4867	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4868			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4869	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4870	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4871	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4872	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4873			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4874	root	1.387	%
4875	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4876	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4877			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4878			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4879	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4880	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4881			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4882			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4883	root	1.387	%
4884	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4885			aber wenig freude.
4886	root	1.387	%
4887	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4888			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4889			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4890			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4891			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4892			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4893			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4894			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4895			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4896			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4897	root	1.387	%
4898	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4899			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4900	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4901			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4902	root	1.387	%
4903	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4904			don't work well in practise.
4905			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4906	root	1.387	%
4907	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4908			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4909			"ready, fire, aim."
4910	root	1.387	%
4911	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4912			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4913			free countries like Germany [1].
4914			[...]
4915			Regards
4916			Henning
4917
4918			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4919			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4920			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4921	root	1.387	%
4922	root	1.98	[...]
4923			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4924			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4925			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4926			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4927			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4928			[...]
4929			Wolfgang Walter
4930	root	1.387	%
4931	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4932			burro: it seemed very clever
4933			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4934			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4935			burro: oops
4936			burro: accidental poetry
4937	root	1.387	%
4938	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4939			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4940			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4941	root	1.387	%
4942	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4943			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4944	root	1.387	%
4945	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4946			-- Oscar Wilde
4947	root	1.387	%
4948	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4949			"guilty until proven innocent"
4950			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4951	root	1.387	%
4952	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4953			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4954			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4955			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4956			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4957			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4958			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4959			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4960			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4961			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4962			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4963			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4964			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4965			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4966			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4967	root	1.387	%
4968	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4969			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4970			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4971			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4972			// suit particular needs.
4973			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4974	root	1.387	%
4975	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4976			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4977			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4978	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4979	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4980	root	1.387	%
4981	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4982			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4985			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4986	root	1.387	%
4987	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4988			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4989			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4990	root	1.387	%
4991	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4992			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4993	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4994			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4995	root	1.387	%
4996	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4997
4998			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4999			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
5000			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
5001			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
5002			is not [...]
5003	root	1.387	%
5004	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5005	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5006			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5007	root	1.387	%
5008	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5009			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5010
5011	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5012	root	1.94
5013			GUI
5014			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5015			Globale Variable
5016	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5017	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5018			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5019			strukturiert
5020			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5021			Multithreaded
5022	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5023	root	1.94	Windows 95
5024	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5025	root	1.94	Emacs
5026	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5027			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5028			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5029	root	1.94	IPv6
5030			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5031			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5032			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5033			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5034	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5035			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5036	root	1.247	PHP
5037	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5038	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5039	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5040			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5041	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5042	root	1.94	Bunt.
5043	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5044			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5045			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5046	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5047	root	1.387	%
5048	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5049			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5050	root	1.387	%
5051	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5052	root	1.387	%
5053	root	1.93	[nah]
5054			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5055			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5056			paint dry."
5057	root	1.387	%
5058	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5059			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5060			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5061	root	1.387	%
5062	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5063	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5064			importance.
5065	root	1.387	%
5066	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5067			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5068			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5069			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5070
5071			You have to trust Microsoft.
5072
5073			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5074			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5075			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5076			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5077			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5078			useless chrome.
5079
5080			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5081			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5082			I'd like to trust them with.
5083	root	1.93	[...]
5084	root	1.387	%
5085	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5086			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5087			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5088			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5089			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5090	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5091	root	1.91	--------------^
5092	root	1.387	%
5093	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5094			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5095			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5096			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5097			English grammar, I assure you.
5098	root	1.387	%
5099	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5100			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5101			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5102			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5103			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5104			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5105			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5106
5107			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5108			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5109			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5110			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5111			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5112			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5113			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5114			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5115			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5116			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5117
5118			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5119			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5120			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5121			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5122
5123			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5124			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5125	root	1.387	%
5126	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5127			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5128			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5129			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5130			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5131			work etc first:
5132
5133			#include <stdio.h>
5134
5135			int main (void) {
5136			while (1)
5137			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5138
5139			return 0;
5140			}
5141	root	1.387	%
5142	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5143			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5144	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5145	root	1.387	%
5146	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5147			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5148			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5149			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5150	root	1.387	%
5151	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5152			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5153			proprietary and patentend technology.
5154	root	1.387	%
5155	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5156	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5157	root	1.387	%
5158	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5159	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5160	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5161			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5162			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5163	root	1.387	%
5164	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5165			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5166	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5167	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5168			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5169	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5170	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5171	root	1.87
5172	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5173			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5174			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5175			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5176			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5177			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5178	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5179			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5180
5181	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5182			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5183			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5184			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5185			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5186			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5187			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5188			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5189			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5190			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5191	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5192	root	1.387	%
5193	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5194			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5195	root	1.387	%
5196	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5197			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5198			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5199	root	1.387	%
5200	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5201			"linux" thing will fail]
5202			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5203			[...]
5204	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5205	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5206			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5207			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5208
5209			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5210			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5211			life to the public good.
5212
5213			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5214			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5215			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5216			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5217			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5218
5219			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5220			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5221			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5222			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5223			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5224			software to work on the linux kernel!
5225
5226			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5227			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5228			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5229			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5230			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5231	root	1.387	%
5232	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5233	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5234			[...]
5235			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5236	root	1.387	%
5237	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5238			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5239			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5240			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5241	root	1.387	%
5242	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5243	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5244			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5245			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5246			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5247			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5248	root	1.387	%
5249	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5250			-- Leonard Brandwein
5251	root	1.387	%
5252	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5253	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5254			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5255			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5256			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5257			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5258			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5259			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5260			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5261			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5262			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5263			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5264	root	1.387	%
5265	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5266			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5267	root	1.387	%
5268	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5269			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5270			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5271			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5272			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5273			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5274			jurisprudence fun?
5275			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5276	root	1.387	%
5277	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5278			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5279			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5280	root	1.84	[...]
5281	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5282	root	1.387	%
5283	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5284			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5285			- Paul Ginsparg.
5286	root	1.387	%
5287	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5288			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5289			home.":))
5290			[erm...]
5291	root	1.387	%
5292	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5293
5294	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5295	root	1.387	%
5296	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5297	root	1.387	%
5298	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5299
5300			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5301			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5302			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5303			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5304	root	1.387	%
5305	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5306			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5307			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5308	root	1.387	%
5309	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5310	root	1.83
5311			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5312	root	1.82
5313			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5314			to use in future emails?
5315	root	1.387	%
5316	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5317			please?
5318
5319			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5320			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5321
5322	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5323	root	1.387	%
5324	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5325			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5326			last until February 16th 2003.
5327
5328			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5329			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5330			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5331			end.
5332
5333			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5334
5335			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5336			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5337			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5338			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5339			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5340			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5341			take place on October 27th.
5342
5343			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5344			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5345			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5346			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5347			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5348			the clock)...
5349	root	1.387	%
5350	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5351			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5352			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5353			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5354			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5355
5356			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5357			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5358			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5359			RedHat and SuSE).
5360
5361			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5362
5363			Pavel
5364	root	1.387	%
5365	root	1.81	Rik
5366	root	1.247	--
5367	root	1.81	A: No.
5368			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5369	root	1.387	%
5370	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5371	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5372			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5373	root	1.81
5374			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5375			no useful data.
5376
5377	root	1.247	--
5378	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5379	root	1.387	%
5380	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5381			there was a long do..while construct,
5382			which contained a switch statement,
5383			which contained an if clause,
5384			which contained a break,
5385			which was intended for the if clause,
5386			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5387
5388			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5389			network January 15, 1990
5390	root	1.387	%
5391	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5392
5393	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5394			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5395			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5396			violation of network policies.
5397	root	1.80
5398			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5399
5400			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5401			The format is as follows:
5402
5403			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5404	root	1.387	%
5405	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5406			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5407			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5408	root	1.387	%
5409	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5410			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5411			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5412			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5413			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5414			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5415			...
5416			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5417			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5418			the effort."
5419	root	1.387	%
5420	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5421	root	1.387	%
5422	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5423			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5424	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5425	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5426			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5427	root	1.387	%
5428	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5429	root	1.387	%
5430	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5431	root	1.387	%
5432	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5433			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5434			[Albert Cahalan]
5435	root	1.387	%
5436	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5437			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5438			least as bad, but lesser known.
5439	root	1.387	%
5440	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5441			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5442			different.
5443	root	1.387	%
5444	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.
5445	root	1.387	%
5446	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5447			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5448	root	1.387	%
5449	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5450			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5451			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5452			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5453			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5454			without a show.
5455	root	1.387	%
5456	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5457	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5458	root	1.387	%
5459	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5460	root	1.387	%
5461	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5462			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5463	root	1.387	%
5464	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5465			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5466			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5467	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5468	root	1.71	going on.
5469			[...]
5470	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5471			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5472			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5473	root	1.387	%
5474	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5475			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5476	root	1.387	%
5477	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5478	root	1.387	%
5479	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5480	root	1.387	%
5481	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5482			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5483			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5484	root	1.387	%
5485	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5486			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5487			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5488			returned data.
5489
5490	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5491			FindExInfoStandard
5492			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5493	root	1.387	%
5494	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5495	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5496			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5497	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5498	root	1.387	%
5499	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5500			it doesn't work:]
5501			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5502			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5503			this MIME type as the final determination.
5504	root	1.387	%
5505	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5506
5507			Recode 0.1.1
5508			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5509
5510			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5511			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5512
5513			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5514	root	1.387	%
5515	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5516	root	1.387	%
5517	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5518	root	1.387	%
5519	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5520
5521			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5522			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5523			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5524			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5525			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5526			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5527			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5528			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5529			century."
5530
5531			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5532			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5533			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5534			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5535			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5536			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5537			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5538			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5539			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5540			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5541			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5542			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5543			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5544			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5545
5546			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5547			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5548			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5549			hilarious in light of the above.
5550			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5551
5552			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5553			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5554			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5555			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5556			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5557			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5558			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5559
5560			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5561			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5562			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5563			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5564	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5565	root	1.387	%
5566	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5567	root	1.387	%
5568	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5569			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5570	root	1.387	%
5571	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5572			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5573			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5574
5575			Tony Hoare
5576	root	1.387	%
5577	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5578			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5579	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5580	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5581	root	1.387	%
5582	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5583
5584			[...]
5585			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5586			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5587			system. Basically its windows computer
5588	root	1.387	%
5589	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5590	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5591	root	1.387	%
5592	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5593
5594			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5595			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5596			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5597			> software developers...
5598
5599			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5600	root	1.387	%
5601	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5602			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5603			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5604			>
5605			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5606
5607			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5608			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5609
5610			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5611			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5612
5613			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5614			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5615			off by throwing away the patch.
5616
5617			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5618			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5619			patch any time soon.
5620
5621			--
5622			Daniel
5623	root	1.387	%
5624	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5625			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5626			[...]
5627			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5628			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5629			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5630	root	1.387	%
5631	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5632
5633			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5634			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5635			Is it realy needed?
5636	root	1.387	%
5637	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5638
5639			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5640
5641			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5642			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5643			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5644	root	1.387	%
5645	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5646			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5647			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5648			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5649			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5650			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5651			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5652	root	1.387	%
5653	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5654
5655			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5656			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5657			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5658			>
5659			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5660
5661			This is an ex-parrot
5662	root	1.387	%
5663	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5664
5665			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5666			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5667			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5668			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5669			>
5670			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5671			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5672
5673			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5674
5675			while (!sorted(data))
5676			;
5677	root	1.387	%
5678	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5679			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5680
5681			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5682
5683			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5684			to computing
5685	root	1.387	%
5686	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5687
5688			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5689			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5690
5691			Common sense, one would hope.
5692	root	1.387	%
5693	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5694			[...]
5695
5696			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5697			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5698			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5699
5700			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5701
5702			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5703			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5704			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5705			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5706
5707			:-)
5708	root	1.387	%
5709	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5710			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5711			their C programs."
5712	root	1.60
5713			Robert Firth
5714	root	1.387	%
5715	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5716	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5717	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5718			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5719	root	1.387	%
5720	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5721	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5722	root	1.387	%
5723	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5724			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5725	root	1.387	%
5726	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5727	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5728	root	1.387	%
5729	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5730	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5731			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5732	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5733			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5734	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5735			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5736
5737			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5738
5739			\Gisbert
5740	root	1.387	%
5741	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5742	root	1.387	%
5743	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5744			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5745			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5746	root	1.387	%
5747	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5748			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5749
5750			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5751			[...]
5752	root	1.387	%
5753	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5754			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5755			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5756
5757			ok 1
5758			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5759			not ok 2
5760			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5761	root	1.387	%
5762	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5763
5764			Cheers,
5765
5766			Andre Hedrick
5767			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5768	root	1.387	%
5769	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5770	root	1.247	>
5771	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5772
5773			Or mutabloat :-(
5774	root	1.387	%
5775	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5776			Outlook IS the solution.
5777	root	1.387	%
5778	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5779	root	1.387	%
5780	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5781
5782			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5783			never bought anything from UUNet.
5784	root	1.387	%
5785	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5786			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5787			by delving below its surface meaning)
5788	root	1.387	%
5789	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5790	root	1.387	%
5791	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5792
5793			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5794			> just go to court and say:
5795
5796			Oh glorious naivety.
5797
5798			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5799			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5800			> can do the work better than I).
5801
5802			You release the code
5803
5804			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5805
5806			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5807			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5808			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5809			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5810
5811			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5812			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5813
5814			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5815			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5816
5817			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5818
5819			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5820			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5821			or that the good guys win.
5822
5823			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5824			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5825	root	1.387	%
5826	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5827
5828			[...]
5829			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5830			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5831	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5832	root	1.51	year to kill.
5833	root	1.387	%
5834	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5835			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5836
5837			[...]
5838			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5839			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5840			of for Windows desktop systems."
5841			[...]
5842			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5843			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5844			[...]
5845			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5846			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5847			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5848			turned on by default.
5849			[...]
5850			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5851			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5852			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5853			[...]
5854			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5855			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5856			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5857			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5858			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5859			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5860			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5861			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5862			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5863	root	1.387	%
5864	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5865	root	1.387	%
5866	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5867	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5868	root	1.49
5869			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5870
5871			Monday, 06. November 2000
5872	root	1.387	%
5873	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5874			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5875	root	1.387	%
5876	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5877	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5878			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5879			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5880	root	1.387	%
5881	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5882			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5883			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5884			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5885	root	1.387	%
5886	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5887			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5888
5889			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5890			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5891			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5892	root	1.387	%
5893	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5894			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5895
5896			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5897			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5898			> dropped patches.
5899
5900			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5901	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5902	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5903			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5904			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5905			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5906	root	1.387	%
5907	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5908			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5909			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5910	root	1.387	%
5911	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5912
5913			From: Bill Huey
5914			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5915
5916			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5917
5918			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5919	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5920	root	1.45	themselves.
5921
5922			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5923			certain.
5924	root	1.387	%
5925	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5926			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5927			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5928
5929			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5930			appropriate approach to a problem.
5931	root	1.387	%
5932	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5933	root	1.44	^^^^
5934			[...]
5935			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5936			[...]
5937			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5938			-15 Nice winter day
5939			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5940			-5 Nice warm winter day
5941			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5942	root	1.387	%
5943	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5944			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5945			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5946			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5947	root	1.387	%
5948	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5949			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5950
5951			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5952
5953			-ben
5954	root	1.387	%
5955	root	1.43	[...]
5956	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5957			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5958			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5959			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5960			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5961			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5962			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5963			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5964			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5965			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5966			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5967	root	1.387	%
5968	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5969			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5970	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5971	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5972			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5973			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5974			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5975			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5976			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5977	root	1.43	statt...
5978	root	1.387	%
5979	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5980	root	1.387	%
5981	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5982			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5983			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5984			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5985			values." Who writes this stuff?
5986	root	1.387	%
5987	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5988	root	1.387	%
5989	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5990			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5991			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5992			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5993			> "Macao".
5994			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5995			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5996	root	1.387	%
5997	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5998	root	1.387	%
5999	root	1.40	Beitrag
6000	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
6001	root	1.40
6002			fucklinux
6003
6004			IP: 217.83.123.198
6005
6006			1. FUCK LINUX
6007
6008	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6009	root	1.40
6010			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6011	root	1.387	%
6012	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6013	root	1.40
6014			[...]
6015			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6016			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6017			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6018			read...
6019	root	1.387	%
6020	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6021			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6022			depends on the unreasonable man.
6023
6024			-George Bernard Shaw
6025	root	1.387	%
6026	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6027
6028			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6029	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6030	root	1.387	%
6031	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:
6032	root	1.387	%
6033	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
6034			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6035			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6036			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6037			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6038	root	1.387	%
6039	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6040			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6041	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6042	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6043			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6044	root	1.387	%
6045	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6046			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6047			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6048			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6049			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6050			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6051			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6052			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).
6053			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6054			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6055	root	1.387	%
6056	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6057			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6058			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6059			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6060			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6061			removed in Windows XP.
6062
6063			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6064			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6065			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6066			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6067	root	1.387	%
6068	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6069			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6070			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6071			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6072			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6073			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6074			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6075			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6076			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6077			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6078
6079			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6080			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6081			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6082			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6083			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6084			you have no details?
6085			[...]
6086			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6087			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6088			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6089			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6090			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6091			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6092			the industrial terrorists want."
6093	root	1.387	%
6094	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6095			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6096	root	1.387	%
6097	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6098	root	1.387	%
6099	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6100			of each 50 days
6101	root	1.387	%
6102	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6103
6104			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6105			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6106			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6107	root	1.387	%
6108	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6109			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6110			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6111	root	1.387	%
6112	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6113			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6114	root	1.247	>
6115	root	1.35	> <...>
6116			>
6117			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6118			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6119			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6120	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6121	root	1.387	%
6122	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6123			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6124			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6125	root	1.387	%
6126	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6127			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6128			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6129
6130	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6131			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6132			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6133			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6134			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6135			changing run level, interactive boot.
6136	root	1.35
6137			Alan
6138	root	1.387	%
6139	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6140
6141			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6142			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6143
6144			First they came for the Communists,
6145			and I didn't speak up,
6146			because I wasn't a Communist.
6147			Then they came for the Jews,
6148			and I didn't speak up,
6149			because I wasn't a Jew.
6150			Then they came for the Catholics,
6151			and I didn't speak up,
6152			because I was a Protestant.
6153			Then they came for me,
6154			and by that time there was no one
6155			left to speak up for me.
6156
6157			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6158	root	1.387	%
6159	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6160	root	1.387	%
6161	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6162			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6163	root	1.387	%
6164	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6165			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6166			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6167			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6168
6169			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6170	root	1.387	%
6171	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6172
6173			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6174			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6175			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6176			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6177			used databases!"
6178	root	1.387	%
6179	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6180
6181			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6182
6183			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6184			change that was not?
6185			[...]
6186	root	1.387	%
6187	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6188
6189			[...]
6190
6191	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6192	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6193			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6194
6195	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6196	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6197			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6198			them anywhere else").
6199
6200			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6201			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6202	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6203	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6204			order..
6205
6206	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6207	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6208	root	1.387	%
6209	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6210			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6211			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6212
6213			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6214	root	1.387	%
6215	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6216	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6217			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6218			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6219			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6220	root	1.387	%
6221	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6222			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6223
6224			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6225			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6226			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6227			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6228			series.
6229
6230			[...]
6231	root	1.387	%
6232	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6233	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6234	root	1.387	%
6235	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6236			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6237			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6238
6239			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6240			then save." g
6241
6242			/* Steinar */
6243	root	1.387	%
6244	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6245			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6246
6247			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6248			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6249			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6250			a bill...
6251	root	1.387	%
6252	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6253			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6254			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6255
6256			Sorry. Mea culpa
6257
6258			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6259			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6260			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6261			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6262			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6263			*/
6264			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6265			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6266			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6267			int fpu_exception;
6268	root	1.387	%
6269	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6270
6271			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6272
6273			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6274			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6275			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6276			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6277			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6278	root	1.387	%
6279	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6280
6281			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6282			people.
6283	root	1.387	%
6284	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6285			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6286
6287			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6288			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6289			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6290			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6291			the question.
6292			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6293	root	1.387	%
6294	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6295			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6296			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6297			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6298			(September)
6299	root	1.387	%
6300	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6301	root	1.387	%
6302	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6303			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6304			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6305			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6306			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6307	root	1.387	%
6308	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6309			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6310	root	1.387	%
6311	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6312			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6313			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6314			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6315			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6316	root	1.387	%
6317	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6318	root	1.387	%
6319	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6320	root	1.387	%
6321	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6322			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6323			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6324			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6325			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6326			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6327			you tell them.
6328	root	1.387	%
6329	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6330			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6331			alcohol.
6332
6333			Regards
6334			Henning
6335	root	1.387	%
6336	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6337			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6338			> on a desktop system.
6339
6340			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6341			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6342
6343			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6344			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6345
6346			Alan
6347	root	1.387	%
6348	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6349			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6350
6351			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6352			>
6353			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6354			> Use Welsh
6355
6356			Don't forget
6357
6358			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6359			Use Finnish
6360
6361			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6362
6363			And while we're at it,
6364
6365			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6366			Use German
6367
6368			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6369			Use English
6370
6371			MfG Kai
6372	root	1.387	%
6373	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6374
6375			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6376			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6377			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6378			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6379			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6380			there's no one thinking there.
6381			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6382	root	1.387	%
6383	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6384			scores the rules:
6385
6386			[*]
6387			Score:: =-9999
6388	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6389	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6390			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6391			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6392			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6393
6394			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6395			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6396			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6397			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6398			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6399
6400			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6401			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6402			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6403			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6404	root	1.387	%
6405	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6406			98 IIS servers online...
6407	root	1.387	%
6408	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6409			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6410			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6411			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6412
6413			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6414			it to be otherwise.
6415
6416			Abigail
6417	root	1.387	%
6418	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6419	root	1.387	%
6420	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6421	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6422	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6423	root	1.387	%
6424	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6425	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6426	root	1.387	%
6427	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6428			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6429			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6430			software people doing the same)
6431
6432			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6433			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6434			irrelevant
6435
6436			Alan
6437	root	1.387	%
6438	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6439			Comments may nest.
6440	root	1.387	%
6441	root	1.22	[from findas]
6442			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6443			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6444			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6445			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6446			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6447			# address distributino is... arin.
6448	root	1.387	%
6449	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6450			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6451	root	1.387	%
6452	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6453			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6454			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6455			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6456			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6457	root	1.247	>
6458	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6459
6460			$foot->insert($mouth);
6461
6462			# or is that
6463
6464			$mouth->insert($foot);
6465
6466			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6467			How utterly optimistic :-)
6468	root	1.387	%
6469	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6470			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6471			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6472			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6473			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6474			>can see why it happens)
6475			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6476
6477			Well, there's perl... :)
6478	root	1.387	%
6479	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6480			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6481			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6482			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6483			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6484	root	1.247	* boxes.
6485	root	1.387	%
6486	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6487			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6488			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6489	root	1.387	%
6490	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6491			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6492	root	1.387	%
6493	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6494			From: Juergen Christoffel
6495			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6496			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6497
6498			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6499
6500			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6501			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6502			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6503			schon;
6504
6505			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6506			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6507			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6508
6509			Danke, JC
6510	root	1.387	%
6511	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6512			#undef REASONABLE
6513	root	1.387	%
6514	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6515			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6516
6517			Alan
6518	root	1.387	%
6519	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6520			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6521			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6522			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6523	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6524	root	1.18	> anything.
6525
6526			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6527			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6528	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6529			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6530	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6531			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6532
6533			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6534			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6535			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6536			always a good idea.
6537	root	1.387	%
6538	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6539			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6540
6541	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6542	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6543	root	1.387	%
6544	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6545			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6546			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6547			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6548	root	1.387	%
6549	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6550	root	1.387	%
6551	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6552	root	1.18
6553			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6554			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6555	root	1.387	%
6556	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6557			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6558			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6559			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6560	root	1.387	%
6561	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6562	root	1.387	%
6563	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6564			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6565			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6566			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6567			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6568			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6569	root	1.387	%
6570	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6571
6572			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6573			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6574			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6575			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6576			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6577			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6578			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6579	root	1.387	%
6580	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6581			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6582			future. Bleeeh]
6583
6584			From: Larry McVoy
6585
6586	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6587	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6588			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6589			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6590			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6591			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6592			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6593			not for the exceptional case.
6594	root	1.387	%
6595	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6596			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6597			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6598			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6599			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6600			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6601			stack.
6602
6603			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6604			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6605			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6606
6607			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6608			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6609	root	1.387	%
6610	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6611
6612	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6613			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6614			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6615			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6616	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6617	root	1.247	>
6618	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6619			> on the CPU?
6620
6621			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6622	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6623	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6624			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6625
6626			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6627			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6628			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6629			the point again".
6630	root	1.387	%
6631	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6632
6633	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6634			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6635	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6636	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6637	root	1.247	>
6638	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6639			> scenario.
6640
6641			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6642	root	1.387	%
6643	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6644	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6645			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6646			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6647	root	1.387	%
6648	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6649			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6650			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6651			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6652			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6653			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6654			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6655			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6656			anything.
6657	root	1.387	%
6658	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6659	root	1.387	%
6660	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6661			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6662	root	1.387	%
6663	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6664			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6665			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6666			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6667			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6668
6669			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6670	root	1.387	%
6671	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6672
6673			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6674
6675			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6676			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6677			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6678			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6679			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6680
6681			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6682			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6683			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6684			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6685			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6686			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6687			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6688			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6689			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6690			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6691			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6692			to work through the learning curve.
6693	root	1.387	%
6694	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6695	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6696	root	1.387	%
6697	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6698			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6699	root	1.387	%
6700	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6701			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6702	root	1.387	%
6703	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6704			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6705	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6706			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6707	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6708	root	1.387	%
6709	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6710	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6711	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6712	root	1.387	%
6713	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6714			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6715	root	1.387	%
6716	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6717			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6718			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6719			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6720			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6721			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6722			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6723			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6724
6725	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6726	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6727	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6728	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6729			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6730
6731			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6732			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6733			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6734			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6735			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6736			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6737			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6738	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6739	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6740			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6741			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6742	root	1.387	%
6743	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6744			/*---.
6745			\| ? \|
6746			`---*/
6747	root	1.387	%
6748	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6749	root	1.387	%
6750	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6751			From: Joe Buck
6752			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6753			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6754	root	1.387	%
6755	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6756			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6757	root	1.387	%
6758	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6759	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6760	root	1.387	%
6761	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6762	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6763	root	1.387	%
6764	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6765	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6766	root	1.4	...
6767			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6768	root	1.387	%
6769	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6770	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6771			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6772			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6773
6774			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6775
6776			Alan
6777	root	1.387	%
6778	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6779	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6780			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6781			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6782			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6783	root	1.387	%
6784	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6785	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6786			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6787			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6788			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6789			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6790			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6791	root	1.387	%
6792	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6793			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6794			will find an easier way to do it.
6795	root	1.387	%
6796	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6797	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6798			Paul wrote:
6799			>Marc wrote:
6800	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6801			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6802			> den richtigen.
6803	root	1.387	%
6804	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6805			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6806	root	1.387	%
6807	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6808			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6809	root	1.387	%
6810	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6811			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6812	root	1.387	%
6813	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6814			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6815			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6816			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6817			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6818	root	1.387	%
6819	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6820			[...]
6821
6822			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6823
6824			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6825	root	1.387	%
6826	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6827			> constants.
6828
6829			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6830	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6831	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6832	root	1.387	%
6833	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6834	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6835
6836			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6837			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6838			much to do with IRC.
6839	root	1.387	%
6840	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6841			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6842
6843			[...]
6844			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6845
6846			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6847			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6848	root	1.387	%
6849	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6850	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6851	root	1.387	%
6852	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6853
6854			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6855			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6856			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6857
6858			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6859			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6860			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6861			shows how much you know, pal.
6862
6863			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6864	root	1.387	%
6865	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6866			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6867			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6868	root	1.387	%
6869	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6870			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6871			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6872			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6873	root	1.387	%
6874	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6875			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6876			Your version of perl sucks.
6877	root	1.387	%
6878	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6879			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6880			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6881			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6882			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6883			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6884			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6885			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6886	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6887	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6888			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6889	root	1.387	%
6890	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6891			before you can understand it :)
6892	root	1.387	%
6893	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6894			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6895			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6896	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6897	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6898			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6899			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6900
6901			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6902			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6903			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6904			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6905			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6906			be worth attempting).
6907
6908			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6909			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6910			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6911
6912			Nick.
6913	root	1.387	%
6914	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6915			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6916			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6917
6918	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6919	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6920			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6921			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6922			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6923	root	1.387	%
6924	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6925			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6926			> > > to work :-)
6927	root	1.247	> >
6928	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6929	root	1.247	>
6930	root	1.1	> Eh?
6931	root	1.247	>
6932	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6933			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6934
6935			He didn't say it worked. :)
6936	root	1.387	%
6937	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6938
6939			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6940			> I find it irksome that
6941	root	1.247	>
6942	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6943
6944			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6945	root	1.387	%
6946	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6947			From: Simon Cozens
6948
6949			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6950			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6951			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6952
6953			Looks like a feature to me.
6954	root	1.387	%
6955	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6956	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6957	root	1.387	%
6958	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6959			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6960
6961			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6962			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6963			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6964			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6965
6966			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6967			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6968			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6969			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6970			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6971			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6972	root	1.387	%
6973	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6974			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6975			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6976			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6977			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6978			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6979			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6980			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6981			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6982			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6983			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6984			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6985
6986			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6987			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6988			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6989
6990			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6991	root	1.387	%
6992	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6993			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6994			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6995			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6996			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6997			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6998			replication."
6999			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
7000	root	1.387	%
7001	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
7002			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7003
7004			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7005			shows.
7006
7007			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7008			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7009			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7010
7011			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7012			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7013			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7014			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7015			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7016
7017			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7018			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7019			up with a saner protocol.
7020	root	1.387	%
7021	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7022			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7023			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7024
7025			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7026			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7027			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7028	root	1.387	%
7029	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7030			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7031			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7032			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7033			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7034			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7035	root	1.387	%
7036	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7037			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7038	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7039			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7040			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7041			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7042	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7043	root	1.387	%
7044	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7045	root	1.387	%
7046	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7047			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7048	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7049	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7050	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7051	root	1.387	%
7052	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7053			"ist mir egal"
7054	root	1.387	%
7055	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7056			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7057
7058			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7059	root	1.387	%
7060	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7061			hallole
7062	root	1.387	%
7063	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7064			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7065			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7066	root	1.387	%
7067	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7068			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7069			1929 The pause that refreshes
7070			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7071			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7072			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7073			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7074			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7075			1939 Thirst stops here
7076			1942 It's the real thing
7077			1947 Have a Coke
7078			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7079			1963 Things go better with Coke
7080			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7081			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7082			1982 Coke is it!
7083			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7084	root	1.387	%
7085	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7086			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7087	root	1.387	%
7088	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7089			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7090	root	1.387	%
7091	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7092	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7093			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7094			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7095			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7096			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7097			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7098			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7099			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7100			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7101			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7102			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7103			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7104			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7105			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7106
7107			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7108			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7109	root	1.387	%
7110	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7111			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7112
7113			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7114			uncool thing to do. [...]
7115	root	1.387	%
7116	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7117			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7118			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7119	root	1.387	%
7120	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7121	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7122	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7123	root	1.1
7124	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7125			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7126			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7127			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7128	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7129			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7130	root	1.387	%
7131	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7132			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7133			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7134			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7135			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7136			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7137			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7138
7139			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7140			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7141			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7142	root	1.387	%
7143	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7144
7145			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7146	root	1.387	%
7147	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7148			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7149			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7150			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7151			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7152	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7153	root	1.387	%
7154	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7155			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7156			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7157
7158			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7159			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7160
7161			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7162	root	1.387	%
7163	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7164	root	1.387	%
7165	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7166			From: Alan Cox
7167			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7168			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7169	root	1.247	>
7170			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7171	root	1.1
7172	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7173	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7174	root	1.387	%
7175	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7176			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7177			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7178
7179			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7180			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7181			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7182			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7183
7184			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7185
7186			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7187	root	1.387	%
7188	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7189	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7190			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7191	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7192	root	1.387	%
7193	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7194	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7195			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7196	root	1.387	%
7197	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7198			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7199	root	1.387	%
7200	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7201	root	1.387	%
7202	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7203			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7204			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7205	root	1.387	%
7206	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7207			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7208			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7209			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7210			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7211	root	1.387	%
7212	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7213	root	1.387	%
7214	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7215			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7216			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7217			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7218			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7219			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7220			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7221	root	1.387	%
7222	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7223			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7224	root	1.387	%
7225	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7226			perl:]
7227
7228			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7229
7230			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7231			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7232			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7233			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7234			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7235			disable the message and pray it works"]
7236	root	1.387	%
7237	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7238			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7239			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7240			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7241
7242			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7243			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7244			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7245			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7246			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7247	root	1.387	%
7248	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7249			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7250			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7251	root	1.387	%
7252	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7253			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7254			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7255			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7256			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7257	root	1.387	%
7258	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7259			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7260			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7261	root	1.387	%
7262	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7263			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7264	root	1.387	%
7265	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7266			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7267	root	1.387	%
7268	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7269			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7270			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7271			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7272			> it's a hard requirement.
7273
7274			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7275			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7276			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7277			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7278			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7279			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7280			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7281			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7282	root	1.387	%
7283	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7284			> Netscape?"
7285	root	1.247
7286	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7287			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7288	root	1.387	%
7289	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7290			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7291			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7292			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7293			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7294			the specified task step-by-step.
7295	root	1.387	%
7296	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7297
7298			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7299			be damned hard to understand."
7300	root	1.387	%
7301	root	1.1	[Linus]
7302			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7303			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7304			wrong. It's that simple.
7305	root	1.387	%
7306	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7307	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7308	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7309			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7310			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7311	root	1.247	Undernet>
7312	root	1.387	%
7313	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7314			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7315			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7316			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7317
7318			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7319			document that contains an element or attribute named
7320	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7321	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7322			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7323			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7324			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7325			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7326			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7327	root	1.387	%
7328	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7329			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7330			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7331			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7332			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7333			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7334	root	1.387	%
7335	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7336			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7337			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7338			[... snip ...]
7339			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7340			tragedy...
7341	root	1.387	%
7342	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7343	root	1.247
7344	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7345			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7346			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7347			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7348			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7349			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7350			>message plus attorney's fees.
7351			[SNIP long sig]
7352	root	1.247
7353	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7354			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7355			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7356	root	1.247
7357	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7358			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7359			procmailable address.
7360	root	1.247
7361	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7362			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7363			just a waste of bandwidth.
7364	root	1.387	%
7365	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7366	root	1.387	%
7367	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7368			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7369	root	1.387	%
7370	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7371	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7372	root	1.387	%
7373	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7374	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7375			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7376			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7377	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7378	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7379			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7380			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7381			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7382	root	1.387	%
7383	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7384	root	1.387	%
7385	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7386	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7387	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7388	root	1.387	%
7389	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7390			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7391			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7392			immediately and not block the calling process.
7393
7394			the man pages are wrong
7395
7396			--cw
7397	root	1.387	%
7398	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7399			...
7400			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7401	root	1.387	%
7402	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7403			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7404	root	1.387	%
7405	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7406			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7407			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7408
7409			How fast does it oops?
7410	root	1.387	%
7411	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7412
7413			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7414			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7415			> touch is 2Gig.
7416
7417			In theory, yes.
7418			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7419			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7420	root	1.387	%
7421	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7422			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7423			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7424			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7425			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7426			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
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			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7435			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7436			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7437	root	1.387	%
7438	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7439	root	1.387	%
7440	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7441			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7442			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7443			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7444			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7445	root	1.387	%
7446	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7447			[Lukas Grunwald]
7448	root	1.387	%
7449	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7450			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7451			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7452			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7453
7454			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7455			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7456			> > prompt.
7457			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7458			> /proc/info/authors?
7459	root	1.247
7460	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7461			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7462			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7463			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7464			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7465			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7466	root	1.247
7467	root	1.1	NOT.
7468			[...]
7469	root	1.387	%
7470	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7471			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7472			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7473	root	1.247
7474	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7475			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7476			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7477			> an interesting experiment.
7478	root	1.247
7479	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7480			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7481			to disagree...
7482	root	1.387	%
7483	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7484			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7485			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7486			[und Lukas sagt:]
7487			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7488	root	1.387	%
7489	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7490			report:]
7491			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7492			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7493			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7494			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7495	root	1.387	%
7496	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7497			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7498	root	1.387	%
7499	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7500			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7501			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7502
7503			Alexander Viro wrote:
7504			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7505			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7506			>
7507			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7508			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7509			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7510			> UNIX.
7511
7512			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7513			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7514			docs... ew!
7515	root	1.387	%
7516	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7517			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7518			> protected mode?
7519
7520			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7521			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7522			registers loaded ;)
7523	root	1.387	%
7524	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7525			[...]
7526			> backports hurt forward progress.
7527
7528			beware of content free dogma
7529	root	1.387	%
7530	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7531			> wondering.
7532
7533			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7534			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7535			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7536			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7537			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7538			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7539			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7540
7541			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7542	root	1.387	%
7543	root	1.1	>Keith,
7544	root	1.247	>
7545	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7546			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7547			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7548
7549			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7550			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7551			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7552			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7553			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7554			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7555			do the right thing.
7556
7557			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7558			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7559			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7560			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7561			and they have to fix it.
7562	root	1.387	%
7563	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7564			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7565			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7566			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7567	root	1.387	%
7568	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7569			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7570	root	1.387	%
7571	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7572			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7573			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7574			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7575
7576			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7577			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7578	root	1.387	%
7579	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7580			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7581	root	1.387	%
7582	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7583			glibc-2.2 was released]
7584			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7585	root	1.387	%
7586	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7587	root	1.387	%
7588	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7589			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7590			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7591	root	1.387	%
7592	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7593			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7594			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7595	root	1.387	%
7596	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7597
7598			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7599			standards-compliant.
7600			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7601			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7602			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7603			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7604			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7605			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7606	root	1.387	%
7607	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7608			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7609			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7610
7611			That's your problem.
7612
7613			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7614
7615			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7616			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7617	root	1.387	%
7618	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7619			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7620			> > out there) in the foot?
7621
7622			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7623
7624			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7625			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7626			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7627	root	1.387	%
7628	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7629			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7630			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7631
7632			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7633			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7634			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7635			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7636			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7637			--
7638			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7639	root	1.387	%
7640	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7641
7642			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7643			>
7644			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7645			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7646			>
7647			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7648
7649			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7650	root	1.387	%
7651	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7652			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7653			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7654	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7655	root	1.387	%
7656	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7657			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7658			Bullschildt below ;)]
7659
7660			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7661			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7662	root	1.387	%
7663	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7664			>
7665			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7666			>
7667			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7668			>
7669			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7670	root	1.387	%
7671	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7672
7673			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7674			it did the same thing.
7675
7676			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7677			a week ago. :(
7678
7679			--Jack
7680	root	1.387	%
7681	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7682	root	1.387	%
7683	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7684			-- K&R
7685	root	1.387	%
7686	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7687	root	1.387	%
7688	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7689			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7690	root	1.387	%
7691	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7692	root	1.387	%
7693	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7694			$modules => { "" => "" };
7695	root	1.387	%
7696	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7697	root	1.387	%
7698	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7699	root	1.387	%
7700	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7701			> --
7702			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7703			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7704	root	1.387	%
7705	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7706			From: "David Schwartz"
7707
7708			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7709			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7710			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7711			> pretty spiffy.
7712
7713			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7714			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7715			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7716			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7717	root	1.387	%
7718	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7719	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7720	root	1.387	%
7721	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7722			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7723			> of having bough one.
7724
7725			Not an uncommon thought :)
7726	root	1.387	%
7727	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7728
7729			Hi Marc !
7730
7731			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7732			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7733			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7734
7735			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7736	root	1.387	%
7737	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7738			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7739			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7740			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7741
7742			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7743			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7744			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7745
7746			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7747			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7748			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7749			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7750			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7751			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7752
7753			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7754			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7755
7756			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7757			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7758			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7759			right to left.
7760
7761			>But no culture
7762			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7763			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7764			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7765			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7766			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7767
7768			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7769
7770			--Alex
7771	root	1.387	%
7772	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7773			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7774			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7775
7776			[most of the reply snipped...]
7777
7778			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7779			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7780			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7781
7782			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7783
7784			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7785			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7786			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7787			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7788			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7789
7790			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7791			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7792			try to claim that they do?)
7793	root	1.387	%
7794	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7795
7796			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7797			> {
7798			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7799			> flush(load);
7800			> else
7801			> wear(load);
7802			> }
7803
7804			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7805			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7806
7807			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7808			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7809
7810			--
7811			dwmw2
7812	root	1.387	%
7813	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7814			are are overturned.
7815	root	1.387	%
7816	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7817	root	1.387	%
7818	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7819			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7820	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7821			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7822	root	1.387	%
7823	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7824			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7825			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7826			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7827			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7828			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7829			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7830	root	1.387	%
7831	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7832			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7833			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7834
7835			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7836			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7837			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7838	root	1.387	%
7839	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7840			Deadlock, n.:
7841			Deceased Rasterman.
7842	root	1.387	%
7843	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7844			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7845			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7846			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7847	root	1.387	%
7848	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7849			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7850	root	1.387	%
7851	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7852			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7853	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7854			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7855			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7856			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7857	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7858			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7859	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7860			Positionen für unwählbar.
7861	root	1.1
7862			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7863	root	1.387	%
7864	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7865			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7866			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7867
7868			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7869
7870			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7871			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7872			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7873			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7874			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7875
7876			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7877			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7878			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7879			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7880			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7881			results simply because I make a mistake!
7882
7883			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7884			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7885			errors.
7886
7887			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7888			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7889			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7890			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7891	root	1.387	%
7892	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7893			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7894			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7895			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7896			>
7897			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7898	root	1.387	%
7899	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7900			of nothing."
7901	root	1.387	%
7902	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7903			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7904			>
7905			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7906			> CPU?
7907
7908			Root password? :)
7909
7910			John.Fulmer
7911	root	1.387	%
7912	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7913
7914			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7915	root	1.387	%
7916	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7917			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7918			> which I prefer...
7919
7920			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7921			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7922			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7923			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7924			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7925			--
7926			Horst von Brand
7927	root	1.387	%
7928	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7929
7930			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7931
7932			[...]
7933
7934			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7935	root	1.387	%
7936	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7937			at your problem:]
7938
7939			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7940			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7941			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7942	root	1.387	%
7943	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7944			cp is inherently inefficient.
7945	root	1.387	%
7946	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7947			>breaking seals on them.
7948
7949			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7950			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7951			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7952
7953			...
7954
7955			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7956			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7957			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7958			could be just an urban myth though.
7959
7960			Russell Coker
7961	root	1.387	%
7962	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7963			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7964
7965			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7966	root	1.387	%
7967	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7968			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7969			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7970			> > deleting.
7971			>
7972			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7973
7974			Wrong. Yury does.
7975			:(
7976
7977			--
7978			Stefan
7979	root	1.387	%
7980	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7981			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7982			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7983			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7984			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7985			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7986			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7987
7988			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7989
7990			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7991	root	1.387	%
7992	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7993	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7994	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7995	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7996			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7997	root	1.387	%
7998	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7999			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
8000			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
8001			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
8002			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8003			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8004			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8005			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8006			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8007			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8008	root	1.387	%
8009	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8010			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8011			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8012	root	1.1	aus!
8013	root	1.387	%
8014	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8015			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8016	root	1.387	%
8017	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8018			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8019			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8020			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8021	root	1.387	%
8022	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8023			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8024	root	1.387	%
8025	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8026			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8027			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8028			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8029
8030			--tom
8031	root	1.387	%
8032	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8033			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8034
8035			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8036			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8037			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8038			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8039			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8040	root	1.387	%
8041	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8042			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8043			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8044			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8045			solutions.
8046
8047			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8048
8049			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8050			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8051			the background]
8052	root	1.387	%
8053	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8054			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8055			Security Response Center:
8056
8057			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8058			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8059
8060			[and later]
8061			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8062
8063			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8064
8065			[Phil closes]
8066			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8067
8068			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8069			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8070	root	1.387	%
8071	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8072			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8073			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8074			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8075			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8076			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8077			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8078	root	1.387	%
8079	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8080			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8081			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8082			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8083
8084			[Trashey / Quasars]
8085	root	1.387	%
8086	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8087			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8088			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8089
8090			Irony potential in
8091
8092			man perlrtfm
8093
8094			is left to the reader.
8095
8096			Nat
8097	root	1.387	%
8098	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8099			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8100
8101			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8102			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8103	root	1.387	%
8104	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8105			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8106			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8107	root	1.387	%
8108	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8109			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8110			Paul Tomblin
8111	root	1.387	%
8112	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8113			>I am morally
8114			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8115
8116			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8117			possibility...
8118
8119			Dan
8120	root	1.387	%
8121	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8122	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8123	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 :)
8124			<Mr> zugabe
8125	root	1.387	%
8126	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8127			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8128	root	1.387	%
8129	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8130			[cobol, sigh]
8131	root	1.387	%
8132	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8133			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8134			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8135			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8136			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8137			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8138			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8139			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8140
8141			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8142	root	1.387	%
8143	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8144
8145			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8146			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8147			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8148			after they regain their composure."
8149
8150			-- Paul Rinaldo
8151			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8152	root	1.387	%
8153	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8154			>
8155			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8156			>
8157			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8158
8159			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8160
8161			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8162
8163			;-}
8164
8165			--
8166
8167			ciao -
8168			Stefan
8169
8170	root	1.387	%
8171	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8172			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8173
8174			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8175			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8176			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8177			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8178			one' type remarks.
8179			[Alan Cox]
8180	root	1.387	%
8181	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8182
8183			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8184			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8185
8186			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8187	root	1.387	%
8188	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8189
8190			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8191			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8192			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8193	root	1.387	%
8194	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8195			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8196			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8197			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8198	root	1.387	%
8199	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8200			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8201
8202			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8203			is to me ok.
8204	root	1.387	%
8205	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8206
8207			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8208	root	1.387	%
8209	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8210			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8211	root	1.387	%
8212	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8213			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8214	root	1.387	%
8215	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8216			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8217			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8218
8219			Ralf
8220	root	1.387	%
8221	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8222			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8223			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8224
8225			david parsons
8226	root	1.387	%
8227	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8228			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8229
8230			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8231			>so that trick is not portable.
8232
8233			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8234			127.0.0.1 localhost
8235
8236			--tom
8237	root	1.387	%
8238	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8239			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8240			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8241			> >the question is moot.
8242			>
8243			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8244
8245			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8246
8247			Ilya
8248	root	1.387	%
8249	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8250			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8251			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8252			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8253			> trying.
8254
8255			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8256			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8257	root	1.387	%
8258	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8259			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8260			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8261			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8262	root	1.387	%
8263	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8264			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8265			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8266	root	1.387	%
8267	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8268			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8269			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8270			> blocking :-)
8271
8272			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8273			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8274			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8275			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8276			reasons.
8277
8278			DS
8279	root	1.387	%
8280	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8281	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8282	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8283	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8284	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8285
8286			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8287	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8288	root	1.387	%
8289	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8290			[...]
8291			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8292			[...]
8293
8294			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8295			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8296			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8297			with each other on the same channel.
8298
8299			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8300			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8301
8302			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8303	root	1.387	%
8304	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8305			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8306	root	1.387	%
8307	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8308	root	1.387	%
8309	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8310			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8311			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8312			ok
8313	root	1.387	%
8314	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8315			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8316	root	1.387	%
8317	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8318			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8319			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8320			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8321			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8322			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8323			<Xach> burrito, focus
8324			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8325	root	1.387	%
8326	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8327			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8328			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8329			tested it." ...
8330	root	1.387	%
8331	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8332	root	1.387	%
8333	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8334
8335			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8336			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8337			>
8338			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8339			>
8340			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8341			>
8342			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8343			>
8344			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8345			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8346			>systems.
8347
8348
8349			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8350			had.
8351
8352			--
8353			Neal Bridges
8354	root	1.387	%
8355	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8356
8357			> Hi folks,
8358			> 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?
8359			> please reply to
8360			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8361			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8362
8363			Parse error.
8364
8365			---
8366			Alex
8367	root	1.387	%
8368	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8369
8370			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8371			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8372
8373			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8374			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8375			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8376
8377			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8378	root	1.387	%
8379	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8380	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8381	root	1.387	%
8382	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8383			ii = 44;
8384			p = &ii;
8385			p = ii/p;
8386			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8387			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8388	root	1.387	%
8389	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8390			> Linux time then.
8391
8392			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8393
8394			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8395			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8396
8397			Roger.
8398	root	1.387	%
8399	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8400	root	1.387	%
8401	root	1.1	auto accident;
8402			register voters;
8403			static electricity;
8404			struct by_lightning;
8405			void *where_prohibited;
8406			char broiled;
8407			short circuit;
8408			short changed;
8409			long johns;
8410			unsigned long letter;
8411			double entendre;
8412			double trouble;
8413			union organizer;
8414			float valve;
8415			short pants;
8416			union station;
8417			void check; unsigned check;
8418			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8419	root	1.387	%
8420	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8421			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8422			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8423	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8424	root	1.387	%
8425	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8426
8427			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8428			worstation.
8429	root	1.387	%
8430	root	1.1	I wrote
8431			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8432			$/
8433
8434			Damn shift key.
8435
8436
8437			Mike Guy
8438	root	1.387	%
8439	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8440			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8441			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8442			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8443			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8444			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8445			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8446			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8447			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8448	root	1.387	%
8449	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8450
8451			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8452
8453			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8454			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8455			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8456			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8457
8458			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8459	root	1.387	%
8460	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8461			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8462
8463			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8464			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8465			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8466			easy to bother.
8467
8468			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8469			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8470			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8471			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8472
8473			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8474
8475			Larry
8476	root	1.387	%
8477	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8478			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8479			Yeah. :-)
8480	root	1.387	%
8481	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8482			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8483			[...]
8484			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8485
8486			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8487			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8488			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8489			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8490
8491			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8492			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8493			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8494			receipts aren't used anymore.
8495	root	1.387	%
8496	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8497			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8498			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8499	root	1.387	%
8500	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8501			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8502			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8503			> versteht?"
8504	root	1.387	%
8505	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8506			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8507			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8508			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8509	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8510	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8511	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8512	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8513			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8514			ji!
8515	root	1.387	%
8516	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8517			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8518			[Larry Wall]
8519	root	1.387	%
8520	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8521			Altpreussen.
8522			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8523			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8524	root	1.387	%
8525	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8526			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8527			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8528			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8529			>
8530	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8531			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8532	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8533
8534	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8535	root	1.1	Norbert?
8536	root	1.387	%
8537	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8538	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8539			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8540	root	1.387	%
8541	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8542	root	1.387	%
8543	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8544	root	1.387	%
8545	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8546			From: "Steve"
8547			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8548			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8549			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8550
8551			[the following was a single line, of course]
8552			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8553			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8554			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8555			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8556			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8557
8558			Thanks,
8559
8560			Steve
8561	root	1.387	%
8562	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8563			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8564			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8565			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8566	root	1.387	%
8567	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8568			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8569			<tigert> ahem
8570	root	1.387	%
8571	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8572			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8573			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8574	root	1.387	%
8575	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8576			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8577			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8578			Subject: It's soup.
8579
8580			Okay, it's there.
8581
8582			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8583
8584			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8585
8586			Larry
8587	root	1.387	%
8588	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8589	root	1.387	%
8590	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8591			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8592			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8593			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8594			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8595	root	1.387	%
8596	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8597			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8598			>
8599			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8600			> And there's no mouse.
8601			>
8602			> Abigail
8603
8604			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8605
8606			Matt.
8607	root	1.387	%
8608	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8609			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8610
8611			- --tom
8612	root	1.387	%
8613	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8614			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8615
8616			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8617			>
8618			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8619			> 2.2.11 release?
8620
8621			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8622
8623			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8624
8625			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8626	root	1.387	%
8627	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8628	root	1.387	%
8629	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8630			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8631			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8632			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8633			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8634			> that much ;-)
8635
8636			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8637	root	1.387	%
8638	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8639			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8640	root	1.387	%
8641	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8642			<QUOTE>
8643			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8644
8645			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8646			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8647			</QUOTE>
8648	root	1.387	%
8649	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8650			and routes around it.
8651
8652			Roger Larsson
8653	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8654	root	1.387	%
8655	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8656			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8657	root	1.387	%
8658	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8659			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8660	root	1.387	%
8661	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8662
8663			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8664			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8665			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8666			on different JVMs.
8667
8668			[and later]
8669
8670			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8671			adventure gaming:
8672
8673			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8674			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8675	root	1.387	%
8676	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8677			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8678
8679			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8680
8681			NK> ?? -> huh?
8682
8683			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8684
8685			<chaim>
8686	root	1.387	%
8687	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8688			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8689			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8690			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8691			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8692			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8693	root	1.387	%
8694	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8695	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8696	root	1.387	%
8697	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8698			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8699			page]
8700			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8701			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8702			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8703			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8704			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8705			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8706			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8707			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8708			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8709			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8710	root	1.387	%
8711	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8712			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8713			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8714			don't actually get anything DONE.
8715	root	1.387	%
8716	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8717			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8718			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8719			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8720	root	1.387	%
8721	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8722			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8723			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8724			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8725
8726			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8727	root	1.387	%
8728	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8729			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8730			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8731	root	1.387	%
8732	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8733			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8734			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8735	root	1.387	%
8736	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8737
8738			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8739			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8740			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8741			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8742			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8743			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8744			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8745			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8746			got the T-shirt.
8747	root	1.387	%
8748	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8749			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8750			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8751			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8752			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8753			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8754			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8755
8756			Linus writes, to Craig:
8757
8758			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8759			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8760			> thus choices than gcc.
8761
8762			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8763			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8764			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8765			far more complex than the kernel.
8766
8767			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8768			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8769
8770			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8771	root	1.387	%
8772	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8773			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8774			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8775
8776			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8777			[...]
8778			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8779			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8780			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8781			>let the user be in control.
8782
8783			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8784			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8785			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8786			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8787			compilers?
8788	root	1.387	%
8789	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8790			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8791
8792			Linus writes:
8793			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8794			> gcc could do better?
8795
8796			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8797			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8798			before you had so many worshippers.
8799	root	1.387	%
8800	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8801			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8802			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8803			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8804			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8805
8806			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8807
8808			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8809			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8810			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8811			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8812
8813			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8814
8815			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8816
8817			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8818			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8819
8820			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8821
8822			>:->
8823
8824			Brane
8825
8826
8827			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8828			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8829			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8830			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8831			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8832
8833
8834			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8835	root	1.387	%
8836	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8837	root	1.387	%
8838	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8839			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8840			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8841	root	1.387	%
8842	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8843			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8844			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8845	root	1.387	%
8846	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8847
8848			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8849
8850			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8851	root	1.387	%
8852	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8853			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8854			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8855			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8856
8857			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8858
8859			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8860			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8861			:
8862			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8863			:
8864			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8865			:
8866			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8867	root	1.387	%
8868	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8869	root	1.387	%
8870	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8871			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8872			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8873			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8874			>
8875			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8876			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8877
8878			The classic example:
8879
8880			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8881			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8882	root	1.387	%
8883	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8884			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8885
8886			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8887			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8888			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8889
8890			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8891
8892			--tom
8893	root	1.387	%
8894	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8895			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8896			working on something for me
8897			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8898			to me nutting concerning y ok
8899			piece
8900			russ
8901	root	1.387	%
8902	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8903
8904			pico (text editor for beginners)
8905			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8906			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8907			ed (text editor for beginners)
8908	root	1.387	%
8909	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8910
8911			use Python;
8912
8913			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8914			Except maybe faster. :-)
8915
8916			Larry
8917	root	1.387	%
8918	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8919
8920			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8921			2010.
8922
8923			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8924	root	1.387	%
8925	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8926			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8927			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8928			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8929			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8930			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8931			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8932			been created.
8933	root	1.387	%
8934	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8935			>
8936			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8937			> $3.99.
8938			>
8939			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8940			>
8941			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8942			>
8943			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8944			>
8945			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8946			>
8947			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8948			>
8949			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8950			> got integrated Coke!
8951			>
8952			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8953			> to drink the Coke.
8954			>
8955			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8956			>
8957			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8958			>
8959			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8960			> inseparable.
8961			>
8962			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8963			>
8964			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8965			>
8966			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8967			>
8968			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8969			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8970			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8971	root	1.387	%
8972	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8973			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8974	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8975	root	1.387	%
8976	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8977
8978			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8979			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8980			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8981			for you to digest this book.
8982			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8983			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8984			Join The Trickle
8985			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8986			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8987			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8988	root	1.387	%
8989	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8990			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8991			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8992			complete and utter vapourware.
8993
8994			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8995	root	1.387	%
8996	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8997
8998			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8999			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
9000	root	1.387	%
9001	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
9002
9003			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9004			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9005			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9006			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9007			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9008			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9009			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9010			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9011			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9012			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9013			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9014			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9015			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9016			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9017			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9018			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9019			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9020			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9021			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9022			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9023			work.
9024			[...]
9025			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9026			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9027			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9028			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9029			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9030			search generically - then it has some potential.
9031			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9032			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9033			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9034			intellectual value whatsoever.
9035
9036			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9037			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9038			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9039	root	1.387	%
9040	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9041	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9042	root	1.387	%
9043	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9044			#!/usr/bin/sh
9045			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9046			# All Rights Reserved
9047
9048			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9049			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9050			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9051
9052			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9053			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9054	root	1.387	%
9055	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.
9056	root	1.387	%
9057	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9058			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9059			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9060	root	1.387	%
9061	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9062
9063			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9064			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9065
9066			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9067			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9068			machine]
9069
9070			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9071			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9072			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9073
9074			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9075	root	1.387	%
9076	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9077			spamming:]
9078
9079			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9080			>>
9081			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9082			>>------------------------------------------------------
9083			>>
9084			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9085			>>
9086			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9087
9088			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9089			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9090	root	1.387	%
9091	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9092			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9093	root	1.387	%
9094	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9095			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9096	root	1.387	%
9097	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9098			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9099
9100			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9101	root	1.387	%
9102	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9103
9104			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9105			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9106			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9107			he's full of.
9108
9109			Support BSD/Linux.
9110
9111			--tom
9112	root	1.387	%
9113	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9114	root	1.387	%
9115	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9116	root	1.387	%
9117	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9118			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9119
9120			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9121			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9122			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9123			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9124	root	1.387	%
9125	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9126
9127			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9128			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9129	root	1.387	%
9130	root	1.1	[the creation]
9131			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9132	root	1.387	%
9133	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9134
9135			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9136			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9137			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9138	root	1.387	%
9139	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9140			selbst schliesse.
9141			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9142			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9143	root	1.387	%
9144	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9145			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9146
9147			No:
9148
9149			use Borg;
9150			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9151
9152			--
9153			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9154	root	1.387	%
9155	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9156			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9157			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9158			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9159			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9160			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9161			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9162			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9163			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9164			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9165			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9166			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9167			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9168			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9169			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9170			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9171			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9172			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9173			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9174			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9175			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9176			dispensers."
9177
9178			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9179	root	1.387	%
9180	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9181			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9182			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9183			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9184	root	1.387	%
9185	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9186			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9187			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9188	root	1.387	%
9189	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9190	root	1.1
9191			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9192	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9193	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9194	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9195	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9196			Student: "..."
9197			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9198			Student: "..."
9199			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9200	root	1.387	%
9201	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9202
9203			> Just morbid curiosity,
9204			>
9205			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9206
9207			Yes. Broken ones.
9208
9209			dgris
9210	root	1.387	%
9211	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9212			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9213	root	1.387	%
9214	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9215			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9216	root	1.387	%
9217	root	1.1	...
9218
9219			<AOL>
9220
9221			Me too!
9222
9223			</AOL>
9224
9225			Tig
9226	root	1.387	%
9227	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9228	root	1.387	%
9229	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9230	root	1.387	%
9231	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9232
9233			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9234			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9235			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9236			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9237			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9238			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9239			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9240
9241			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9242
9243			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9244			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9245			get really really pissed.
9246
9247			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9248			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9249	root	1.387	%
9250	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9251			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9252			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9253			> period.
9254			>
9255			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9256			> Nic
9257			>
9258
9259			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9260
9261			-hpa
9262	root	1.387	%
9263	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9264	root	1.387	%
9265	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9266			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9267			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9268			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9269			happy."
9270			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9271	root	1.387	%
9272	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9273			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9274			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9275
9276			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9277			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9278			I also forwarded the offending code.
9279
9280			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9281			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9282			service.
9283
9284			Daniel
9285	root	1.387	%
9286	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9287			...
9288			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9289	root	1.387	%
9290	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9291			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9292			[RJL]
9293	root	1.387	%
9294	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9295			right.''
9296	root	1.387	%
9297	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9298
9299			Amazing--they actually listened.
9300	root	1.387	%
9301	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9302			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9303			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9304
9305			# less foo
9306			sh: command not found
9307			# more foo
9308			sh: command not found
9309			# emacs foo
9310			sh: command not found
9311			# ed foo
9312			0
9313			help
9314			?
9315			quit
9316			?
9317			exit
9318			?
9319			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9320			?
9321
9322			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9323	root	1.387	%
9324	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9325			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9326			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9327
9328			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9329
9330			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9331
9332			tim> would be most correct in style.
9333
9334			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9335			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9336	root	1.387	%
9337	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9338			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9339			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9340			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9341			too bad --- ]
9342	root	1.387	%
9343	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9344	root	1.387	%
9345	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9346
9347			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9348			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9349
9350			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9351			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9352	root	1.387	%
9353	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9354			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9355			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9356			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9357			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9358	root	1.387	%
9359	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9360
9361			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9362			include wrong #include files in their source.
9363	root	1.387	%
9364	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9365
9366			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9367			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9368			Consider it a rite of passage.
9369	root	1.387	%
9370	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9371			"Oops."
9372			-- MST3K
9373	root	1.387	%
9374	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9375			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9376			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9377
9378			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9379			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9380			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9381			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9382			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9383			it. ;)
9384	root	1.387	%
9385	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9386			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9387			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9388			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9389			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9390
9391			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9392			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9393			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9394			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9395
9396			--tom
9397	root	1.387	%
9398	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9399
9400			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9401
9402			>Why does it end ?
9403
9404			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9405
9406			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9407			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9408
9409			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9410	root	1.387	%
9411	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9412			-- Tom Christiansen
9413	root	1.387	%
9414	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9415
9416			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9417			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9418			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9419			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9420			of Sputnik.
9421	root	1.387	%
9422	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9423			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9424			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9425			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9426			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9427	root	1.387	%
9428	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9429			- Hanlons razor -
9430	root	1.387	%
9431	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9432			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9433	root	1.387	%
9434	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9435			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9436			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9437			> offered no significant advantages.
9438
9439			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9440	root	1.387	%
9441	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9442			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9443			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9444			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9445			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9446			in front of me says so."
9447
9448			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9449	root	1.387	%
9450	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9451			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9452			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9453			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9454			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9455			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9456			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9457			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9458			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9459			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9460			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9461	root	1.387	%
9462	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9463			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9464			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9465			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9466			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9467	root	1.387	%
9468	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9469	root	1.387	%
9470	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9471	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9472			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9473			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9474			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9475	root	1.387	%
9476	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9477			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9478			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9479			>
9480			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9481			> and/or screen.
9482
9483			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9484	root	1.387	%
9485	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9486			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9487
9488			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9489			> use pedantic;
9490			> use strict 'code';
9491			>
9492			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9493
9494			use syntax 'python';
9495
9496			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9497
9498	root	1.387	%
9499	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9500			>
9501			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9502			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9503			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9504			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9505			>
9506			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9507	root	1.387	%
9508	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9509			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9510	root	1.387	%
9511	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9512			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9513			> be time-consuming.
9514
9515			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9516	root	1.387	%
9517	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9518			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9519			however, they do not handle C++...
9520			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9521	root	1.387	%
9522	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9523			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9524
9525			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9526
9527			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9528
9529			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9530
9531			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9532			already of old time, which was before us.
9533			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9534			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9535
9536			Regards,
9537			Tigran.
9538	root	1.387	%
9539	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9540	root	1.387	%
9541	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9542			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9543			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9544			main(){
9545			extrn hw;
9546			putchar(0[hw]);
9547			hw=+1;
9548			putchar(0[hw]);
9549			}
9550	root	1.387	%
9551	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9552
9553			The egg. Always. By definition.
9554	root	1.387	%
9555	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9556			>
9557			> Better check your scsi cables.
9558	root	1.387	%
9559	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9560			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9561	root	1.387	%
9562	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9563			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9564			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9565			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9566
9567	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9568	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9569			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9570
9571	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9572	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9573	root	1.387	%
9574	root	1.1	>James :\
9575			>
9576			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9577
9578			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9579	root	1.387	%
9580	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9581			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9582			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9583	root	1.387	%
9584	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9585			> is just asking for a black eye.
9586
9587			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9588
9589			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9590			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9591			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9592
9593			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9594			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9595			area.
9596	root	1.387	%
9597	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9598			[Lukas Grunwald]
9599	root	1.387	%
9600	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9601
9602			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9603			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9604			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9605			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9606			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9607	root	1.387	%
9608	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9609			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9610
9611			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9612	root	1.387	%
9613	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9614			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9615			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9616
9617			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9618
9619			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9620
9621			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9622
9623			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9624			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9625	root	1.387	%
9626	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9627	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9628	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9629	root	1.387	%
9630	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9631			longer...
9632	root	1.387	%
9633	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9634			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9635			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9636	root	1.387	%
9637	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9638			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9639			> > world :) I just love it...
9640			>
9641			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9642			>
9643			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9644			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9645			practical...
9646			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9647			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9648			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9649			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9650			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9651
9652			Jan Hubicka
9653	root	1.387	%
9654	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9655			[...]
9656			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9657
9658			No, it is not. What you meant is
9659
9660			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9661	root	1.387	%
9662	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9663			> A) perl-5.00553
9664			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9665			> cc = cl.exe
9666			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9667
9668			[...]
9669
9670			Ilya
9671	root	1.387	%
9672	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9673
9674			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9675
9676			p.
9677	root	1.387	%
9678	root	1.1	[tomc]
9679			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9680			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9681
9682			+------------------------------------------+
9683			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9684			+------------------------------------------+
9685
9686			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9687			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9688
9689			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9690			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9691			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9692			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9693			interesting way.
9694			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9695			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9696			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9697			interesting things.
9698			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9699			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9700			things.
9701	root	1.387	%
9702	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9703			--Dennis Ritchie
9704	root	1.387	%
9705	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9706	root	1.387	%
9707	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9708
9709			switch (x)
9710			default:
9711			if (prime(x))
9712			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9713			process_prime(x);
9714			else
9715			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9716			process_composite(x);
9717	root	1.387	%
9718	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9719			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9720			in megabytes, required for execution?
9721
9722			Craig Milo Rogers
9723	root	1.387	%
9724	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9725			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9726			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9727
9728			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9729			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9730
9731			Ilya
9732	root	1.387	%
9733	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9734			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9735
9736			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9737			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9738			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9739
9740			Nat
9741	root	1.387	%
9742	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9743			much steroids for a while. =)
9744
9745			--Albert Dvornik
9746			<bert@genscan.com>
9747	root	1.387	%
9748	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9749			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9750			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9751
9752			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9753
9754			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9755			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9756
9757			--tom
9758	root	1.387	%
9759	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9760
9761			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9762
9763			Linus
9764	root	1.387	%
9765	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9766			devil added HTML mail...
9767	root	1.387	%
9768	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9769			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9770			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9771	root	1.387	%
9772	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9773			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9774
9775			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9776			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9777			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9778
9779			Arm the gnus!
9780	root	1.387	%
9781	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9782
9783			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9784			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9785			gcc, so go away.
9786	root	1.387	%
9787	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9788			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9789
9790			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9791
9792			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9793			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9794	root	1.387	%
9795	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9796			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9797			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9798			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9799
9800			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9801			was released today" madness.
9802	root	1.387	%
9803	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9804			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9805			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9806			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9807			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9808			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9809			>
9810			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9811			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9812			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9813			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9814			> marketing name, anyway.
9815
9816			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9817			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9818			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9819
9820			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9821			violence..." :-)
9822	root	1.387	%
9823	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9824			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9825	root	1.387	%
9826	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9827			> >poor drivers
9828			>
9829			> No it doesn't.
9830
9831			Indeed. Its down to
9832
9833			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9834
9835			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9836			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9837			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9838			or binaries.
9839	root	1.387	%
9840	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9841	root	1.387	%
9842	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9843	root	1.387	%
9844	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9845
9846			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9847			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9848			\|>
9849			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9850
9851			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9852
9853			Andreas.
9854	root	1.387	%
9855	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9856			...
9857			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9858
9859			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9860			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9861			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9862			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9863			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9864			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9865	root	1.387	%
9866	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9867
9868			Paul Eggert writes:
9869			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9870
9871			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9872			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9873	root	1.387	%
9874	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9875			however.
9876
9877			"We don't have the tools"
9878			"We can't support a non intel build"
9879			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9880			"Its not worth the time cost"
9881			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9882	root	1.387	%
9883	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9884
9885			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9886			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9887			>
9888			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9889			> <mailproc@fred>
9890			>
9891			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9892			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9893			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9894			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9895			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9896	root	1.387	%
9897	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9898			> No documented problem
9899			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9900			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9901			>
9902			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9903	root	1.387	%
9904	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9905			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9906	root	1.387	%
9907	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9908			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9909
9910			dave
9911	root	1.387	%
9912	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9913			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9914
9915			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9916	root	1.387	%
9917	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9918
9919			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9920			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9921
9922			Paul Eggert writes:
9923			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9924
9925			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9926			1 month before 29 March?
9927
9928			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9929
9930			1 month before 28 March?
9931
9932			28 February.
9933
9934			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9935			_before_ 27 February?
9936
9937			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9938	root	1.387	%
9939	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9940
9941			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9942			>> So make a security check first:
9943			>>
9944			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9945			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9946			>
9947			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9948			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9949			>
9950			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9951			> = instead of == error*/
9952			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9953			>
9954			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9955			>
9956			>--
9957			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9958
9959			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9960
9961			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9962			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9963	root	1.387	%
9964	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9965			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9966
9967			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9968			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9969			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9970			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9971			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9972			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9973			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9974			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9975
9976			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9977			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9978			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9979			available for that hardware from any source.
9980			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9981			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9982			sniffing!
9983	root	1.387	%
9984	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9985			technical support line that isn't"
9986	root	1.387	%
9987	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9988			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9989	root	1.387	%
9990	root	1.1	[...]
9991			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9992			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9993
9994			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9995			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9996			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9997			"Nothing else"
9998			"Sorry"
9999			[Click]
10000
10001			Alan
10002	root	1.387	%
10003	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10004			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10005	root	1.387	%
10006	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10007			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10008			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10009			> users excepted, of course!).
10010
10011			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10012			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10013			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10014			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10015			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10016			is installed"
10017
10018			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10019	root	1.387	%
10020	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10021
10022			L. Harris wrote:
10023			>
10024			> Testing
10025
10026			you failed.
10027	root	1.387	%
10028	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10029			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10030	root	1.387	%
10031	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10032			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10033			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10034			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10035	root	1.387	%
10036	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10037			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10038			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10039
10040			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10041	root	1.387	%
10042	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10043			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10044			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10045			where else...
10046	root	1.387	%
10047	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10048			[...]
10049			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10050			: about a certain topic.
10051	root	1.387	%
10052	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10053			>
10054			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10055			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10056
10057			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10058			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10059
10060			void main (void)
10061			{
10062			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10063			printf ("\n");
10064			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10065			printf ("You have died.\n");
10066			printf ("\n");
10067			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10068			}
10069
10070			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10071
10072			--
10073			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10074	root	1.387	%
10075	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10076			mistake I ever made]
10077
10078			From: "Tom Miller"
10079			Subject: Can
10080			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10081
10082			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10083			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10084			my name is Tom Miller
10085
10086			From: "Tom Miller"
10087			Subject: Wait
10088			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10089
10090			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10091			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10092	root	1.387	%
10093	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10094
10095			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10096			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10097			so why bother? [...]
10098	root	1.387	%
10099	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10100	root	1.1
10101			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10102
10103			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10104			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10105			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10106			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10107			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10108			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10109			sich dann.
10110	root	1.387	%
10111	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10112			no fs
10113			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10114			Definitely hardware or software error.
10115
10116			Unix Version 7 Manual
10117	root	1.387	%
10118	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10119			>
10120			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10121			>
10122			> =for C
10123			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10124			> =end
10125			> =for C++
10126			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10127			> =end
10128			> =for Java
10129			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10130			> =end
10131			>
10132			> :-)
10133	root	1.387	%
10134	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10135	root	1.387	%
10136	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10137
10138			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10139			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10140			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10141			turn it on.
10142	root	1.387	%
10143	root	1.1	[...]
10144			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10145			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10146			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10147			[...]
10148	root	1.387	%
10149	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10150
10151			Chad C Giffin
10152	root	1.387	%
10153	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10154			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10155			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10156			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10157			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10158			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10159
10160			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10161			through the door.
10162			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10163			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10164			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10165			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10166			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10167			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10168			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10169			usually.)
10170
10171			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10172			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10173			your tire pressure..."
10174			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10175			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10176			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10177			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10178			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10179			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10180			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10181			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10182	root	1.387	%
10183	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10184
10185			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10186	root	1.387	%
10187	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10188
10189			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10190			:-(
10191	root	1.387	%
10192	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10193			>dies alles geschieht.
10194			>Und es verging nicht.
10195
10196			So what?
10197
10198			Ich dachte eher an:
10199
10200			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10201			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10202			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10203			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10204			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10205			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10206			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10207			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10208			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10209			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10210			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10211			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10212
10213			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10214
10215			Antje
10216	root	1.387	%
10217	root	1.1	[....]
10218
10219			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10220			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10221			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10222			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10223			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10224			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10225
10226			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10227
10228			Antje
10229	root	1.387	%
10230	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10231			lalala, I love you baby..."
10232			--
10233			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10234	root	1.387	%
10235	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10236			>
10237			> Kubys
10238
10239			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10240
10241			Linus
10242	root	1.387	%
10243	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10244
10245			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10246			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10247			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10248	root	1.387	%
10249	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10250
10251			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10252			out what it means.
10253			--
10254			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10255	root	1.387	%
10256	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10257			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10258	root	1.387	%
10259	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10260			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10261
10262			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10263
10264			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10265			> is being discussed.
10266
10267			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10268	root	1.387	%
10269	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10270
10271			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10272
10273			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10274
10275			[and the button reads]
10276
10277			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10278	root	1.387	%
10279	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10280
10281			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10282
10283			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10284			certain amount of redundancy.
10285	root	1.387	%
10286	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10287			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10288
10289			...
10290
10291			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10292	root	1.387	%
10293	root	1.1	>Hello,
10294			>
10295			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10296			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10297			>
10298
10299			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10300			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10301			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10302			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10303	root	1.387	%
10304	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10305			on the country as a whole.
10306			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10307			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10308			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10309	root	1.387	%
10310	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10311			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10312	root	1.387	%
10313	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10314	root	1.387	%
10315	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10316			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10317			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10318
10319			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10320
10321			--tom
10322			--
10323			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10324			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10325	root	1.387	%
10326	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10327			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10328	root	1.387	%
10329	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10330
10331			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10332			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10333			> NO CARRIER
10334			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10335	root	1.387	%
10336	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10337			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10338			> better.
10339
10340			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10341			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10342	root	1.387	%
10343	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10344			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10345	root	1.387	%
10346	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10347			\|>
10348			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10349			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10350			\|>
10351			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10352			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10353
10354			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10355			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10356			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10357			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10358			build Bison, and then cook it.
10359
10360			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10361	root	1.387	%
10362	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10363			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10364			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10365			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10366			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10367	root	1.387	%
10368	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10369			-- lbxproxy(1)
10370	root	1.387	%
10371	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10372
10373			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10374
10375			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10376			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10377	root	1.387	%
10378	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10379
10380			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10381	root	1.387	%
10382	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10383			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10384			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10385			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10386			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10387
10388			\|> What does this mean.
10389
10390			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10391			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10392	root	1.387	%
10393	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10394
10395			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10396			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10397
10398			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10399	root	1.387	%
10400	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10401			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10402			streams)."
10403			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10404	root	1.387	%
10405	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10406			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10407	root	1.387	%
10408	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10409
10410			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10411
10412			Klaro.
10413
10414			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10415			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10416			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10417			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10418
10419	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10420	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10421
10422			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10423			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10424			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10425			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10426			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10427			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10428			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10429
10430			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10431			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10432			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10433	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10434			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10435			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10436			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10437	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10438
10439			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10440	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10441			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10442			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10443			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10444			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10445			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10446			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10447	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10448			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10449
10450			cu in hell 2002
10451	root	1.387	%
10452	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10453	root	1.387	%
10454	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10455
10456			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10457			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10458			the man page for crypt(1).
10459
10460			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10461			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10462			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10463
10464			man -s3 crypt
10465
10466			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10467			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10468
10469			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10470			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10471			he can figure out to use the command
10472
10473			man -s3 Intro.3
10474
10475			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10476			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10477
10478			man -s3c crypt
10479
10480			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10481			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10482			any trouble.
10483			--
10484			Michael M Rubenstein
10485	root	1.387	%
10486	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10487
10488			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10489
10490			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10491
10492			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10493
10494			Regards,
10495			Tim Bunce.
10496
10497			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10498			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10499			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10500	root	1.387	%
10501	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10502
10503			...
10504
10505			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10506			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10507			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10508
10509			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10510			its unusable, believe me I do.
10511	root	1.387	%
10512	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10513
10514			Semour Cray
10515	root	1.387	%
10516	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10517
10518			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10519	root	1.387	%
10520	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10521			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10522
10523			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10524			it only supports parts of it
10525	root	1.387	%
10526	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10527			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10528	root	1.387	%
10529	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10530			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10531			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10532			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10533			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10534			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10535			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10536
10537			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10538			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10539			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10540			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10541			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10542			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10543			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10544			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10545			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10546			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10547
10548			tq vm, (burley)
10549	root	1.387	%
10550	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10551			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10552			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10553			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10554			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10555			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10556			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10557	root	1.387	%
10558	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10559			/*
10560			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10561			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10562			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10563			* files won't compile.
10564			*/
10565	root	1.387	%
10566	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10567			> great.
10568
10569			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10570
10571			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10572
10573			This rock is below water half of the time!
10574			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10575			on a regular basis! ;-)
10576	root	1.387	%
10577	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10578			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10579			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10580	root	1.387	%
10581	root	1.1	>
10582			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10583			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10584			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10585
10586			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10587	root	1.387	%
10588	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10589
10590			>Hello!
10591
10592			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10593			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10594			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10595
10596
10597			Perl.
10598
10599			regards
10600			jobst
10601	root	1.387	%
10602	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10603			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10604			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10605
10606			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10607			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10608
10609			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10610			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10611			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10612			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10613			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10614			the absolute pits.
10615	root	1.387	%
10616	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10617	root	1.387	%
10618	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10619			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10620
10621			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10622	root	1.387	%
10623	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10624			ketchup and mustard
10625	root	1.387	%
10626	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10627
10628			vimal gajjar wrote:
10629			>
10630			> Hi there,
10631			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10632			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10633			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10634			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10635			> 5% of cpu
10636			> 2 Mb of RAM
10637			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10638			>
10639			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10640
10641			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10642			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10643			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10644	root	1.387	%
10645	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10646			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10647			>
10648			> >s/usually/never/
10649			>
10650			> s/sometimes/never/
10651
10652			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10653	root	1.387	%
10654	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10655			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10656			:Perl, IMO.
10657
10658			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10659
10660			TC
10661	root	1.387	%
10662	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10663	root	1.387	%
10664	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10665
10666			Hi guys!
10667
10668			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10669	root	1.387	%
10670	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10671
10672			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10673			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10674			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10675			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10676			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10677			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10678	root	1.387	%
10679	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10680			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10681			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10682
10683			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10684			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10685			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10686			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10687
10688			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10689			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10690			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10691			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10692
10693			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10694
10695			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10696
10697			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10698			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10699			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10700
10701			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10702			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10703
10704			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10705			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10706
10707			Did I miss any? ;-)
10708
10709			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10710			Laugh. Please.
10711
10712			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10713			--Scott
10714	root	1.387	%
10715	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10716
10717			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10718			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10719			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10720			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10721	root	1.387	%
10722	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10723			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10724
10725			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10726
10727			This is not mail.
10728
10729			This is Usenet.
10730
10731			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10732	root	1.387	%
10733	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10734			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10735			--- ide1: reset: success
10736			-----------> I like Linux !
10737	root	1.387	%
10738	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10739			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10740
10741			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10742			do.
10743	root	1.387	%
10744	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10745			++ PLONK.
10746	root	1.387	%
10747	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10748			Re: Subraumfunk
10749
10750			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10751			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10752
10753			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10754			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10755			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10756			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10757			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10758	root	1.387	%
10759	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10760			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10761			>
10762			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10763
10764			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10765	root	1.387	%
10766	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10767			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10768	root	1.387	%
10769	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10770			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10771
10772			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10773			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10774
10775			Bill Jones
10776	root	1.387	%
10777	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10778
10779			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10780			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10781			#include <windows.h>
10782			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10783			#endif
10784	root	1.387	%
10785	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10786
10787			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10788			is, invoking the URL
10789
10790			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10791
10792			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10793	root	1.387	%
10794	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10795			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10796			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10797			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10798			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10799			"I am using CGI!"
10800
10801			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10802	root	1.387	%
10803	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10804			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10805			>
10806	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10807	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10808
10809			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10810	root	1.387	%
10811	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10812			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10813	root	1.387	%
10814	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10815			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10816			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10817			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10818	root	1.387	%
10819	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10820
10821			pcg@goof.com said:
10822			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10823
10824			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10825
10826			"It's broken."
10827			"What's wrong with it?."
10828			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10829			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10830			"It just doesn't work."
10831			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10832			"It gives an error message."
10833			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10834			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10835			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10836			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10837			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10838			letter for letter this time."
10839	root	1.387	%
10840	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10841
10842			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10843			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10844			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10845
10846			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10847			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10848			perms.
10849
10850			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10851	root	1.387	%
10852	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10853			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10854
10855			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10856
10857			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10858			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10859			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10860
10861			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10862			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10863	root	1.387	%
10864	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10865			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10866	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10867
10868			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10869			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10870			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10871			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10872			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10873			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10874			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10875			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10876			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10877			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10878			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10879
10880			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10881
10882			normarz@aol.com
10883	root	1.387	%
10884	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10885	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10886	root	1.1	>Legion
10887			>schlagen?
10888
10889			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10890
10891			Bye
10892			Andreas
10893	root	1.387	%
10894	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10895
10896			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10897			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10898
10899			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10900			companies.
10901
10902			Kind regards
10903			Henning
10904	root	1.387	%
10905	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10906			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10907			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10908
10909			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10910			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10911			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10912
10913			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10914			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10915			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10916			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10917			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10918			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10919			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10920			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10921			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10922			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10923	root	1.387	%
10924	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10925			We might support that sometime next year.
10926			-=- Microsoft
10927			(But I doubt it.)
10928			-=- Me
10929			-=- James Mastros
10930	root	1.387	%
10931	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10932			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10933			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10934			>lines.
10935
10936			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10937			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10938	root	1.387	%
10939	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10940	root	1.387	%
10941	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10942			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10943			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10944			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10945	root	1.387	%
10946	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10947
10948			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10949			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10950			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10951			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10952			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10953			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10954			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10955			it's not all his fault.
10956
10957			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10958			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10959			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10960			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10961			content.
10962
10963			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10964			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10965			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10966			learn (or pay for it;)
10967
10968			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10969			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10970			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10971			just for fun or to get the op.
10972
10973			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10974			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10975			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10976			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10977
10978			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10979
10980			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10981			course, Linux and Linux people.
10982	root	1.387	%
10983	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10984			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10985
10986			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10987			--
10988			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10989	root	1.387	%
10990	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10991
10992			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10993			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10994			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10995
10996			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10997			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10998			tradition.
10999	root	1.387	%
11000	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
11001			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
11002	root	1.387	%
11003	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11004			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11005	root	1.387	%
11006	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11007			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11008			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11009			Or GIRLS for short.
11010	root	1.387	%
11011	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11012	root	1.387	%
11013	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11014			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11015			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11016			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11017			5_004_03 to build!"
11018
11019			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11020			have no patience."
11021
11022			xoxo,
11023			Andy
11024	root	1.387	%
11025	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11026			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11027			We all have our cross to bear.
11028	root	1.387	%
11029	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11030
11031			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11032			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11033			Subject: Re: system() question
11034
11035			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11036			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11037			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11038			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11039			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11040			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11041			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11042			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11043			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11044			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11045			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11046			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11047			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11048			humiliating for me!)
11049
11050			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11051			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11052			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11053			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11054			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11055			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11056			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11057			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11058			really knows the answer.
11059
11060			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11061			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11062			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11063			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11064
11065			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11066			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11067			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11068			for that.
11069
11070			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11071			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11072			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11073			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11074			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11075			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11076			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11077
11078			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11079
11080			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11081			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11082			something for free.''
11083
11084			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11085
11086			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11087			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11088
11089			(Good question.)
11090
11091			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11092			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11093			once I have run it.''
11094			(Good question.)
11095
11096			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11097
11098			(Good question.)
11099
11100			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11101			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11102			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11103			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11104			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11105
11106			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11107			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11108			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11109			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11110			comp.lang.perl?
11111			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11112			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11113			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11114			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11115			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11116			in comp.lang.perl?
11117
11118			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11119			you my rate card.
11120
11121			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11122			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11123			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11124			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11125			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11126			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11127			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11128			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11129			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11130			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11131
11132			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11133			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11134			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11135			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11136			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11137			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11138			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11139			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11140			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11141			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11142			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11143			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11144			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11145			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11146			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11147			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11148
11149			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11150			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11151			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11152			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11153			someone will. Maybe I will.
11154
11155			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11156			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11157			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11158			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11159			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11160			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11161			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11162			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11163
11164			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11165			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11166			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11167			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11168			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11169			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11170			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11171			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11172			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11173			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11174			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11175			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11176			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11177			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11178
11179			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11180			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11181			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11182			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11183
11184			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11185
11186			`I want to accomplish X.
11187
11188			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11189
11190			...
11191
11192			But instead it does Y.
11193
11194			Why is that?''
11195
11196			This one is also pretty good:
11197
11198			`I want to accomplish X.
11199			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11200
11201			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11202			because of Z.
11203
11204			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11205
11206			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11207			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11208
11209
11210			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11211			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11212
11213			--
11214			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11215			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11216	root	1.387	%
11217	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11218			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11219
11220			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11221			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11222			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11223
11224			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11225
11226			bye, Georg
11227	root	1.387	%
11228	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11229			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11230			convince me.
11231
11232			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11233
11234			Linus
11235	root	1.387	%
11236	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11237			++
11238
11239			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11240			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11241
11242	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11243	root	1.1
11244			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11245			understanding the above line.
11246
11247			Abigail
11248	root	1.387	%
11249	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11250			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11251	root	1.387	%
11252	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11253			++ button?
11254			Yes.
11255
11256			++ 100 pictures or so?
11257			Yes.
11258
11259			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11260			Yes.
11261
11262			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11263			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11264
11265			Abigail
11266	root	1.387	%
11267	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11268
11269			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11270
11271			Martien
11272	root	1.387	%
11273	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11274			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11275			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11276			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11277	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11278	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11279			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11280			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11281			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11282	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11283	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11284			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11285	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11286			nicht. ;)
11287
11288	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11289			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11290			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11291	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11292			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11293	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11294	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11295
11296	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11297			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11298	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11299	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11300	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11301
11302	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11303	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11304	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11305			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11306	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11307	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11308	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11309			"unvorstellbar".
11310
11311			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11312	root	1.387	%
11313	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11314			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11315			^^^
11316			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11317	root	1.387	%
11318	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11319			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11320	root	1.387	%
11321	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11322			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11323	root	1.387	%
11324	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11325			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11326			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11327
11328			An artificial pile of rocks.
11329	root	1.387	%
11330	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11331			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11332			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11333			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11334			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11335			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11336
11337			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11338			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11339			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11340			grosser Flipperautomat.
11341
11342			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11343	root	1.387	%
11344	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11345			>
11346			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11347			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11348			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11349			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11350			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11351	root	1.387	%
11352	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11353			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11354	root	1.1
11355			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11356	root	1.387	%
11357	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11358
11359			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11360
11361			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11362			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11363			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11364			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11365			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11366			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11367			Unix environment.
11368	root	1.387	%
11369	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11370			between these:
11371
11372			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11373			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11374
11375			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11376			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11377			;#", and the print gets executed!
11378
11379			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11380			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11381			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11382			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11383
11384			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11385			'perl'".
11386
11387			--
11388			Randal L. Schwartz
11389	root	1.387	%
11390	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11391
11392			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11393			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11394			>
11395			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11396
11397			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11398
11399			--
11400			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11401	root	1.387	%
11402	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11403	root	1.387	%
11404	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11405			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11406	root	1.387	%
11407	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11408			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11409	root	1.387	%
11410	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11411			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11412			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11413			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11414			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11415			example.
11416	root	1.387	%
11417	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11418			resemble a nail.
11419	root	1.387	%
11420	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11421			> I did wrong.
11422
11423			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11424			newsgroup.
11425	root	1.387	%
11426	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11427	root	1.387	%
11428	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11429			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11430	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11431
11432			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11433	root	1.387	%
11434	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11435	root	1.1
11436	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11437	root	1.387	%
11438	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11439			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11440			expired instantly!!!
11441	root	1.387	%
11442	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11443			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11444
11445			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11446			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11447			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11448
11449			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11450			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11451			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11452			than double Linus's programming experience?
11453
11454			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11455			> pretty straight forward.
11456
11457			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11458			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11459	root	1.387	%
11460	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11461			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11462			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11463			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11464			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11465			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11466	root	1.387	%
11467	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11468	root	1.387	%
11469	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11470			Example:
11471			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11472	root	1.387	%
11473	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11474			Randal gets his hands on it
11475	root	1.387	%
11476	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11477	root	1.387	%
11478	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11479
11480			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11481			first if you get it working.
11482	root	1.387	%
11483	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11484			> Think different.
11485
11486			Think Again.
11487	root	1.387	%
11488	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11489	root	1.387	%
11490	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11491			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11492			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11493
11494			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11495	root	1.387	%
11496	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11497			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11498	root	1.387	%
11499	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11500			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11501			\| top.
11502	root	1.387	%
11503	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11504			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11505	root	1.387	%
11506	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11507			^^^^^^^^^
11508			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11509
11510			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11511	root	1.387	%
11512	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11513			>gehen soll?
11514
11515	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11516	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11517			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11518	root	1.387	%
11519	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11520	root	1.387	%
11521	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11522			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11523	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11524			>
11525			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11526
11527			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11528			Schuh aus!
11529	root	1.387	%
11530	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11531
11532	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11533	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11534	root	1.387	%
11535	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11536
11537
11538			First opportunity
11539			Approximate
11540			Orbit Internet
11541			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11542
11543			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11544			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11545			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11546			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11547
11548			Second opportunity
11549			Approximate
11550			Orbit Internet
11551			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11552
11553			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11554			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11555			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11556			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11557
11558			Third opportunity
11559			Approximate
11560			Orbit Internet
11561			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11562
11563			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11564			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11565			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11566			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11567
11568	root	1.387	%
11569	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11570	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11571			> >würden.
11572	root	1.1	>
11573			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11574			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11575			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11576			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11577			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11578			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11579			implizierst.
11580	root	1.387	%
11581	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11582			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11583	root	1.387	%
11584	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11585			Big improvement.
11586	root	1.387	%
11587	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11588			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11589			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11590			-- "Why that one?"
11591			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11592			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11593	root	1.387	%
11594	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11595			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11596			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11597	root	1.387	%
11598	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11599			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11600			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11601
11602			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11603
11604			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11605			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11606			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11607
11608			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11609
11610			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11611			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11612			> er eigentlich ist?
11613
11614	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11615	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11616	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11617	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11618	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11619	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11620	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11621	root	1.1	Ciao
11622			Stefan
11623	root	1.387	%
11624	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11625			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11626			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11627			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11628	root	1.387	%
11629	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11630			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11631			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11632			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11633			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11634			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11635			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11636			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11637			off.
11638	root	1.387	%
11639	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11640			Meet interesting people,
11641			Kill them.
11642	root	1.387	%
11643	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11644			> umwandelbar ist.
11645
11646			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11647	root	1.387	%
11648	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11649	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11650	root	1.387	%
11651	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11652			>
11653			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11654			> >> ruckartig.
11655			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11656			>
11657	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11658	root	1.1
11659			:-)
11660	root	1.387	%
11661	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11662	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11663			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11664	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11665			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11666			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11667			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11668
11669			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11670			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11671	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11672			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11673	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11674	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11675			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11676			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11677	root	1.1	Union.
11678
11679	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11680			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11681	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11682	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11683			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11684			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11685	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11686	root	1.387	%
11687	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11688			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11689	root	1.387	%
11690	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11691	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11692	root	1.1	>>
11693			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11694	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11695			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11696	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11697			>
11698			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11699			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11700	root	1.387	%
11701	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11702	root	1.387	%
11703	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11704			> into a random order???
11705			>
11706
11707			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11708			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11709
11710			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11711			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11712			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11713			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11714			number less than 42.
11715	root	1.387	%
11716	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11717			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11718			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11719			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11720			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11721			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11722			eventually invent Unix.
11723	root	1.387	%
11724	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11725			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11726			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11727			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11728			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11729			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11730			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11731			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11732			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11733			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11734			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11735			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11736			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11737			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11738			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11739			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11740	root	1.387	%
11741	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11742			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11743			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11744	root	1.387	%
11745	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11746			using a Perl CGI script?
11747	root	1.387	%
11748	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11749
11750			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11751			week.
11752	root	1.387	%
11753	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11754			Brieweb> of PERL.
11755			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11756			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11757			[Randal Schwartz]
11758	root	1.387	%
11759	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11760			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11761			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11762			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11763	root	1.387	%
11764	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11765			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11766			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11767			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11768			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11769			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11770			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11771			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11772			system and restricting their options.
11773			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11774	root	1.387	%
11775	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11776			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11777			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11778	root	1.387	%
11779	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11780			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11781			Ernie Hai
11782			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11783	root	1.387	%
11784	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11785			: results" report from the users.
11786
11787			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11788			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11789			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11790			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11791	root	1.387	%
11792	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11793			They are all owned by cats.
11794	root	1.387	%
11795	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11796			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11797			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11798	root	1.387	%
11799	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11800			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11801
11802			Yesterday it worked
11803			Today it is not working
11804			Windows is like that
11805			- - -
11806			wind catches lily
11807			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11808			segmentation fault
11809			- - -
11810			Three things are certain:
11811			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11812			Guess which has occurred.
11813			- - -
11814			A file that big?
11815			It might be very useful.
11816			But now it is gone.
11817			- - -
11818			Windows NT crashed.
11819			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11820			No one hears your screams.
11821			- - -
11822			Errors have occurred.
11823			We won't tell you where or why.
11824			Lazy programmers.
11825			- - -
11826			Seeing my great fault
11827			Through darkening blue windows
11828			I begin again
11829			- - -
11830			The code was willing,
11831			It considered your request,
11832			But the chips were weak.
11833			- - -
11834			Printer not ready.
11835			Could be a fatal error.
11836			Have a pen handy?
11837			- - -
11838			Server's poor response
11839			Not quick enough for browser.
11840			Timed out, plum blossom.
11841			- - -
11842			Chaos reigns within.
11843			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11844			Order shall return.
11845			- - -
11846			Login incorrect.
11847			Only perfect spellers may
11848			enter this system.
11849			- - -
11850			This site has been moved.
11851			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11852			have to delete you.
11853			- - -
11854			ABORTED effort:
11855			Close all that you have.
11856			You ask way too much.
11857			- - -
11858			First snow, then silence.
11859			This thousand dollar screen dies
11860			so beautifully.
11861			- - -
11862			With searching comes loss
11863			and the presence of absence:
11864			"My Novel" not found.
11865			- - -
11866			The Tao that is seen
11867			Is not the true Tao, until
11868			You bring fresh toner.
11869			- - -
11870			The Web site you seek
11871			cannot be located but
11872			endless others exist
11873			- - -
11874			Stay the patient course
11875			Of little worth is your ire
11876			The network is down
11877			- - -
11878			A crash reduces
11879			your expensive computer
11880			to a simple stone.
11881			- - -
11882			There is a chasm
11883			of carbon and silicon
11884			the software can't bridge
11885			- - -
11886			To have no errors
11887			Would be life without meaning
11888			No struggle, no joy
11889			- - -
11890			You step in the stream,
11891			but the water has moved on.
11892			This page is not here.
11893			- - -
11894			No keyboard present
11895			Hit F1 to continue
11896			Zen engineering?
11897			- - -
11898			Hal, open the file
11899			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11900			open it, please Hal
11901			- - -
11902			Out of memory.
11903			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11904			But we never will.
11905			- - -
11906			Having been erased,
11907			The document you're seeking
11908			Must now be retyped.
11909			- - -
11910			The ten thousand things
11911			How long do any persist?
11912			Netscape, too, has gone.
11913			- - -
11914			Rather than a beep
11915			Or a rude error message,
11916			These words: "File not found."
11917			- - -
11918			Serious error.
11919			All shortcuts have disappeared
11920			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11921	root	1.387	%
11922	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11923			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11924	root	1.387	%
11925	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11926			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11927
11928			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11929			early 1980s.
11930	root	1.387	%
11931	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11932			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11933			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11934			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11935
11936			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11937			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11938			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11939			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11940			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11941			many new features that it just stops working.
11942
11943			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11944
11945			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11946			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11947
11948			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11949			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11950			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11951
11952			Hope this explains what's going on
11953			Martien Verbruggen
11954	root	1.387	%
11955	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11956	root	1.387	%
11957	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11958	root	1.387	%
11959	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11960	root	1.387	%
11961	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11962			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11963			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11964	root	1.387	%
11965	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11966			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11967			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11968			>
11969			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11970
11971			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11972			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11973	root	1.387	%
11974	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11975			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11976			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11977			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11978	root	1.387	%
11979	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11980			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11981			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11982			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11983			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11984			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11985			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11986			convienience store.")
11987	root	1.387	%
11988	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11989			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11990	root	1.387	%
11991	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11992	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11993	root	1.1
11994			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11995			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11996	root	1.387	%
11997	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11998			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11999			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
12000			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
12001	root	1.387	%
12002	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12003			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12004			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12005	root	1.387	%
12006	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12007			(A => B) => (B => A)
12008			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12009			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12010	root	1.387	%
12011	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12012	root	1.387	%
12013	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12014			-Barry Shein
12015	root	1.387	%
12016	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12017			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12018			read the manual.
12019	root	1.387	%
12020	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12021	root	1.387	%
12022	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12023			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12024			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12025			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12026			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12027			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12028			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12029			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12030			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12031	root	1.387	%
12032	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12033	root	1.387	%
12034	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12035			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12036			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12037	root	1.387	%
12038	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12039
12040			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12041			need.
12042	root	1.387	%
12043	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12044			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12045			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12046	root	1.387	%
12047	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12048			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12049			newsreaders. You know,
12050			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12051			back
12052			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12053			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12054			out what they're saying.
12055	root	1.387	%
12056	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12057			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12058	root	1.387	%
12059	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12060			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12061			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12062
12063			But the combination.... sutters
12064	root	1.387	%
12065	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12066			Darn it.
12067	root	1.387	%
12068	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12069	root	1.387	%
12070	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12071	root	1.387	%
12072	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12073			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12074			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12075			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12076			trying to use it.
12077	root	1.387	%
12078	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12079	root	1.387	%
12080	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12081			>
12082			> Is this group active?
12083			No.
12084
12085			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12086			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12087
12088			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12089			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12090	root	1.387	%
12091	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12092			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12093	root	1.387	%
12094	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12095			Press any key to continue..."
12096	root	1.387	%
12097	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12098			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12099			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12100	root	1.387	%
12101	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12102			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12103			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12104			adjust your travel plans.
12105	root	1.387	%
12106	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12107			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12108	root	1.387	%
12109	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12110			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12111
12112			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12113			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12114
12115			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12116
12117			tak 18 12 6
12118	root	1.387	%
12119	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12120			-- Bill Gates
12121			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12122			-- Bill Gates
12123			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12124			-- logical conclusion
12125	root	1.387	%
12126	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12127			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12128			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12129			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12130			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12131			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12132			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12133			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12134			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12135			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12136			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12137			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12138			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12139			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12140			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12141			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12142			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12143			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12144			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12145			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12146			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12147	root	1.387	%
12148	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12149			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12150			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12151			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12152	root	1.387	%
12153	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.