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1	root	1.468	As best I can tell (from the long and unsatisfactory thread I pursed on
2			the Wayland Developers list some little time ago), the core issue with
3			Wayland and Color is social, not technical:
4
5			1. none of the key developers have the faintest idea what Color or Color
6			Management is, and (worse):
7
8			2. they have no idea why it would be at all important.
9
10			[https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804/4]
11			%
12			> (isn't it the case with ifconfig vs. ip already?)
13
14			Wayland is more like they created ip but named the command ifconfig, then
15			told you to go fix your scripts.
16
17			If the Wayland developers had sense, they would have carefully considered
18			how to make it a seemless transition for developers. Instead, they decided
19			they were the ultimate authority on software engineering and screw
20			developers, they are all doing it wrong anyways.
21
22			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3862027]
23			%
24			Wayland is written with the assumption of Linux to the extent that every
25			client application tends to #include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's
26			designers didn't see the need to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse
27			button IDs.
28
29			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
30			%
31			... a basic barebones TWM for X11 works better and offers more features
32			than Weston which contains ~20 times more code
33
34			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3526530]
35			%
36			"It is true that Wayland somewhat sucks ass" -- The Lutris founder
37			[The Lutris founder quoting himself]
38			%
39			Eine solche Regulierung schafft man in Deutschland nur für wirklich
40			wichtige Themen wie zur Durchsetzung der Bereitstellung von Schnittstellen
41			für die Telekommunikationsüberwachung. Bei so irrelevanten Themen wie
42			dem Katastrophenschutz und der Alarmierung der Bevölkerung braucht man
43			den Markt nicht zu regulieren.
44
45			[https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20210719-smscb/]
46			From: Stephen Searle
47			Date: 18 Mar 1998, 09:00:00
48			Subject: A Clockwork Nethacker
49
50			What if the next version of Nethack has a new class based on the Droogs
51			of Anthony Burgess' novel (and later Stanley Kubrick film) "A Clockwork
52			Orange"?
53
54			I imagine the language would be radically different, like the
55			Samurai-speak only much, much more so...
56
57			Your rookers glow red -more-
58			You tolchock the floating glazzy real horrorshow! -more-
59			The floating glazzy appears bezoomny.
60			You brosay your britva at the floating glazzy -more-
61			The floating glazzy is oobivatted!
62
63			Ugh - that Pishcha was rotten! -more-
64			You feel a malenky bit bolnoy.
65
66			You govoreet with the charlie of Bog -more-
67			The charlie asks you for some cutter for the temple.
68
69			The devotchka flashes her groodies at you -more-
70			"Take off your platties, they're in the way" -more-
71			Raz stands still while you and the devotchka lie in each other's rookers...
72			(or:)
73			"You're such a bolshy chelloveck, I wish..."
74
75			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you!
76			Your shlem blocks the attack to your gulliver.
77			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you real horrorshow!
78			Your brain is eaten! You feel gloopy!
79
80			An enormous dook appears next to you!
81			You are poogly to snuffit and unable to itty!
82
83			You slooshy someone cursing prestoopnicks.
84
85			You ittied from the shop without pretty pollying! -more-
86			You crasted 100 gollies worth of veshches! -more-
87			A millicent's whistle zvooks -more-
88			The Keystone rozzes are after you!
89
90
91			Heh... I think I will have to write a little text filter for Nethack :-)
92
93			-SJS
94
95			[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/c/3P5KdEPru6o/m/UxXyLvAsJUwJ]
96			%
97			"Validity of journal" is not an argument from authority fallacy, it is an
98			assessment of the prior on source quality.
99			%
100	root	1.467	You know what they say though, if the punishment for a crime is a fee
101			then it’s only a crime for the poor.
102			%
103	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
104
105			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
106			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
107			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
108			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
109			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
110			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
111			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
112			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
113			time. There is no other significance to these files.
114			%
115	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
116			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
117			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
118			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
119			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
120			- John Rogers
121			%
122	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
123			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
124			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
125			become witches.
126
127			– Bret Weinstein
128			%
129	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
130			- Rumsfeld 2003
131			%
132	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
133
134			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
135
136			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
137
138			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
139
140			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
141
142			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
143			%
144	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
145			- a rust tutorial
146			%
147	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
148			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
149			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
150
151			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
152			%
153			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
154			that has been problematic for a long time.
155
156			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
157			%
158	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
159			GPL Protected it
160			GOD Blessed it
161
162			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
163			%
164	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
165			kinship term she'd ever heard.
166
167			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
168			%
169			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
170			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
171			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
172
173			I don't agree.
174
175			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
176			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
177			> is not as clear as it could be.
178
179			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
180			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
181			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
182			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
183			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
184
185			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
186			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
187			%
188			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
189
190			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
191			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
192			other conventions exist for a very long time.
193
194			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
195			%
196			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
197
198			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
199			%
200	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
201			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
202			and government agency portal.
203
204			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
205			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
206
207			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
208			%
209			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
210
211			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
212			%
213			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
214			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
215			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
216
217			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
218			%
219			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
220			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
221			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
222			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
223			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
224			%
225	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
226			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
227			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
228			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
229			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
230			penalty. This makes really a difference.
231
232			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
233			%
234			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
235			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
236
237			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
238			%
239	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
240
241			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
242			%
243	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
244
245			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
246			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
247
248			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
249			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
250			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
251
252			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
253			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
254
255			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
256			%
257	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
258
259			Vim 15.2%
260			Emacs 3.8%
261
262			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
263
264			Vim 26.1%
265			Emacs 5.2%
266			%
267	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
268
269			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
270
271			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
272
273			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?"
274
275			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
276
277			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
278
279			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
280
281			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
282
283			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
284
285			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."
286
287			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
288
289			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
290			%
291			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
292
293			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
294			>>> their own servers.
295			>>
296			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
297			>
298			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
299
300			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
301			%
302	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
303
304			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
305			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
306			%
307	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
308			================================
309
310	root	1.449	November 2002
311
312			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
313			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
314			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
315
316			---
317
318			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
319			dehydration and fatigue.
320
321			---
322
323			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
324			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
325
326			---
327
328			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
329
330			November 19 2200 hrs
331			guard check - Rahman is alive.
332
333			2300 hrs
334			guard check - Rahman is alive.
335
336			November 20 0400 hrs
337			guard check - Rahman is alive.
338
339			0800 hrs
340			guard check - Rahman is alive.
341
342			1000 hrs
343			guard check - Rahman is dead.
344
345			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
346			%
347	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
348			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
349			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
350			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
351			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
352			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
353			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
354			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
355			be a better place.
356
357			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
358			%
359	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
360			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
361			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
362			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
363			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
364			> in technology.
365
366			-P
367			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
368
369			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
370			%
371			> Simon Cooke wrote:
372			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
373
374			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
375
376			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
377			%
378	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
379			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
380			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
381			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
382			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
383
384			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
385			%
386	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
387			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
388			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
389			hashtag #sexualassault.
390
391			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
392			%
393	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
394
395			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
396			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
397
398			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
399			%
400			> How is the old way a problem?
401
402			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
403			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
404			it's smarter than you.
405
406			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
407			%
408	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
409			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
410			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
411			less lethal.
412
413			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
414			%
415	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
416
417			[...]
418
419			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
420
421			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
422			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
423			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
424			%
425	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
426			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
427			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
428			"also now legal names for the UK.
429
430			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
431			%
432			From: Russ Allbery
433			To: tz@iana.org
434			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
435
436			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
437			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
438			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
439			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
440			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
441			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
442			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
443
444			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
445			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
446
447			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
448			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
449			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
450			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
451			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
452
453			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
454			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
455			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
456			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
457			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
458			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
459			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
460			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
461			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
462
463			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
464			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
465			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
466			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
467			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
468			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
469			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
470			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
471			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
472			maintainer.
473			%
474	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
475
476			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
477			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
478			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
479			"BST", but no:
480			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
481			%
482			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
483			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
484
485			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
486			> When can we expect the updated version
487
488			About three weeks ago.
489			%
490	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
491			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
492			%
493			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
494
495			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
496			%
497	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
498			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
499			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
500
501			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
502			%
503			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
504
505			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
506
507			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
508			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
509
510			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
511			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
512			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
513
514			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
515			full day per year.
516			%
517	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
518			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
519			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
520			%
521			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
522			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
523			%
524			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
525			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
526			me - lately?".
527			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
528			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
529
530			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
531			%
532			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
533			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
534			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
535			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
536
537			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
538			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
539			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
540			your lives be a living hell.
541
542			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
543			%
544	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
545			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
546			%
547			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
548			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
549			out with a problem I'm having?
550
551			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
552
553			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
554
555			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
556			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
557			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
558			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
559
560			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
561
562			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
563
564			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
565
566			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
567			[http://c2.com/]
568			%
569			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
570			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
571			right-parenthesis.
572			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
573			%
574			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
575			yourself?
576			Software development is the career for you!
577
578			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
579			%
580	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
581			-- Richard Dawkins
582			%
583			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
584			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
585			and security.
586
587			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
588			%
589			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
590
591			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
592			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
593			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
594			%
595			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
596			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
597			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
598			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
599			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
600			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
601
602			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
603			%
604			tiny hsv2rgb
605			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;}
606
607			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
608			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
609			}
610			%
611			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
612			Only Java makes it possible!
613
614			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
615			%
616			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
617			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
618			extremely poettering''
619			%
620			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
621			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
622			%
623			"I drank what?!"
624			-- Socrates
625			%
626			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
627			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
628			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
629
630			Jon Callas in
631			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
632			%
633			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
634			-- Conway's Law
635			%
636			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
637			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
638			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
639			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
640			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
641			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
642			untangling this mess right now so).
643
644			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
645			%
646			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
647			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
648			enabled on platforms that support it.
649			[xorg.conf(5)]
650			%
651			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
652			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
653			> would work on code.
654
655			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
656			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
657			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
658			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
659			%
660	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
661			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
662			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
663			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
664			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
665			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
666			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
667			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
668			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
669			%
670			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
671			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
672			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
673			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
674			very beginning.
675			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
676			%
677			systemd creates user session information in
678			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
679			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
680			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
681			allowed one session per user.
682			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
683			%
684	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
685			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
686			> about anything else.
687			>
688			> Why is it like that?
689
690			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
691
692			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
693			%
694			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
695
696			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
697			>>
698			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
699			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
700			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
701			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
702			>
703			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
704
705			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
706			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
707			%
708			(partial) Beaufort Table
709			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
710			Calm 0 0 0
711			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
712			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
713			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
714			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
715			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
716			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
717			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
718			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
719			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
720			%
721			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
722			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
723			%
724			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
725			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
726			%
727			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
728			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
729			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
730			on the cards.
731			%
732			[random comment from amule sources]
733			// trust noone ;-)
734			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
735			// wtf you guys are weird.
736			%
737	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
738			- Kin Hubbard
739			%
740			[random .sig]
741			I'm a muslim.
742
743			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
744			%
745			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
746			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
747			before.
748
749			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
750			%
751			<imho>
752
753			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
754			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
755			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
756			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
757
758			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
759			Java - public static void not fun.
760			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
761			C - usually not fun.
762
763			What about modern scripting languages?
764
765			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
766			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
767			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
768
769			</imho>
770
771			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
772			%
773			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
774			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
775			%
776
777			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
778			*
779			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
780
781			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
782			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
783			%
784			# The user is always right.
785			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
786			[autoconf]
787			%
788			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
789
790			/*
791			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
792			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
793			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
794			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
795			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
796			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
797			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
798			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
799			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
800			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
801			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
802			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
803			*/
804			%
805			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
806			was new to me:
807
808			switch(c)
809			{
810			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
811			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
812			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
813			case 'd': base=-10; }
814			switch(type)
815			{
816			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
817			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
818			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
819			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
820			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
821			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
822			default:val=0; break;
823			}
824			cp = __numout(val,base);
825			if(0) {
826			case 's':
827			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
828			}
829			%
830			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
831			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
832			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
833			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
834			extra second and see how far you get :-)
835			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
836			%
837			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
838			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
839			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
840			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
841			>
842			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
843			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
844
845			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
846			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
847
848			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
849			%
850			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
851			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
852			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
853
854			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
855
856			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
857			%
858			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
859			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
860			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
861			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
862			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
863			settings)
864
865			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
866			%
867			How do I deal with memory leaks?
868
869			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
870
871			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
872			%
873			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
874			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
875
876			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
877			%
878			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
879			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
880			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
881			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
882
883			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
884			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
885			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
886			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
887			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
888			rewarded for their creativity.
889
890			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
891			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
892			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
893			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
894			would never have made it in the first place.
895
896			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
897			%
898			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
899			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
900			%
901			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
902			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
903			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
904			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
905			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
906
907			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
908			%
909			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
910			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
911			- Mohandas Gandhi
912			%
913			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
914			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
915			handiwork of the Lord."
916			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
917			%
918			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
919
920			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
921			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
922			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
923
924			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
925			Scientist A publishes results.
926
927			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
928			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
929			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
930
931			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
932			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
933			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
934			A: ...
935			B: You fraud!
936
937			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
938
939			A publishes results.
940
941			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
942			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
943			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
944			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
945			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
946			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
947
948			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
949			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
950			%
951			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
952			them because they need the money to operate]
953
954			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
955			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
956			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
957			site or its bottom line."
958			%
959			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
960			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
961			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
962			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
963			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
964			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
965			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
966			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
967			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
968			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
969			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
970			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
971			%
972			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
973
974			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
975
976			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
977			%
978			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
979
980			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
981			>>>> and the beating of children?
982			>>>
983			>>> Subjugation of women...
984			>>
985			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
986			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
987			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
988			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
989			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
990			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
991			>> shake partner.
992			>
993			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
994			>
995			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
996			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
997			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
998			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
999			>
1000
1001			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
1002			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
1003			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
1004			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
1005			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
1006			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
1007			and your wife.
1008			%
1009			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
1010			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
1011			still kill you. - arestheblue
1012			%
1013			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
1014			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
1015			specifications for GSS-API.
1016
1017			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
1018			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
1019
1020			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
1021			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
1022
1023			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
1024			%
1025			[from the minix 3 users guide]
1026
1027			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
1028			%
1029			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
1030
1031			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
1032			[...]
1033			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
1034			complaintant to guess this is true.
1035			%
1036			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
1037			- Ken Thompson.
1038			%
1039			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
1040
1041			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
1042
1043			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
1044			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
1045			source code excerpt:
1046
1047			int sn()
1048			{
1049			char pwr;
1050
1051			int input1 = 0;
1052			double output1 = 0;
1053
1054			system("clear");
1055			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
1056			cin>>input1;
1057			output1 = (sin(input1));
1058			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
1059			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
1060			cin>>pwr;
1061			if(pwr == 'a')
1062			sq();
1063			if(pwr == 'm')
1064			system("pause");
1065
1066			}
1067			%
1068			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
1069			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
1070
1071			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
1072
1073			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
1074			%
1075			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
1076			app for me" department:
1077
1078			From: Evan LeCompte
1079
1080			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
1081			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
1082			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
1083			%
1084			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
1085			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
1086			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
1087
1088			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
1089			%
1090			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
1091			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
1092			– Steve Jobs[47]
1093
1094			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
1095			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
1096			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
1097			%
1098			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
1099			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
1100			%
1101			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1102			From: Patrick Horgan
1103			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1104			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1105
1106			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1107			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1108			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1109			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1110			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1111			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1112
1113			[...]
1114			%
1115	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1116			— Peter Abelard
1117			%
1118			A man said to the universe:
1119			"Sir I exist!"
1120			"However," replied the universe,
1121			"The fact has not created in me
1122	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1123			- Steven Crane
1124	root	1.431	%
1125			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1126
1127			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1128
1129			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1130
1131			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1132
1133			– Sanskrit Saying
1134			%
1135			[anonymised discussion]
1136			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1137			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1138			%
1139			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1140
1141	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1142	root	1.431
1143			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1144			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1145			appear.
1146			%
1147			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1148			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1149			- Douglas Adams
1150			%
1151			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1152			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1153			%
1154	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1155			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1156	root	1.431	%
1157			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1158			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1159			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1160			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1161			%
1162			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1163			%
1164			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1165			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1166			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1167			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1168			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1169			%
1170			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1171			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1172			or her career.
1173			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1174			%
1175			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1176			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1177			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1178			%
1179			I LOVE YOU
1180			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1181			%
1182			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1183			the air impeller.
1184
1185			Alan Cox
1186			%
1187			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1188			with a minimum computer science background."
1189			%
1190			From: Eric Sosman
1191			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1192			Subject: Re: about graphics
1193
1194			prince wrote:
1195			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1196
1197			#include <stdio.h>
1198			int main(void) {
1199			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1200			return 0;
1201			}
1202			%
1203			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1204			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1205			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1206			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1207			%
1208			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1209
1210			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
1211			it still is a constant-time attack.
1212			%
1213			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1214			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1215			%
1216			From: David Damerell
1217
1218			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1219			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1220			>caps to make it different.
1221
1222			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1223			painful but will take less typing.
1224			%
1225			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1226			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1227			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1228
1229			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1230			%
1231			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1232
1233			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1234			> free than the BSD.
1235			>
1236			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1237
1238			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1239			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1240			%
1241			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1242
1243			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1244			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1245			from incompatible pointer type
1246			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1247			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1248			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1249			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1250			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1251			%
1252			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1253			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1254			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1255			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1256			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1257			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1258
1259			[Chandon Seldon]
1260			%
1261			[Wikipedia]
1262			Differences between vi and Emacs
1263
1264			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1265			%
1266			[lost the reference]
1267			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1268			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1269			%
1270			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1271			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1272			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1273			%
1274			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1275
1276			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1277			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1278			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1279			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1280			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1281
1282			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1283			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1284			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1285			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1286			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1287			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1288			piss on your leg.
1289
1290			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1291			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1292			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1293
1294			[then, a day later]
1295
1296			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1297			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1298			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1299			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1300			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1301
1302			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1303			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1304			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1305			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1306			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1307			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1308			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1309			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1310			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1311
1312
1313			-----Original Message-----
1314			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1315			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1316			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1317			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1318
1319
1320
1321			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1322	root	1.432	>
1323	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1324
1325			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1326
1327			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1328			I hope you don't object :)
1329			%
1330			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1331			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1332
1333			You made my day
1334			%
1335			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1336
1337			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1338			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1339			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1340
1341			Linus
1342			%
1343			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1344
1345			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1346
1347			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 ...
1348
1349			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1350
1351			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1352			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1353			when sending emails to other people:
1354			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1355
1356			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1357
1358			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1359			%
1360			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1361			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1362			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1363			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1364			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1365			%
1366			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1367			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1368
1369			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1370			%
1371			[on italy]
1372
1373			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1374
1375			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1376			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1377			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1378			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1379
1380			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1381			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1382			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1383			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1384			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1385			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1386
1387			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1388
1389			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1390			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1391			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1392			from fascism period.
1393
1394			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1395			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1396			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1397			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1398			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1399			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1400			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1401			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1402			SIAE.
1403
1404			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1405			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1406			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1407			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1408			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1409			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1410			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1411			electronic ones
1412
1413			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1414
1415			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1416			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1417			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1418			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1419			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1420			western country.
1421
1422			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1423			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1424			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1425			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1426			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1427			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1428			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1429			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1430			also the governments of "center-left".
1431
1432			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1433
1434			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1435			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1436			without any restriction.
1437
1438			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1439			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1440			world.
1441
1442			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1443			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1444			Thank you for reading.
1445			%
1446			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1447			>
1448			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1449
1450			How very ironic.
1451			%
1452			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1453			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1454			takes religion."
1455
1456			--Steve Weinberg
1457			%
1458			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1459			%
1460			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1461			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1462			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1463
1464			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1465			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1466			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1467			%
1468			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1469			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1470			the right tool for me.
1471			%
1472			[deliantra]
1473			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1474			%
1475			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1476			%
1477			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1478			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1479			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1480			%
1481			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1482
1483			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1484			%
1485			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1486			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1487
1488			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1489			actually tells you it's American.
1490			%
1491			[better do not hire this programmer]
1492			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1493			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1494			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1495
1496			Hi
1497
1498			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1499			someone here can advise me.
1500
1501			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1502			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1503			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1504			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1505			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1506
1507			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1508			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1509			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1510			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1511			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1512			corresponding thing in C?
1513
1514			Thanks!
1515			%
1516			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1517
1518			// See bug 53763.
1519			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1520			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1521			if (shell) {
1522			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1523			%
1524			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1525			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1526
1527			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1528			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1529			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1530			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1531			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1532			%
1533			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1534			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1535			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1536			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1537	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1538	root	1.431
1539			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1540			%
1541			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1542
1543	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1544	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1545
1546			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1547
1548			x / y * z
1549
1550			and
1551
1552			x / y * z
1553
1554			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1555
1556			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1557			design decisions.)
1558			%
1559			endergt:
1560			> snoofle:
1561			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1562			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1563			> > you understand what you are doing...
1564			>
1565	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1566	root	1.431
1567	root	1.432	debug
1568	root	1.431	%
1569			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%.
1570
1571			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1572			%
1573			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1574			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1575			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1576
1577			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1578			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1579			6 Decompilation
1580
1581			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1582			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1583			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1584			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1585			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1586			conditions are met: [...]"
1587			%
1588			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1589			%
1590			Why Linux Sux ?
1591
1592			Easy .
1593			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1594			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1595			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 .
1596			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1597			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1598			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1599			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! ) .
1600			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 .
1601			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1602
1603			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1604			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1605			working ones . Screw linux users .
1606			%
1607			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1608			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1609			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1610			%
1611			> The Dell 30"...
1612
1613			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1614			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1615			%
1616	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1617	root	1.431
1618			> > 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".
1619	root	1.432	>
1620	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!
1621	root	1.432	>
1622	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1623	root	1.432
1624	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1625
1626			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1627			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.
1628			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1629	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.
1630	root	1.431	%
1631			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1632			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1633			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1634			%
1635			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1636
1637			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1638			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1639			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1640
1641			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1642			anderen betriebssystemen.
1643
1644			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1645			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1646
1647			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1648			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1649			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1650			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1651			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1652
1653			Frage?
1654			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1655			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1656			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1657
1658			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1659			%
1660			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1661			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1662			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1663			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1664			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1665			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1666			%
1667			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1668			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1669			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1670			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1671			%
1672			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1673			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1674
1675			God bless the re-inventers
1676
1677			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1678			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1679
1680	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1681	root	1.431
1682			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1683			one.
1684			%
1685			[rfc2665]
1686			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1687			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1688			useful in theory than in practice.
1689			%
1690			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1691	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1692	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1693			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1694			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1695			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1696			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1697			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1698	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1699	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1700			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1701	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1702	root	1.431	15:30
1703			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1704			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1705			%
1706			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1707			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1708			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1709			%
1710			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1711
1712			Strictly for beginners
1713
1714			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1715			[...]
1716			%
1717			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1718			%
1719			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1720			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1721			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1722			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1723			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1724			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1725			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1726			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1727			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1728			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1729			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1730			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1731			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1732			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1733			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1734			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1735			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1736			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1737			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1738			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1739			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1740			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1741			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1742			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1743			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1744			%
1745			[A Gentoo User]
1746			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1747			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1748			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1749			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1750			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1751			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1752			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1753			%
1754			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1755			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1756			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1757			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1758			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1759	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1760			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1761	root	1.431	can do
1762			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1763			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1764			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1765			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1766			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1767			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1768			%
1769			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1770	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1771			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1772			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1773	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1774			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1775	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1776			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1777	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1778			%
1779			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1780			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1781			%
1782			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1783
1784			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1785			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1786			be slow in Windows 2000"
1787
1788			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1789			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1790			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1791			%
1792			[so much for type-safety]
1793			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1794			lst.add(null);
1795			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1796			%
1797			[just for reference]
1798			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1799			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1800			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1801			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1802			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1803			es nicht.
1804
1805			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1806			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1807			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1808			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1809			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1810			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1811
1812			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1813			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1814			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1815			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1816			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1817			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1818			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1819			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1820			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1821			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1822			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1823			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1824			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1825			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1826
1827			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1828			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1829			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1830			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1831			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1832			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1833			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1834
1835			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1836			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1837			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1838			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1839			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1840			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1841			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1842			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1843			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1844			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1845			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1846			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1847			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1848			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1849			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1850			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1851			alternativ' Idioten!
1852
1853			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1854			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1855			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1856			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1857			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1858			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1859			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1860			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1861			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1862			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1863			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1864			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1865			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1866			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1867
1868			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1869			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1870			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1871
1872			Ich will R A C H E !
1873
1874			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1875			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1876			Dinge zu sagen:
1877
1878			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1879
1880			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1881			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1882			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1883			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1884			anfange.
1885
1886			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1887			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1888			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1889			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1890			dieser verdammten schule!
1891
1892			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1893			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1894
1895			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1896
1897			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1898			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1899			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1900			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1901			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1902			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1903			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1904			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1905			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1906			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1907
1908			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1909			Einschulung.
1910
1911			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1912			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1913			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1914			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1915			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1916			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1917			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1918			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1919			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1920			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1921
1922			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1923			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1924
1925			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1926			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1927			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1928			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1929			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1930			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1931			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1932			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1933
1934			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1935			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1936			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1937			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1938			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1939			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1940			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1941			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1942
1943			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1944			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1945
1946			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1947			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1948			Hand genommen.
1949
1950			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1951			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1952
1953			Ich bin weg...
1954			%
1955			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1956			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1957			%
1958	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1959			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1960			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1961			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1962	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1963			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1964			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1965			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1966			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1967			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1968			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1969			%
1970			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1971			%
1972			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1973			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1974
1975			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1976			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1977			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1978			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1979			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1980			%
1981			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1982			%
1983			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1984			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1985			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1986			%
1987			[very funny read]
1988			Hack-a-Bike
1989			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1990			%
1991			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1992			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1993			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1994			still can.
1995
1996			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1997			%
1998	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1999			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
2000	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
2001			%
2002			[without words]
2003			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
2004			%
2005			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
2006			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
2007			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
2008			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
2009			actual kid in an actual bath.
2010			%
2011			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
2012			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
2013			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
2014			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
2015			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
2016			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
2017			what happened to you.
2018			%
2019	root	1.432	--
2020	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
2021
2022			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
2023			Q: Why is top posting bad?
2024			%
2025			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
2026	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
2027			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
2028	root	1.431	> important difference.)
2029
2030			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
2031			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
2032			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
2033			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
2034			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
2035
2036			- Ted
2037			%
2038			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
2039			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
2040			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
2041			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
2042			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
2043			me, but we have the truth!"
2044			%
2045			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
2046			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
2047			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
2048			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
2049			%
2050			[nethack extinctionist faq]
2051			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
2052			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
2053			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
2054			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
2055			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
2056			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
2057			genociding every monster.
2058
2059			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
2060			genocide them for good measure!
2061			%%
2062			[nethack instadeath faq]
2063
2064			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
2065
2066			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
2067			%
2068			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
2069			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
2070	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
2071	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
2072			17:58 <Murch> lol
2073			%
2074			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
2075			%
2076			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
2077			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
2078			%
2079			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
2080			%
2081			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
2082
2083			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
2084			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
2085			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
2086			%
2087			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
2088
2089			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
2090			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
2091			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
2092			the Eastern Time Zone.
2093			[...]
2094			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
2095			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
2096			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
2097			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
2098			%
2099			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
2100
2101			_dl_profile_output
2102			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2103			%
2104			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2105			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2106			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2107			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2108			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2109			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2110			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2111
2112			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2113			%
2114			[famous last words]
2115			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2116			%
2117			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2118
2119			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2120
2121			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2122
2123			--
2124			Jay Hennigan
2125			%
2126			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2127			%
2128			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2129			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2130			of homeland security]
2131			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2132			%
2133			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2134	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2135	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2136			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2137			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2138			range of spyware available to us?"
2139
2140			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2141			%
2142			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2143			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2144			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2145			%
2146	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2147	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2148			%
2149			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2150			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2151			%
2152			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2153			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2154			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2155			shooter.
2156
2157			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2158			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2159			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2160			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2161			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2162			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2163
2164			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2165			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2166			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2167			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2168			way.
2169
2170			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2171			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2172			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2173
2174			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2175			%
2176			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2177			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2178			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2179			> above comment about Hitler).
2180
2181			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2182			mention Hitler loses.
2183			%
2184			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2185			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2186			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2187			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2188			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2189			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2190			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2191			including <windows.h>.
2192			[...]
2193			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2194			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2195			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2196			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2197			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2198			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2199			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2200			environments.
2201			%
2202			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2203			%
2204			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2205			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2206			%
2207			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2208			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2209			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2210			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2211			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2212			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2213			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2214			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2215			companies want to own your computer.
2216
2217			Some examples:
2218
2219			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2220			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2221			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2222			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2223			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2224			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2225			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2226			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2227			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2228	root	1.432
2229	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2230			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2231			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2232			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2233			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2234
2235			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2236			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2237			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2238			from Microsoft? You can't.
2239
2240			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2241			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2242			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2243			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2244			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2245			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2246			adversely affect its business partners.
2247
2248			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2249			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2250			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2251			about your behavior.
2252
2253			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2254			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2255			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2256			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2257			presumed infractions.
2258
2259			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2260			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2261			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2262
2263			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2264			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2265			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2266			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2267			user's device against him.
2268			[...]
2269			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2270			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2271			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2272			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2273			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2274			back-room marketing deals.
2275			%
2276			[John Carmack on Java]
2277			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2278			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2279			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2280			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2281			performance.
2282			%
2283			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2284
2285			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2286			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2287			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2288			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2289			%
2290			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2291			%
2292			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2293			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2294			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2295			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2296			%
2297			http://funroll-loops.org/
2298			%
2299			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2300			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2301			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2302			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2303			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2304			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2305			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2306			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2307			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2308			Fahrenheit documentation.
2309			%
2310			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2311			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2312			sure its much slower than CVS]
2313			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2314			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2315			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2316	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2317	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2318			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2319	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2320	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2321			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2322	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2323	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2324			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2325			%
2326	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2327
2328			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2329			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2330	root	1.431	%
2331	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2332
2333			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2334			> systems ?
2335
2336			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2337			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2338
2339			Jesper
2340			%
2341	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2342
2343			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2344			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2345
2346	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2347	root	1.429	%
2348	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2349			%
2350	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2351
2352			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2353			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2354			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2355			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2356			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2357			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2358			but that's the truth.
2359			%
2360	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2361
2362			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2363
2364	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2365			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2366			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2367			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2368	root	1.424
2369			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2370	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2371			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2372	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2373
2374			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2375			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2376	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2377	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2378			in Richtung Boden.
2379
2380			[...]
2381
2382	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2383	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2384	root	1.424
2385			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2386	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2387	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2388
2389			[...]
2390
2391			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2392	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2393	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2394	root	1.424
2395			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2396	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2397			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2398			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2399	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2400			sofort.
2401			%
2402	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2403			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2404			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2405			software from Microsoft.)
2406	root	1.424	%
2407	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2408	root	1.424	%
2409	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2410
2411			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2412			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2413			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2414			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2415	root	1.424	%
2416	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2417	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2418	root	1.424	%
2419	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2420			From: Rodrigo Severo
2421			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2422			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2423
2424			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2425
2426			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2427			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2428			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2429
2430			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2431			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2432			brazilian ;)
2433			Rodrigo Severo
2434	root	1.424	%
2435	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2436	root	1.417
2437			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2438	root	1.424	%
2439	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2440
2441			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2442
2443			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2444
2445			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2446			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2447
2448			sigh
2449	root	1.424	%
2450	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2451			By Bertrand Russell
2452
2453			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2454			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2455			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2456			might be set forth as follows:
2457
2458			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2459
2460			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2461			evidence is sure to come to light.
2462
2463			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2464
2465			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2466			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2467			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2468
2469			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2470			contrary authorities to be found.
2471
2472			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2473			do the opinions will suppress you.
2474
2475			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2476			was once eccentric.
2477
2478			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2479			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2480			agreement than the latter.
2481
2482			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2483			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2484
2485			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2486			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2487
2488			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2489			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2490	root	1.424	%
2491	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2492	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2493			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2494			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2495
2496			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2497			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2498			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2499			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2500			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2501			United States."
2502	root	1.413	---
2503			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2504			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2505			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2506	root	1.414	---
2507			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2508			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2509			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2510			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2511			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2512
2513			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2514			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2515	root	1.424	%
2516	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2517			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2518	root	1.424	%
2519	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2520
2521			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2522			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2523
2524			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2525			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2526
2527			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2528
2529			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2530			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2531	root	1.424	%
2532	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2533			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2534	root	1.424	%
2535	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2536			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2537			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2538			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2539			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2540			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2541	root	1.424	%
2542	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2543
2544			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2545			they care about it?"
2546			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2547	root	1.407
2548			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2549	root	1.424	%
2550	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2551			-- Gregory Chaitin
2552	root	1.424	%
2553	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2554	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2555			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2556			[...]
2557	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2558			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2559	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2560	root	1.424	%
2561	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2562			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2563			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2564			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2565			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2566			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2567	root	1.424	%
2568	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2569
2570			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2571	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2572			return 0;
2573	root	1.424	%
2574	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2575	root	1.401
2576			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2577			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2578			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2579			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2580			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2581			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2582			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2583			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2584			> transparent.
2585
2586			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2587			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2588			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2589			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2590	root	1.424	%
2591	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2592			aber falsche Lösungen.
2593	root	1.424	%
2594	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2595			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2596			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2597			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2598	root	1.424	%
2599	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2600			>
2601			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2602			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2603			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2604			> than useful to the user.
2605
2606			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2607
2608			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2609			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2610			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2611			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2612
2613			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2614
2615			Linus
2616	root	1.424	%
2617	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2618			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2619			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2620			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2621	root	1.424	%
2622	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2623			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2624
2625	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2626	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2627			--
2628			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2629
2630			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2631	root	1.424	%
2632	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2633			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2634
2635			Person: What do you do?
2636			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2637			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2638
2639			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2640			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2641			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2642	root	1.394
2643			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2644			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2645	root	1.424	%
2646	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2647			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2648			illegal downloaders."
2649
2650			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2651
2652			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2653			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2654			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2655			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2656			have to emerge."
2657
2658			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2659	root	1.424	%
2660	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2661	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2662
2663			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2664			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2665
2666			Bye, Andy
2667	root	1.424	%
2668	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2669	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2670	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2671	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2672	root	1.390
2673			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2674			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2675			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2676			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2677			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2678			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2679			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2680			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2681			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2682			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2683			alle Benutzer.
2684			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2685			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2686			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2687			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2688			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2689			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2690			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2691			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2692			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2693			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2694			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2695	root	1.424	%
2696	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2697
2698			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2699			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2700			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2701			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2702			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2703			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2704			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2705			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2706			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2707			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2708			unfinished operations, etc.
2709			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2710
2711			Valid options:
2712			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2713			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2714
2715			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2716	root	1.424	%
2717	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2718			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2719			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2720			to provide.
2721			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2722	root	1.424	%
2723	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2724
2725			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2726			alarm people more.
2727
2728			-Nate
2729
2730			[...]
2731
2732			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2733			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2734			image of the language that is created here.
2735
2736			Juerd
2737
2738			[...]
2739
2740			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2741			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2742			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2743
2744	root	1.432	--
2745	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2746	root	1.387	%
2747	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2748	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2749	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2750			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2751	root	1.387	%
2752	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2753			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2754	root	1.387	%
2755	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2756			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2757	root	1.387	%
2758	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2759			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2760			[...]
2761			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2762			"Windows is broken."
2763	root	1.387	%
2764	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2765			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2766			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2767	root	1.387	%
2768	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2769			on being able to kill their children legally]
2770			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2771	root	1.387	%
2772	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2773			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2774			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2775	root	1.387	%
2776	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2777			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2778			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2779			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2780			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2781			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2782	root	1.378	--
2783			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2784			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2785			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2786			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2787			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2788			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2789			wasteful government spending."
2790	root	1.387	%
2791	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2792			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2793	root	1.387	%
2794	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2795			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2796	root	1.387	%
2797	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2798			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2799	root	1.387	%
2800	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2801			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2802	root	1.387	%
2803	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2804	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2805	root	1.387	%
2806	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2807			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2808	root	1.387	%
2809	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2810			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2811	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2812	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2813			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2814	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2815	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
2816			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2817	root	1.387	%
2818	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2819			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2820	root	1.387	%
2821	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2822			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2823			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2824			their weapons over our heads."
2825			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2826	root	1.387	%
2827	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2828			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2829	root	1.387	%
2830	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2831			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2832			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2833			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2834			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2835	root	1.387	%
2836	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2837	root	1.387	%
2838	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2839			several requests for clarification.
2840
2841			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2842			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2843			unter TCG definitions.
2844	root	1.387	%
2845	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2846			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2847			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2848			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2849	root	1.387	%
2850	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2851			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2852			get people on board.
2853			%
2854	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2855			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2856			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2857			DRM.
2858
2859			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2860			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2861	root	1.387	%
2862	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2863			switch ($decade) {
2864			case "the 50's":
2865			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2866			break;
2867			case "the 60's":
2868			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2869			break;
2870			case "the 70's":
2871			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2872			break;
2873			case "the 80's":
2874			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2875			break;
2876			case "the 90's":
2877			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2878			break;
2879			case "the 00's":
2880			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2881			break;
2882			}
2883	root	1.387	%
2884	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2885
2886			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2887			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2888			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2889			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2890
2891			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2892			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2893			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2894
2895			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2896			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2897			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2898			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2899			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2900			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2901			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2902			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2903			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2904			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2905	root	1.387	%
2906	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2907			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2908			married or unmarried."
2909
2910			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2911			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2912			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2913			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2914			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2915	root	1.387	%
2916	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2917
2918			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2919			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2920			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2921			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2922			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2923			conditioning.
2924
2925			[And this is religion at its best:]
2926			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2927			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2928			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2929	root	1.387	%
2930	root	1.361	[Racism]
2931			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2932	root	1.387	%
2933	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2934			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2935	root	1.387	%
2936	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2937			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2938
2939			I apologise for this.
2940
2941			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2942			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2943	root	1.387	%
2944	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2945			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2946			el says: ich kenn da wen
2947			el says: bei dem wars so
2948			[...]
2949			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2950			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2951			el says: gehirntumor auch
2952			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2953	root	1.387	%
2954	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2955	root	1.387	%
2956	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2957			no sense in the kernel]
2958			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2959
2960			[...]
2961
2962			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2963			models.
2964
2965			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2966			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2967			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2968	root	1.387	%
2969	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2970			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2971			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2972			--
2973			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2974	root	1.355	--
2975			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2976			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2977			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2978			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2979	root	1.387	%
2980	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2981			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2982			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2983			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2984			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2985			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2986			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2987			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2988	root	1.387	%
2989	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2990			which you currently do not posess]
2991			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2992	root	1.387	%
2993	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2994			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2995	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2996	root	1.387	%
2997	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2998	root	1.387	%
2999	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
3000			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
3001	root	1.387	%
3002	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
3003			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
3004			paragraphs.
3005	root	1.387	%
3006	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
3007			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
3008			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
3009	root	1.387	%
3010	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
3011			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
3012
3013			Most catholics aren't American.
3014	root	1.387	%
3015	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
3016
3017			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
3018			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
3019			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
3020			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
3021			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
3022
3023			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
3024			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
3025	root	1.387	%
3026	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
3027			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
3028			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
3029			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
3030			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
3031			criminals."
3032	root	1.387	%
3033	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
3034			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
3035	root	1.387	%
3036	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
3037			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
3038	root	1.387	%
3039	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
3040			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
3041	root	1.387	%
3042	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
3043			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
3044			card (They went up in flames).
3045	root	1.387	%
3046	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
3047			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
3048			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
3049			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
3050	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
3051	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
3052	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
3053	root	1.387	%
3054	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
3055			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
3056			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
3057
3058			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
3059
3060			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
3061	root	1.387	%
3062	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
3063			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
3064			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
3065			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
3066			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
3067			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
3068			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
3069			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
3070			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
3071			--
3072			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
3073			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
3074			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
3075			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
3076			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
3077			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
3078	root	1.387	%
3079	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
3080			The Obfuscated V contest
3081	root	1.387	%
3082	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
3083			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
3084			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
3085			cigarette lighters."
3086			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
3087	root	1.387	%
3088	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
3089			Does it run under Windows ?
3090			- Who cares?
3091	root	1.387	%
3092	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
3093	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
3094	root	1.387	%
3095	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
3096			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
3097			[...]
3098			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
3099			[...]
3100			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
3101			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3102			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3103	root	1.387	%
3104	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3105	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3106			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3107			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3108	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3109	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3110	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3111	root	1.330	> mehr!
3112			> richy.
3113
3114			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3115	root	1.387	%
3116	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3117	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3118			> zugetragen hat?
3119
3120			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3121			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3122	root	1.388	[später]
3123			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3124	root	1.329
3125			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3126			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3127			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3128			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3129			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3130
3131			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3132
3133			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3134			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3135			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3136	root	1.387	%
3137	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3138	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3139			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3140	root	1.387	%
3141	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3142			/* give the hook another try */
3143			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3144			break;
3145	root	1.387	%
3146	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3147	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3148	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3149			#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))
3150	root	1.387	%
3151	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3152	root	1.387	%
3153	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3154	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3155	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3156	root	1.432	>
3157			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3158			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3159	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3160	root	1.432	>
3161			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3162			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3163	root	1.324	> as TO).
3164	root	1.432	>
3165	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3166
3167			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3168			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3169			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3170			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3171			being discourteous to.
3172
3173			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3174			--
3175			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3176	root	1.387	%
3177	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3178	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3179	root	1.387	%
3180	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3181			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3182			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3183			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3184			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3185	root	1.387	%
3186	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3187			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3188			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3189			you don't have any'."
3190	root	1.323
3191			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3192			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3193			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3194			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3195	root	1.387	%
3196	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3197			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3198			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3199			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3200	root	1.387	%
3201	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3202			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3203			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3204			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3205			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3206			reason will not win many fans.
3207
3208			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3209			documents in the algorithm section]
3210	root	1.387	%
3211	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3212			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3213			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3214			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3215			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3216
3217			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3218	root	1.387	%
3219	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3220			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3221			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3222	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3223	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3224			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3225	root	1.387	%
3226	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3227	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3228	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3229	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3230			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3231	root	1.387	%
3232	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3233			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3234			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3235			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3236			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3237			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3238	root	1.387	%
3239	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3240			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3241	root	1.387	%
3242	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3243	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3244	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3245			* at their price list.
3246	root	1.387	%
3247	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3248			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3249			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3250			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3251			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3252			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3253			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3254	root	1.387	%
3255	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3256			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3257	root	1.387	%
3258	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3259			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3260			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3261			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3262	root	1.387	%
3263	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3264	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3265	root	1.387	%
3266	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3267			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3268	root	1.387	%
3269	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3270	root	1.387	%
3271	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3272			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3273			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3274			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3275			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3276			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3277			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3278			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3279	root	1.387	%
3280	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3281			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3282	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3283	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3284	root	1.387	%
3285	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3286	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3287	root	1.387	%
3288	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3289	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3290			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3291			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3292	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3293
3294			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3295
3296			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3297			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3298	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3299	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3300
3301			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3302
3303			[usw.]
3304
3305			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3306	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3307	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3308
3309			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3310			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3311			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3312			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3313			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3314	root	1.387	%
3315	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3316	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3317			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3318	root	1.387	%
3319	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3320			Which fanboy are you?
3321
3322			1. Windows
3323
3324			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3325			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3326			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3327			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3328			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3329			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3330			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3331			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3332			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3333
3334			2. Apple
3335
3336			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3337			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3338			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3339			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3340			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3341			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3342			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3343			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3344
3345			3. Linspire
3346
3347			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3348			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3349			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3350			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3351			installed Linspire on your machine.
3352
3353			4. Umbongo
3354
3355			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3356			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3357			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3358			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3359			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3360			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3361			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3362			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3363			themselves.
3364
3365			5. Gentoy
3366
3367			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3368			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3369			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3370			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3371			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3372			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3373			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3374			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3375
3376			6. Linux From Scratch
3377
3378			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3379			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3380			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3381			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3382			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3383			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3384			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3385	root	1.387	%
3386	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3387			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3388	root	1.387	%
3389	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3390
3391			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3392			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3393
3394			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3395	root	1.387	%
3396	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3397
3398			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3399	root	1.432	>
3400	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3401	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3402	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3403			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3404			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3405	root	1.432	>
3406			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3407	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3408	root	1.432	>
3409	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3410			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3411	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3412	root	1.387	%
3413	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3414	root	1.387	%
3415	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3416	root	1.387	%
3417	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3418	root	1.387	%
3419	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3420			show "Correspondent"]
3421	root	1.288
3422			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3423			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3424
3425			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3426			%
3427	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3428			cock sucking, blowjob
3429			=> fellatio, fellation
3430			=> oral sex, head
3431			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3432			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3433			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3434			=> organic process, biological process
3435			=> process
3436			=> phenomenon
3437	root	1.387	%
3438	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3439			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3440	root	1.387	%
3441	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3442			[slightly edited]
3443			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3444			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3445			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3446			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3447
3448			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3449			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3450			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3451
3452			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3453			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3454	root	1.387	%
3455	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3456			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3457	root	1.387	%
3458	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3459	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3460	root	1.387	%
3461	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3462	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3463			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3464	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3465	root	1.387	%
3466	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3467			- oesi
3468	root	1.387	%
3469	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3470			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3471	root	1.387	%
3472	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3473	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3474	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3475			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3476
3477			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3478			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3479			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3480			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3481			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3482			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3483			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3484			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3485			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3486			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3487			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3488			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3489			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3490			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3491			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3492			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3493			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3494			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3495			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3496			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3497			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3498			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3499			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3500			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3501
3502			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3503			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3504			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3505			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3506			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3507
3508			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3509			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3510			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3511			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3512			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3513			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3514			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3515			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3516			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3517			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3518			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3519
3520			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3521			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3522			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3523			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3524			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3525			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3526			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3527			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3528			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3529			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3530			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3531			sovereign nation.
3532
3533			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3534			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3535			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3536			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3537			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3538			CSPAN, don't post here.
3539
3540			-scott
3541	root	1.387	%
3542	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3543			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3544			capacity to feel pain.
3545
3546			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3547			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3548	root	1.387	%
3549	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3550			From: Sven Neumann
3551
3552			Hi,
3553
3554	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3555	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3556	root	1.273
3557			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3558			that
3559
3560			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3561
3562			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3563	root	1.387	%
3564	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3565	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3566			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3567			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3568	root	1.387	%
3569	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3570			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3571			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3572			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3573			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3574			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3575	root	1.387	%
3576	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3577	root	1.270	interesting read]
3578			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3579	root	1.387	%
3580	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3581			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3582			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3583	root	1.387	%
3584	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3585			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3586			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3587			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3588			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3589			locks can open the gate.
3590
3591			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3592			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3593			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3594	root	1.387	%
3595	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3596			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3597	root	1.387	%
3598	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3599
3600			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3601
3602			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3603			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3604			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3605			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3606			explanation of this.
3607
3608			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3609
3610			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3611			which explains why the hammer falls.
3612
3613			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3614			how a population's genome can change over time.
3615
3616	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3617			mathematical relationship between two values.
3618	root	1.265
3619			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3620			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3621
3622			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3623			acceleration.
3624
3625			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3626			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3627			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3628			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3629			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3630			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3631			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3632			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3633			false.
3634
3635			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3636	root	1.387	%
3637	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3638	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3639
3640			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3641			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3642	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3643			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3644			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3645	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3646
3647	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3648			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3649			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3650			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3651			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3652			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3653			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3654	root	1.264
3655			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3656	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3657			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3658			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3659			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3660	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3661	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3662	root	1.264	sportlich.
3663
3664	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3665			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3666			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3667			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3668			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3669	root	1.264
3670	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3671	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3672	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3673			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3674	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3675
3676			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3677			Forscher.
3678	root	1.387	%
3679	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3680			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3681			EULA-style license]
3682	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3683	root	1.387	%
3684	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3685			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3686			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3687			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3688			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3689			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3690			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3691	root	1.387	%
3692	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3693	root	1.387	%
3694	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3695			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3696			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3697			00:24 <schmorp> re
3698	root	1.387	%
3699	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3700	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3701			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3702	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3703			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3704	root	1.387	%
3705	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3706			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3707			proponents of such theories.]
3708			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3709			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3710			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3711			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3712			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3713			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3714			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3715			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3716			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3717			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3718			(below, right)."
3719	root	1.387	%
3720	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3721			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3722			[useful info...]
3723			http://www.snopes.com/
3724	root	1.387	%
3725	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3726			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3727	root	1.387	%
3728	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3729			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3730	root	1.387	%
3731	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3732	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3733			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3734	root	1.387	%
3735	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3736			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3737			#!/usr/bin/sh
3738			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3739			# All Rights Reserved
3740
3741			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3742			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3743			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3744
3745			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3746	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3747	root	1.387	%
3748	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3749			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3750			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3751	root	1.387	%
3752	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3753			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3754			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3755			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3756			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3757			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3758			#
3759			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3760	root	1.387	%
3761	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3762	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3763			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3764			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3765	root	1.387	%
3766	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3767	root	1.387	%
3768	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3769	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3770			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3771	root	1.387	%
3772	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3773			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3774			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3775	root	1.387	%
3776	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3777	root	1.387	%
3778	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3779			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3780			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3781			that you have a problem.)
3782			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3783	root	1.387	%
3784	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3785			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3786	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3787	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3788
3789			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3790			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3791	root	1.387	%
3792	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3793			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3794
3795			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3796			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3797			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3798			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3799			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3800			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3801			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3802			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3803			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3804			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3805			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3806			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3807			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3808			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3809
3810			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3811			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3812			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3813			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3814			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3815			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3816			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3817	root	1.387	%
3818	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3819	root	1.239
3820			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3821			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3822			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3823	root	1.387	%
3824	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3825			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3826			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3827	root	1.387	%
3828	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3829
3830			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3831			;)
3832	root	1.387	%
3833	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3834			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3835			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3836			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3837
3838			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3839
3840	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3841			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3842	root	1.387	%
3843	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3844			using so many abbreviations...]
3845
3846			Hi Volker -
3847
3848			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3849	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3850			spät ...
3851	root	1.234
3852			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3853
3854			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3855
3856	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3857			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3858	root	1.234
3859	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3860	root	1.234
3861			tom
3862	root	1.247
3863	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3864	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3865	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3866	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3867	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3868	root	1.387	%
3869	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3870			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3871			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3872
3873			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3874	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3875			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3876	root	1.233	> someone else?
3877
3878			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3879			===================================================================
3880			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3881			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3882			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3883			S: 79098 Freiburg
3884			S: Germany
3885
3886			+N: Hans Reiser
3887			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3888			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3889			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3890			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3891			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3892			+S: USA
3893			+
3894			N: Joerg Reuter
3895			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3896			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3897	root	1.387	%
3898	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3899			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3900	root	1.387	%
3901	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3902			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3903	root	1.387	%
3904	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3905			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3906	root	1.387	%
3907	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3908			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3909			[...]
3910			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3911			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3912			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3913			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3914			[...]
3915			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3916			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3917			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3918			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3919	root	1.387	%
3920	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3921			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3922			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3923			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3924			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3925			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3926	root	1.387	%
3927	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3928	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3929			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3930			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3931			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3932			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3933			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3934			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3935			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3936	root	1.387	%
3937	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3938			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3939	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3940	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3941	root	1.387	%
3942	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3943			[yes, the whole thing]
3944	root	1.387	%
3945	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3946	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3947			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3948			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3949	root	1.221	>
3950			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3951
3952			We'll use a larger wall.
3953	root	1.387	%
3954	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3955			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3956			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3957			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3958
3959			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3960			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3961
3962			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3963			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3964
3965			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3966			cost.
3967			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3968	root	1.387	%
3969	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3970
3971	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3972	root	1.219
3973			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3974
3975	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3976	root	1.387	%
3977	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3978			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3979	root	1.387	%
3980	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3981			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3982	root	1.387	%
3983	root	1.215	[translated]
3984			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3985			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3986			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3987			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3988			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3989			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3990			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3991			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3992	root	1.387	%
3993	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3994			-- Lord Balfour
3995	root	1.387	%
3996	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3997	root	1.387	%
3998	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3999			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
4000			him to forgive me.
4001	root	1.387	%
4002	root	1.211	[slashdot]
4003			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
4004
4005			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
4006	root	1.387	%
4007	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
4008			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
4009			get bored during the sex scenes.
4010	root	1.387	%
4011	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
4012			strangler is to the woman home alone.
4013			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
4014	root	1.387	%
4015	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
4016			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
4017			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
4018			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
4019			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
4020			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
4021	root	1.387	%
4022	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
4023			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
4024			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
4025			HP-UX customer. [...]
4026	root	1.387	%
4027	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
4028			>>
4029			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
4030			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
4031			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
4032			>>spelled it in UC.
4033	root	1.247	>
4034			>
4035	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
4036
4037			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
4038	root	1.387	%
4039	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
4040			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
4041
4042			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
4043			usage.
4044
4045			Richard
4046	root	1.387	%
4047	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
4048			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
4049			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
4050			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
4051			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
4052			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
4053	root	1.387	%
4054	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
4055			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
4056	root	1.387	%
4057	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
4058	root	1.387	%
4059	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
4060			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
4061			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
4062			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
4063			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
4064			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
4065			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
4066			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
4067			existence means and implies.
4068
4069			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
4070	root	1.387	%
4071	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
4072			>
4073			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
4074			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
4075			>
4076			> You're WRONG!
4077
4078	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
4079			and §7.20.3.1).
4080	root	1.387	%
4081	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
4082			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
4083			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
4084	root	1.387	%
4085	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
4086			A. It should be obvious.
4087			Q. How is it hard?
4088			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
4089			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
4090	root	1.387	%
4091	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
4092			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
4093
4094			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
4095			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
4096
4097			- works ok on linux
4098			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
4099
4100			Any clues why?
4101			I am new to the non windows world.
4102
4103			Thanks
4104	root	1.387	%
4105	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4106			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4107			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4108			> this ?
4109
4110			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4111			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4112	root	1.387	%
4113	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4114			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4115			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4116
4117			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4118	root	1.247	>
4119			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4120			>
4121	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4122	root	1.387	%
4123	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4124			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4125
4126			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4127	root	1.387	%
4128	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4129			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4130	root	1.387	%
4131	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4132	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4133	root	1.194
4134			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4135			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4136	root	1.387	%
4137	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4138			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4139	root	1.387	%
4140	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4141	root	1.387	%
4142	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4143			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4144	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4145	root	1.387	%
4146	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4147			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4148			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4149	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4150
4151	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4152	root	1.190
4153	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4154	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4155			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4156			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4157	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4158			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4159			schützen können.
4160	root	1.387	%
4161	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4162			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4163	root	1.387	%
4164	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4165			[...]
4166	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4167	root	1.188	[...]
4168	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4169			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4170			never get your message.
4171	root	1.387	%
4172	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4173			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4174			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4175	root	1.387	%
4176	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4177			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4178			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4179	root	1.387	%
4180	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4181			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4182			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4183			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4184			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4185			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4186			01:15 <schmorp> g
4187			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4188	root	1.387	%
4189	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4190			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4191			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4192			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4193			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4194			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4195			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4196			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4197	root	1.387	%
4198	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4199			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4200			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4201	root	1.387	%
4202	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4203			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4204			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4205			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4206			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4207			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4208			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4209	root	1.387	%
4210	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4211			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4212	root	1.387	%
4213	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4214			GNOME TERMINAL
4215			[...]
4216			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4217			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4218			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4219			[.. later]
4220			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4221			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4222			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4223	root	1.387	%
4224	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4225			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4226			/*
4227	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4228	root	1.179	*/
4229			void blip()
4230	root	1.247	{
4231	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4232			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4233			fflush(stderr);
4234	root	1.247	}
4235	root	1.387	%
4236	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4237			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4238
4239			Why not 666? :-).
4240	root	1.387	%
4241	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4242			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4243			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4244			users are clueless.
4245	root	1.387	%
4246	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4247			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4248	root	1.387	%
4249	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4250			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4251	root	1.387	%
4252	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4253			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4254	root	1.387	%
4255	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4256			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4257			and", and finally, ampersand.
4258	root	1.387	%
4259	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4260			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4261			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4262			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4263			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4264	root	1.387	%
4265	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4266			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4267			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4268			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4269			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4270	root	1.387	%
4271	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4272			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4273			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4274			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4275			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4276			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4277			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4278	root	1.387	%
4279	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4280	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4281			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4282	root	1.387	%
4283	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4284			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4285			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4286	root	1.387	%
4287	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4288	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4289	root	1.387	%
4290	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4291	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4292			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4293			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4294	root	1.167	%
4295	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4296	root	1.387	%
4297	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4298			<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
4299	root	1.387	%
4300	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4301			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4302	root	1.164	einfach :)
4303			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4304	root	1.387	%
4305	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4306			/*
4307			* Function compares two strings.
4308	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4309	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4310			*/
4311			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4312			{
4313			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4314			[...]
4315	root	1.387	%
4316	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4317	root	1.387	%
4318	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4319	root	1.387	%
4320	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4321			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4322			Get_Colours ();
4323	root	1.387	%
4324	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4325	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4326			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4327			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4328			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4329			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4330			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4331			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4332			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4333	root	1.161	[...]
4334			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4335			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4336			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4337			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4338			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4339	root	1.387	%
4340	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4341			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4342	root	1.387	%
4343	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4344			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4345	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4346	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4347			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4348			#endif
4349	root	1.387	%
4350	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4351			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4352			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4353	root	1.387	%
4354	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4355			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4356			>
4357			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4358
4359			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4360			--
4361			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4362	root	1.387	%
4363	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4364			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4365			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4366			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4367			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4368			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4369			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4370	root	1.387	%
4371	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4372			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4373	root	1.387	%
4374	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4375	root	1.387	%
4376	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4377			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4378			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4379			-- Robert Fisk
4380	root	1.387	%
4381	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4382			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4383	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4384			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4385	root	1.387	%
4386	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4387			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4388			high-violence culture"
4389			[...]
4390			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4391			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4392			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4393			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4394			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4395			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4396			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4397			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4398
4399			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4400			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4401	root	1.387	%
4402	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4403			Subject: Re: [...]
4404
4405			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4406
4407			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4408			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4409			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4410			> saved it :)
4411
4412			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4413			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4414			[...]
4415	root	1.387	%
4416	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4417			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4418			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4419			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4420			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4421
4422			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4423			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4424			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4425			[...]
4426	root	1.387	%
4427	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4428	root	1.387	%
4429	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4430	root	1.387	%
4431	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4432	root	1.387	%
4433	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4434			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4435			claim to have decades of java experience]
4436			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4437			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4438			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4439			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4440	root	1.387	%
4441	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4442	root	1.387	%
4443	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4444	root	1.387	%
4445	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4446	root	1.387	%
4447	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4448			[mail not to be delivered]
4449			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4450	root	1.247	>
4451	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4452
4453			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4454			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4455	root	1.387	%
4456	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4457
4458			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4459			>
4460			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4461			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4462			> >
4463			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4464			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4465			> > language which does support this?
4466			>
4467
4468			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4469
4470			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4471			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4472			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4473			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4474			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4475			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4476	root	1.387	%
4477	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4478			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4479			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4480	root	1.387	%
4481	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4482			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4483			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4484
4485			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4486			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4487			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4488			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4489			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4490
4491			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4492			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4493			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4494			and thwart them that way.
4495	root	1.387	%
4496	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4497			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4498			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4499			unfortunate decision.
4500	root	1.387	%
4501	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4502	root	1.146	fest ;)
4503	root	1.387	%
4504	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4505
4506			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4507	root	1.387	%
4508	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4509	root	1.387	%
4510	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4511			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4512	root	1.387	%
4513	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4514
4515			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4516			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4517			local object as a "he":
4518
4519			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4520			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4521			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4522			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4523			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4524			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4525			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4526			EX-PARROT!"
4527
4528			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4529	root	1.387	%
4530	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4531			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4532	root	1.387	%
4533	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4534			The police will shoot you.
4535
4536			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4537			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4538
4539	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4540	root	1.387	%
4541	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4542			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4543			reply.
4544
4545			pls. cc my email address
4546
4547			tia
4548			pd
4549
4550
4551	root	1.247	--
4552	root	1.141	^X^C
4553			q
4554			quit
4555			:q
4556			^C
4557			end
4558			x
4559			exit
4560			ZZ
4561			^D
4562			?
4563			help
4564			shit
4565			.
4566	root	1.387	%
4567	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4568	root	1.387	%
4569	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4570			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4571			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4572			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4573	root	1.387	%
4574	root	1.140	[I love it]
4575			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4576			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4577	root	1.387	%
4578	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4579			- Douglas Adams
4580	root	1.387	%
4581	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4582			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4583			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4584			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4585
4586	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4587			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4588			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4589			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4590			their software properly.
4591	root	1.138
4592			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4593			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4594			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4595			told the publication.
4596
4597	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4598			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4599			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4600			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4601			who want visibility and glory.
4602	root	1.387	%
4603	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4604
4605			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4606
4607			x Try not using it.
4608	root	1.387	%
4609	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4610			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4611			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4612			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4613			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4614			had given.
4615
4616			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4617			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4618			person as well."
4619	root	1.387	%
4620	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4621	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4622			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4623	root	1.387	%
4624	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4625	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4626	root	1.134
4627			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4628	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4629	root	1.135	[...]
4630	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4631	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4632	root	1.135	[...]
4633			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4634			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4635	root	1.387	%
4636	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4637	root	1.387	%
4638	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4639			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4640			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4641			-- Ulrich Drepper
4642	root	1.387	%
4643	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4644			-- Ulrich Drepper
4645	root	1.387	%
4646	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4647			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4648	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4649	root	1.387	%
4650	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4651			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4652			-- Ulrich Drepper
4653	root	1.387	%
4654	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4655			-- Ulrich Drepper
4656	root	1.387	%
4657	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4658	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4659			zuverlässiger
4660	root	1.387	%
4661	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4662			/*
4663			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4664			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4665			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4666			*/
4667	root	1.387	%
4668	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4669			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4670			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4671			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4672			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4673	root	1.387	%
4674	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4675			Pirating Movies
4676
4677			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4678			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4679			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4680	root	1.387	%
4681	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4682			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4683	root	1.387	%
4684	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4685			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4686	root	1.387	%
4687	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4688			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4689			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4690			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4691			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4692	root	1.387	%
4693	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4694			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4695			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4696			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4697			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4698
4699			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4700			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4701
4702			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4703			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4704			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4705			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4706			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4707			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4708			the first place!
4709	root	1.387	%
4710	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4711			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4712			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4713	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4714	root	1.387	%
4715	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4716			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4717	root	1.387	%
4718	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4719			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4720	root	1.387	%
4721	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4722			platform."
4723			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4724	root	1.387	%
4725	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4726			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4727			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4728			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4729			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4730	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4731	root	1.387	%
4732	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4733			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4734	root	1.387	%
4735	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4736			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4737			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4738			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4739			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4740			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4741			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4742			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4743			daily.
4744	root	1.387	%
4745	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4746	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4747			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4748	root	1.387	%
4749	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4750			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4751			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4752			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4753			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4754			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4755			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4756	root	1.387	%
4757	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4758	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4759	root	1.387	%
4760	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4761			[...so it must be good]
4762			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4763	root	1.387	%
4764	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4765			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4766			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4767	root	1.387	%
4768	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4769			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4770			No idea why I announce it here...
4771	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4772	root	1.387	%
4773	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4774			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4775	root	1.387	%
4776	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4777	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4778	root	1.387	%
4779	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4780			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4781			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4782			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4783			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4784
4785			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4786			Sacha.
4787	root	1.387	%
4788	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4789			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4790			desk one morning:
4791
4792			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4793
4794			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4795
4796			Employee: 123456
4797
4798			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4799			photograph of the employee.]
4800
4801			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4802			identification which has your picture on it?
4803
4804			Employee: Why would you need that?
4805
4806			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4807
4808			Employee: A picture of my face?
4809
4810			Security Guard: Yes
4811
4812			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4813
4814			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4815			compare against this one.
4816	root	1.387	%
4817	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4818			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4819			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4820	root	1.387	%
4821	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4822			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4823			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4824
4825			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4826			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4827	root	1.387	%
4828	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4829	root	1.387	%
4830	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4831			"RV K-17"
4832	root	1.387	%
4833	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4834			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4835	root	1.387	%
4836	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4837			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4838			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4839			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4840	root	1.387	%
4841	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4842			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4843	root	1.387	%
4844	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4845	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4846			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4847	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4848	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4849			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4850	root	1.387	%
4851	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4852	root	1.387	%
4853	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4854			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4855	root	1.387	%
4856	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4857			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4858			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4859			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4860	root	1.387	%
4861	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4862			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4863			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4864			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4865			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4866			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4867			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4868			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4869			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4870			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4871			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4872			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4873			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4874			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4875			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4876			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4877			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4878			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4879			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4880	root	1.387	%
4881	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4882			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4883	root	1.387	%
4884	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4885			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4886	root	1.387	%
4887	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4888			Lester Moore,
4889			Shot in the head with a .44.
4890			No Les, no more.
4891	root	1.387	%
4892	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4893			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4894
4895			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4896			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4897	root	1.387	%
4898	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4899			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4900			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4901	root	1.387	%
4902	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4903			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4904			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4905			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4906			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4907	root	1.112	[...]
4908			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4909			[...]
4910			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4911			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4912			the result with SHA.
4913	root	1.387	%
4914	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4915	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4916			> ist!
4917	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4918			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4919	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4920	root	1.387	%
4921	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4922			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4923	root	1.387	%
4924	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4925	root	1.387	%
4926	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4927			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4928			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4929			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4930			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4931			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4932	root	1.387	%
4933	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4934			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4935	root	1.387	%
4936	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4937			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4938	root	1.387	%
4939	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4940			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4941	root	1.387	%
4942	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4943
4944			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4945			* control history, is that we should at least
4946			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4947			* "initialisation"? */
4948			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4949	root	1.387	%
4950	root	1.105	[man pem]
4951			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4952	root	1.387	%
4953	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4954
4955			/* ``If you can't do it in
4956	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4957	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4958	root	1.387	%
4959	root	1.104	[subculture]
4960	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4961			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4962	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4963
4964			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4965	root	1.424	%
4966	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4967			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4968	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4969	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4970	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4971	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4972			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4973	root	1.387	%
4974	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4975	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4976			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4977			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4978	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4979	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4980			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4981			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4982	root	1.387	%
4983	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4984			aber wenig freude.
4985	root	1.387	%
4986	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4987			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4988			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4989			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4990			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4991			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4992			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4993			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4994			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4995			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4996	root	1.387	%
4997	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4998			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4999	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
5000			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
5001	root	1.387	%
5002	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
5003			don't work well in practise.
5004			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
5005	root	1.387	%
5006	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
5007			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
5008			"ready, fire, aim."
5009	root	1.387	%
5010	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
5011			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
5012			free countries like Germany [1].
5013			[...]
5014			Regards
5015			Henning
5016
5017			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
5018			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
5019			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
5020	root	1.387	%
5021	root	1.98	[...]
5022			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
5023			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
5024			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
5025			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
5026			itself give you none of these rights at all.
5027			[...]
5028			Wolfgang Walter
5029	root	1.387	%
5030	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
5031			burro: it seemed very clever
5032			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
5033			burro: it forgot to defend later..
5034			burro: oops
5035			burro: accidental poetry
5036	root	1.387	%
5037	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
5038			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
5039			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
5040	root	1.387	%
5041	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
5042			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
5043	root	1.387	%
5044	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
5045			-- Oscar Wilde
5046	root	1.387	%
5047	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
5048			"guilty until proven innocent"
5049			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
5050	root	1.387	%
5051	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
5052			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
5053			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
5054			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
5055			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
5056			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
5057			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
5058			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
5059			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
5060			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
5061			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
5062			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
5063			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
5064			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
5065			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
5066	root	1.387	%
5067	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
5068			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
5069			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
5070			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
5071			// suit particular needs.
5072			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
5073	root	1.387	%
5074	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
5075			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
5076			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
5077	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
5078	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
5079	root	1.387	%
5080	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
5081			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
5082	root	1.387	%
5083	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
5084			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
5085	root	1.387	%
5086	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
5087			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
5088			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
5089	root	1.387	%
5090	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
5091			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
5092	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
5093			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
5094	root	1.387	%
5095	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
5096
5097			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
5098			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
5099			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
5100			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
5101			is not [...]
5102	root	1.387	%
5103	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5104	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5105			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5106	root	1.387	%
5107	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5108			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5109
5110	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5111	root	1.94
5112			GUI
5113			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5114			Globale Variable
5115	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5116	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5117			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5118			strukturiert
5119			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5120			Multithreaded
5121	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5122	root	1.94	Windows 95
5123	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5124	root	1.94	Emacs
5125	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5126			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5127			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5128	root	1.94	IPv6
5129			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5130			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5131			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5132			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5133	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5134			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5135	root	1.247	PHP
5136	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5137	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5138	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5139			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5140	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5141	root	1.94	Bunt.
5142	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5143			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5144			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5145	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5146	root	1.387	%
5147	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5148			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5149	root	1.387	%
5150	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5151	root	1.387	%
5152	root	1.93	[nah]
5153			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5154			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5155			paint dry."
5156	root	1.387	%
5157	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5158			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5159			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5160	root	1.387	%
5161	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5162	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5163			importance.
5164	root	1.387	%
5165	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5166			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5167			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5168			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5169
5170			You have to trust Microsoft.
5171
5172			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5173			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5174			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5175			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5176			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5177			useless chrome.
5178
5179			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5180			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5181			I'd like to trust them with.
5182	root	1.93	[...]
5183	root	1.387	%
5184	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5185			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5186			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5187			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5188			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5189	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5190	root	1.91	--------------^
5191	root	1.387	%
5192	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5193			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5194			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5195			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5196			English grammar, I assure you.
5197	root	1.387	%
5198	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5199			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5200			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5201			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5202			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5203			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5204			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5205
5206			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5207			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5208			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5209			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5210			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5211			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5212			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5213			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5214			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5215			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5216
5217			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5218			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5219			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5220			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5221
5222			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5223			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5224	root	1.387	%
5225	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5226			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5227			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5228			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5229			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5230			work etc first:
5231
5232			#include <stdio.h>
5233
5234			int main (void) {
5235			while (1)
5236			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5237
5238			return 0;
5239			}
5240	root	1.387	%
5241	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5242			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5243	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5244	root	1.387	%
5245	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5246			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5247			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5248			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5249	root	1.387	%
5250	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5251			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5252			proprietary and patentend technology.
5253	root	1.387	%
5254	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5255	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5256	root	1.387	%
5257	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5258	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5259	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5260			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5261			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5262	root	1.387	%
5263	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5264			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5265	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5266	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5267			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5268	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5269	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5270	root	1.87
5271	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5272			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5273			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5274			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5275			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5276			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5277	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5278			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5279
5280	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5281			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5282			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5283			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5284			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5285			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5286			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5287			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5288			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5289			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5290	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5291	root	1.387	%
5292	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5293			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5294	root	1.387	%
5295	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5296			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5297			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5298	root	1.387	%
5299	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5300			"linux" thing will fail]
5301			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5302			[...]
5303	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5304	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5305			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5306			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5307
5308			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5309			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5310			life to the public good.
5311
5312			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5313			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5314			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5315			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5316			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5317
5318			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5319			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5320			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5321			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5322			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5323			software to work on the linux kernel!
5324
5325			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5326			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5327			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5328			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5329			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5330	root	1.387	%
5331	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5332	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5333			[...]
5334			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5335	root	1.387	%
5336	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5337			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5338			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5339			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5340	root	1.387	%
5341	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5342	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5343			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5344			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5345			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5346			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5347	root	1.387	%
5348	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5349			-- Leonard Brandwein
5350	root	1.387	%
5351	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5352	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5353			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5354			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5355			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5356			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5357			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5358			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5359			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5360			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5361			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5362			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5363	root	1.387	%
5364	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5365			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5366	root	1.387	%
5367	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5368			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5369			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5370			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5371			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5372			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5373			jurisprudence fun?
5374			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5375	root	1.387	%
5376	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5377			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5378			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5379	root	1.84	[...]
5380	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5381	root	1.387	%
5382	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5383			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5384			- Paul Ginsparg.
5385	root	1.387	%
5386	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5387			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5388			home.":))
5389			[erm...]
5390	root	1.387	%
5391	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5392
5393	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5394	root	1.387	%
5395	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5396	root	1.387	%
5397	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5398
5399			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5400			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5401			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5402			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5403	root	1.387	%
5404	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5405			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5406			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5407	root	1.387	%
5408	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5409	root	1.83
5410			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5411	root	1.82
5412			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5413			to use in future emails?
5414	root	1.387	%
5415	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5416			please?
5417
5418			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5419			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5420
5421	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5422	root	1.387	%
5423	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5424			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5425			last until February 16th 2003.
5426
5427			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5428			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5429			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5430			end.
5431
5432			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5433
5434			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5435			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5436			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5437			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5438			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5439			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5440			take place on October 27th.
5441
5442			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5443			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5444			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5445			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5446			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5447			the clock)...
5448	root	1.387	%
5449	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5450			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5451			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5452			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5453			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5454
5455			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5456			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5457			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5458			RedHat and SuSE).
5459
5460			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5461
5462			Pavel
5463	root	1.387	%
5464	root	1.81	Rik
5465	root	1.247	--
5466	root	1.81	A: No.
5467			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5468	root	1.387	%
5469	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5470	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5471			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5472	root	1.81
5473			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5474			no useful data.
5475
5476	root	1.247	--
5477	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5478	root	1.387	%
5479	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5480			there was a long do..while construct,
5481			which contained a switch statement,
5482			which contained an if clause,
5483			which contained a break,
5484			which was intended for the if clause,
5485			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5486
5487			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5488			network January 15, 1990
5489	root	1.387	%
5490	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5491
5492	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5493			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5494			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5495			violation of network policies.
5496	root	1.80
5497			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5498
5499			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5500			The format is as follows:
5501
5502			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5503	root	1.387	%
5504	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5505			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5506			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5507	root	1.387	%
5508	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5509			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5510			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5511			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5512			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5513			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5514			...
5515			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5516			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5517			the effort."
5518	root	1.387	%
5519	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5520	root	1.387	%
5521	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5522			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5523	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5524	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5525			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5526	root	1.387	%
5527	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5528	root	1.387	%
5529	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5530	root	1.387	%
5531	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5532			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5533			[Albert Cahalan]
5534	root	1.387	%
5535	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5536			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5537			least as bad, but lesser known.
5538	root	1.387	%
5539	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5540			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5541			different.
5542	root	1.387	%
5543	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.
5544	root	1.387	%
5545	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5546			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5547	root	1.387	%
5548	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5549			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5550			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5551			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5552			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5553			without a show.
5554	root	1.387	%
5555	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5556	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5557	root	1.387	%
5558	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5559	root	1.387	%
5560	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5561			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5562	root	1.387	%
5563	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5564			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5565			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5566	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5567	root	1.71	going on.
5568			[...]
5569	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5570			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5571			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5572	root	1.387	%
5573	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5574			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5575	root	1.387	%
5576	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5577	root	1.387	%
5578	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5579	root	1.387	%
5580	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5581			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5582			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5583	root	1.387	%
5584	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5585			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5586			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5587			returned data.
5588
5589	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5590			FindExInfoStandard
5591			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5592	root	1.387	%
5593	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5594	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5595			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5596	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5597	root	1.387	%
5598	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5599			it doesn't work:]
5600			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5601			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5602			this MIME type as the final determination.
5603	root	1.387	%
5604	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5605
5606			Recode 0.1.1
5607			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5608
5609			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5610			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5611
5612			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5613	root	1.387	%
5614	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5615	root	1.387	%
5616	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5617	root	1.387	%
5618	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5619
5620			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5621			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5622			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5623			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5624			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5625			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5626			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5627			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5628			century."
5629
5630			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5631			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5632			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5633			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5634			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5635			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5636			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5637			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5638			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5639			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5640			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5641			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5642			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5643			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5644
5645			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5646			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5647			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5648			hilarious in light of the above.
5649			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5650
5651			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5652			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5653			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5654			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5655			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5656			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5657			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5658
5659			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5660			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5661			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5662			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5663	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5664	root	1.387	%
5665	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5666	root	1.387	%
5667	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5668			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5669	root	1.387	%
5670	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5671			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5672			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5673
5674			Tony Hoare
5675	root	1.387	%
5676	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5677			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5678	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5679	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5680	root	1.387	%
5681	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5682
5683			[...]
5684			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5685			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5686			system. Basically its windows computer
5687	root	1.387	%
5688	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5689	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5690	root	1.387	%
5691	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5692
5693			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5694			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5695			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5696			> software developers...
5697
5698			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5699	root	1.387	%
5700	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5701			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5702			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5703			>
5704			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5705
5706			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5707			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5708
5709			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5710			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5711
5712			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5713			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5714			off by throwing away the patch.
5715
5716			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5717			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5718			patch any time soon.
5719
5720			--
5721			Daniel
5722	root	1.387	%
5723	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5724			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5725			[...]
5726			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5727			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5728			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5729	root	1.387	%
5730	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5731
5732			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5733			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5734			Is it realy needed?
5735	root	1.387	%
5736	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5737
5738			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5739
5740			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5741			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5742			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5743	root	1.387	%
5744	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5745			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5746			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5747			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5748			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5749			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5750			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5751	root	1.387	%
5752	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5753
5754			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5755			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5756			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5757			>
5758			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5759
5760			This is an ex-parrot
5761	root	1.387	%
5762	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5763
5764			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5765			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5766			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5767			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5768			>
5769			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5770			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5771
5772			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5773
5774			while (!sorted(data))
5775			;
5776	root	1.387	%
5777	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5778			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5779
5780			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5781
5782			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5783			to computing
5784	root	1.387	%
5785	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5786
5787			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5788			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5789
5790			Common sense, one would hope.
5791	root	1.387	%
5792	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5793			[...]
5794
5795			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5796			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5797			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5798
5799			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5800
5801			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5802			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5803			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5804			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5805
5806			:-)
5807	root	1.387	%
5808	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5809			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5810			their C programs."
5811	root	1.60
5812			Robert Firth
5813	root	1.387	%
5814	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5815	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5816	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5817			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5818	root	1.387	%
5819	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5820	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5821	root	1.387	%
5822	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5823			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5824	root	1.387	%
5825	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5826	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5827	root	1.387	%
5828	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5829	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5830			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5831	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5832			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5833	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5834			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5835
5836			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5837
5838			\Gisbert
5839	root	1.387	%
5840	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5841	root	1.387	%
5842	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5843			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5844			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5845	root	1.387	%
5846	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5847			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5848
5849			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5850			[...]
5851	root	1.387	%
5852	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5853			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5854			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5855
5856			ok 1
5857			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5858			not ok 2
5859			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5860	root	1.387	%
5861	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5862
5863			Cheers,
5864
5865			Andre Hedrick
5866			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5867	root	1.387	%
5868	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5869	root	1.247	>
5870	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5871
5872			Or mutabloat :-(
5873	root	1.387	%
5874	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5875			Outlook IS the solution.
5876	root	1.387	%
5877	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5878	root	1.387	%
5879	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5880
5881			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5882			never bought anything from UUNet.
5883	root	1.387	%
5884	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5885			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5886			by delving below its surface meaning)
5887	root	1.387	%
5888	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5889	root	1.387	%
5890	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5891
5892			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5893			> just go to court and say:
5894
5895			Oh glorious naivety.
5896
5897			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5898			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5899			> can do the work better than I).
5900
5901			You release the code
5902
5903			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5904
5905			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5906			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5907			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5908			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5909
5910			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5911			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5912
5913			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5914			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5915
5916			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5917
5918			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5919			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5920			or that the good guys win.
5921
5922			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5923			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5924	root	1.387	%
5925	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5926
5927			[...]
5928			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5929			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5930	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5931	root	1.51	year to kill.
5932	root	1.387	%
5933	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5934			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5935
5936			[...]
5937			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5938			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5939			of for Windows desktop systems."
5940			[...]
5941			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5942			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5943			[...]
5944			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5945			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5946			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5947			turned on by default.
5948			[...]
5949			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5950			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5951			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5952			[...]
5953			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5954			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5955			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5956			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5957			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5958			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5959			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5960			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5961			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5962	root	1.387	%
5963	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5964	root	1.387	%
5965	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5966	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5967	root	1.49
5968			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5969
5970			Monday, 06. November 2000
5971	root	1.387	%
5972	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5973			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5974	root	1.387	%
5975	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5976	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5977			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5978			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5979	root	1.387	%
5980	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5981			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5982			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5983			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5984	root	1.387	%
5985	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5986			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5987
5988			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5989			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5990			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5991	root	1.387	%
5992	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5993			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5994
5995			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5996			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5997			> dropped patches.
5998
5999			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
6000	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
6001	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
6002			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
6003			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
6004			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
6005	root	1.387	%
6006	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
6007			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
6008			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
6009	root	1.387	%
6010	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
6011
6012			From: Bill Huey
6013			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
6014
6015			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
6016
6017			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
6018	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
6019	root	1.45	themselves.
6020
6021			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
6022			certain.
6023	root	1.387	%
6024	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
6025			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
6026			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
6027
6028			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
6029			appropriate approach to a problem.
6030	root	1.387	%
6031	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
6032	root	1.44	^^^^
6033			[...]
6034			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
6035			[...]
6036			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
6037			-15 Nice winter day
6038			-10 Slightly warm winter day
6039			-5 Nice warm winter day
6040			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
6041	root	1.387	%
6042	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
6043			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
6044			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
6045			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
6046	root	1.387	%
6047	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6048			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
6049
6050			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
6051
6052			-ben
6053	root	1.387	%
6054	root	1.43	[...]
6055	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
6056			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
6057			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
6058			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
6059			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
6060			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
6061			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
6062			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
6063			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
6064			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
6065			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
6066	root	1.387	%
6067	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
6068			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
6069	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
6070	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
6071			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
6072			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
6073			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
6074			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
6075			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
6076	root	1.43	statt...
6077	root	1.387	%
6078	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
6079	root	1.387	%
6080	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
6081			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
6082			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
6083			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
6084			values." Who writes this stuff?
6085	root	1.387	%
6086	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
6087	root	1.387	%
6088	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
6089			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
6090			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
6091			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
6092			> "Macao".
6093			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
6094			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
6095	root	1.387	%
6096	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
6097	root	1.387	%
6098	root	1.40	Beitrag
6099	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
6100	root	1.40
6101			fucklinux
6102
6103			IP: 217.83.123.198
6104
6105			1. FUCK LINUX
6106
6107	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6108	root	1.40
6109			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6110	root	1.387	%
6111	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6112	root	1.40
6113			[...]
6114			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6115			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6116			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6117			read...
6118	root	1.387	%
6119	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6120			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6121			depends on the unreasonable man.
6122
6123			-George Bernard Shaw
6124	root	1.387	%
6125	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6126
6127			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6128	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6129	root	1.387	%
6130	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:
6131	root	1.387	%
6132	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
6133			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6134			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6135			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6136			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6137	root	1.387	%
6138	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6139			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6140	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6141	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6142			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6143	root	1.387	%
6144	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6145			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6146			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6147			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6148			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6149			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6150			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6151			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).
6152			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6153			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6154	root	1.387	%
6155	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6156			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6157			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6158			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6159			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6160			removed in Windows XP.
6161
6162			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6163			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6164			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6165			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6166	root	1.387	%
6167	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6168			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6169			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6170			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6171			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6172			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6173			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6174			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6175			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6176			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6177
6178			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6179			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6180			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6181			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6182			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6183			you have no details?
6184			[...]
6185			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6186			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6187			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6188			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6189			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6190			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6191			the industrial terrorists want."
6192	root	1.387	%
6193	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6194			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6195	root	1.387	%
6196	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6197	root	1.387	%
6198	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6199			of each 50 days
6200	root	1.387	%
6201	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6202
6203			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6204			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6205			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6206	root	1.387	%
6207	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6208			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6209			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6210	root	1.387	%
6211	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6212			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6213	root	1.247	>
6214	root	1.35	> <...>
6215			>
6216			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6217			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6218			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6219	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6220	root	1.387	%
6221	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6222			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6223			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6224	root	1.387	%
6225	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6226			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6227			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6228
6229	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6230			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6231			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6232			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6233			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6234			changing run level, interactive boot.
6235	root	1.35
6236			Alan
6237	root	1.387	%
6238	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6239
6240			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6241			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6242
6243			First they came for the Communists,
6244			and I didn't speak up,
6245			because I wasn't a Communist.
6246			Then they came for the Jews,
6247			and I didn't speak up,
6248			because I wasn't a Jew.
6249			Then they came for the Catholics,
6250			and I didn't speak up,
6251			because I was a Protestant.
6252			Then they came for me,
6253			and by that time there was no one
6254			left to speak up for me.
6255
6256			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6257	root	1.387	%
6258	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6259	root	1.387	%
6260	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6261			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6262	root	1.387	%
6263	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6264			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6265			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6266			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6267
6268			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6269	root	1.387	%
6270	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6271
6272			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6273			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6274			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6275			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6276			used databases!"
6277	root	1.387	%
6278	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6279
6280			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6281
6282			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6283			change that was not?
6284			[...]
6285	root	1.387	%
6286	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6287
6288			[...]
6289
6290	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6291	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6292			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6293
6294	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6295	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6296			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6297			them anywhere else").
6298
6299			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6300			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6301	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6302	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6303			order..
6304
6305	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6306	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6307	root	1.387	%
6308	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6309			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6310			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6311
6312			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6313	root	1.387	%
6314	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6315	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6316			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6317			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6318			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6319	root	1.387	%
6320	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6321			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6322
6323			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6324			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6325			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6326			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6327			series.
6328
6329			[...]
6330	root	1.387	%
6331	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6332	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6333	root	1.387	%
6334	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6335			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6336			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6337
6338			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6339			then save." g
6340
6341			/* Steinar */
6342	root	1.387	%
6343	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6344			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6345
6346			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6347			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6348			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6349			a bill...
6350	root	1.387	%
6351	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6352			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6353			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6354
6355			Sorry. Mea culpa
6356
6357			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6358			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6359			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6360			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6361			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6362			*/
6363			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6364			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6365			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6366			int fpu_exception;
6367	root	1.387	%
6368	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6369
6370			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6371
6372			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6373			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6374			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6375			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6376			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6377	root	1.387	%
6378	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6379
6380			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6381			people.
6382	root	1.387	%
6383	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6384			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6385
6386			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6387			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6388			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6389			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6390			the question.
6391			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6392	root	1.387	%
6393	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6394			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6395			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6396			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6397			(September)
6398	root	1.387	%
6399	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6400	root	1.387	%
6401	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6402			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6403			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6404			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6405			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6406	root	1.387	%
6407	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6408			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6409	root	1.387	%
6410	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6411			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6412			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6413			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6414			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6415	root	1.387	%
6416	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6417	root	1.387	%
6418	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6419	root	1.387	%
6420	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6421			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6422			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6423			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6424			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6425			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6426			you tell them.
6427	root	1.387	%
6428	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6429			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6430			alcohol.
6431
6432			Regards
6433			Henning
6434	root	1.387	%
6435	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6436			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6437			> on a desktop system.
6438
6439			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6440			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6441
6442			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6443			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6444
6445			Alan
6446	root	1.387	%
6447	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6448			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6449
6450			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6451			>
6452			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6453			> Use Welsh
6454
6455			Don't forget
6456
6457			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6458			Use Finnish
6459
6460			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6461
6462			And while we're at it,
6463
6464			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6465			Use German
6466
6467			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6468			Use English
6469
6470			MfG Kai
6471	root	1.387	%
6472	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6473
6474			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6475			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6476			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6477			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6478			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6479			there's no one thinking there.
6480			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6481	root	1.387	%
6482	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6483			scores the rules:
6484
6485			[*]
6486			Score:: =-9999
6487	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6488	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6489			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6490			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6491			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6492
6493			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6494			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6495			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6496			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6497			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6498
6499			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6500			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6501			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6502			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6503	root	1.387	%
6504	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6505			98 IIS servers online...
6506	root	1.387	%
6507	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6508			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6509			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6510			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6511
6512			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6513			it to be otherwise.
6514
6515			Abigail
6516	root	1.387	%
6517	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6518	root	1.387	%
6519	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6520	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6521	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6522	root	1.387	%
6523	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6524	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6525	root	1.387	%
6526	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6527			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6528			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6529			software people doing the same)
6530
6531			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6532			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6533			irrelevant
6534
6535			Alan
6536	root	1.387	%
6537	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6538			Comments may nest.
6539	root	1.387	%
6540	root	1.22	[from findas]
6541			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6542			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6543			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6544			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6545			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6546			# address distributino is... arin.
6547	root	1.387	%
6548	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6549			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6550	root	1.387	%
6551	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6552			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6553			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6554			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6555			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6556	root	1.247	>
6557	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6558
6559			$foot->insert($mouth);
6560
6561			# or is that
6562
6563			$mouth->insert($foot);
6564
6565			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6566			How utterly optimistic :-)
6567	root	1.387	%
6568	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6569			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6570			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6571			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6572			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6573			>can see why it happens)
6574			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6575
6576			Well, there's perl... :)
6577	root	1.387	%
6578	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6579			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6580			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6581			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6582			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6583	root	1.247	* boxes.
6584	root	1.387	%
6585	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6586			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6587			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6588	root	1.387	%
6589	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6590			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6591	root	1.387	%
6592	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6593			From: Juergen Christoffel
6594			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6595			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6596
6597			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6598
6599			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6600			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6601			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6602			schon;
6603
6604			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6605			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6606			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6607
6608			Danke, JC
6609	root	1.387	%
6610	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6611			#undef REASONABLE
6612	root	1.387	%
6613	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6614			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6615
6616			Alan
6617	root	1.387	%
6618	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6619			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6620			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6621			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6622	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6623	root	1.18	> anything.
6624
6625			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6626			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6627	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6628			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6629	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6630			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6631
6632			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6633			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6634			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6635			always a good idea.
6636	root	1.387	%
6637	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6638			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6639
6640	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6641	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6642	root	1.387	%
6643	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6644			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6645			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6646			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6647	root	1.387	%
6648	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6649	root	1.387	%
6650	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6651	root	1.18
6652			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6653			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6654	root	1.387	%
6655	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6656			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6657			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6658			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6659	root	1.387	%
6660	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6661	root	1.387	%
6662	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6663			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6664			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6665			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6666			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6667			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6668	root	1.387	%
6669	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6670
6671			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6672			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6673			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6674			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6675			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6676			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6677			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6678	root	1.387	%
6679	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6680			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6681			future. Bleeeh]
6682
6683			From: Larry McVoy
6684
6685	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6686	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6687			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6688			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6689			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6690			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6691			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6692			not for the exceptional case.
6693	root	1.387	%
6694	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6695			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6696			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6697			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6698			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6699			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6700			stack.
6701
6702			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6703			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6704			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6705
6706			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6707			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6708	root	1.387	%
6709	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6710
6711	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6712			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6713			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6714			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6715	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6716	root	1.247	>
6717	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6718			> on the CPU?
6719
6720			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6721	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6722	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6723			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6724
6725			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6726			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6727			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6728			the point again".
6729	root	1.387	%
6730	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6731
6732	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6733			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6734	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6735	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6736	root	1.247	>
6737	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6738			> scenario.
6739
6740			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6741	root	1.387	%
6742	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6743	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6744			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6745			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6746	root	1.387	%
6747	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6748			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6749			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6750			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6751			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6752			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6753			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6754			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6755			anything.
6756	root	1.387	%
6757	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6758	root	1.387	%
6759	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6760			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6761	root	1.387	%
6762	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6763			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6764			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6765			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6766			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6767
6768			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6769	root	1.387	%
6770	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6771
6772			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6773
6774			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6775			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6776			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6777			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6778			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6779
6780			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6781			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6782			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6783			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6784			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6785			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6786			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6787			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6788			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6789			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6790			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6791			to work through the learning curve.
6792	root	1.387	%
6793	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6794	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6795	root	1.387	%
6796	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6797			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6798	root	1.387	%
6799	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6800			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6801	root	1.387	%
6802	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6803			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6804	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6805			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6806	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6807	root	1.387	%
6808	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6809	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6810	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6811	root	1.387	%
6812	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6813			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6814	root	1.387	%
6815	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6816			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6817			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6818			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6819			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6820			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6821			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6822			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6823
6824	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6825	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6826	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6827	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6828			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6829
6830			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6831			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6832			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6833			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6834			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6835			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6836			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6837	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6838	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6839			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6840			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6841	root	1.387	%
6842	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6843			/*---.
6844			\| ? \|
6845			`---*/
6846	root	1.387	%
6847	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6848	root	1.387	%
6849	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6850			From: Joe Buck
6851			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6852			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6853	root	1.387	%
6854	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6855			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6856	root	1.387	%
6857	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6858	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6859	root	1.387	%
6860	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6861	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6862	root	1.387	%
6863	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6864	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6865	root	1.4	...
6866			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6867	root	1.387	%
6868	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6869	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6870			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6871			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6872
6873			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6874
6875			Alan
6876	root	1.387	%
6877	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6878	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6879			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6880			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6881			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6882	root	1.387	%
6883	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6884	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6885			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6886			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6887			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6888			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6889			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6890	root	1.387	%
6891	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6892			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6893			will find an easier way to do it.
6894	root	1.387	%
6895	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6896	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6897			Paul wrote:
6898			>Marc wrote:
6899	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6900			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6901			> den richtigen.
6902	root	1.387	%
6903	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6904			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6905	root	1.387	%
6906	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6907			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6908	root	1.387	%
6909	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6910			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6911	root	1.387	%
6912	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6913			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6914			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6915			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6916			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6917	root	1.387	%
6918	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6919			[...]
6920
6921			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6922
6923			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6924	root	1.387	%
6925	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6926			> constants.
6927
6928			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6929	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6930	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6931	root	1.387	%
6932	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6933	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6934
6935			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6936			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6937			much to do with IRC.
6938	root	1.387	%
6939	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6940			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6941
6942			[...]
6943			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6944
6945			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6946			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6947	root	1.387	%
6948	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6949	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6950	root	1.387	%
6951	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6952
6953			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6954			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6955			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6956
6957			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6958			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6959			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6960			shows how much you know, pal.
6961
6962			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6963	root	1.387	%
6964	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6965			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6966			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6967	root	1.387	%
6968	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6969			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6970			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6971			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6972	root	1.387	%
6973	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6974			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6975			Your version of perl sucks.
6976	root	1.387	%
6977	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6978			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6979			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6980			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6981			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6982			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6983			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6984			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6985	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6986	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6987			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6988	root	1.387	%
6989	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6990			before you can understand it :)
6991	root	1.387	%
6992	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6993			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6994			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6995	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6996	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6997			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6998			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6999
7000			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
7001			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
7002			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
7003			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
7004			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
7005			be worth attempting).
7006
7007			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
7008			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
7009			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
7010
7011			Nick.
7012	root	1.387	%
7013	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
7014			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
7015			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
7016
7017	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
7018	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
7019			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
7020			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
7021			magic_bone@hotmail.com
7022	root	1.387	%
7023	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
7024			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
7025			> > > to work :-)
7026	root	1.247	> >
7027	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
7028	root	1.247	>
7029	root	1.1	> Eh?
7030	root	1.247	>
7031	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
7032			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
7033
7034			He didn't say it worked. :)
7035	root	1.387	%
7036	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7037
7038			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
7039			> I find it irksome that
7040	root	1.247	>
7041	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
7042
7043			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
7044	root	1.387	%
7045	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
7046			From: Simon Cozens
7047
7048			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
7049			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
7050			> Produces SIGSEGV.
7051
7052			Looks like a feature to me.
7053	root	1.387	%
7054	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
7055	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
7056	root	1.387	%
7057	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
7058			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
7059
7060			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
7061			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
7062			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
7063			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
7064
7065			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
7066			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
7067			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
7068			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
7069			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
7070			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
7071	root	1.387	%
7072	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
7073			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
7074			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
7075			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
7076			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
7077			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
7078			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
7079			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
7080			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
7081			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
7082			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
7083			accurate and not subject to tampering."
7084
7085			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
7086			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
7087			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
7088
7089			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
7090	root	1.387	%
7091	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
7092			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
7093			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
7094			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
7095			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
7096			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
7097			replication."
7098			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
7099	root	1.387	%
7100	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
7101			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7102
7103			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7104			shows.
7105
7106			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7107			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7108			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7109
7110			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7111			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7112			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7113			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7114			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7115
7116			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7117			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7118			up with a saner protocol.
7119	root	1.387	%
7120	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7121			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7122			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7123
7124			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7125			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7126			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7127	root	1.387	%
7128	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7129			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7130			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7131			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7132			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7133			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7134	root	1.387	%
7135	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7136			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7137	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7138			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7139			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7140			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7141	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7142	root	1.387	%
7143	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7144	root	1.387	%
7145	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7146			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7147	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7148	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7149	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7150	root	1.387	%
7151	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7152			"ist mir egal"
7153	root	1.387	%
7154	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7155			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7156
7157			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7158	root	1.387	%
7159	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7160			hallole
7161	root	1.387	%
7162	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7163			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7164			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7165	root	1.387	%
7166	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7167			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7168			1929 The pause that refreshes
7169			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7170			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7171			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7172			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7173			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7174			1939 Thirst stops here
7175			1942 It's the real thing
7176			1947 Have a Coke
7177			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7178			1963 Things go better with Coke
7179			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7180			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7181			1982 Coke is it!
7182			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7183	root	1.387	%
7184	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7185			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7186	root	1.387	%
7187	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7188			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7189	root	1.387	%
7190	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7191	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7192			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7193			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7194			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7195			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7196			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7197			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7198			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7199			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7200			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7201			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7202			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7203			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7204			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7205
7206			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7207			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7208	root	1.387	%
7209	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7210			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7211
7212			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7213			uncool thing to do. [...]
7214	root	1.387	%
7215	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7216			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7217			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7218	root	1.387	%
7219	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7220	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7221	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7222	root	1.1
7223	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7224			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7225			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7226			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7227	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7228			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7229	root	1.387	%
7230	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7231			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7232			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7233			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7234			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7235			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7236			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7237
7238			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7239			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7240			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7241	root	1.387	%
7242	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7243
7244			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7245	root	1.387	%
7246	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7247			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7248			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7249			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7250			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7251	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7252	root	1.387	%
7253	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7254			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7255			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7256
7257			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7258			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7259
7260			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7261	root	1.387	%
7262	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7263	root	1.387	%
7264	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7265			From: Alan Cox
7266			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7267			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7268	root	1.247	>
7269			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7270	root	1.1
7271	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7272	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7273	root	1.387	%
7274	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7275			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7276			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7277
7278			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7279			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7280			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7281			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7282
7283			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7284
7285			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7286	root	1.387	%
7287	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7288	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7289			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7290	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7291	root	1.387	%
7292	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7293	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7294			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7295	root	1.387	%
7296	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7297			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7298	root	1.387	%
7299	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7300	root	1.387	%
7301	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7302			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7303			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7304	root	1.387	%
7305	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7306			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7307			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7308			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7309			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7310	root	1.387	%
7311	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7312	root	1.387	%
7313	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7314			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7315			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7316			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7317			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7318			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7319			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7320	root	1.387	%
7321	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7322			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7323	root	1.387	%
7324	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7325			perl:]
7326
7327			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7328
7329			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7330			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7331			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7332			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7333			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7334			disable the message and pray it works"]
7335	root	1.387	%
7336	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7337			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7338			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7339			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7340
7341			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7342			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7343			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7344			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7345			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7346	root	1.387	%
7347	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7348			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7349			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7350	root	1.387	%
7351	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7352			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7353			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7354			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7355			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7356	root	1.387	%
7357	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7358			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7359			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7360	root	1.387	%
7361	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7362			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7363	root	1.387	%
7364	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7365			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7366	root	1.387	%
7367	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7368			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7369			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7370			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7371			> it's a hard requirement.
7372
7373			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7374			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7375			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7376			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7377			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7378			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7379			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7380			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7381	root	1.387	%
7382	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7383			> Netscape?"
7384	root	1.247
7385	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7386			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7387	root	1.387	%
7388	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7389			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7390			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7391			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7392			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7393			the specified task step-by-step.
7394	root	1.387	%
7395	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7396
7397			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7398			be damned hard to understand."
7399	root	1.387	%
7400	root	1.1	[Linus]
7401			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7402			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7403			wrong. It's that simple.
7404	root	1.387	%
7405	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7406	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7407	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7408			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7409			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7410	root	1.247	Undernet>
7411	root	1.387	%
7412	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7413			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7414			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7415			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7416
7417			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7418			document that contains an element or attribute named
7419	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7420	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7421			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7422			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7423			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7424			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7425			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7426	root	1.387	%
7427	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7428			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7429			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7430			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7431			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7432			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7433	root	1.387	%
7434	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7435			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7436			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7437			[... snip ...]
7438			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7439			tragedy...
7440	root	1.387	%
7441	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7442	root	1.247
7443	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7444			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7445			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7446			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7447			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7448			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7449			>message plus attorney's fees.
7450			[SNIP long sig]
7451	root	1.247
7452	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7453			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7454			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7455	root	1.247
7456	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7457			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7458			procmailable address.
7459	root	1.247
7460	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7461			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7462			just a waste of bandwidth.
7463	root	1.387	%
7464	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7465	root	1.387	%
7466	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7467			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7468	root	1.387	%
7469	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7470	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7471	root	1.387	%
7472	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7473	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7474			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7475			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7476	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7477	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7478			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7479			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7480			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7481	root	1.387	%
7482	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7483	root	1.387	%
7484	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7485	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7486	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7487	root	1.387	%
7488	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7489			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7490			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7491			immediately and not block the calling process.
7492
7493			the man pages are wrong
7494
7495			--cw
7496	root	1.387	%
7497	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7498			...
7499			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7500	root	1.387	%
7501	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7502			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7503	root	1.387	%
7504	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7505			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7506			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7507
7508			How fast does it oops?
7509	root	1.387	%
7510	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7511
7512			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7513			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7514			> touch is 2Gig.
7515
7516			In theory, yes.
7517			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7518			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7519	root	1.387	%
7520	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7521			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7522			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7523			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7524			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7525			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7526			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7527			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7528			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7529			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7530			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7531			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7532			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7533			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7534			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7535			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7536	root	1.387	%
7537	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7538	root	1.387	%
7539	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7540			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7541			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7542			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7543			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7544	root	1.387	%
7545	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7546			[Lukas Grunwald]
7547	root	1.387	%
7548	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7549			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7550			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7551			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7552
7553			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7554			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7555			> > prompt.
7556			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7557			> /proc/info/authors?
7558	root	1.247
7559	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7560			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7561			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7562			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7563			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7564			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7565	root	1.247
7566	root	1.1	NOT.
7567			[...]
7568	root	1.387	%
7569	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7570			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7571			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7572	root	1.247
7573	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7574			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7575			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7576			> an interesting experiment.
7577	root	1.247
7578	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7579			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7580			to disagree...
7581	root	1.387	%
7582	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7583			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7584			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7585			[und Lukas sagt:]
7586			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7587	root	1.387	%
7588	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7589			report:]
7590			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7591			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7592			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7593			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7594	root	1.387	%
7595	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7596			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7597	root	1.387	%
7598	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7599			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7600			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7601
7602			Alexander Viro wrote:
7603			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7604			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7605			>
7606			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7607			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7608			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7609			> UNIX.
7610
7611			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7612			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7613			docs... ew!
7614	root	1.387	%
7615	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7616			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7617			> protected mode?
7618
7619			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7620			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7621			registers loaded ;)
7622	root	1.387	%
7623	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7624			[...]
7625			> backports hurt forward progress.
7626
7627			beware of content free dogma
7628	root	1.387	%
7629	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7630			> wondering.
7631
7632			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7633			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7634			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7635			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7636			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7637			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7638			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7639
7640			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7641	root	1.387	%
7642	root	1.1	>Keith,
7643	root	1.247	>
7644	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7645			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7646			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7647
7648			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7649			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7650			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7651			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7652			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7653			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7654			do the right thing.
7655
7656			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7657			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7658			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7659			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7660			and they have to fix it.
7661	root	1.387	%
7662	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7663			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7664			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7665			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7666	root	1.387	%
7667	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7668			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7669	root	1.387	%
7670	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7671			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7672			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7673			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7674
7675			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7676			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7677	root	1.387	%
7678	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7679			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7680	root	1.387	%
7681	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7682			glibc-2.2 was released]
7683			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7684	root	1.387	%
7685	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7686	root	1.387	%
7687	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7688			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7689			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7690	root	1.387	%
7691	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7692			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7693			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7694	root	1.387	%
7695	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7696
7697			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7698			standards-compliant.
7699			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7700			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7701			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7702			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7703			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7704			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7705	root	1.387	%
7706	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7707			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7708			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7709
7710			That's your problem.
7711
7712			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7713
7714			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7715			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7716	root	1.387	%
7717	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7718			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7719			> > out there) in the foot?
7720
7721			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7722
7723			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7724			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7725			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7726	root	1.387	%
7727	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7728			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7729			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7730
7731			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7732			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7733			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7734			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7735			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7736			--
7737			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7738	root	1.387	%
7739	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7740
7741			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7742			>
7743			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7744			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7745			>
7746			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7747
7748			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7749	root	1.387	%
7750	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7751			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7752			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7753	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7754	root	1.387	%
7755	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7756			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7757			Bullschildt below ;)]
7758
7759			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7760			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7761	root	1.387	%
7762	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7763			>
7764			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7765			>
7766			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7767			>
7768			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7769	root	1.387	%
7770	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7771
7772			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7773			it did the same thing.
7774
7775			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7776			a week ago. :(
7777
7778			--Jack
7779	root	1.387	%
7780	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7781	root	1.387	%
7782	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7783			-- K&R
7784	root	1.387	%
7785	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7786	root	1.387	%
7787	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7788			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7789	root	1.387	%
7790	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7791	root	1.387	%
7792	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7793			$modules => { "" => "" };
7794	root	1.387	%
7795	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7796	root	1.387	%
7797	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7798	root	1.387	%
7799	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7800			> --
7801			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7802			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7803	root	1.387	%
7804	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7805			From: "David Schwartz"
7806
7807			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7808			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7809			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7810			> pretty spiffy.
7811
7812			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7813			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7814			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7815			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7816	root	1.387	%
7817	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7818	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7819	root	1.387	%
7820	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7821			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7822			> of having bough one.
7823
7824			Not an uncommon thought :)
7825	root	1.387	%
7826	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7827
7828			Hi Marc !
7829
7830			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7831			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7832			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7833
7834			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7835	root	1.387	%
7836	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7837			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7838			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7839			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7840
7841			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7842			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7843			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7844
7845			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7846			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7847			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7848			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7849			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7850			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7851
7852			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7853			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7854
7855			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7856			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7857			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7858			right to left.
7859
7860			>But no culture
7861			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7862			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7863			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7864			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7865			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7866
7867			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7868
7869			--Alex
7870	root	1.387	%
7871	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7872			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7873			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7874
7875			[most of the reply snipped...]
7876
7877			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7878			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7879			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7880
7881			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7882
7883			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7884			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7885			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7886			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7887			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7888
7889			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7890			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7891			try to claim that they do?)
7892	root	1.387	%
7893	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7894
7895			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7896			> {
7897			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7898			> flush(load);
7899			> else
7900			> wear(load);
7901			> }
7902
7903			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7904			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7905
7906			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7907			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7908
7909			--
7910			dwmw2
7911	root	1.387	%
7912	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7913			are are overturned.
7914	root	1.387	%
7915	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7916	root	1.387	%
7917	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7918			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7919	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7920			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7921	root	1.387	%
7922	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7923			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7924			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7925			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7926			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7927			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7928			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7929	root	1.387	%
7930	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7931			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7932			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7933
7934			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7935			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7936			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7937	root	1.387	%
7938	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7939			Deadlock, n.:
7940			Deceased Rasterman.
7941	root	1.387	%
7942	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7943			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7944			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7945			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7946	root	1.387	%
7947	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7948			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7949	root	1.387	%
7950	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7951			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7952	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7953			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7954			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7955			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7956	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7957			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7958	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7959			Positionen für unwählbar.
7960	root	1.1
7961			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7962	root	1.387	%
7963	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7964			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7965			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7966
7967			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7968
7969			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7970			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7971			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7972			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7973			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7974
7975			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7976			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7977			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7978			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7979			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7980			results simply because I make a mistake!
7981
7982			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7983			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7984			errors.
7985
7986			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7987			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7988			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7989			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7990	root	1.387	%
7991	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7992			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7993			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7994			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7995			>
7996			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7997	root	1.387	%
7998	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7999			of nothing."
8000	root	1.387	%
8001	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
8002			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
8003			>
8004			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
8005			> CPU?
8006
8007			Root password? :)
8008
8009			John.Fulmer
8010	root	1.387	%
8011	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
8012
8013			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
8014	root	1.387	%
8015	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
8016			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
8017			> which I prefer...
8018
8019			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
8020			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
8021			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
8022			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
8023			updater for the new SCSI controller.
8024			--
8025			Horst von Brand
8026	root	1.387	%
8027	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
8028
8029			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
8030
8031			[...]
8032
8033			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
8034	root	1.387	%
8035	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
8036			at your problem:]
8037
8038			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
8039			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
8040			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
8041	root	1.387	%
8042	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
8043			cp is inherently inefficient.
8044	root	1.387	%
8045	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
8046			>breaking seals on them.
8047
8048			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
8049			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
8050			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
8051
8052			...
8053
8054			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
8055			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
8056			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
8057			could be just an urban myth though.
8058
8059			Russell Coker
8060	root	1.387	%
8061	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
8062			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
8063
8064			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
8065	root	1.387	%
8066	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
8067			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
8068			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
8069			> > deleting.
8070			>
8071			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
8072
8073			Wrong. Yury does.
8074			:(
8075
8076			--
8077			Stefan
8078	root	1.387	%
8079	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
8080			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
8081			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
8082			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
8083			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
8084			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
8085			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
8086
8087			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
8088
8089			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
8090	root	1.387	%
8091	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
8092	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
8093	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
8094	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
8095			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
8096	root	1.387	%
8097	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
8098			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
8099			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
8100			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
8101			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8102			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8103			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8104			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8105			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8106			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8107	root	1.387	%
8108	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8109			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8110			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8111	root	1.1	aus!
8112	root	1.387	%
8113	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8114			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8115	root	1.387	%
8116	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8117			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8118			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8119			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8120	root	1.387	%
8121	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8122			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8123	root	1.387	%
8124	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8125			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8126			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8127			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8128
8129			--tom
8130	root	1.387	%
8131	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8132			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8133
8134			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8135			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8136			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8137			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8138			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8139	root	1.387	%
8140	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8141			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8142			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8143			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8144			solutions.
8145
8146			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8147
8148			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8149			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8150			the background]
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8153			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8154			Security Response Center:
8155
8156			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8157			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8158
8159			[and later]
8160			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8161
8162			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8163
8164			[Phil closes]
8165			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8166
8167			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8168			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8169	root	1.387	%
8170	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8171			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8172			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8173			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8174			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8175			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8176			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8177	root	1.387	%
8178	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8179			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8180			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8181			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8182
8183			[Trashey / Quasars]
8184	root	1.387	%
8185	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8186			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8187			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8188
8189			Irony potential in
8190
8191			man perlrtfm
8192
8193			is left to the reader.
8194
8195			Nat
8196	root	1.387	%
8197	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8198			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8199
8200			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8201			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8202	root	1.387	%
8203	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8204			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8205			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8206	root	1.387	%
8207	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8208			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8209			Paul Tomblin
8210	root	1.387	%
8211	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8212			>I am morally
8213			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8214
8215			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8216			possibility...
8217
8218			Dan
8219	root	1.387	%
8220	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8221	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8222	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 :)
8223			<Mr> zugabe
8224	root	1.387	%
8225	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8226			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8227	root	1.387	%
8228	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8229			[cobol, sigh]
8230	root	1.387	%
8231	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8232			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8233			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8234			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8235			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8236			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8237			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8238			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8239
8240			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8241	root	1.387	%
8242	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8243
8244			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8245			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8246			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8247			after they regain their composure."
8248
8249			-- Paul Rinaldo
8250			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8251	root	1.387	%
8252	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8253			>
8254			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8255			>
8256			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8257
8258			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8259
8260			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8261
8262			;-}
8263
8264			--
8265
8266			ciao -
8267			Stefan
8268
8269	root	1.387	%
8270	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8271			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8272
8273			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8274			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8275			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8276			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8277			one' type remarks.
8278			[Alan Cox]
8279	root	1.387	%
8280	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8281
8282			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8283			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8284
8285			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8286	root	1.387	%
8287	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8288
8289			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8290			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8291			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8292	root	1.387	%
8293	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8294			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8295			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8296			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8297	root	1.387	%
8298	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8299			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8300
8301			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8302			is to me ok.
8303	root	1.387	%
8304	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8305
8306			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8307	root	1.387	%
8308	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8309			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8310	root	1.387	%
8311	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8312			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8313	root	1.387	%
8314	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8315			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8316			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8317
8318			Ralf
8319	root	1.387	%
8320	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8321			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8322			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8323
8324			david parsons
8325	root	1.387	%
8326	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8327			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8328
8329			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8330			>so that trick is not portable.
8331
8332			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8333			127.0.0.1 localhost
8334
8335			--tom
8336	root	1.387	%
8337	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8338			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8339			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8340			> >the question is moot.
8341			>
8342			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8343
8344			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8345
8346			Ilya
8347	root	1.387	%
8348	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8349			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8350			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8351			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8352			> trying.
8353
8354			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8355			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8356	root	1.387	%
8357	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8358			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8359			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8360			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8361	root	1.387	%
8362	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8363			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8364			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8365	root	1.387	%
8366	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8367			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8368			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8369			> blocking :-)
8370
8371			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8372			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8373			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8374			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8375			reasons.
8376
8377			DS
8378	root	1.387	%
8379	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8380	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8381	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8382	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8383	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8384
8385			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8386	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8387	root	1.387	%
8388	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8389			[...]
8390			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8391			[...]
8392
8393			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8394			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8395			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8396			with each other on the same channel.
8397
8398			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8399			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8400
8401			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8402	root	1.387	%
8403	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8404			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8405	root	1.387	%
8406	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8407	root	1.387	%
8408	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8409			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8410			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8411			ok
8412	root	1.387	%
8413	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8414			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8415	root	1.387	%
8416	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8417			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8418			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8419			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8420			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8421			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8422			<Xach> burrito, focus
8423			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8424	root	1.387	%
8425	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8426			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8427			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8428			tested it." ...
8429	root	1.387	%
8430	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8431	root	1.387	%
8432	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8433
8434			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8435			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8436			>
8437			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8438			>
8439			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8440			>
8441			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8442			>
8443			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8444			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8445			>systems.
8446
8447
8448			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8449			had.
8450
8451			--
8452			Neal Bridges
8453	root	1.387	%
8454	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8455
8456			> Hi folks,
8457			> 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?
8458			> please reply to
8459			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8460			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8461
8462			Parse error.
8463
8464			---
8465			Alex
8466	root	1.387	%
8467	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8468
8469			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8470			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8471
8472			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8473			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8474			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8475
8476			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8477	root	1.387	%
8478	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8479	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8480	root	1.387	%
8481	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8482			ii = 44;
8483			p = &ii;
8484			p = ii/p;
8485			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8486			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8487	root	1.387	%
8488	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8489			> Linux time then.
8490
8491			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8492
8493			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8494			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8495
8496			Roger.
8497	root	1.387	%
8498	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8499	root	1.387	%
8500	root	1.1	auto accident;
8501			register voters;
8502			static electricity;
8503			struct by_lightning;
8504			void *where_prohibited;
8505			char broiled;
8506			short circuit;
8507			short changed;
8508			long johns;
8509			unsigned long letter;
8510			double entendre;
8511			double trouble;
8512			union organizer;
8513			float valve;
8514			short pants;
8515			union station;
8516			void check; unsigned check;
8517			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8518	root	1.387	%
8519	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8520			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8521			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8522	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8523	root	1.387	%
8524	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8525
8526			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8527			worstation.
8528	root	1.387	%
8529	root	1.1	I wrote
8530			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8531			$/
8532
8533			Damn shift key.
8534
8535
8536			Mike Guy
8537	root	1.387	%
8538	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8539			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8540			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8541			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8542			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8543			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8544			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8545			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8546			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8547	root	1.387	%
8548	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8549
8550			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8551
8552			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8553			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8554			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8555			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8556
8557			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8558	root	1.387	%
8559	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8560			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8561
8562			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8563			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8564			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8565			easy to bother.
8566
8567			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8568			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8569			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8570			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8571
8572			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8573
8574			Larry
8575	root	1.387	%
8576	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8577			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8578			Yeah. :-)
8579	root	1.387	%
8580	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8581			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8582			[...]
8583			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8584
8585			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8586			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8587			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8588			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8589
8590			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8591			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8592			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8593			receipts aren't used anymore.
8594	root	1.387	%
8595	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8596			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8597			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8598	root	1.387	%
8599	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8600			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8601			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8602			> versteht?"
8603	root	1.387	%
8604	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8605			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8606			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8607			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8608	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8609	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8610	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8611	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8612			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8613			ji!
8614	root	1.387	%
8615	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8616			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8617			[Larry Wall]
8618	root	1.387	%
8619	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8620			Altpreussen.
8621			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8622			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8623	root	1.387	%
8624	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8625			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8626			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8627			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8628			>
8629	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8630			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8631	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8632
8633	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8634	root	1.1	Norbert?
8635	root	1.387	%
8636	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8637	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8638			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8639	root	1.387	%
8640	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8641	root	1.387	%
8642	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8643	root	1.387	%
8644	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8645			From: "Steve"
8646			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8647			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8648			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8649
8650			[the following was a single line, of course]
8651			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8652			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8653			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8654			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8655			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8656
8657			Thanks,
8658
8659			Steve
8660	root	1.387	%
8661	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8662			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8663			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8664			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8665	root	1.387	%
8666	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8667			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8668			<tigert> ahem
8669	root	1.387	%
8670	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8671			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8672			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8673	root	1.387	%
8674	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8675			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8676			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8677			Subject: It's soup.
8678
8679			Okay, it's there.
8680
8681			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8682
8683			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8684
8685			Larry
8686	root	1.387	%
8687	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8688	root	1.387	%
8689	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8690			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8691			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8692			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8693			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8694	root	1.387	%
8695	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8696			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8697			>
8698			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8699			> And there's no mouse.
8700			>
8701			> Abigail
8702
8703			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8704
8705			Matt.
8706	root	1.387	%
8707	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8708			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8709
8710			- --tom
8711	root	1.387	%
8712	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8713			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8714
8715			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8716			>
8717			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8718			> 2.2.11 release?
8719
8720			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8721
8722			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8723
8724			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8725	root	1.387	%
8726	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8727	root	1.387	%
8728	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8729			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8730			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8731			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8732			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8733			> that much ;-)
8734
8735			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8736	root	1.387	%
8737	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8738			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8739	root	1.387	%
8740	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8741			<QUOTE>
8742			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8743
8744			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8745			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8746			</QUOTE>
8747	root	1.387	%
8748	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8749			and routes around it.
8750
8751			Roger Larsson
8752	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8753	root	1.387	%
8754	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8755			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8756	root	1.387	%
8757	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8758			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8759	root	1.387	%
8760	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8761
8762			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8763			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8764			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8765			on different JVMs.
8766
8767			[and later]
8768
8769			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8770			adventure gaming:
8771
8772			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8773			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8774	root	1.387	%
8775	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8776			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8777
8778			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8779
8780			NK> ?? -> huh?
8781
8782			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8783
8784			<chaim>
8785	root	1.387	%
8786	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8787			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8788			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8789			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8790			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8791			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8792	root	1.387	%
8793	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8794	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8795	root	1.387	%
8796	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8797			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8798			page]
8799			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8800			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8801			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8802			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8803			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8804			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8805			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8806			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8807			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8808			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8809	root	1.387	%
8810	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8811			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8812			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8813			don't actually get anything DONE.
8814	root	1.387	%
8815	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8816			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8817			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8818			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8819	root	1.387	%
8820	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8821			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8822			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8823			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8824
8825			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8826	root	1.387	%
8827	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8828			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8829			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8830	root	1.387	%
8831	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8832			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8833			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8834	root	1.387	%
8835	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8836
8837			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8838			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8839			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8840			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8841			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8842			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8843			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8844			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8845			got the T-shirt.
8846	root	1.387	%
8847	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8848			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8849			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8850			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8851			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8852			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8853			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8854
8855			Linus writes, to Craig:
8856
8857			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8858			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8859			> thus choices than gcc.
8860
8861			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8862			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8863			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8864			far more complex than the kernel.
8865
8866			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8867			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8868
8869			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8870	root	1.387	%
8871	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8872			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8873			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8874
8875			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8876			[...]
8877			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8878			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8879			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8880			>let the user be in control.
8881
8882			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8883			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8884			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8885			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8886			compilers?
8887	root	1.387	%
8888	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8889			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8890
8891			Linus writes:
8892			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8893			> gcc could do better?
8894
8895			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8896			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8897			before you had so many worshippers.
8898	root	1.387	%
8899	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8900			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8901			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8902			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8903			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8904
8905			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8906
8907			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8908			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8909			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8910			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8911
8912			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8913
8914			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8915
8916			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8917			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8918
8919			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8920
8921			>:->
8922
8923			Brane
8924
8925
8926			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8927			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8928			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8929			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8930			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8931
8932
8933			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8934	root	1.387	%
8935	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8936	root	1.387	%
8937	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8938			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8939			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8940	root	1.387	%
8941	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8942			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8943			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8944	root	1.387	%
8945	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8946
8947			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8948
8949			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8950	root	1.387	%
8951	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8952			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8953			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8954			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8955
8956			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8957
8958			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8959			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8960			:
8961			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8962			:
8963			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8964			:
8965			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8966	root	1.387	%
8967	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8968	root	1.387	%
8969	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8970			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8971			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8972			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8973			>
8974			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8975			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8976
8977			The classic example:
8978
8979			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8980			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8981	root	1.387	%
8982	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8983			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8984
8985			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8986			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8987			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8988
8989			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8990
8991			--tom
8992	root	1.387	%
8993	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8994			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8995			working on something for me
8996			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8997			to me nutting concerning y ok
8998			piece
8999			russ
9000	root	1.387	%
9001	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
9002
9003			pico (text editor for beginners)
9004			vi (text editor for advanced users)
9005			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
9006			ed (text editor for beginners)
9007	root	1.387	%
9008	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
9009
9010			use Python;
9011
9012			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
9013			Except maybe faster. :-)
9014
9015			Larry
9016	root	1.387	%
9017	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
9018
9019			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
9020			2010.
9021
9022			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
9023	root	1.387	%
9024	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
9025			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
9026			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
9027			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
9028			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
9029			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
9030			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
9031			been created.
9032	root	1.387	%
9033	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
9034			>
9035			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
9036			> $3.99.
9037			>
9038			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
9039			>
9040			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
9041			>
9042			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
9043			>
9044			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
9045			>
9046			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
9047			>
9048			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
9049			> got integrated Coke!
9050			>
9051			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
9052			> to drink the Coke.
9053			>
9054			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
9055			>
9056			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
9057			>
9058			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
9059			> inseparable.
9060			>
9061			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
9062			>
9063			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
9064			>
9065			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
9066			>
9067			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
9068			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
9069			> continuous taste across all your foods.
9070	root	1.387	%
9071	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
9072			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
9073	root	1.40	Rob Pike
9074	root	1.387	%
9075	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
9076
9077			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
9078			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
9079			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
9080			for you to digest this book.
9081			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
9082			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
9083			Join The Trickle
9084			Python: more popular than Dylan!
9085			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
9086			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
9087	root	1.387	%
9088	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
9089			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
9090			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
9091			complete and utter vapourware.
9092
9093			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
9094	root	1.387	%
9095	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
9096
9097			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
9098			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
9099	root	1.387	%
9100	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
9101
9102			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9103			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9104			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9105			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9106			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9107			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9108			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9109			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9110			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9111			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9112			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9113			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9114			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9115			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9116			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9117			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9118			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9119			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9120			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9121			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9122			work.
9123			[...]
9124			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9125			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9126			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9127			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9128			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9129			search generically - then it has some potential.
9130			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9131			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9132			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9133			intellectual value whatsoever.
9134
9135			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9136			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9137			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9138	root	1.387	%
9139	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9140	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9141	root	1.387	%
9142	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9143			#!/usr/bin/sh
9144			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9145			# All Rights Reserved
9146
9147			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9148			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9149			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9150
9151			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9152			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9153	root	1.387	%
9154	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.
9155	root	1.387	%
9156	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9157			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9158			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9159	root	1.387	%
9160	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9161
9162			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9163			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9164
9165			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9166			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9167			machine]
9168
9169			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9170			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9171			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9172
9173			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9174	root	1.387	%
9175	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9176			spamming:]
9177
9178			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9179			>>
9180			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9181			>>------------------------------------------------------
9182			>>
9183			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9184			>>
9185			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9186
9187			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9188			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9189	root	1.387	%
9190	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9191			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9192	root	1.387	%
9193	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9194			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9195	root	1.387	%
9196	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9197			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9198
9199			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9200	root	1.387	%
9201	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9202
9203			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9204			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9205			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9206			he's full of.
9207
9208			Support BSD/Linux.
9209
9210			--tom
9211	root	1.387	%
9212	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9213	root	1.387	%
9214	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9215	root	1.387	%
9216	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9217			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9218
9219			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9220			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9221			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9222			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9223	root	1.387	%
9224	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9225
9226			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9227			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9228	root	1.387	%
9229	root	1.1	[the creation]
9230			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9231	root	1.387	%
9232	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9233
9234			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9235			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9236			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9237	root	1.387	%
9238	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9239			selbst schliesse.
9240			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9241			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9242	root	1.387	%
9243	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9244			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9245
9246			No:
9247
9248			use Borg;
9249			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9250
9251			--
9252			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9253	root	1.387	%
9254	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9255			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9256			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9257			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9258			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9259			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9260			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9261			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9262			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9263			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9264			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9265			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9266			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9267			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9268			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9269			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9270			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9271			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9272			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9273			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9274			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9275			dispensers."
9276
9277			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9278	root	1.387	%
9279	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9280			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9281			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9282			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9283	root	1.387	%
9284	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9285			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9286			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9287	root	1.387	%
9288	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9289	root	1.1
9290			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9291	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9292	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9293	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9294	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9295			Student: "..."
9296			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9297			Student: "..."
9298			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9299	root	1.387	%
9300	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9301
9302			> Just morbid curiosity,
9303			>
9304			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9305
9306			Yes. Broken ones.
9307
9308			dgris
9309	root	1.387	%
9310	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9311			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9312	root	1.387	%
9313	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9314			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9315	root	1.387	%
9316	root	1.1	...
9317
9318			<AOL>
9319
9320			Me too!
9321
9322			</AOL>
9323
9324			Tig
9325	root	1.387	%
9326	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9327	root	1.387	%
9328	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9329	root	1.387	%
9330	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9331
9332			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9333			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9334			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9335			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9336			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9337			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9338			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9339
9340			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9341
9342			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9343			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9344			get really really pissed.
9345
9346			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9347			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9348	root	1.387	%
9349	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9350			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9351			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9352			> period.
9353			>
9354			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9355			> Nic
9356			>
9357
9358			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9359
9360			-hpa
9361	root	1.387	%
9362	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9363	root	1.387	%
9364	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9365			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9366			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9367			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9368			happy."
9369			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9370	root	1.387	%
9371	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9372			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9373			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9374
9375			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9376			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9377			I also forwarded the offending code.
9378
9379			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9380			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9381			service.
9382
9383			Daniel
9384	root	1.387	%
9385	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9386			...
9387			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9388	root	1.387	%
9389	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9390			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9391			[RJL]
9392	root	1.387	%
9393	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9394			right.''
9395	root	1.387	%
9396	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9397
9398			Amazing--they actually listened.
9399	root	1.387	%
9400	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9401			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9402			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9403
9404			# less foo
9405			sh: command not found
9406			# more foo
9407			sh: command not found
9408			# emacs foo
9409			sh: command not found
9410			# ed foo
9411			0
9412			help
9413			?
9414			quit
9415			?
9416			exit
9417			?
9418			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9419			?
9420
9421			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9422	root	1.387	%
9423	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9424			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9425			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9426
9427			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9428
9429			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9430
9431			tim> would be most correct in style.
9432
9433			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9434			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9435	root	1.387	%
9436	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9437			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9438			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9439			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9440			too bad --- ]
9441	root	1.387	%
9442	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9443	root	1.387	%
9444	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9445
9446			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9447			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9448
9449			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9450			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9451	root	1.387	%
9452	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9453			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9454			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9455			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9456			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9457	root	1.387	%
9458	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9459
9460			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9461			include wrong #include files in their source.
9462	root	1.387	%
9463	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9464
9465			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9466			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9467			Consider it a rite of passage.
9468	root	1.387	%
9469	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9470			"Oops."
9471			-- MST3K
9472	root	1.387	%
9473	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9474			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9475			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9476
9477			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9478			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9479			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9480			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9481			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9482			it. ;)
9483	root	1.387	%
9484	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9485			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9486			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9487			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9488			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9489
9490			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9491			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9492			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9493			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9494
9495			--tom
9496	root	1.387	%
9497	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9498
9499			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9500
9501			>Why does it end ?
9502
9503			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9504
9505			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9506			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9507
9508			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9509	root	1.387	%
9510	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9511			-- Tom Christiansen
9512	root	1.387	%
9513	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9514
9515			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9516			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9517			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9518			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9519			of Sputnik.
9520	root	1.387	%
9521	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9522			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9523			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9524			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9525			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9526	root	1.387	%
9527	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9528			- Hanlons razor -
9529	root	1.387	%
9530	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9531			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9532	root	1.387	%
9533	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9534			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9535			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9536			> offered no significant advantages.
9537
9538			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9539	root	1.387	%
9540	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9541			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9542			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9543			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9544			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9545			in front of me says so."
9546
9547			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9548	root	1.387	%
9549	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9550			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9551			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9552			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9553			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9554			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9555			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9556			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9557			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9558			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9559			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9560	root	1.387	%
9561	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9562			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9563			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9564			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9565			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9566	root	1.387	%
9567	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9568	root	1.387	%
9569	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9570	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9571			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9572			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9573			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9574	root	1.387	%
9575	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9576			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9577			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9578			>
9579			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9580			> and/or screen.
9581
9582			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9583	root	1.387	%
9584	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9585			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9586
9587			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9588			> use pedantic;
9589			> use strict 'code';
9590			>
9591			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9592
9593			use syntax 'python';
9594
9595			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9596
9597	root	1.387	%
9598	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9599			>
9600			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9601			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9602			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9603			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9604			>
9605			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9606	root	1.387	%
9607	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9608			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9609	root	1.387	%
9610	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9611			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9612			> be time-consuming.
9613
9614			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9615	root	1.387	%
9616	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9617			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9618			however, they do not handle C++...
9619			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9620	root	1.387	%
9621	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9622			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9623
9624			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9625
9626			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9627
9628			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9629
9630			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9631			already of old time, which was before us.
9632			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9633			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9634
9635			Regards,
9636			Tigran.
9637	root	1.387	%
9638	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9639	root	1.387	%
9640	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9641			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9642			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9643			main(){
9644			extrn hw;
9645			putchar(0[hw]);
9646			hw=+1;
9647			putchar(0[hw]);
9648			}
9649	root	1.387	%
9650	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9651
9652			The egg. Always. By definition.
9653	root	1.387	%
9654	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9655			>
9656			> Better check your scsi cables.
9657	root	1.387	%
9658	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9659			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9660	root	1.387	%
9661	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9662			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9663			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9664			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9665
9666	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9667	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9668			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9669
9670	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9671	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9672	root	1.387	%
9673	root	1.1	>James :\
9674			>
9675			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9676
9677			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9678	root	1.387	%
9679	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9680			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9681			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9682	root	1.387	%
9683	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9684			> is just asking for a black eye.
9685
9686			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9687
9688			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9689			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9690			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9691
9692			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9693			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9694			area.
9695	root	1.387	%
9696	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9697			[Lukas Grunwald]
9698	root	1.387	%
9699	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9700
9701			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9702			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9703			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9704			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9705			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9706	root	1.387	%
9707	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9708			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9709
9710			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9711	root	1.387	%
9712	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9713			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9714			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9715
9716			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9717
9718			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9719
9720			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9721
9722			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9723			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9724	root	1.387	%
9725	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9726	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9727	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9728	root	1.387	%
9729	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9730			longer...
9731	root	1.387	%
9732	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9733			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9734			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9735	root	1.387	%
9736	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9737			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9738			> > world :) I just love it...
9739			>
9740			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9741			>
9742			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9743			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9744			practical...
9745			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9746			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9747			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9748			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9749			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9750
9751			Jan Hubicka
9752	root	1.387	%
9753	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9754			[...]
9755			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9756
9757			No, it is not. What you meant is
9758
9759			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9760	root	1.387	%
9761	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9762			> A) perl-5.00553
9763			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9764			> cc = cl.exe
9765			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9766
9767			[...]
9768
9769			Ilya
9770	root	1.387	%
9771	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9772
9773			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9774
9775			p.
9776	root	1.387	%
9777	root	1.1	[tomc]
9778			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9779			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9780
9781			+------------------------------------------+
9782			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9783			+------------------------------------------+
9784
9785			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9786			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9787
9788			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9789			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9790			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9791			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9792			interesting way.
9793			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9794			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9795			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9796			interesting things.
9797			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9798			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9799			things.
9800	root	1.387	%
9801	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9802			--Dennis Ritchie
9803	root	1.387	%
9804	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9805	root	1.387	%
9806	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9807
9808			switch (x)
9809			default:
9810			if (prime(x))
9811			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9812			process_prime(x);
9813			else
9814			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9815			process_composite(x);
9816	root	1.387	%
9817	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9818			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9819			in megabytes, required for execution?
9820
9821			Craig Milo Rogers
9822	root	1.387	%
9823	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9824			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9825			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9826
9827			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9828			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9829
9830			Ilya
9831	root	1.387	%
9832	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9833			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9834
9835			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9836			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9837			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9838
9839			Nat
9840	root	1.387	%
9841	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9842			much steroids for a while. =)
9843
9844			--Albert Dvornik
9845			<bert@genscan.com>
9846	root	1.387	%
9847	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9848			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9849			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9850
9851			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9852
9853			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9854			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9855
9856			--tom
9857	root	1.387	%
9858	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9859
9860			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9861
9862			Linus
9863	root	1.387	%
9864	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9865			devil added HTML mail...
9866	root	1.387	%
9867	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9868			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9869			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9870	root	1.387	%
9871	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9872			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9873
9874			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9875			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9876			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9877
9878			Arm the gnus!
9879	root	1.387	%
9880	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9881
9882			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9883			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9884			gcc, so go away.
9885	root	1.387	%
9886	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9887			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9888
9889			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9890
9891			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9892			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9893	root	1.387	%
9894	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9895			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9896			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9897			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9898
9899			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9900			was released today" madness.
9901	root	1.387	%
9902	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9903			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9904			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9905			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9906			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9907			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9908			>
9909			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9910			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9911			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9912			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9913			> marketing name, anyway.
9914
9915			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9916			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9917			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9918
9919			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9920			violence..." :-)
9921	root	1.387	%
9922	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9923			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9924	root	1.387	%
9925	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9926			> >poor drivers
9927			>
9928			> No it doesn't.
9929
9930			Indeed. Its down to
9931
9932			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9933
9934			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9935			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9936			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9937			or binaries.
9938	root	1.387	%
9939	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9940	root	1.387	%
9941	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9942	root	1.387	%
9943	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9944
9945			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9946			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9947			\|>
9948			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9949
9950			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9951
9952			Andreas.
9953	root	1.387	%
9954	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9955			...
9956			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9957
9958			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9959			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9960			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9961			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9962			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9963			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9964	root	1.387	%
9965	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9966
9967			Paul Eggert writes:
9968			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9969
9970			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9971			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9972	root	1.387	%
9973	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9974			however.
9975
9976			"We don't have the tools"
9977			"We can't support a non intel build"
9978			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9979			"Its not worth the time cost"
9980			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9981	root	1.387	%
9982	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9983
9984			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9985			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9986			>
9987			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9988			> <mailproc@fred>
9989			>
9990			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9991			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9992			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9993			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9994			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9995	root	1.387	%
9996	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9997			> No documented problem
9998			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9999			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
10000			>
10001			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
10002	root	1.387	%
10003	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
10004			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
10005	root	1.387	%
10006	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
10007			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
10008
10009			dave
10010	root	1.387	%
10011	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10012			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
10013
10014			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
10015	root	1.387	%
10016	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10017
10018			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
10019			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
10020
10021			Paul Eggert writes:
10022			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
10023
10024			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
10025			1 month before 29 March?
10026
10027			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
10028
10029			1 month before 28 March?
10030
10031			28 February.
10032
10033			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
10034			_before_ 27 February?
10035
10036			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
10037	root	1.387	%
10038	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10039
10040			>Nils Goesche wrote:
10041			>> So make a security check first:
10042			>>
10043			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
10044			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
10045			>
10046			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
10047			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
10048			>
10049			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
10050			> = instead of == error*/
10051			> launch_full_counterstrike();
10052			>
10053			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
10054			>
10055			>--
10056			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
10057
10058			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
10059
10060			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
10061			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
10062	root	1.387	%
10063	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
10064			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
10065
10066			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
10067			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
10068			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
10069			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
10070			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
10071			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
10072			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
10073			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
10074
10075			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
10076			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
10077			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
10078			available for that hardware from any source.
10079			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
10080			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
10081			sniffing!
10082	root	1.387	%
10083	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
10084			technical support line that isn't"
10085	root	1.387	%
10086	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
10087			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
10088	root	1.387	%
10089	root	1.1	[...]
10090			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
10091			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
10092
10093			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
10094			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
10095			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
10096			"Nothing else"
10097			"Sorry"
10098			[Click]
10099
10100			Alan
10101	root	1.387	%
10102	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10103			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10104	root	1.387	%
10105	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10106			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10107			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10108			> users excepted, of course!).
10109
10110			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10111			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10112			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10113			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10114			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10115			is installed"
10116
10117			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10118	root	1.387	%
10119	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10120
10121			L. Harris wrote:
10122			>
10123			> Testing
10124
10125			you failed.
10126	root	1.387	%
10127	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10128			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10129	root	1.387	%
10130	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10131			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10132			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10133			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10134	root	1.387	%
10135	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10136			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10137			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10138
10139			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10140	root	1.387	%
10141	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10142			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10143			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10144			where else...
10145	root	1.387	%
10146	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10147			[...]
10148			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10149			: about a certain topic.
10150	root	1.387	%
10151	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10152			>
10153			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10154			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10155
10156			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10157			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10158
10159			void main (void)
10160			{
10161			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10162			printf ("\n");
10163			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10164			printf ("You have died.\n");
10165			printf ("\n");
10166			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10167			}
10168
10169			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10170
10171			--
10172			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10173	root	1.387	%
10174	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10175			mistake I ever made]
10176
10177			From: "Tom Miller"
10178			Subject: Can
10179			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10180
10181			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10182			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10183			my name is Tom Miller
10184
10185			From: "Tom Miller"
10186			Subject: Wait
10187			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10188
10189			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10190			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10191	root	1.387	%
10192	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10193
10194			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10195			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10196			so why bother? [...]
10197	root	1.387	%
10198	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10199	root	1.1
10200			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10201
10202			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10203			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10204			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10205			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10206			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10207			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10208			sich dann.
10209	root	1.387	%
10210	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10211			no fs
10212			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10213			Definitely hardware or software error.
10214
10215			Unix Version 7 Manual
10216	root	1.387	%
10217	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10218			>
10219			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10220			>
10221			> =for C
10222			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10223			> =end
10224			> =for C++
10225			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10226			> =end
10227			> =for Java
10228			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10229			> =end
10230			>
10231			> :-)
10232	root	1.387	%
10233	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10234	root	1.387	%
10235	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10236
10237			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10238			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10239			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10240			turn it on.
10241	root	1.387	%
10242	root	1.1	[...]
10243			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10244			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10245			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10246			[...]
10247	root	1.387	%
10248	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10249
10250			Chad C Giffin
10251	root	1.387	%
10252	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10253			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10254			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10255			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10256			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10257			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10258
10259			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10260			through the door.
10261			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10262			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10263			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10264			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10265			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10266			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10267			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10268			usually.)
10269
10270			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10271			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10272			your tire pressure..."
10273			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10274			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10275			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10276			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10277			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10278			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10279			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10280			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10281	root	1.387	%
10282	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10283
10284			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10285	root	1.387	%
10286	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10287
10288			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10289			:-(
10290	root	1.387	%
10291	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10292			>dies alles geschieht.
10293			>Und es verging nicht.
10294
10295			So what?
10296
10297			Ich dachte eher an:
10298
10299			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10300			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10301			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10302			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10303			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10304			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10305			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10306			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10307			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10308			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10309			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10310			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10311
10312			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10313
10314			Antje
10315	root	1.387	%
10316	root	1.1	[....]
10317
10318			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10319			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10320			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10321			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10322			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10323			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10324
10325			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10326
10327			Antje
10328	root	1.387	%
10329	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10330			lalala, I love you baby..."
10331			--
10332			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10333	root	1.387	%
10334	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10335			>
10336			> Kubys
10337
10338			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10339
10340			Linus
10341	root	1.387	%
10342	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10343
10344			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10345			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10346			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10347	root	1.387	%
10348	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10349
10350			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10351			out what it means.
10352			--
10353			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10354	root	1.387	%
10355	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10356			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10357	root	1.387	%
10358	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10359			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10360
10361			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10362
10363			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10364			> is being discussed.
10365
10366			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10367	root	1.387	%
10368	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10369
10370			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10371
10372			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10373
10374			[and the button reads]
10375
10376			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10377	root	1.387	%
10378	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10379
10380			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10381
10382			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10383			certain amount of redundancy.
10384	root	1.387	%
10385	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10386			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10387
10388			...
10389
10390			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10391	root	1.387	%
10392	root	1.1	>Hello,
10393			>
10394			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10395			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10396			>
10397
10398			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10399			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10400			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10401			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10402	root	1.387	%
10403	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10404			on the country as a whole.
10405			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10406			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10407			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10408	root	1.387	%
10409	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10410			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10411	root	1.387	%
10412	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10413	root	1.387	%
10414	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10415			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10416			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10417
10418			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10419
10420			--tom
10421			--
10422			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10423			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10424	root	1.387	%
10425	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10426			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10427	root	1.387	%
10428	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10429
10430			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10431			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10432			> NO CARRIER
10433			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10434	root	1.387	%
10435	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10436			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10437			> better.
10438
10439			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10440			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10441	root	1.387	%
10442	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10443			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10444	root	1.387	%
10445	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10446			\|>
10447			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10448			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10449			\|>
10450			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10451			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10452
10453			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10454			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10455			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10456			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10457			build Bison, and then cook it.
10458
10459			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10460	root	1.387	%
10461	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10462			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10463			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10464			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10465			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10466	root	1.387	%
10467	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10468			-- lbxproxy(1)
10469	root	1.387	%
10470	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10471
10472			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10473
10474			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10475			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10476	root	1.387	%
10477	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10478
10479			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10480	root	1.387	%
10481	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10482			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10483			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10484			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10485			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10486
10487			\|> What does this mean.
10488
10489			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10490			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10491	root	1.387	%
10492	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10493
10494			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10495			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10496
10497			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10498	root	1.387	%
10499	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10500			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10501			streams)."
10502			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10503	root	1.387	%
10504	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10505			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10506	root	1.387	%
10507	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10508
10509			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10510
10511			Klaro.
10512
10513			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10514			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10515			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10516			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10517
10518	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10519	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10520
10521			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10522			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10523			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10524			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10525			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10526			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10527			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10528
10529			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10530			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10531			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10532	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10533			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10534			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10535			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10536	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10537
10538			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10539	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10540			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10541			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10542			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10543			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10544			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10545			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10546	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10547			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10548
10549			cu in hell 2002
10550	root	1.387	%
10551	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10552	root	1.387	%
10553	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10554
10555			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10556			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10557			the man page for crypt(1).
10558
10559			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10560			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10561			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10562
10563			man -s3 crypt
10564
10565			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10566			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10567
10568			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10569			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10570			he can figure out to use the command
10571
10572			man -s3 Intro.3
10573
10574			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10575			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10576
10577			man -s3c crypt
10578
10579			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10580			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10581			any trouble.
10582			--
10583			Michael M Rubenstein
10584	root	1.387	%
10585	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10586
10587			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10588
10589			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10590
10591			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10592
10593			Regards,
10594			Tim Bunce.
10595
10596			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10597			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10598			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10599	root	1.387	%
10600	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10601
10602			...
10603
10604			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10605			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10606			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10607
10608			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10609			its unusable, believe me I do.
10610	root	1.387	%
10611	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10612
10613			Semour Cray
10614	root	1.387	%
10615	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10616
10617			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10618	root	1.387	%
10619	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10620			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10621
10622			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10623			it only supports parts of it
10624	root	1.387	%
10625	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10626			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10627	root	1.387	%
10628	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10629			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10630			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10631			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10632			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10633			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10634			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10635
10636			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10637			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10638			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10639			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10640			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10641			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10642			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10643			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10644			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10645			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10646
10647			tq vm, (burley)
10648	root	1.387	%
10649	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10650			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10651			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10652			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10653			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10654			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10655			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10656	root	1.387	%
10657	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10658			/*
10659			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10660			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10661			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10662			* files won't compile.
10663			*/
10664	root	1.387	%
10665	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10666			> great.
10667
10668			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10669
10670			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10671
10672			This rock is below water half of the time!
10673			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10674			on a regular basis! ;-)
10675	root	1.387	%
10676	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10677			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10678			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10679	root	1.387	%
10680	root	1.1	>
10681			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10682			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10683			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10684
10685			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10686	root	1.387	%
10687	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10688
10689			>Hello!
10690
10691			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10692			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10693			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10694
10695
10696			Perl.
10697
10698			regards
10699			jobst
10700	root	1.387	%
10701	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10702			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10703			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10704
10705			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10706			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10707
10708			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10709			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10710			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10711			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10712			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10713			the absolute pits.
10714	root	1.387	%
10715	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10716	root	1.387	%
10717	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10718			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10719
10720			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10721	root	1.387	%
10722	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10723			ketchup and mustard
10724	root	1.387	%
10725	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10726
10727			vimal gajjar wrote:
10728			>
10729			> Hi there,
10730			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10731			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10732			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10733			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10734			> 5% of cpu
10735			> 2 Mb of RAM
10736			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10737			>
10738			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10739
10740			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10741			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10742			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10743	root	1.387	%
10744	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10745			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10746			>
10747			> >s/usually/never/
10748			>
10749			> s/sometimes/never/
10750
10751			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10752	root	1.387	%
10753	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10754			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10755			:Perl, IMO.
10756
10757			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10758
10759			TC
10760	root	1.387	%
10761	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10762	root	1.387	%
10763	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10764
10765			Hi guys!
10766
10767			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10768	root	1.387	%
10769	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10770
10771			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10772			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10773			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10774			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10775			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10776			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10777	root	1.387	%
10778	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10779			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10780			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10781
10782			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10783			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10784			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10785			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10786
10787			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10788			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10789			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10790			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10791
10792			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10793
10794			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10795
10796			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10797			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10798			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10799
10800			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10801			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10802
10803			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10804			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10805
10806			Did I miss any? ;-)
10807
10808			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10809			Laugh. Please.
10810
10811			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10812			--Scott
10813	root	1.387	%
10814	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10815
10816			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10817			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10818			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10819			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10820	root	1.387	%
10821	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10822			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10823
10824			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10825
10826			This is not mail.
10827
10828			This is Usenet.
10829
10830			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10831	root	1.387	%
10832	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10833			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10834			--- ide1: reset: success
10835			-----------> I like Linux !
10836	root	1.387	%
10837	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10838			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10839
10840			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10841			do.
10842	root	1.387	%
10843	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10844			++ PLONK.
10845	root	1.387	%
10846	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10847			Re: Subraumfunk
10848
10849			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10850			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10851
10852			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10853			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10854			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10855			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10856			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10857	root	1.387	%
10858	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10859			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10860			>
10861			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10862
10863			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10864	root	1.387	%
10865	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10866			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10867	root	1.387	%
10868	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10869			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10870
10871			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10872			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10873
10874			Bill Jones
10875	root	1.387	%
10876	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10877
10878			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10879			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10880			#include <windows.h>
10881			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10882			#endif
10883	root	1.387	%
10884	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10885
10886			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10887			is, invoking the URL
10888
10889			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10890
10891			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10892	root	1.387	%
10893	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10894			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10895			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10896			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10897			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10898			"I am using CGI!"
10899
10900			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10901	root	1.387	%
10902	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10903			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10904			>
10905	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10906	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10907
10908			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10909	root	1.387	%
10910	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10911			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10912	root	1.387	%
10913	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10914			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10915			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10916			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10917	root	1.387	%
10918	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10919
10920			pcg@goof.com said:
10921			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10922
10923			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10924
10925			"It's broken."
10926			"What's wrong with it?."
10927			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10928			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10929			"It just doesn't work."
10930			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10931			"It gives an error message."
10932			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10933			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10934			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10935			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10936			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10937			letter for letter this time."
10938	root	1.387	%
10939	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10940
10941			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10942			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10943			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10944
10945			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10946			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10947			perms.
10948
10949			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10950	root	1.387	%
10951	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10952			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10953
10954			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10955
10956			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10957			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10958			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10959
10960			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10961			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10962	root	1.387	%
10963	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10964			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10965	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10966
10967			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10968			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10969			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10970			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10971			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10972			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10973			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10974			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10975			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10976			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10977			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10978
10979			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10980
10981			normarz@aol.com
10982	root	1.387	%
10983	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10984	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10985	root	1.1	>Legion
10986			>schlagen?
10987
10988			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10989
10990			Bye
10991			Andreas
10992	root	1.387	%
10993	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10994
10995			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10996			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10997
10998			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10999			companies.
11000
11001			Kind regards
11002			Henning
11003	root	1.387	%
11004	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
11005			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
11006			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
11007
11008			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
11009			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
11010			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
11011
11012			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
11013			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
11014			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
11015			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
11016			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
11017			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
11018			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
11019			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
11020			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
11021			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
11022	root	1.387	%
11023	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
11024			We might support that sometime next year.
11025			-=- Microsoft
11026			(But I doubt it.)
11027			-=- Me
11028			-=- James Mastros
11029	root	1.387	%
11030	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
11031			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
11032			> following methods, but the output was split into two
11033			>lines.
11034
11035			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
11036			put newlines in the middle of your string.
11037	root	1.387	%
11038	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
11039	root	1.387	%
11040	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
11041			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
11042			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
11043			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
11044	root	1.387	%
11045	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
11046
11047			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
11048			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
11049			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
11050			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
11051			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
11052			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
11053			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
11054			it's not all his fault.
11055
11056			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
11057			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
11058			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
11059			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
11060			content.
11061
11062			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
11063			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
11064			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
11065			learn (or pay for it;)
11066
11067			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
11068			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
11069			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
11070			just for fun or to get the op.
11071
11072			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
11073			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
11074			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
11075			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
11076
11077			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
11078
11079			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
11080			course, Linux and Linux people.
11081	root	1.387	%
11082	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
11083			then he rewrote it as WNT.
11084
11085			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
11086			--
11087			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
11088	root	1.387	%
11089	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
11090
11091			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
11092			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
11093			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
11094
11095			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
11096			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
11097			tradition.
11098	root	1.387	%
11099	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
11100			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
11101	root	1.387	%
11102	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11103			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11104	root	1.387	%
11105	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11106			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11107			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11108			Or GIRLS for short.
11109	root	1.387	%
11110	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11111	root	1.387	%
11112	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11113			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11114			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11115			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11116			5_004_03 to build!"
11117
11118			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11119			have no patience."
11120
11121			xoxo,
11122			Andy
11123	root	1.387	%
11124	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11125			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11126			We all have our cross to bear.
11127	root	1.387	%
11128	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11129
11130			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11131			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11132			Subject: Re: system() question
11133
11134			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11135			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11136			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11137			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11138			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11139			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11140			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11141			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11142			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11143			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11144			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11145			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11146			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11147			humiliating for me!)
11148
11149			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11150			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11151			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11152			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11153			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11154			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11155			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11156			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11157			really knows the answer.
11158
11159			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11160			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11161			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11162			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11163
11164			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11165			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11166			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11167			for that.
11168
11169			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11170			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11171			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11172			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11173			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11174			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11175			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11176
11177			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11178
11179			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11180			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11181			something for free.''
11182
11183			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11184
11185			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11186			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11187
11188			(Good question.)
11189
11190			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11191			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11192			once I have run it.''
11193			(Good question.)
11194
11195			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11196
11197			(Good question.)
11198
11199			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11200			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11201			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11202			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11203			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11204
11205			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11206			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11207			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11208			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11209			comp.lang.perl?
11210			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11211			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11212			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11213			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11214			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11215			in comp.lang.perl?
11216
11217			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11218			you my rate card.
11219
11220			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11221			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11222			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11223			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11224			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11225			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11226			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11227			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11228			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11229			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11230
11231			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11232			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11233			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11234			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11235			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11236			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11237			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11238			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11239			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11240			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11241			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11242			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11243			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11244			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11245			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11246			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11247
11248			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11249			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11250			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11251			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11252			someone will. Maybe I will.
11253
11254			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11255			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11256			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11257			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11258			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11259			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11260			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11261			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11262
11263			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11264			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11265			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11266			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11267			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11268			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11269			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11270			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11271			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11272			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11273			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11274			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11275			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11276			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11277
11278			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11279			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11280			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11281			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11282
11283			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11284
11285			`I want to accomplish X.
11286
11287			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11288
11289			...
11290
11291			But instead it does Y.
11292
11293			Why is that?''
11294
11295			This one is also pretty good:
11296
11297			`I want to accomplish X.
11298			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11299
11300			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11301			because of Z.
11302
11303			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11304
11305			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11306			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11307
11308
11309			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11310			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11311
11312			--
11313			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11314			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11315	root	1.387	%
11316	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11317			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11318
11319			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11320			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11321			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11322
11323			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11324
11325			bye, Georg
11326	root	1.387	%
11327	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11328			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11329			convince me.
11330
11331			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11332
11333			Linus
11334	root	1.387	%
11335	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11336			++
11337
11338			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11339			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11340
11341	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11342	root	1.1
11343			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11344			understanding the above line.
11345
11346			Abigail
11347	root	1.387	%
11348	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11349			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11350	root	1.387	%
11351	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11352			++ button?
11353			Yes.
11354
11355			++ 100 pictures or so?
11356			Yes.
11357
11358			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11359			Yes.
11360
11361			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11362			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11363
11364			Abigail
11365	root	1.387	%
11366	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11367
11368			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11369
11370			Martien
11371	root	1.387	%
11372	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11373			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11374			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11375			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11376	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11377	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11378			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11379			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11380			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11381	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11382	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11383			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11384	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11385			nicht. ;)
11386
11387	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11388			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11389			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11390	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11391			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11392	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11393	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11394
11395	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11396			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11397	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11398	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11399	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11400
11401	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11402	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11403	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11404			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11405	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11406	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11407	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11408			"unvorstellbar".
11409
11410			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11411	root	1.387	%
11412	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11413			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11414			^^^
11415			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11416	root	1.387	%
11417	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11418			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11419	root	1.387	%
11420	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11421			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11422	root	1.387	%
11423	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11424			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11425			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11426
11427			An artificial pile of rocks.
11428	root	1.387	%
11429	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11430			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11431			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11432			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11433			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11434			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11435
11436			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11437			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11438			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11439			grosser Flipperautomat.
11440
11441			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11442	root	1.387	%
11443	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11444			>
11445			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11446			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11447			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11448			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11449			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11450	root	1.387	%
11451	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11452			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11453	root	1.1
11454			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11455	root	1.387	%
11456	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11457
11458			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11459
11460			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11461			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11462			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11463			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11464			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11465			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11466			Unix environment.
11467	root	1.387	%
11468	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11469			between these:
11470
11471			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11472			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11473
11474			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11475			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11476			;#", and the print gets executed!
11477
11478			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11479			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11480			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11481			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11482
11483			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11484			'perl'".
11485
11486			--
11487			Randal L. Schwartz
11488	root	1.387	%
11489	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11490
11491			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11492			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11493			>
11494			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11495
11496			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11497
11498			--
11499			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11500	root	1.387	%
11501	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11502	root	1.387	%
11503	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11504			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11505	root	1.387	%
11506	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11507			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11508	root	1.387	%
11509	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11510			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11511			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11512			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11513			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11514			example.
11515	root	1.387	%
11516	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11517			resemble a nail.
11518	root	1.387	%
11519	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11520			> I did wrong.
11521
11522			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11523			newsgroup.
11524	root	1.387	%
11525	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11526	root	1.387	%
11527	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11528			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11529	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11530
11531			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11532	root	1.387	%
11533	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11534	root	1.1
11535	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11536	root	1.387	%
11537	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11538			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11539			expired instantly!!!
11540	root	1.387	%
11541	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11542			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11543
11544			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11545			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11546			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11547
11548			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11549			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11550			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11551			than double Linus's programming experience?
11552
11553			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11554			> pretty straight forward.
11555
11556			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11557			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11558	root	1.387	%
11559	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11560			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11561			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11562			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11563			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11564			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11565	root	1.387	%
11566	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11567	root	1.387	%
11568	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11569			Example:
11570			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11571	root	1.387	%
11572	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11573			Randal gets his hands on it
11574	root	1.387	%
11575	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11576	root	1.387	%
11577	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11578
11579			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11580			first if you get it working.
11581	root	1.387	%
11582	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11583			> Think different.
11584
11585			Think Again.
11586	root	1.387	%
11587	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11588	root	1.387	%
11589	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11590			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11591			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11592
11593			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11594	root	1.387	%
11595	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11596			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11597	root	1.387	%
11598	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11599			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11600			\| top.
11601	root	1.387	%
11602	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11603			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11604	root	1.387	%
11605	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11606			^^^^^^^^^
11607			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11608
11609			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11610	root	1.387	%
11611	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11612			>gehen soll?
11613
11614	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11615	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11616			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11617	root	1.387	%
11618	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11619	root	1.387	%
11620	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11621			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11622	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11623			>
11624			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11625
11626			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11627			Schuh aus!
11628	root	1.387	%
11629	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11630
11631	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11632	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11633	root	1.387	%
11634	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11635
11636
11637			First opportunity
11638			Approximate
11639			Orbit Internet
11640			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11641
11642			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11643			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11644			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11645			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11646
11647			Second opportunity
11648			Approximate
11649			Orbit Internet
11650			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11651
11652			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11653			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11654			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11655			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11656
11657			Third opportunity
11658			Approximate
11659			Orbit Internet
11660			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11661
11662			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11663			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11664			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11665			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11666
11667	root	1.387	%
11668	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11669	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11670			> >würden.
11671	root	1.1	>
11672			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11673			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11674			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11675			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11676			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11677			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11678			implizierst.
11679	root	1.387	%
11680	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11681			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11682	root	1.387	%
11683	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11684			Big improvement.
11685	root	1.387	%
11686	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11687			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11688			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11689			-- "Why that one?"
11690			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11691			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11692	root	1.387	%
11693	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11694			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11695			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11696	root	1.387	%
11697	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11698			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11699			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11700
11701			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11702
11703			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11704			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11705			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11706
11707			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11708
11709			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11710			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11711			> er eigentlich ist?
11712
11713	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11714	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11715	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11716	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11717	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11718	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11719	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11720	root	1.1	Ciao
11721			Stefan
11722	root	1.387	%
11723	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11724			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11725			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11726			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11727	root	1.387	%
11728	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11729			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11730			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11731			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11732			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11733			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11734			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11735			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11736			off.
11737	root	1.387	%
11738	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11739			Meet interesting people,
11740			Kill them.
11741	root	1.387	%
11742	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11743			> umwandelbar ist.
11744
11745			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11746	root	1.387	%
11747	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11748	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11751			>
11752			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11753			> >> ruckartig.
11754			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11755			>
11756	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11757	root	1.1
11758			:-)
11759	root	1.387	%
11760	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11761	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11762			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11763	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11764			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11765			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11766			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11767
11768			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11769			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11770	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11771			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11772	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11773	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11774			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11775			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11776	root	1.1	Union.
11777
11778	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11779			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11780	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11781	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11782			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11783			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11784	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11785	root	1.387	%
11786	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11787			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11788	root	1.387	%
11789	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11790	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11791	root	1.1	>>
11792			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11793	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11794			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11795	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11796			>
11797			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11798			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11799	root	1.387	%
11800	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11801	root	1.387	%
11802	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11803			> into a random order???
11804			>
11805
11806			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11807			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11808
11809			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11810			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11811			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11812			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11813			number less than 42.
11814	root	1.387	%
11815	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11816			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11817			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11818			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11819			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11820			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11821			eventually invent Unix.
11822	root	1.387	%
11823	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11824			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11825			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11826			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11827			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11828			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11829			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11830			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11831			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11832			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11833			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11834			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11835			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11836			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11837			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11838			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11839	root	1.387	%
11840	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11841			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11842			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11843	root	1.387	%
11844	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11845			using a Perl CGI script?
11846	root	1.387	%
11847	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11848
11849			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11850			week.
11851	root	1.387	%
11852	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11853			Brieweb> of PERL.
11854			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11855			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11856			[Randal Schwartz]
11857	root	1.387	%
11858	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11859			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11860			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11861			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11862	root	1.387	%
11863	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11864			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11865			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11866			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11867			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11868			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11869			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11870			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11871			system and restricting their options.
11872			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11873	root	1.387	%
11874	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11875			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11876			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11877	root	1.387	%
11878	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11879			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11880			Ernie Hai
11881			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11882	root	1.387	%
11883	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11884			: results" report from the users.
11885
11886			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11887			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11888			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11889			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11890	root	1.387	%
11891	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11892			They are all owned by cats.
11893	root	1.387	%
11894	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11895			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11896			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11897	root	1.387	%
11898	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11899			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11900
11901			Yesterday it worked
11902			Today it is not working
11903			Windows is like that
11904			- - -
11905			wind catches lily
11906			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11907			segmentation fault
11908			- - -
11909			Three things are certain:
11910			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11911			Guess which has occurred.
11912			- - -
11913			A file that big?
11914			It might be very useful.
11915			But now it is gone.
11916			- - -
11917			Windows NT crashed.
11918			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11919			No one hears your screams.
11920			- - -
11921			Errors have occurred.
11922			We won't tell you where or why.
11923			Lazy programmers.
11924			- - -
11925			Seeing my great fault
11926			Through darkening blue windows
11927			I begin again
11928			- - -
11929			The code was willing,
11930			It considered your request,
11931			But the chips were weak.
11932			- - -
11933			Printer not ready.
11934			Could be a fatal error.
11935			Have a pen handy?
11936			- - -
11937			Server's poor response
11938			Not quick enough for browser.
11939			Timed out, plum blossom.
11940			- - -
11941			Chaos reigns within.
11942			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11943			Order shall return.
11944			- - -
11945			Login incorrect.
11946			Only perfect spellers may
11947			enter this system.
11948			- - -
11949			This site has been moved.
11950			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11951			have to delete you.
11952			- - -
11953			ABORTED effort:
11954			Close all that you have.
11955			You ask way too much.
11956			- - -
11957			First snow, then silence.
11958			This thousand dollar screen dies
11959			so beautifully.
11960			- - -
11961			With searching comes loss
11962			and the presence of absence:
11963			"My Novel" not found.
11964			- - -
11965			The Tao that is seen
11966			Is not the true Tao, until
11967			You bring fresh toner.
11968			- - -
11969			The Web site you seek
11970			cannot be located but
11971			endless others exist
11972			- - -
11973			Stay the patient course
11974			Of little worth is your ire
11975			The network is down
11976			- - -
11977			A crash reduces
11978			your expensive computer
11979			to a simple stone.
11980			- - -
11981			There is a chasm
11982			of carbon and silicon
11983			the software can't bridge
11984			- - -
11985			To have no errors
11986			Would be life without meaning
11987			No struggle, no joy
11988			- - -
11989			You step in the stream,
11990			but the water has moved on.
11991			This page is not here.
11992			- - -
11993			No keyboard present
11994			Hit F1 to continue
11995			Zen engineering?
11996			- - -
11997			Hal, open the file
11998			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11999			open it, please Hal
12000			- - -
12001			Out of memory.
12002			We wish to hold the whole sky,
12003			But we never will.
12004			- - -
12005			Having been erased,
12006			The document you're seeking
12007			Must now be retyped.
12008			- - -
12009			The ten thousand things
12010			How long do any persist?
12011			Netscape, too, has gone.
12012			- - -
12013			Rather than a beep
12014			Or a rude error message,
12015			These words: "File not found."
12016			- - -
12017			Serious error.
12018			All shortcuts have disappeared
12019			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
12020	root	1.387	%
12021	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
12022			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
12023	root	1.387	%
12024	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
12025			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
12026
12027			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
12028			early 1980s.
12029	root	1.387	%
12030	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
12031			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
12032			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
12033			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
12034
12035			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
12036			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
12037			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
12038			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
12039			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
12040			many new features that it just stops working.
12041
12042			This also applies to Microsoft products.
12043
12044			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
12045			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
12046
12047			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
12048			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
12049			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
12050
12051			Hope this explains what's going on
12052			Martien Verbruggen
12053	root	1.387	%
12054	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
12055	root	1.387	%
12056	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
12057	root	1.387	%
12058	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
12059	root	1.387	%
12060	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
12061			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
12062			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
12063	root	1.387	%
12064	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
12065			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
12066			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
12067			>
12068			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
12069
12070			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
12071			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
12072	root	1.387	%
12073	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
12074			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
12075			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
12076			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
12077	root	1.387	%
12078	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
12079			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
12080			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
12081			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
12082			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
12083			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
12084			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
12085			convienience store.")
12086	root	1.387	%
12087	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
12088			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
12089	root	1.387	%
12090	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
12091	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
12092	root	1.1
12093			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
12094			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
12095	root	1.387	%
12096	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
12097			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
12098			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
12099			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
12100	root	1.387	%
12101	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12102			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12103			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12104	root	1.387	%
12105	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12106			(A => B) => (B => A)
12107			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12108			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12109	root	1.387	%
12110	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12111	root	1.387	%
12112	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12113			-Barry Shein
12114	root	1.387	%
12115	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12116			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12117			read the manual.
12118	root	1.387	%
12119	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12120	root	1.387	%
12121	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12122			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12123			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12124			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12125			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12126			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12127			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12128			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12129			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12130	root	1.387	%
12131	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12132	root	1.387	%
12133	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12134			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12135			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12136	root	1.387	%
12137	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12138
12139			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12140			need.
12141	root	1.387	%
12142	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12143			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12144			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12145	root	1.387	%
12146	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12147			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12148			newsreaders. You know,
12149			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12150			back
12151			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12152			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12153			out what they're saying.
12154	root	1.387	%
12155	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12156			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12157	root	1.387	%
12158	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12159			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12160			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12161
12162			But the combination.... sutters
12163	root	1.387	%
12164	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12165			Darn it.
12166	root	1.387	%
12167	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12168	root	1.387	%
12169	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12170	root	1.387	%
12171	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12172			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12173			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12174			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12175			trying to use it.
12176	root	1.387	%
12177	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12178	root	1.387	%
12179	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12180			>
12181			> Is this group active?
12182			No.
12183
12184			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12185			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12186
12187			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12188			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12189	root	1.387	%
12190	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12191			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12192	root	1.387	%
12193	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12194			Press any key to continue..."
12195	root	1.387	%
12196	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12197			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12198			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12199	root	1.387	%
12200	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12201			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12202			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12203			adjust your travel plans.
12204	root	1.387	%
12205	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12206			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12207	root	1.387	%
12208	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12209			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12210
12211			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12212			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12213
12214			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12215
12216			tak 18 12 6
12217	root	1.387	%
12218	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12219			-- Bill Gates
12220			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12221			-- Bill Gates
12222			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12223			-- logical conclusion
12224	root	1.387	%
12225	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12226			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12227			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12228			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12229			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12230			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12231			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12232			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12233			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12234			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12235			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12236			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12237			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12238			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12239			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12240			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12241			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12242			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12243			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12244			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12245			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12246	root	1.387	%
12247	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12248			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12249			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12250			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12251	root	1.387	%
12252	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.