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#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.478	"How We Test Power Supply Units"
2
3			In case a PSU explodes [...], we note this in the review and subtract the
4			corresponding performance points from its overall performance score.
5
6			[https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-we-test-psu,4042-12.html]
7			%
8	root	1.477	22:15:54 <Mikachu> the whole thing didn't strictly crash, but the game used --in-process-gpu and the gpu
9			process called exit when it couldn't init the gpu
10			22:16:01 <Mikachu> without that the game ran in software at 1fps just fine
11			%
12			Whatever feature of the STE you want to use, it will either not work as
13			planned or require special treatment. If it works as planned and does not
14			require special treatment, it will definetly not work on the TT or the
15			Falcon.
16
17			[http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Atari_STE_FAQ_compiled_by_The_Paranoid_/_Paradox]
18			%
19	root	1.476	In 1729, how could they know where the north pole was when it was only
20			discovered in 1909?
21			-- Ebon Kim, Flat-Earth Youtuber
22			%
23	root	1.475	Fun with the north korean Red Star OS:
24
25			It does have some components that prevent the normal user from
26			editing/deleting various protected files (securityd, scnprc and opprc). We
27			call it “oppression” if we’re speaking of DPRK and “defending your
28			privacy and security” if we’re speaking of Apple. Two sides of the
29			same coin, I guess, depends on which side you’re on.
30
31			[https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/]
32			%
33	root	1.474	Minister for Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam clarified in Parliament
34			during the Committee of Supply debate on Mar. 3 that inmates in Singapore
35			do not need to thank prison staff after being caned.
36
37			[https://mothership.sg/2022/03/no-requirement-thank-guard-after-caning/]
38			%
39			The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered" that the
40			HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and tasked a working group with
41			preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule. This ruled out any
42			basis for the new HTTP/2.0 other than the SPDY protocol. With only
43			the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at
44			improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus," the
45			IETF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every
46			principle ever held dear in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping
47			Google's initiative.
48
49			Poul-Henning Kamp, in https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=27162
50			%
51			[HGST engineer, taking about drive reliability]
52
53			we don't want to test it, because that costs time, we just wait for the
54			market feedback and put that into our calculations.
55			%
56	root	1.473	[wdleng.c in unix V6 iolib]
57
58			wdleng ()
59			/* returns number of bits in a machine integer */
60			/* written so kernighan can tell where he is running */
61			{
62			int k, leng;
63			k = leng = 1;
64			while (k =<< 1)
65	root	1.476	leng++;
66	root	1.473	return (leng);
67			}
68			%
69	root	1.470	Dana Angluin's List of Proof Techniques
70
71			Proof by example:
72			The author gives only the case n=2 and suggests that it contains most
73			of the ideas of the general proof.
74
75			Proof by intimidation:
76			'Trivial.'
77
78			Proof by vigorous handwaving:
79			Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.
80
81			Proof by cumbersome notation:
82			Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.
83
84			Proof by exhaustion:
85			An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful.
86
87			Proof by omission:
88			'The reader may easily supply the details.'
89			'The other 253 cases are analogous.'
90			'...'
91
92			Proof by obfuscation:
93			A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically
94			related statements.
95
96			Proof by wishful citation:
97			The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem
98			from the literature to support his claims.
99
100			Proof by funding:
101			How could three different government agencies be wrong?
102
103			Proof by eminent authority:
104			'I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP-complete.'
105
106			Proof by personal communication:
107			'Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete' [Karp,
108			personal commmunication].
109
110			Proof by reduction to the wrong problem:
111			'To see that infinite-dimensional colored cycle stripping is decidable,
112			we reduce it to the halting problem.'
113
114			Proof by reference to inaccessible literature:
115			The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a
116			privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society,
117			1883.
118
119			Proof by importance:
120			A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.
121
122			Proof by accumulated evidence:
123			Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.
124
125			Proof by cosmology:
126			The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular
127			for proofs of the existence of God.
128
129			Proof by mutual reference:
130			In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference
131			B, which is shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is
132			an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A.
133
134			Proof by meta-proof:
135			A method is given to construct the desired proof. The correctness of
136			the method is proved by any of these techniques.
137
138			Proof by picture:
139			A more convincing form of proof by example. Combines well with proof by omission.
140
141			Proof by vehement assertion:
142			It is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience.
143
144			Proof by ghost reference:
145			Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given.
146
147			Proof by forward reference:
148			Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is
149			often not as forthcoming as at first.
150
151			Proof by semantic shift:
152			Some standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the
153			statement of the result.
154
155			Proof by appeal to intuition:
156			Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.
157
158			Proof by elimination of the counterexample:
159			'Assume for the moment that the hypothesis is true. Now, let's
160			suppose we find a counterexample. So what? QED.' (from Don Woods
161			<DON@SU-AI.ARPA>)
162
163			[https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~riesbeck/proofs.html]
164			%
165	root	1.469	polkit: Similar to sudo but much more complicated
166
167			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
168			%
169			D-Bus: IPC, but complicated. Why do we need XML schema files, why is there
170			sometimes / notation and sometimes ., and so on. IPC is a good thing, but
171			this implementation is too complicated!
172
173			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
174			%
175			Pipewire: Solution in search of a problem you don't have without Wayland?
176
177			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
178			%
179			In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server.
180
181			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
182			%
183			The Wayland "reference implementation" is a small set of libraries that
184			can be used to build a compositor or a client application. These libraries
185			currently have hard dependencies on Linux kernel APIs like epoll. In
186			pkgsrc we've patched the libraries to add kqueue(2) support, but the
187			patches haven't been accepted upstream. Wayland is written with the
188			assumption of Linux to the extent that every client application tends to
189			#include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's designers didn't see the need
190			to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse button IDs.
191
192			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
193			%
194	root	1.468	As best I can tell (from the long and unsatisfactory thread I pursed on
195			the Wayland Developers list some little time ago), the core issue with
196			Wayland and Color is social, not technical:
197
198			1. none of the key developers have the faintest idea what Color or Color
199			Management is, and (worse):
200
201			2. they have no idea why it would be at all important.
202
203			[https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804/4]
204			%
205			> (isn't it the case with ifconfig vs. ip already?)
206
207			Wayland is more like they created ip but named the command ifconfig, then
208			told you to go fix your scripts.
209
210			If the Wayland developers had sense, they would have carefully considered
211			how to make it a seemless transition for developers. Instead, they decided
212			they were the ultimate authority on software engineering and screw
213			developers, they are all doing it wrong anyways.
214
215			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3862027]
216			%
217			Wayland is written with the assumption of Linux to the extent that every
218			client application tends to #include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's
219			designers didn't see the need to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse
220			button IDs.
221
222			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
223			%
224			... a basic barebones TWM for X11 works better and offers more features
225			than Weston which contains ~20 times more code
226
227			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3526530]
228			%
229			"It is true that Wayland somewhat sucks ass" -- The Lutris founder
230			[The Lutris founder quoting himself]
231			%
232			Eine solche Regulierung schafft man in Deutschland nur für wirklich
233			wichtige Themen wie zur Durchsetzung der Bereitstellung von Schnittstellen
234			für die Telekommunikationsüberwachung. Bei so irrelevanten Themen wie
235			dem Katastrophenschutz und der Alarmierung der Bevölkerung braucht man
236			den Markt nicht zu regulieren.
237
238			[https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20210719-smscb/]
239			From: Stephen Searle
240			Date: 18 Mar 1998, 09:00:00
241			Subject: A Clockwork Nethacker
242
243			What if the next version of Nethack has a new class based on the Droogs
244			of Anthony Burgess' novel (and later Stanley Kubrick film) "A Clockwork
245			Orange"?
246
247			I imagine the language would be radically different, like the
248			Samurai-speak only much, much more so...
249
250			Your rookers glow red -more-
251			You tolchock the floating glazzy real horrorshow! -more-
252			The floating glazzy appears bezoomny.
253			You brosay your britva at the floating glazzy -more-
254			The floating glazzy is oobivatted!
255
256			Ugh - that Pishcha was rotten! -more-
257			You feel a malenky bit bolnoy.
258
259			You govoreet with the charlie of Bog -more-
260			The charlie asks you for some cutter for the temple.
261
262			The devotchka flashes her groodies at you -more-
263			"Take off your platties, they're in the way" -more-
264			Raz stands still while you and the devotchka lie in each other's rookers...
265			(or:)
266			"You're such a bolshy chelloveck, I wish..."
267
268			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you!
269			Your shlem blocks the attack to your gulliver.
270			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you real horrorshow!
271			Your brain is eaten! You feel gloopy!
272
273			An enormous dook appears next to you!
274			You are poogly to snuffit and unable to itty!
275
276			You slooshy someone cursing prestoopnicks.
277
278			You ittied from the shop without pretty pollying! -more-
279			You crasted 100 gollies worth of veshches! -more-
280			A millicent's whistle zvooks -more-
281			The Keystone rozzes are after you!
282
283
284			Heh... I think I will have to write a little text filter for Nethack :-)
285
286			-SJS
287
288			[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/c/3P5KdEPru6o/m/UxXyLvAsJUwJ]
289			%
290			"Validity of journal" is not an argument from authority fallacy, it is an
291			assessment of the prior on source quality.
292			%
293	root	1.467	You know what they say though, if the punishment for a crime is a fee
294			then it’s only a crime for the poor.
295			%
296	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
297
298			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
299			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
300			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
301			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
302			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
303			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
304			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
305			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
306			time. There is no other significance to these files.
307			%
308	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
309			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
310			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
311			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
312			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
313			- John Rogers
314			%
315	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
316			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
317			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
318			become witches.
319
320			– Bret Weinstein
321			%
322	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
323			- Rumsfeld 2003
324			%
325	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
326
327			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
328
329			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
330
331			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
332
333			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
334
335			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
336			%
337	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
338			- a rust tutorial
339			%
340	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
341			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
342			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
343
344			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
345			%
346			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
347			that has been problematic for a long time.
348
349			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
350			%
351	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
352			GPL Protected it
353			GOD Blessed it
354
355			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
356			%
357	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
358			kinship term she'd ever heard.
359
360			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
361			%
362			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
363			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
364			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
365
366			I don't agree.
367
368			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
369			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
370			> is not as clear as it could be.
371
372			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
373			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
374			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
375			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
376			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
377
378			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
379			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
380			%
381			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
382
383			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
384			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
385			other conventions exist for a very long time.
386
387			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
388			%
389			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
390
391			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
392			%
393	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
394			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
395			and government agency portal.
396
397			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
398			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
399
400			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
401			%
402			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
403
404			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
405			%
406			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
407			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
408			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
409
410			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
411			%
412			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
413			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
414			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
415			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
416			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
417			%
418	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
419			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
420			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
421			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
422			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
423			penalty. This makes really a difference.
424
425			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
426			%
427			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
428			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
429
430			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
431			%
432	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
433
434			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
435			%
436	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
437
438			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
439			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
440
441			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
442			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
443			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
444
445			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
446			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
447
448			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
449			%
450	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
451
452			Vim 15.2%
453			Emacs 3.8%
454
455			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
456
457			Vim 26.1%
458			Emacs 5.2%
459			%
460	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
461
462			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
463
464			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
465
466			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?"
467
468			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
469
470			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
471
472			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
473
474			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
475
476			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
477
478			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."
479
480			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
481
482			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
483			%
484			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
485
486			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
487			>>> their own servers.
488			>>
489			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
490			>
491			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
492
493			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
494			%
495	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
496
497			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
498			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
499			%
500	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
501			================================
502
503	root	1.449	November 2002
504
505			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
506			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
507			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
508
509			---
510
511			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
512			dehydration and fatigue.
513
514			---
515
516			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
517			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
518
519			---
520
521			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
522
523			November 19 2200 hrs
524			guard check - Rahman is alive.
525
526			2300 hrs
527			guard check - Rahman is alive.
528
529			November 20 0400 hrs
530			guard check - Rahman is alive.
531
532			0800 hrs
533			guard check - Rahman is alive.
534
535			1000 hrs
536			guard check - Rahman is dead.
537
538			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
539			%
540	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
541			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
542			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
543			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
544			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
545			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
546			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
547			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
548			be a better place.
549
550			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
551			%
552	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
553			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
554			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
555			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
556			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
557			> in technology.
558
559			-P
560			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
561
562			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
563			%
564			> Simon Cooke wrote:
565			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
566
567			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
568
569			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
570			%
571	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
572			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
573			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
574			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
575			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
576
577			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
578			%
579	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
580			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
581			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
582			hashtag #sexualassault.
583
584			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
585			%
586	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
587
588			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
589			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
590
591			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
592			%
593			> How is the old way a problem?
594
595			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
596			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
597			it's smarter than you.
598
599			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
600			%
601	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
602			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
603			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
604			less lethal.
605
606			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
607			%
608	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
609
610			[...]
611
612			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
613
614			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
615			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
616			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
617			%
618	root	1.470	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to "Teyrnas
619			Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or "Rìoghachd Aonaichte
620			Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to "Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
621			also now legal names for the UK.
622	root	1.441
623			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
624			%
625			From: Russ Allbery
626			To: tz@iana.org
627			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
628
629			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
630			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
631			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
632			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
633			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
634			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
635			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
636
637			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
638			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
639
640			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
641			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
642			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
643			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
644			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
645
646			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
647			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
648			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
649			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
650			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
651			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
652			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
653			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
654			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
655
656			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
657			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
658			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
659			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
660			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
661			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
662			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
663			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
664			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
665			maintainer.
666			%
667	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
668
669			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
670			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
671			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
672			"BST", but no:
673			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
674			%
675			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
676			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
677
678			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
679			> When can we expect the updated version
680
681			About three weeks ago.
682			%
683	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
684			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
685			%
686			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
687
688			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
689			%
690	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
691			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
692			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
693
694			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
695			%
696			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
697
698			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
699
700			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
701			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
702
703			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
704			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
705			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
706
707			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
708			full day per year.
709			%
710	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
711			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
712			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
713			%
714			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
715			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
716			%
717			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
718			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
719			me - lately?".
720			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
721			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
722
723			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
724			%
725			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
726			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
727			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
728			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
729
730			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
731			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
732			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
733			your lives be a living hell.
734
735			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
736			%
737	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
738			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
739			%
740			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
741			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
742			out with a problem I'm having?
743
744			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
745
746			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
747
748			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
749			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
750			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
751			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
752
753			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
754
755			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
756
757			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
758
759			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
760			[http://c2.com/]
761			%
762			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
763			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
764			right-parenthesis.
765			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
766			%
767			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
768			yourself?
769			Software development is the career for you!
770
771			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
772			%
773	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
774			-- Richard Dawkins
775			%
776			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
777			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
778			and security.
779
780			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
781			%
782			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
783
784			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
785			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
786			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
787			%
788			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
789			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
790			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
791			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
792			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
793			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
794
795			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
796			%
797			tiny hsv2rgb
798			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;}
799
800			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
801			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
802			}
803			%
804			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
805			Only Java makes it possible!
806
807			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
808			%
809			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
810			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
811			extremely poettering''
812			%
813			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
814			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
815			%
816			"I drank what?!"
817			-- Socrates
818			%
819			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
820			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
821			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
822
823			Jon Callas in
824			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
825			%
826			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
827			-- Conway's Law
828			%
829			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
830			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
831			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
832			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
833			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
834			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
835			untangling this mess right now so).
836
837			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
838			%
839			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
840			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
841			enabled on platforms that support it.
842			[xorg.conf(5)]
843			%
844			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
845			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
846			> would work on code.
847
848			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
849			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
850			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
851			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
852			%
853	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
854			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
855			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
856			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
857			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
858			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
859			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
860			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
861			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
862			%
863			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
864			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
865			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
866			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
867			very beginning.
868			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
869			%
870			systemd creates user session information in
871			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
872			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
873			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
874			allowed one session per user.
875			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
876			%
877	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
878			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
879			> about anything else.
880			>
881			> Why is it like that?
882
883			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
884
885			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
886			%
887			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
888
889			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
890			>>
891			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
892			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
893			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
894			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
895			>
896			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
897
898			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
899			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
900			%
901			(partial) Beaufort Table
902			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
903			Calm 0 0 0
904			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
905			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
906			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
907			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
908			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
909			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
910			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
911			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
912			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
913			%
914			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
915			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
916			%
917			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
918			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
919			%
920			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
921			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
922			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
923			on the cards.
924			%
925			[random comment from amule sources]
926			// trust noone ;-)
927			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
928			// wtf you guys are weird.
929			%
930	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
931			- Kin Hubbard
932			%
933			[random .sig]
934			I'm a muslim.
935
936			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
937			%
938			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
939			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
940			before.
941
942			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
943			%
944			<imho>
945
946			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
947			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
948			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
949			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
950
951			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
952			Java - public static void not fun.
953			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
954			C - usually not fun.
955
956			What about modern scripting languages?
957
958			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
959			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
960			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
961
962			</imho>
963
964			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
965			%
966			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
967			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
968			%
969
970			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
971			*
972			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
973
974			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
975			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
976			%
977			# The user is always right.
978			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
979			[autoconf]
980			%
981			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
982
983			/*
984			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
985			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
986			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
987			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
988			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
989			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
990			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
991			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
992			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
993			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
994			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
995			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
996			*/
997			%
998			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
999			was new to me:
1000
1001			switch(c)
1002			{
1003			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
1004			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1005			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1006			case 'd': base=-10; }
1007			switch(type)
1008			{
1009			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
1010			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
1011			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
1012			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
1013			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
1014			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
1015			default:val=0; break;
1016			}
1017			cp = __numout(val,base);
1018			if(0) {
1019			case 's':
1020			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
1021			}
1022			%
1023			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
1024			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
1025			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
1026			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
1027			extra second and see how far you get :-)
1028			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
1029			%
1030			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
1031			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
1032			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
1033			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
1034			>
1035			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
1036			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
1037
1038			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
1039			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
1040
1041			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
1042			%
1043			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
1044			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
1045			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
1046
1047			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
1048
1049			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
1050			%
1051			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
1052			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
1053			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
1054			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
1055			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
1056			settings)
1057
1058			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
1059			%
1060			How do I deal with memory leaks?
1061
1062			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
1063
1064			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
1065			%
1066			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
1067			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
1068
1069			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
1070			%
1071			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
1072			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
1073			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
1074			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
1075
1076			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
1077			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
1078			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
1079			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
1080			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
1081			rewarded for their creativity.
1082
1083			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
1084			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
1085			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
1086			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
1087			would never have made it in the first place.
1088
1089			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
1090			%
1091			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
1092			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
1093			%
1094			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
1095			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
1096			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
1097			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
1098			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
1099
1100			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
1101			%
1102			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
1103			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
1104			- Mohandas Gandhi
1105			%
1106			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
1107			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
1108			handiwork of the Lord."
1109			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
1110			%
1111			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
1112
1113			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
1114			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
1115			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
1116
1117			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
1118			Scientist A publishes results.
1119
1120			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
1121			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
1122			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
1123
1124			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
1125			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
1126			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
1127			A: ...
1128			B: You fraud!
1129
1130			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
1131
1132			A publishes results.
1133
1134			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
1135			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
1136			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
1137			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
1138			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
1139			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
1140
1141			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
1142			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
1143			%
1144			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
1145			them because they need the money to operate]
1146
1147			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
1148			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
1149			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
1150			site or its bottom line."
1151			%
1152			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
1153			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
1154			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
1155			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
1156			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
1157			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
1158			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
1159			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
1160			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
1161			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
1162			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
1163			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
1164			%
1165			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
1166
1167			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
1168
1169			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
1170			%
1171			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
1172
1173			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
1174			>>>> and the beating of children?
1175			>>>
1176			>>> Subjugation of women...
1177			>>
1178			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
1179			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
1180			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
1181			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
1182			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
1183			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
1184			>> shake partner.
1185			>
1186			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
1187			>
1188			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
1189			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
1190			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
1191			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
1192			>
1193
1194			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
1195			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
1196			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
1197			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
1198			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
1199			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
1200			and your wife.
1201			%
1202			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
1203			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
1204			still kill you. - arestheblue
1205			%
1206			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
1207			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
1208			specifications for GSS-API.
1209
1210			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
1211			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
1212
1213			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
1214			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
1215
1216			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
1217			%
1218			[from the minix 3 users guide]
1219
1220			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
1221			%
1222			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
1223
1224			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
1225			[...]
1226			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
1227			complaintant to guess this is true.
1228			%
1229			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
1230			- Ken Thompson.
1231			%
1232			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
1233
1234			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
1235
1236			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
1237			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
1238			source code excerpt:
1239
1240			int sn()
1241			{
1242			char pwr;
1243
1244			int input1 = 0;
1245			double output1 = 0;
1246
1247			system("clear");
1248			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
1249			cin>>input1;
1250			output1 = (sin(input1));
1251			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
1252			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
1253			cin>>pwr;
1254			if(pwr == 'a')
1255			sq();
1256			if(pwr == 'm')
1257			system("pause");
1258
1259			}
1260			%
1261			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
1262			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
1263
1264			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
1265
1266			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
1267			%
1268			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
1269			app for me" department:
1270
1271			From: Evan LeCompte
1272
1273			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
1274			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
1275			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
1276			%
1277			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
1278			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
1279			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
1280
1281			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
1282			%
1283			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
1284			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
1285			– Steve Jobs[47]
1286
1287			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
1288			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
1289			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
1290			%
1291			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
1292			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
1293			%
1294			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1295			From: Patrick Horgan
1296			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1297			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1298
1299			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1300			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1301			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1302			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1303			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1304			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1305
1306			[...]
1307			%
1308	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1309			— Peter Abelard
1310			%
1311			A man said to the universe:
1312			"Sir I exist!"
1313			"However," replied the universe,
1314			"The fact has not created in me
1315	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1316			- Steven Crane
1317	root	1.431	%
1318			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1319
1320			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1321
1322			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1323
1324			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1325
1326			– Sanskrit Saying
1327			%
1328			[anonymised discussion]
1329			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1330			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1331			%
1332			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1333
1334	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1335	root	1.431
1336			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1337			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1338			appear.
1339			%
1340			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1341			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1342			- Douglas Adams
1343			%
1344			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1345			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1346			%
1347	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1348			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1349	root	1.431	%
1350			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1351			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1352			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1353			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1354			%
1355			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1356			%
1357			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1358			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1359			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1360			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1361			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1362			%
1363			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1364			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1365			or her career.
1366			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1367			%
1368			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1369			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1370			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1371			%
1372			I LOVE YOU
1373			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1374			%
1375			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1376			the air impeller.
1377
1378			Alan Cox
1379			%
1380			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1381			with a minimum computer science background."
1382			%
1383			From: Eric Sosman
1384			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1385			Subject: Re: about graphics
1386
1387			prince wrote:
1388			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1389
1390			#include <stdio.h>
1391			int main(void) {
1392			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1393			return 0;
1394			}
1395			%
1396			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1397			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1398			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1399			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1400			%
1401			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1402
1403	root	1.471	While the 2^128 step search [takes] a very long time indeed,
1404	root	1.431	it still is a constant-time attack.
1405			%
1406			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1407			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1408			%
1409			From: David Damerell
1410
1411			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1412			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1413			>caps to make it different.
1414
1415			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1416			painful but will take less typing.
1417			%
1418			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1419			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1420			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1421
1422			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1423			%
1424			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1425
1426			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1427			> free than the BSD.
1428			>
1429			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1430
1431			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1432			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1433			%
1434			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1435
1436			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1437			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1438			from incompatible pointer type
1439			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1440			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1441			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1442			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1443			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1444			%
1445			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1446			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1447			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1448			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1449			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1450			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1451
1452			[Chandon Seldon]
1453			%
1454			[Wikipedia]
1455			Differences between vi and Emacs
1456
1457			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1458			%
1459			[lost the reference]
1460			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1461			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1462			%
1463			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1464			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1465			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1466			%
1467			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1468
1469			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1470			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1471			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1472			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1473			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1474
1475			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1476			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1477			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1478			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1479			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1480			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1481			piss on your leg.
1482
1483			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1484			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1485			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1486
1487			[then, a day later]
1488
1489			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1490			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1491			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1492			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1493			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1494
1495			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1496			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1497			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1498			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1499			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1500			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1501			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1502			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1503			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1504
1505
1506			-----Original Message-----
1507			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1508			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1509			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1510			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1511
1512
1513
1514			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1515	root	1.432	>
1516	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1517
1518			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1519
1520			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1521			I hope you don't object :)
1522			%
1523			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1524			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1525
1526			You made my day
1527			%
1528			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1529
1530			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1531			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1532			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1533
1534			Linus
1535			%
1536			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1537
1538			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1539
1540			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 ...
1541
1542			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1543
1544			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1545			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1546			when sending emails to other people:
1547			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1548
1549			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1550
1551			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1552			%
1553			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1554			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1555			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1556			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1557			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1558			%
1559			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1560			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1561
1562			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1563			%
1564			[on italy]
1565
1566			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1567
1568			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1569			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1570			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1571			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1572
1573			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1574			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1575			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1576			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1577			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1578			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1579
1580			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1581
1582			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1583			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1584			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1585			from fascism period.
1586
1587			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1588			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1589			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1590			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1591			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1592			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1593			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1594			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1595			SIAE.
1596
1597			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1598			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1599			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1600			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1601			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1602			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1603			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1604			electronic ones
1605
1606			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1607
1608			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1609			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1610			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1611			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1612			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1613			western country.
1614
1615			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1616			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1617			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1618			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1619			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1620			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1621			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1622			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1623			also the governments of "center-left".
1624
1625			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1626
1627			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1628			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1629			without any restriction.
1630
1631			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1632			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1633			world.
1634
1635			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1636			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1637			Thank you for reading.
1638			%
1639			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1640			>
1641			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1642
1643			How very ironic.
1644			%
1645			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1646			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1647			takes religion."
1648
1649			--Steve Weinberg
1650			%
1651			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1652			%
1653			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1654			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1655			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1656
1657			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1658			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1659			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1660			%
1661			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1662			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1663			the right tool for me.
1664			%
1665			[deliantra]
1666			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1667			%
1668			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1669			%
1670			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1671			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1672			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1673			%
1674			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1675
1676			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1677			%
1678			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1679			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1680
1681			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1682			actually tells you it's American.
1683			%
1684			[better do not hire this programmer]
1685			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1686			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1687			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1688
1689			Hi
1690
1691			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1692			someone here can advise me.
1693
1694			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1695			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1696			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1697			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1698			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1699
1700			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1701			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1702			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1703			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1704			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1705			corresponding thing in C?
1706
1707			Thanks!
1708			%
1709			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1710
1711			// See bug 53763.
1712			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1713			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1714			if (shell) {
1715			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1716			%
1717			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1718			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1719
1720			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1721			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1722			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1723			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1724			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1725			%
1726			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1727			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1728			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1729			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1730	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1731	root	1.431
1732			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1733			%
1734			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1735
1736	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1737	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1738
1739			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1740
1741			x / y * z
1742
1743			and
1744
1745			x / y * z
1746
1747			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1748
1749			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1750			design decisions.)
1751			%
1752			endergt:
1753			> snoofle:
1754			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1755			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1756			> > you understand what you are doing...
1757			>
1758	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1759	root	1.431
1760	root	1.432	debug
1761	root	1.431	%
1762			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%.
1763
1764			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1765			%
1766			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1767			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1768			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1769
1770			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1771			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1772			6 Decompilation
1773
1774			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1775			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1776			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1777			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1778			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1779			conditions are met: [...]"
1780			%
1781			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1782			%
1783			Why Linux Sux ?
1784
1785			Easy .
1786			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1787			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1788			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 .
1789			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1790			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1791			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1792			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! ) .
1793			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 .
1794			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1795
1796			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1797			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1798			working ones . Screw linux users .
1799			%
1800			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1801			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1802			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1803			%
1804			> The Dell 30"...
1805
1806			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1807			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1808			%
1809	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1810	root	1.431
1811			> > 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".
1812	root	1.432	>
1813	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!
1814	root	1.432	>
1815	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1816	root	1.432
1817	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1818
1819			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1820			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.
1821			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1822	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.
1823	root	1.431	%
1824			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1825			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1826			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1827			%
1828			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1829
1830			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1831			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1832			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1833
1834			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1835			anderen betriebssystemen.
1836
1837			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1838			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1839
1840			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1841			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1842			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1843			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1844			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1845
1846			Frage?
1847			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1848			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1849			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1850
1851			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1852			%
1853			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1854			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1855			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1856			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1857			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1858			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1859			%
1860			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1861			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1862			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1863			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1864			%
1865			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1866			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1867
1868			God bless the re-inventers
1869
1870			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1871			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1872
1873	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1874	root	1.431
1875			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1876			one.
1877			%
1878			[rfc2665]
1879			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1880			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1881			useful in theory than in practice.
1882			%
1883			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1884	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1885	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1886			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1887			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1888			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1889			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1890			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1891	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1892	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1893			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1894	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1895	root	1.431	15:30
1896			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1897			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1898			%
1899			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1900			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1901			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1902			%
1903			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1904
1905			Strictly for beginners
1906
1907			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1908			[...]
1909			%
1910			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1911			%
1912			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1913			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1914			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1915			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1916			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1917			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1918			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1919			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1920			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1921			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1922			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1923			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1924			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1925			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1926			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1927			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1928			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1929			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1930			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1931			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1932			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1933			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1934			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1935			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1936			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1937			%
1938			[A Gentoo User]
1939			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1940			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1941			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1942			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1943			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1944			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1945			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1946			%
1947			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1948			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1949			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1950			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1951			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1952	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1953			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1954	root	1.431	can do
1955			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1956			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1957			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1958			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1959			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1960			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1961			%
1962			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1963	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1964			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1965			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1966	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1967			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1968	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1969			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1970	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1971			%
1972			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1973			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1974			%
1975			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1976
1977			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1978			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1979			be slow in Windows 2000"
1980
1981			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1982			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1983			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1984			%
1985			[so much for type-safety]
1986			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1987			lst.add(null);
1988			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1989			%
1990			[just for reference]
1991			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1992			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1993			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1994			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1995			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1996			es nicht.
1997
1998			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1999			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
2000			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
2001			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
2002			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
2003			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
2004
2005			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
2006			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
2007			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
2008			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
2009			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
2010			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
2011			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
2012			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
2013			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
2014			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
2015			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
2016			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
2017			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
2018			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
2019
2020			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
2021			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
2022			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
2023			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
2024			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
2025			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
2026			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
2027
2028			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
2029			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
2030			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
2031			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
2032			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
2033			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
2034			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
2035			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
2036			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
2037			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
2038			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
2039			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
2040			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
2041			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
2042			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
2043			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
2044			alternativ' Idioten!
2045
2046			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
2047			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
2048			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
2049			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
2050			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
2051			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
2052			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
2053			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
2054			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
2055			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
2056			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
2057			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
2058			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
2059			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
2060
2061			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
2062			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
2063			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
2064
2065			Ich will R A C H E !
2066
2067			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
2068			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
2069			Dinge zu sagen:
2070
2071			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
2072
2073			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
2074			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
2075			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
2076			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
2077			anfange.
2078
2079			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
2080			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
2081			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
2082			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
2083			dieser verdammten schule!
2084
2085			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
2086			die Welt zu bieten hat!
2087
2088			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
2089
2090			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
2091			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
2092			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
2093			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
2094			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
2095			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
2096			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
2097			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
2098			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
2099			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
2100
2101			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
2102			Einschulung.
2103
2104			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
2105			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
2106			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
2107			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
2108			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
2109			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
2110			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
2111			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
2112			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
2113			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
2114
2115			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
2116			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
2117
2118			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
2119			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
2120			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
2121			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
2122			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
2123			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
2124			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
2125			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
2126
2127			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
2128			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
2129			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
2130			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
2131			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
2132			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
2133			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
2134			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
2135
2136			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
2137			ihr dafür bezahlen!
2138
2139			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
2140			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
2141			Hand genommen.
2142
2143			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
2144			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
2145
2146			Ich bin weg...
2147			%
2148			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
2149			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
2150			%
2151	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
2152			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
2153			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
2154			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
2155	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
2156			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
2157			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
2158			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
2159			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
2160			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
2161			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
2162			%
2163			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
2164			%
2165			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
2166			[The reason I left Perl 6]
2167
2168			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
2169			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
2170			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
2171			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
2172			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
2173			%
2174			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
2175			%
2176			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
2177			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
2178			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
2179			%
2180			[very funny read]
2181			Hack-a-Bike
2182			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
2183			%
2184			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
2185			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
2186			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
2187			still can.
2188
2189			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
2190			%
2191	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
2192			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
2193	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
2194			%
2195			[without words]
2196			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
2197			%
2198			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
2199			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
2200			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
2201			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
2202			actual kid in an actual bath.
2203			%
2204			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
2205			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
2206			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
2207			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
2208			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
2209			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
2210			what happened to you.
2211			%
2212	root	1.472	--
2213	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
2214
2215			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
2216			Q: Why is top posting bad?
2217			%
2218			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
2219	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
2220			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
2221	root	1.431	> important difference.)
2222
2223			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
2224			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
2225			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
2226			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
2227			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
2228
2229			- Ted
2230			%
2231			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
2232			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
2233			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
2234			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
2235			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
2236			me, but we have the truth!"
2237			%
2238			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
2239			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
2240			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
2241			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
2242			%
2243			[nethack extinctionist faq]
2244			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
2245			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
2246			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
2247			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
2248			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
2249			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
2250			genociding every monster.
2251
2252			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
2253			genocide them for good measure!
2254			%%
2255			[nethack instadeath faq]
2256
2257			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
2258
2259			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
2260			%
2261			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
2262			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
2263	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
2264	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
2265			17:58 <Murch> lol
2266			%
2267			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
2268			%
2269			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
2270			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
2271			%
2272			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
2273			%
2274			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
2275
2276			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
2277			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
2278			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
2279			%
2280			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
2281
2282			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
2283			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
2284			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
2285			the Eastern Time Zone.
2286			[...]
2287			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
2288			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
2289			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
2290			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
2291			%
2292			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
2293
2294			_dl_profile_output
2295			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2296			%
2297			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2298			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2299			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2300			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2301			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2302			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2303			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2304
2305			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2306			%
2307			[famous last words]
2308			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2309			%
2310			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2311
2312			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2313
2314			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2315
2316			--
2317			Jay Hennigan
2318			%
2319			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2320			%
2321			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2322			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2323			of homeland security]
2324			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2325			%
2326			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2327	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2328	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2329			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2330			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2331			range of spyware available to us?"
2332
2333			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2334			%
2335			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2336			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2337			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2338			%
2339	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2340	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2341			%
2342			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2343			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2344			%
2345			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2346			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2347			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2348			shooter.
2349
2350			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2351			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2352			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2353			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2354			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2355			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2356
2357			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2358			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2359			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2360			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2361			way.
2362
2363			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2364			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2365			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2366
2367			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2368			%
2369			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2370			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2371			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2372			> above comment about Hitler).
2373
2374			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2375			mention Hitler loses.
2376			%
2377			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2378			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2379			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2380			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2381			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2382			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2383			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2384			including <windows.h>.
2385			[...]
2386			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2387			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2388			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2389			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2390			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2391			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2392			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2393			environments.
2394			%
2395			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2396			%
2397			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2398			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2399			%
2400			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2401			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2402			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2403			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2404			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2405			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2406			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2407			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2408			companies want to own your computer.
2409
2410			Some examples:
2411
2412			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2413			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2414			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2415			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2416			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2417			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2418			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2419			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2420			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2421	root	1.432
2422	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2423			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2424			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2425			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2426			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2427
2428			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2429			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2430			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2431			from Microsoft? You can't.
2432
2433			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2434			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2435			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2436			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2437			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2438			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2439			adversely affect its business partners.
2440
2441			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2442			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2443			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2444			about your behavior.
2445
2446			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2447			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2448			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2449			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2450			presumed infractions.
2451
2452			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2453			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2454			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2455
2456			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2457			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2458			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2459			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2460			user's device against him.
2461			[...]
2462			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2463			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2464			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2465			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2466			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2467			back-room marketing deals.
2468			%
2469			[John Carmack on Java]
2470			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2471			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2472			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2473			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2474			performance.
2475			%
2476			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2477
2478			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2479			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2480			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2481			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2482			%
2483			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2484			%
2485			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2486			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2487			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2488			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2489			%
2490			http://funroll-loops.org/
2491			%
2492			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2493			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2494			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2495			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2496			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2497			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2498			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2499			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2500			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2501			Fahrenheit documentation.
2502			%
2503			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2504			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2505			sure its much slower than CVS]
2506			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2507			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2508			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2509	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2510	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2511			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2512	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2513	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2514			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2515	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2516	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2517			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2518			%
2519	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2520
2521			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2522			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2523	root	1.431	%
2524	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2525
2526			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2527			> systems ?
2528
2529			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2530			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2531
2532			Jesper
2533			%
2534	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2535
2536			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2537			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2538
2539	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2540	root	1.429	%
2541	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2542			%
2543	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2544
2545			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2546			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2547			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2548			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2549			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2550			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2551			but that's the truth.
2552			%
2553	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2554
2555			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2556
2557	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2558			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2559			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2560			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2561	root	1.424
2562			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2563	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2564			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2565	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2566
2567			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2568			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2569	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2570	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2571			in Richtung Boden.
2572
2573			[...]
2574
2575	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2576	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2577	root	1.424
2578			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2579	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2580	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2581
2582			[...]
2583
2584			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2585	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2586	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2587	root	1.424
2588			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2589	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2590			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2591			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2592	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2593			sofort.
2594			%
2595	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2596			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2597			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2598			software from Microsoft.)
2599	root	1.424	%
2600	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2601	root	1.424	%
2602	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2603
2604			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2605			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2606			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2607			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2608	root	1.424	%
2609	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2610	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2611	root	1.424	%
2612	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2613			From: Rodrigo Severo
2614			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2615			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2616
2617			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2618
2619			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2620			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2621			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2622
2623			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2624			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2625			brazilian ;)
2626			Rodrigo Severo
2627	root	1.424	%
2628	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2629	root	1.417
2630			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2631	root	1.424	%
2632	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2633
2634			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2635
2636			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2637
2638			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2639			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2640
2641			sigh
2642	root	1.424	%
2643	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2644			By Bertrand Russell
2645
2646			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2647			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2648			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2649			might be set forth as follows:
2650
2651			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2652
2653			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2654			evidence is sure to come to light.
2655
2656			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2657
2658			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2659			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2660			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2661
2662			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2663			contrary authorities to be found.
2664
2665			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2666			do the opinions will suppress you.
2667
2668			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2669			was once eccentric.
2670
2671			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2672			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2673			agreement than the latter.
2674
2675			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2676			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2677
2678			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2679			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2680
2681			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2682			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2683	root	1.424	%
2684	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2685	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2686			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2687			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2688
2689			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2690			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2691			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2692			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2693			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2694			United States."
2695	root	1.413	---
2696			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2697			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2698			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2699	root	1.414	---
2700			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2701			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2702			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2703			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2704			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2705
2706			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2707			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2708	root	1.424	%
2709	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2710			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2711	root	1.424	%
2712	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2713
2714			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2715			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2716
2717			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2718			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2719
2720			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2721
2722			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2723			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2724	root	1.424	%
2725	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2726			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2727	root	1.424	%
2728	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2729			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2730			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2731			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2732			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2733			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2734	root	1.424	%
2735	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2736
2737			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2738			they care about it?"
2739			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2740	root	1.407
2741			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2742	root	1.424	%
2743	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2744			-- Gregory Chaitin
2745	root	1.424	%
2746	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2747	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2748			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2749			[...]
2750	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2751			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2752	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2753	root	1.424	%
2754	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2755			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2756			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2757			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2758			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2759			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2760	root	1.424	%
2761	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2762
2763			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2764	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2765			return 0;
2766	root	1.424	%
2767	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2768	root	1.401
2769			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2770			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2771			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2772			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2773			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2774			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2775			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2776			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2777			> transparent.
2778
2779			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2780			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2781			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2782			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2783	root	1.424	%
2784	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2785			aber falsche Lösungen.
2786	root	1.424	%
2787	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2788			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2789			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2790			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2791	root	1.424	%
2792	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2793			>
2794			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2795			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2796			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2797			> than useful to the user.
2798
2799			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2800
2801			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2802			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2803			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2804			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2805
2806			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2807
2808			Linus
2809	root	1.424	%
2810	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2811			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2812			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2813			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2814	root	1.424	%
2815	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2816			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2817
2818	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2819	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2820			--
2821			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2822
2823			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2824	root	1.424	%
2825	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2826			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2827
2828			Person: What do you do?
2829			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2830			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2831
2832			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2833			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2834			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2835	root	1.394
2836			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2837			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2838	root	1.424	%
2839	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2840			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2841			illegal downloaders."
2842
2843			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2844
2845			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2846			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2847			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2848			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2849			have to emerge."
2850
2851			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2852	root	1.424	%
2853	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2854	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2855
2856			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2857			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2858
2859			Bye, Andy
2860	root	1.424	%
2861	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2862	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2863	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2864	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2865	root	1.390
2866			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2867			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2868			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2869			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2870			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2871			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2872			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2873			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2874			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2875			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2876			alle Benutzer.
2877			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2878			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2879			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2880			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2881			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2882			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2883			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2884			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2885			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2886			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2887			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2888	root	1.424	%
2889	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2890
2891			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2892			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2893			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2894			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2895			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2896			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2897			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2898			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2899			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2900			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2901			unfinished operations, etc.
2902			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2903
2904			Valid options:
2905			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2906			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2907
2908			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2909	root	1.424	%
2910	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2911			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2912			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2913			to provide.
2914			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2915	root	1.424	%
2916	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2917
2918			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2919			alarm people more.
2920
2921			-Nate
2922
2923			[...]
2924
2925			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2926			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2927			image of the language that is created here.
2928
2929			Juerd
2930
2931			[...]
2932
2933			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2934			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2935			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2936
2937	root	1.432	--
2938	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2939	root	1.387	%
2940	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2941	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2942	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2943			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2944	root	1.387	%
2945	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2946			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2947	root	1.387	%
2948	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2949			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2950	root	1.387	%
2951	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2952			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2953			[...]
2954			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2955			"Windows is broken."
2956	root	1.387	%
2957	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2958			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2959			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2960	root	1.387	%
2961	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2962			on being able to kill their children legally]
2963			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2964	root	1.387	%
2965	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2966			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2967			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2968	root	1.387	%
2969	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2970			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2971			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2972			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2973			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2974			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2975	root	1.378	--
2976			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2977			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2978			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2979			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2980			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2981			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2982			wasteful government spending."
2983	root	1.387	%
2984	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2985			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2986	root	1.387	%
2987	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2988			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2989	root	1.387	%
2990	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2991			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2992	root	1.387	%
2993	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2994			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2995	root	1.387	%
2996	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2997	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2998	root	1.387	%
2999	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
3000			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
3001	root	1.387	%
3002	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
3003			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
3004	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
3005	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
3006			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
3007	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
3008	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
3009			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
3010	root	1.387	%
3011	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
3012			http://www.counterpunch.org/
3013	root	1.387	%
3014	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
3015			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
3016			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
3017			their weapons over our heads."
3018			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
3019	root	1.387	%
3020	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
3021			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
3022	root	1.387	%
3023	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
3024			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
3025			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
3026			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
3027			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
3028	root	1.387	%
3029	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
3030	root	1.387	%
3031	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
3032			several requests for clarification.
3033
3034			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
3035			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
3036			unter TCG definitions.
3037	root	1.387	%
3038	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
3039			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
3040			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
3041			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
3042	root	1.387	%
3043	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
3044			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
3045			get people on board.
3046			%
3047	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
3048			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
3049			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
3050			DRM.
3051
3052			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
3053			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
3054	root	1.387	%
3055	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
3056			switch ($decade) {
3057			case "the 50's":
3058			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
3059			break;
3060			case "the 60's":
3061			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
3062			break;
3063			case "the 70's":
3064			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
3065			break;
3066			case "the 80's":
3067			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
3068			break;
3069			case "the 90's":
3070			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
3071			break;
3072			case "the 00's":
3073			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
3074			break;
3075			}
3076	root	1.387	%
3077	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
3078
3079			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
3080			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
3081			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
3082			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
3083
3084			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
3085			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
3086			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
3087
3088			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
3089			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
3090			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
3091			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
3092			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
3093			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
3094			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
3095			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
3096			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
3097			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
3098	root	1.387	%
3099	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
3100			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
3101			married or unmarried."
3102
3103			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
3104			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
3105			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
3106			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
3107			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
3108	root	1.387	%
3109	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
3110
3111			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
3112			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
3113			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
3114			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
3115			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
3116			conditioning.
3117
3118			[And this is religion at its best:]
3119			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
3120			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
3121			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
3122	root	1.387	%
3123	root	1.361	[Racism]
3124			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
3125	root	1.387	%
3126	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
3127			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
3128	root	1.387	%
3129	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
3130			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
3131
3132			I apologise for this.
3133
3134			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
3135			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
3136	root	1.387	%
3137	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
3138			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
3139			el says: ich kenn da wen
3140			el says: bei dem wars so
3141			[...]
3142			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
3143			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
3144			el says: gehirntumor auch
3145			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
3146	root	1.387	%
3147	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
3148	root	1.387	%
3149	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
3150			no sense in the kernel]
3151			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
3152
3153			[...]
3154
3155			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
3156			models.
3157
3158			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
3159			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
3160			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
3161	root	1.387	%
3162	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
3163			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
3164			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
3165			--
3166			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
3167	root	1.355	--
3168			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
3169			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
3170			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
3171			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
3172	root	1.387	%
3173	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
3174			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
3175			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
3176			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
3177			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
3178			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
3179			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
3180			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
3181	root	1.387	%
3182	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
3183			which you currently do not posess]
3184			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
3185	root	1.387	%
3186	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
3187			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
3188	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
3189	root	1.387	%
3190	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
3191	root	1.387	%
3192	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
3193			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
3194	root	1.387	%
3195	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
3196			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
3197			paragraphs.
3198	root	1.387	%
3199	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
3200			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
3201			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
3202	root	1.387	%
3203	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
3204			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
3205
3206			Most catholics aren't American.
3207	root	1.387	%
3208	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
3209
3210			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
3211			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
3212			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
3213			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
3214			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
3215
3216			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
3217			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
3218	root	1.387	%
3219	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
3220			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
3221			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
3222			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
3223			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
3224			criminals."
3225	root	1.387	%
3226	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
3227			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
3228	root	1.387	%
3229	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
3230			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
3231	root	1.387	%
3232	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
3233			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
3234	root	1.387	%
3235	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
3236			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
3237			card (They went up in flames).
3238	root	1.387	%
3239	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
3240			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
3241			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
3242			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
3243	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
3244	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
3245	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
3246	root	1.387	%
3247	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
3248			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
3249			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
3250
3251			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
3252
3253			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
3254	root	1.387	%
3255	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
3256			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
3257			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
3258			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
3259			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
3260			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
3261			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
3262			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
3263			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
3264			--
3265			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
3266			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
3267			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
3268			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
3269			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
3270			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
3271	root	1.387	%
3272	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
3273			The Obfuscated V contest
3274	root	1.387	%
3275	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
3276			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
3277			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
3278			cigarette lighters."
3279			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
3280	root	1.387	%
3281	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
3282			Does it run under Windows ?
3283			- Who cares?
3284	root	1.387	%
3285	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
3286	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
3287	root	1.387	%
3288	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
3289			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
3290			[...]
3291			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
3292			[...]
3293			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
3294			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3295			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3296	root	1.387	%
3297	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3298	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3299			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3300			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3301	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3302	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3303	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3304	root	1.330	> mehr!
3305			> richy.
3306
3307			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3308	root	1.387	%
3309	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3310	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3311			> zugetragen hat?
3312
3313			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3314			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3315	root	1.388	[später]
3316			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3317	root	1.329
3318			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3319			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3320			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3321			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3322			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3323
3324			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3325
3326			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3327			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3328			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3329	root	1.387	%
3330	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3331	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3332			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3333	root	1.387	%
3334	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3335			/* give the hook another try */
3336			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3337			break;
3338	root	1.387	%
3339	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3340	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3341	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3342			#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))
3343	root	1.387	%
3344	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3345	root	1.387	%
3346	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3347	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3348	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3349	root	1.432	>
3350			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3351			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3352	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3353	root	1.432	>
3354			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3355			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3356	root	1.324	> as TO).
3357	root	1.432	>
3358	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3359
3360			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3361			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3362			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3363			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3364			being discourteous to.
3365
3366			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3367			--
3368			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3369	root	1.387	%
3370	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3371	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3372	root	1.387	%
3373	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3374			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3375			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3376			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3377			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3378	root	1.387	%
3379	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3380			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3381			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3382			you don't have any'."
3383	root	1.323
3384			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3385			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3386			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3387			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3388	root	1.387	%
3389	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3390			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3391			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3392			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3393	root	1.387	%
3394	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3395			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3396			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3397			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3398			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3399			reason will not win many fans.
3400
3401			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3402			documents in the algorithm section]
3403	root	1.387	%
3404	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3405			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3406			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3407			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3408			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3409
3410			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3411	root	1.387	%
3412	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3413			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3414			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3415	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3416	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3417			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3418	root	1.387	%
3419	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3420	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3421	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3422	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3423			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3424	root	1.387	%
3425	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3426			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3427			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3428			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3429			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3430			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3431	root	1.387	%
3432	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3433			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3434	root	1.387	%
3435	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3436	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3437	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3438			* at their price list.
3439	root	1.387	%
3440	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3441			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3442			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3443			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3444			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3445			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3446			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3447	root	1.387	%
3448	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3449			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3450	root	1.387	%
3451	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3452			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3453			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3454			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3455	root	1.387	%
3456	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3457	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3458	root	1.387	%
3459	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3460			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3461	root	1.387	%
3462	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3463	root	1.387	%
3464	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3465			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3466			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3467			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3468			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3469			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3470			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3471			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3472	root	1.387	%
3473	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3474			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3475	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3476	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3477	root	1.387	%
3478	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3479	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3480	root	1.387	%
3481	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3482	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3483			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3484			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3485	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3486
3487			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3488
3489			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3490			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3491	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3492	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3493
3494			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3495
3496			[usw.]
3497
3498			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3499	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3500	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3501
3502			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3503			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3504			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3505			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3506			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3507	root	1.387	%
3508	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3509	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3510			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3511	root	1.387	%
3512	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3513			Which fanboy are you?
3514
3515			1. Windows
3516
3517			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3518			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3519			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3520			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3521			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3522			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3523			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3524			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3525			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3526
3527			2. Apple
3528
3529			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3530			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3531			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3532			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3533			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3534			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3535			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3536			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3537
3538			3. Linspire
3539
3540			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3541			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3542			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3543			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3544			installed Linspire on your machine.
3545
3546			4. Umbongo
3547
3548			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3549			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3550			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3551			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3552			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3553			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3554			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3555			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3556			themselves.
3557
3558			5. Gentoy
3559
3560			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3561			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3562			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3563			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3564			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3565			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3566			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3567			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3568
3569			6. Linux From Scratch
3570
3571			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3572			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3573			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3574			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3575			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3576			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3577			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3578	root	1.387	%
3579	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3580			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3581	root	1.387	%
3582	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3583
3584			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3585			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3586
3587			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3588	root	1.387	%
3589	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3590
3591			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3592	root	1.432	>
3593	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3594	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3595	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3596			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3597			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3598	root	1.432	>
3599			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3600	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3601	root	1.432	>
3602	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3603			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3604	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3605	root	1.387	%
3606	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3607	root	1.387	%
3608	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3609	root	1.387	%
3610	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3611	root	1.387	%
3612	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3613			show "Correspondent"]
3614	root	1.288
3615			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3616			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3617
3618			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3619			%
3620	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3621			cock sucking, blowjob
3622			=> fellatio, fellation
3623			=> oral sex, head
3624			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3625			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3626			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3627			=> organic process, biological process
3628			=> process
3629			=> phenomenon
3630	root	1.387	%
3631	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3632			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3633	root	1.387	%
3634	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3635			[slightly edited]
3636			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3637			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3638			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3639			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3640
3641			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3642			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3643			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3644
3645			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3646			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3647	root	1.387	%
3648	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3649			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3650	root	1.387	%
3651	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3652	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3653	root	1.387	%
3654	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3655	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3656			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3657	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3658	root	1.387	%
3659	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3660			- oesi
3661	root	1.387	%
3662	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3663			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3664	root	1.387	%
3665	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3666	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3667	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3668			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3669
3670			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3671			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3672			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3673			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3674			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3675			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3676			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3677			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3678			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3679			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3680			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3681			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3682			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3683			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3684			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3685			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3686			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3687			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3688			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3689			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3690			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3691			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3692			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3693			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3694
3695			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3696			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3697			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3698			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3699			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3700
3701			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3702			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3703			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3704			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3705			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3706			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3707			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3708			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3709			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3710			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3711			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3712
3713			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3714			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3715			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3716			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3717			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3718			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3719			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3720			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3721			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3722			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3723			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3724			sovereign nation.
3725
3726			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3727			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3728			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3729			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3730			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3731			CSPAN, don't post here.
3732
3733			-scott
3734	root	1.387	%
3735	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3736			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3737			capacity to feel pain.
3738
3739			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3740			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3741	root	1.387	%
3742	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3743			From: Sven Neumann
3744
3745			Hi,
3746
3747	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3748	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3749	root	1.273
3750			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3751			that
3752
3753			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3754
3755			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3756	root	1.387	%
3757	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3758	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3759			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3760			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3761	root	1.387	%
3762	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3763			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3764			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3765			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3766			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3767			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3768	root	1.387	%
3769	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3770	root	1.270	interesting read]
3771			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3772	root	1.387	%
3773	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3774			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3775			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3776	root	1.387	%
3777	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3778			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3779			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3780			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3781			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3782			locks can open the gate.
3783
3784			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3785			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3786			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3787	root	1.387	%
3788	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3789			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3790	root	1.387	%
3791	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3792
3793			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3794
3795			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3796			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3797			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3798			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3799			explanation of this.
3800
3801			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3802
3803			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3804			which explains why the hammer falls.
3805
3806			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3807			how a population's genome can change over time.
3808
3809	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3810			mathematical relationship between two values.
3811	root	1.265
3812			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3813			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3814
3815			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3816			acceleration.
3817
3818			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3819			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3820			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3821			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3822			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3823			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3824			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3825			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3826			false.
3827
3828			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3829	root	1.387	%
3830	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3831	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3832
3833			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3834			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3835	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3836			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3837			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3838	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3839
3840	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3841			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3842			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3843			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3844			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3845			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3846			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3847	root	1.264
3848			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3849	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3850			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3851			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3852			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3853	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3854	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3855	root	1.264	sportlich.
3856
3857	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3858			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3859			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3860			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3861			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3862	root	1.264
3863	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3864	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3865	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3866			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3867	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3868
3869			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3870			Forscher.
3871	root	1.387	%
3872	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3873			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3874			EULA-style license]
3875	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3876	root	1.387	%
3877	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3878			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3879			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3880			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3881			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3882			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3883			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3884	root	1.387	%
3885	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3886	root	1.387	%
3887	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3888			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3889			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3890			00:24 <schmorp> re
3891	root	1.387	%
3892	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3893	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3894			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3895	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3896			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3897	root	1.387	%
3898	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3899			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3900			proponents of such theories.]
3901			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3902			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3903			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3904			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3905			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3906			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3907			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3908			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3909			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3910			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3911			(below, right)."
3912	root	1.387	%
3913	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3914			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3915			[useful info...]
3916			http://www.snopes.com/
3917	root	1.387	%
3918	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3919			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3920	root	1.387	%
3921	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3922			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3923	root	1.387	%
3924	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3925	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3926			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3927	root	1.387	%
3928	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3929			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3930			#!/usr/bin/sh
3931			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3932			# All Rights Reserved
3933
3934			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3935			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3936			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3937
3938			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3939	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3940	root	1.387	%
3941	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3942			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3943			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3944	root	1.387	%
3945	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3946			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3947			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3948			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3949			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3950			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3951			#
3952			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3953	root	1.387	%
3954	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3955	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3956			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3957			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3958	root	1.387	%
3959	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3960	root	1.387	%
3961	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3962	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3963			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3964	root	1.387	%
3965	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3966			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3967			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3968	root	1.387	%
3969	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3970	root	1.387	%
3971	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3972			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3973			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3974			that you have a problem.)
3975			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3976	root	1.387	%
3977	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3978			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3979	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3980	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3981
3982			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3983			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3984	root	1.387	%
3985	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3986			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3987
3988			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3989			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3990			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3991			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3992			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3993			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3994			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3995			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3996			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3997			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3998			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3999			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
4000			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
4001			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
4002
4003			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
4004			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
4005			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
4006			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
4007			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
4008			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
4009			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
4010	root	1.387	%
4011	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
4012	root	1.239
4013			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
4014			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
4015			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
4016	root	1.387	%
4017	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
4018			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
4019			knows this, and it's true for software too.
4020	root	1.387	%
4021	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
4022
4023			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
4024			;)
4025	root	1.387	%
4026	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
4027			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
4028			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
4029			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
4030
4031			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
4032
4033	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
4034			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
4035	root	1.387	%
4036	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
4037			using so many abbreviations...]
4038
4039			Hi Volker -
4040
4041			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
4042	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
4043			spät ...
4044	root	1.234
4045			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
4046
4047			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
4048
4049	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
4050			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
4051	root	1.234
4052	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
4053	root	1.234
4054			tom
4055	root	1.247
4056	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
4057	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
4058	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
4059	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
4060	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
4061	root	1.387	%
4062	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
4063			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
4064			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
4065
4066			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
4067	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
4068			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
4069	root	1.233	> someone else?
4070
4071			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
4072			===================================================================
4073			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
4074			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
4075			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
4076			S: 79098 Freiburg
4077			S: Germany
4078
4079			+N: Hans Reiser
4080			+E: reiser@namesys.com
4081			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
4082			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
4083			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
4084			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
4085			+S: USA
4086			+
4087			N: Joerg Reuter
4088			E: jreuter@yaina.de
4089			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
4090	root	1.387	%
4091	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
4092			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
4093	root	1.387	%
4094	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
4095			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
4096	root	1.387	%
4097	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
4098			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
4099	root	1.387	%
4100	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
4101			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
4102			[...]
4103			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
4104			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
4105			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
4106			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
4107			[...]
4108			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
4109			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
4110			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
4111			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
4112	root	1.387	%
4113	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
4114			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
4115			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
4116			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
4117			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
4118			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
4119	root	1.387	%
4120	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
4121	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
4122			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
4123			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
4124			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
4125			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
4126			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
4127			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
4128			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
4129	root	1.387	%
4130	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
4131			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
4132	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
4133	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
4134	root	1.387	%
4135	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
4136			[yes, the whole thing]
4137	root	1.387	%
4138	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
4139	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
4140			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
4141			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
4142	root	1.221	>
4143			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
4144
4145			We'll use a larger wall.
4146	root	1.387	%
4147	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
4148			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
4149			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
4150			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
4151
4152			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
4153			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
4154
4155			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
4156			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
4157
4158			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
4159			cost.
4160			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
4161	root	1.387	%
4162	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
4163
4164	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
4165	root	1.219
4166			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
4167
4168	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
4169	root	1.387	%
4170	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
4171			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
4172	root	1.387	%
4173	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
4174			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
4175	root	1.387	%
4176	root	1.215	[translated]
4177			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
4178			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
4179			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
4180			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
4181			23:07 <schmorp> ...
4182			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
4183			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
4184			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
4185	root	1.387	%
4186	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
4187			-- Lord Balfour
4188	root	1.387	%
4189	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
4190	root	1.387	%
4191	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
4192			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
4193			him to forgive me.
4194	root	1.387	%
4195	root	1.211	[slashdot]
4196			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
4197
4198			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
4199	root	1.387	%
4200	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
4201			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
4202			get bored during the sex scenes.
4203	root	1.387	%
4204	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
4205			strangler is to the woman home alone.
4206			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
4207	root	1.387	%
4208	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
4209			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
4210			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
4211			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
4212			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
4213			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
4214	root	1.387	%
4215	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
4216			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
4217			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
4218			HP-UX customer. [...]
4219	root	1.387	%
4220	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
4221			>>
4222			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
4223			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
4224			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
4225			>>spelled it in UC.
4226	root	1.247	>
4227			>
4228	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
4229
4230			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
4231	root	1.387	%
4232	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
4233			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
4234
4235			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
4236			usage.
4237
4238			Richard
4239	root	1.387	%
4240	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
4241			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
4242			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
4243			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
4244			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
4245			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
4246	root	1.387	%
4247	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
4248			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
4249	root	1.387	%
4250	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
4251	root	1.387	%
4252	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
4253			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
4254			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
4255			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
4256			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
4257			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
4258			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
4259			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
4260			existence means and implies.
4261
4262			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
4263	root	1.387	%
4264	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
4265			>
4266			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
4267			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
4268			>
4269			> You're WRONG!
4270
4271	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
4272			and §7.20.3.1).
4273	root	1.387	%
4274	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
4275			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
4276			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
4277	root	1.387	%
4278	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
4279			A. It should be obvious.
4280			Q. How is it hard?
4281			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
4282			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
4283	root	1.387	%
4284	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
4285			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
4286
4287			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
4288			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
4289
4290			- works ok on linux
4291			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
4292
4293			Any clues why?
4294			I am new to the non windows world.
4295
4296			Thanks
4297	root	1.387	%
4298	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4299			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4300			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4301			> this ?
4302
4303			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4304			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4305	root	1.387	%
4306	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4307			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4308			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4309
4310			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4311	root	1.247	>
4312			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4313			>
4314	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4315	root	1.387	%
4316	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4317			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4318
4319			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4320	root	1.387	%
4321	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4322			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4323	root	1.387	%
4324	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4325	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4326	root	1.194
4327			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4328			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4329	root	1.387	%
4330	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4331			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4332	root	1.387	%
4333	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4334	root	1.387	%
4335	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4336			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4337	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4338	root	1.387	%
4339	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4340			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4341			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4342	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4343
4344	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4345	root	1.190
4346	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4347	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4348			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4349			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4350	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4351			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4352			schützen können.
4353	root	1.387	%
4354	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4355			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4356	root	1.387	%
4357	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4358			[...]
4359	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4360	root	1.188	[...]
4361	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4362			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4363			never get your message.
4364	root	1.387	%
4365	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4366			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4367			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4368	root	1.387	%
4369	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4370			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4371			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4372	root	1.387	%
4373	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4374			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4375			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4376			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4377			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4378			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4379			01:15 <schmorp> g
4380			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4381	root	1.387	%
4382	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4383			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4384			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4385			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4386			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4387			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4388			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4389			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4390	root	1.387	%
4391	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4392			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4393			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4394	root	1.387	%
4395	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4396			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4397			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4398			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4399			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4400			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4401			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4402	root	1.387	%
4403	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4404			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4405	root	1.387	%
4406	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4407			GNOME TERMINAL
4408			[...]
4409			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4410			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4411			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4412			[.. later]
4413			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4414			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4415			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4416	root	1.387	%
4417	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4418			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4419			/*
4420	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4421	root	1.179	*/
4422			void blip()
4423	root	1.247	{
4424	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4425			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4426			fflush(stderr);
4427	root	1.247	}
4428	root	1.387	%
4429	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4430			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4431
4432			Why not 666? :-).
4433	root	1.387	%
4434	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4435			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4436			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4437			users are clueless.
4438	root	1.387	%
4439	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4440			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4441	root	1.387	%
4442	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4443			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4444	root	1.387	%
4445	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4446			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4447	root	1.387	%
4448	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4449			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4450			and", and finally, ampersand.
4451	root	1.387	%
4452	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4453			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4454			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4455			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4456			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4457	root	1.387	%
4458	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4459			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4460			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4461			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4462			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4463	root	1.387	%
4464	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4465			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4466			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4467			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4468			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4469			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4470			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4471	root	1.387	%
4472	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4473	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4474			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4475	root	1.387	%
4476	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4477			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4478			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4479	root	1.387	%
4480	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4481	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4482	root	1.387	%
4483	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4484	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4485			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4486			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4487	root	1.167	%
4488	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4489	root	1.387	%
4490	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4491			<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
4492	root	1.387	%
4493	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4494			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4495	root	1.164	einfach :)
4496			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4497	root	1.387	%
4498	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4499			/*
4500			* Function compares two strings.
4501	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4502	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4503			*/
4504			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4505			{
4506			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4507			[...]
4508	root	1.387	%
4509	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4510	root	1.387	%
4511	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4512	root	1.387	%
4513	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4514			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4515			Get_Colours ();
4516	root	1.387	%
4517	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4518	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4519			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4520			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4521			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4522			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4523			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4524			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4525			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4526	root	1.161	[...]
4527			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4528			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4529			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4530			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4531			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4532	root	1.387	%
4533	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4534			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4535	root	1.387	%
4536	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4537			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4538	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4539	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4540			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4541			#endif
4542	root	1.387	%
4543	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4544			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4545			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4546	root	1.387	%
4547	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4548			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4549			>
4550			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4551
4552			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4553			--
4554			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4555	root	1.387	%
4556	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4557			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4558			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4559			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4560			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4561			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4562			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4563	root	1.387	%
4564	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4565			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4566	root	1.387	%
4567	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4568	root	1.387	%
4569	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4570			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4571			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4572			-- Robert Fisk
4573	root	1.387	%
4574	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4575			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4576	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4577			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4578	root	1.387	%
4579	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4580			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4581			high-violence culture"
4582			[...]
4583			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4584			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4585			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4586			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4587			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4588			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4589			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4590			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4591
4592			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4593			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4594	root	1.387	%
4595	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4596			Subject: Re: [...]
4597
4598			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4599
4600			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4601			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4602			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4603			> saved it :)
4604
4605			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4606			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4607			[...]
4608	root	1.387	%
4609	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4610			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4611			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4612			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4613			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4614
4615			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4616			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4617			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4618			[...]
4619	root	1.387	%
4620	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4621	root	1.387	%
4622	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4623	root	1.387	%
4624	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4625	root	1.387	%
4626	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4627			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4628			claim to have decades of java experience]
4629			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4630			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4631			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4632			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4633	root	1.387	%
4634	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4635	root	1.387	%
4636	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4637	root	1.387	%
4638	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4639	root	1.387	%
4640	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4641			[mail not to be delivered]
4642			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4643	root	1.247	>
4644	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4645
4646			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4647			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4648	root	1.387	%
4649	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4650
4651			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4652			>
4653			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4654			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4655			> >
4656			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4657			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4658			> > language which does support this?
4659			>
4660
4661			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4662
4663			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4664			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4665			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4666			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4667			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4668			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4669	root	1.387	%
4670	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4671			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4672			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4673	root	1.387	%
4674	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4675			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4676			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4677
4678			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4679			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4680			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4681			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4682			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4683
4684			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4685			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4686			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4687			and thwart them that way.
4688	root	1.387	%
4689	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4690			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4691			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4692			unfortunate decision.
4693	root	1.387	%
4694	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4695	root	1.146	fest ;)
4696	root	1.387	%
4697	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4698
4699			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4700	root	1.387	%
4701	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4702	root	1.387	%
4703	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4704			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4705	root	1.387	%
4706	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4707
4708			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4709			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4710			local object as a "he":
4711
4712			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4713			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4714			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4715			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4716			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4717			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4718			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4719			EX-PARROT!"
4720
4721			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4722	root	1.387	%
4723	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4724			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4725	root	1.387	%
4726	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4727			The police will shoot you.
4728
4729			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4730			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4731
4732	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4733	root	1.387	%
4734	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4735			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4736			reply.
4737
4738			pls. cc my email address
4739
4740			tia
4741			pd
4742
4743
4744	root	1.247	--
4745	root	1.141	^X^C
4746			q
4747			quit
4748			:q
4749			^C
4750			end
4751			x
4752			exit
4753			ZZ
4754			^D
4755			?
4756			help
4757			shit
4758			.
4759	root	1.387	%
4760	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4761	root	1.387	%
4762	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4763			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4764			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4765			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4766	root	1.387	%
4767	root	1.140	[I love it]
4768			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4769			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4770	root	1.387	%
4771	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4772			- Douglas Adams
4773	root	1.387	%
4774	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4775			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4776			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4777			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4778
4779	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4780			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4781			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4782			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4783			their software properly.
4784	root	1.138
4785			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4786			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4787			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4788			told the publication.
4789
4790	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4791			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4792			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4793			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4794			who want visibility and glory.
4795	root	1.387	%
4796	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4797
4798			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4799
4800			x Try not using it.
4801	root	1.387	%
4802	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4803			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4804			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4805			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4806			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4807			had given.
4808
4809			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4810			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4811			person as well."
4812	root	1.387	%
4813	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4814	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4815			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4816	root	1.387	%
4817	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4818	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4819	root	1.134
4820			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4821	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4822	root	1.135	[...]
4823	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4824	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4825	root	1.135	[...]
4826			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4827			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4828	root	1.387	%
4829	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4830	root	1.387	%
4831	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4832			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4833			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4834			-- Ulrich Drepper
4835	root	1.387	%
4836	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4837			-- Ulrich Drepper
4838	root	1.387	%
4839	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4840			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4841	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4842	root	1.387	%
4843	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4844			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4845			-- Ulrich Drepper
4846	root	1.387	%
4847	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4848			-- Ulrich Drepper
4849	root	1.387	%
4850	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4851	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4852			zuverlässiger
4853	root	1.387	%
4854	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4855			/*
4856			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4857			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4858			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4859			*/
4860	root	1.387	%
4861	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4862			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4863			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4864			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4865			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4866	root	1.387	%
4867	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4868			Pirating Movies
4869
4870			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4871			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4872			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4873	root	1.387	%
4874	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4875			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4876	root	1.387	%
4877	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4878			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4879	root	1.387	%
4880	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4881			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4882			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4883			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4884			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4885	root	1.387	%
4886	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4887			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4888			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4889			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4890			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4891
4892			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4893			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4894
4895			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4896			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4897			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4898			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4899			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4900			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4901			the first place!
4902	root	1.387	%
4903	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4904			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4905			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4906	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4907	root	1.387	%
4908	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4909			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4910	root	1.387	%
4911	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4912			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4913	root	1.387	%
4914	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4915			platform."
4916			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4917	root	1.387	%
4918	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4919			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4920			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4921			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4922			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4923	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4924	root	1.387	%
4925	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4926			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4927	root	1.387	%
4928	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4929			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4930			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4931			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4932			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4933			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4934			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4935			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4936			daily.
4937	root	1.387	%
4938	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4939	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4940			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4941	root	1.387	%
4942	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4943			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4944			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4945			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4946			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4947			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4948			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4949	root	1.387	%
4950	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4951	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4952	root	1.387	%
4953	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4954			[...so it must be good]
4955			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4956	root	1.387	%
4957	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4958			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4959			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4960	root	1.387	%
4961	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4962			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4963			No idea why I announce it here...
4964	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4965	root	1.387	%
4966	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4967			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4968	root	1.387	%
4969	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4970	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4971	root	1.387	%
4972	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4973			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4974			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4975			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4976			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4977
4978			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4979			Sacha.
4980	root	1.387	%
4981	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4982			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4983			desk one morning:
4984
4985			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4986
4987			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4988
4989			Employee: 123456
4990
4991			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4992			photograph of the employee.]
4993
4994			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4995			identification which has your picture on it?
4996
4997			Employee: Why would you need that?
4998
4999			Security Guard: To match against our records.
5000
5001			Employee: A picture of my face?
5002
5003			Security Guard: Yes
5004
5005			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
5006
5007			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
5008			compare against this one.
5009	root	1.387	%
5010	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
5011			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
5012			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
5013	root	1.387	%
5014	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
5015			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
5016			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
5017
5018			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
5019			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
5020	root	1.387	%
5021	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
5022	root	1.387	%
5023	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
5024			"RV K-17"
5025	root	1.387	%
5026	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
5027			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
5028	root	1.387	%
5029	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
5030			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
5031			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
5032			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
5033	root	1.387	%
5034	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
5035			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
5036	root	1.387	%
5037	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
5038	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
5039			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
5040	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
5041	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
5042			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
5043	root	1.387	%
5044	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
5045	root	1.387	%
5046	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
5047			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
5048	root	1.387	%
5049	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
5050			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
5051			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5052			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5053	root	1.387	%
5054	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
5055			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
5056			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
5057			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
5058			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
5059			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
5060			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
5061			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
5062			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
5063			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
5064			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
5065			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
5066			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
5067			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
5068			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
5069			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
5070			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
5071			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
5072			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
5073	root	1.387	%
5074	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
5075			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
5076	root	1.387	%
5077	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
5078			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
5079	root	1.387	%
5080	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
5081			Lester Moore,
5082			Shot in the head with a .44.
5083			No Les, no more.
5084	root	1.387	%
5085	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
5086			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
5087
5088			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
5089			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
5090	root	1.387	%
5091	root	1.113	[Fallout]
5092			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
5093			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
5094	root	1.387	%
5095	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
5096			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
5097			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
5098			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
5099			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
5100	root	1.112	[...]
5101			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
5102			[...]
5103			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
5104			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
5105			the result with SHA.
5106	root	1.387	%
5107	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
5108	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
5109			> ist!
5110	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
5111			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
5112	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
5113	root	1.387	%
5114	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
5115			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
5116	root	1.387	%
5117	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
5118	root	1.387	%
5119	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
5120			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
5121			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
5122			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
5123			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
5124			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
5125	root	1.387	%
5126	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
5127			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
5128	root	1.387	%
5129	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
5130			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
5131	root	1.387	%
5132	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
5133			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
5134	root	1.387	%
5135	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
5136
5137			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
5138			* control history, is that we should at least
5139			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
5140			* "initialisation"? */
5141			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
5142	root	1.387	%
5143	root	1.105	[man pem]
5144			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
5145	root	1.387	%
5146	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
5147
5148			/* ``If you can't do it in
5149	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
5150	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
5151	root	1.387	%
5152	root	1.104	[subculture]
5153	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
5154			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
5155	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
5156
5157			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
5158	root	1.424	%
5159	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
5160			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
5161	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
5162	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
5163	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
5164	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
5165			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
5166	root	1.387	%
5167	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
5168	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
5169			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
5170			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
5171	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
5172	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
5173			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
5174			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
5175	root	1.387	%
5176	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
5177			aber wenig freude.
5178	root	1.387	%
5179	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
5180			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
5181			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
5182			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
5183			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
5184			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
5185			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
5186			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
5187			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
5188			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
5189	root	1.387	%
5190	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
5191			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
5192	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
5193			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
5194	root	1.387	%
5195	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
5196			don't work well in practise.
5197			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
5198	root	1.387	%
5199	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
5200			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
5201			"ready, fire, aim."
5202	root	1.387	%
5203	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
5204			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
5205			free countries like Germany [1].
5206			[...]
5207			Regards
5208			Henning
5209
5210			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
5211			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
5212			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
5213	root	1.387	%
5214	root	1.98	[...]
5215			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
5216			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
5217			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
5218			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
5219			itself give you none of these rights at all.
5220			[...]
5221			Wolfgang Walter
5222	root	1.387	%
5223	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
5224			burro: it seemed very clever
5225			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
5226			burro: it forgot to defend later..
5227			burro: oops
5228			burro: accidental poetry
5229	root	1.387	%
5230	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
5231			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
5232			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
5233	root	1.387	%
5234	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
5235			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
5236	root	1.387	%
5237	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
5238			-- Oscar Wilde
5239	root	1.387	%
5240	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
5241			"guilty until proven innocent"
5242			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
5243	root	1.387	%
5244	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
5245			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
5246			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
5247			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
5248			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
5249			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
5250			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
5251			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
5252			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
5253			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
5254			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
5255			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
5256			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
5257			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
5258			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
5259	root	1.387	%
5260	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
5261			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
5262			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
5263			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
5264			// suit particular needs.
5265			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
5266	root	1.387	%
5267	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
5268			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
5269			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
5270	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
5271	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
5272	root	1.387	%
5273	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
5274			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
5275	root	1.387	%
5276	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
5277			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
5278	root	1.387	%
5279	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
5280			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
5281			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
5282	root	1.387	%
5283	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
5284			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
5285	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
5286			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
5287	root	1.387	%
5288	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
5289
5290			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
5291			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
5292			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
5293			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
5294			is not [...]
5295	root	1.387	%
5296	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5297	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5298			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5299	root	1.387	%
5300	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5301			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5302
5303	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5304	root	1.94
5305			GUI
5306			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5307			Globale Variable
5308	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5309	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5310			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5311			strukturiert
5312			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5313			Multithreaded
5314	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5315	root	1.94	Windows 95
5316	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5317	root	1.94	Emacs
5318	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5319			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5320			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5321	root	1.94	IPv6
5322			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5323			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5324			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5325			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5326	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5327			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5328	root	1.247	PHP
5329	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5330	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5331	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5332			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5333	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5334	root	1.94	Bunt.
5335	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5336			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5337			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5338	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5339	root	1.387	%
5340	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5341			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5342	root	1.387	%
5343	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5344	root	1.387	%
5345	root	1.93	[nah]
5346			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5347			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5348			paint dry."
5349	root	1.387	%
5350	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5351			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5352			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5353	root	1.387	%
5354	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5355	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5356			importance.
5357	root	1.387	%
5358	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5359			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5360			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5361			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5362
5363			You have to trust Microsoft.
5364
5365			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5366			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5367			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5368			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5369			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5370			useless chrome.
5371
5372			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5373			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5374			I'd like to trust them with.
5375	root	1.93	[...]
5376	root	1.387	%
5377	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5378			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5379			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5380			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5381			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5382	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5383	root	1.91	--------------^
5384	root	1.387	%
5385	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5386			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5387			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5388			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5389			English grammar, I assure you.
5390	root	1.387	%
5391	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5392			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5393			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5394			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5395			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5396			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5397			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5398
5399			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5400			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5401			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5402			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5403			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5404			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5405			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5406			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5407			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5408			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5409
5410			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5411			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5412			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5413			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5414
5415			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5416			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5417	root	1.387	%
5418	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5419			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5420			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5421			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5422			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5423			work etc first:
5424
5425			#include <stdio.h>
5426
5427			int main (void) {
5428			while (1)
5429			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5430
5431			return 0;
5432			}
5433	root	1.387	%
5434	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5435			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5436	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5437	root	1.387	%
5438	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5439			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5440			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5441			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5442	root	1.387	%
5443	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5444			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5445			proprietary and patentend technology.
5446	root	1.387	%
5447	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5448	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5449	root	1.387	%
5450	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5451	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5452	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5453			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5454			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5455	root	1.387	%
5456	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5457			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5458	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5459	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5460			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5461	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5462	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5463	root	1.87
5464	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5465			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5466			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5467			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5468			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5469			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5470	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5471			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5472
5473	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5474			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5475			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5476			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5477			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5478			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5479			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5480			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5481			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5482			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5483	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5484	root	1.387	%
5485	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5486			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5487	root	1.387	%
5488	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5489			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5490			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5491	root	1.387	%
5492	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5493			"linux" thing will fail]
5494			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5495			[...]
5496	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5497	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5498			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5499			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5500
5501			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5502			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5503			life to the public good.
5504
5505			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5506			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5507			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5508			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5509			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5510
5511			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5512			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5513			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5514			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5515			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5516			software to work on the linux kernel!
5517
5518			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5519			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5520			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5521			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5522			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5523	root	1.387	%
5524	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5525	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5526			[...]
5527			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5528	root	1.387	%
5529	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5530			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5531			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5532			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5533	root	1.387	%
5534	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5535	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5536			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5537			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5538			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5539			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5540	root	1.387	%
5541	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5542			-- Leonard Brandwein
5543	root	1.387	%
5544	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5545	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5546			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5547			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5548			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5549			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5550			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5551			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5552			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5553			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5554			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5555			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5556	root	1.387	%
5557	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5558			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5559	root	1.387	%
5560	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5561			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5562			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5563			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5564			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5565			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5566			jurisprudence fun?
5567			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5568	root	1.387	%
5569	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5570			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5571			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5572	root	1.84	[...]
5573	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5574	root	1.387	%
5575	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5576			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5577			- Paul Ginsparg.
5578	root	1.387	%
5579	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5580			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5581			home.":))
5582			[erm...]
5583	root	1.387	%
5584	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5585
5586	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5587	root	1.387	%
5588	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5589	root	1.387	%
5590	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5591
5592			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5593			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5594			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5595			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5596	root	1.387	%
5597	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5598			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5599			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5600	root	1.387	%
5601	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5602	root	1.83
5603			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5604	root	1.82
5605			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5606			to use in future emails?
5607	root	1.387	%
5608	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5609			please?
5610
5611			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5612			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5613
5614	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5615	root	1.387	%
5616	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5617			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5618			last until February 16th 2003.
5619
5620			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5621			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5622			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5623			end.
5624
5625			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5626
5627			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5628			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5629			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5630			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5631			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5632			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5633			take place on October 27th.
5634
5635			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5636			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5637			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5638			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5639			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5640			the clock)...
5641	root	1.387	%
5642	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5643			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5644			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5645			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5646			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5647
5648			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5649			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5650			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5651			RedHat and SuSE).
5652
5653			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5654
5655			Pavel
5656	root	1.387	%
5657	root	1.81	Rik
5658	root	1.247	--
5659	root	1.81	A: No.
5660			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5661	root	1.387	%
5662	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5663	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5664			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5665	root	1.81
5666			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5667			no useful data.
5668
5669	root	1.247	--
5670	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5671	root	1.387	%
5672	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5673			there was a long do..while construct,
5674			which contained a switch statement,
5675			which contained an if clause,
5676			which contained a break,
5677			which was intended for the if clause,
5678			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5679
5680			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5681			network January 15, 1990
5682	root	1.387	%
5683	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5684
5685	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5686			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5687			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5688			violation of network policies.
5689	root	1.80
5690			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5691
5692			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5693			The format is as follows:
5694
5695			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5696	root	1.387	%
5697	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5698			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5699			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5700	root	1.387	%
5701	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5702			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5703			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5704			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5705			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5706			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5707			...
5708			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5709			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5710			the effort."
5711	root	1.387	%
5712	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5713	root	1.387	%
5714	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5715			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5716	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5717	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5718			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5719	root	1.387	%
5720	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5721	root	1.387	%
5722	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5723	root	1.387	%
5724	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5725			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5726			[Albert Cahalan]
5727	root	1.387	%
5728	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5729			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5730			least as bad, but lesser known.
5731	root	1.387	%
5732	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5733			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5734			different.
5735	root	1.387	%
5736	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.
5737	root	1.387	%
5738	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5739			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5740	root	1.387	%
5741	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5742			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5743			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5744			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5745			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5746			without a show.
5747	root	1.387	%
5748	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5749	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5750	root	1.387	%
5751	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5752	root	1.387	%
5753	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5754			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5755	root	1.387	%
5756	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5757			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5758			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5759	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5760	root	1.71	going on.
5761			[...]
5762	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5763			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5764			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5765	root	1.387	%
5766	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5767			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5768	root	1.387	%
5769	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5770	root	1.387	%
5771	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5772	root	1.387	%
5773	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5774			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5775			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5776	root	1.387	%
5777	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5778			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5779			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5780			returned data.
5781
5782	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5783			FindExInfoStandard
5784			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5785	root	1.387	%
5786	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5787	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5788			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5789	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5790	root	1.387	%
5791	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5792			it doesn't work:]
5793			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5794			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5795			this MIME type as the final determination.
5796	root	1.387	%
5797	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5798
5799			Recode 0.1.1
5800			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5801
5802			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5803			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5804
5805			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5806	root	1.387	%
5807	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5808	root	1.387	%
5809	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5810	root	1.387	%
5811	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5812
5813			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5814			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5815			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5816			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5817			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5818			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5819			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5820			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5821			century."
5822
5823			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5824			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5825			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5826			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5827			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5828			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5829			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5830			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5831			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5832			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5833			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5834			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5835			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5836			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5837
5838			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5839			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5840			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5841			hilarious in light of the above.
5842			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5843
5844			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5845			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5846			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5847			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5848			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5849			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5850			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5851
5852			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5853			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5854			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5855			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5856	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5857	root	1.387	%
5858	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5859	root	1.387	%
5860	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5861			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5862	root	1.387	%
5863	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5864			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5865			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5866
5867			Tony Hoare
5868	root	1.387	%
5869	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5870			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5871	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5872	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5873	root	1.387	%
5874	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5875
5876			[...]
5877			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5878			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5879			system. Basically its windows computer
5880	root	1.387	%
5881	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5882	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5883	root	1.387	%
5884	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5885
5886			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5887			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5888			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5889			> software developers...
5890
5891			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5892	root	1.387	%
5893	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5894			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5895			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5896			>
5897			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5898
5899			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5900			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5901
5902			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5903			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5904
5905			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5906			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5907			off by throwing away the patch.
5908
5909			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5910			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5911			patch any time soon.
5912
5913			--
5914			Daniel
5915	root	1.387	%
5916	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5917			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5918			[...]
5919			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5920			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5921			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5922	root	1.387	%
5923	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5924
5925			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5926			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5927			Is it realy needed?
5928	root	1.387	%
5929	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5930
5931			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5932
5933			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5934			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5935			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5936	root	1.387	%
5937	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5938			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5939			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5940			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5941			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5942			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5943			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5944	root	1.387	%
5945	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5946
5947			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5948			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5949			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5950			>
5951			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5952
5953			This is an ex-parrot
5954	root	1.387	%
5955	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5956
5957			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5958			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5959			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5960			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5961			>
5962			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5963			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5964
5965			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5966
5967			while (!sorted(data))
5968			;
5969	root	1.387	%
5970	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5971			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5972
5973			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5974
5975			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5976			to computing
5977	root	1.387	%
5978	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5979
5980			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5981			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5982
5983			Common sense, one would hope.
5984	root	1.387	%
5985	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5986			[...]
5987
5988			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5989			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5990			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5991
5992			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5993
5994			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5995			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5996			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5997			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5998
5999			:-)
6000	root	1.387	%
6001	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
6002			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
6003			their C programs."
6004	root	1.60
6005			Robert Firth
6006	root	1.387	%
6007	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
6008	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
6009	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
6010			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
6011	root	1.387	%
6012	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
6013	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
6014	root	1.387	%
6015	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
6016			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
6017	root	1.387	%
6018	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
6019	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
6020	root	1.387	%
6021	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
6022	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
6023			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
6024	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
6025			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
6026	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
6027			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
6028
6029			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
6030
6031			\Gisbert
6032	root	1.387	%
6033	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
6034	root	1.387	%
6035	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
6036			world like English did. Er, as English did...
6037			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
6038	root	1.387	%
6039	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
6040			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
6041
6042			I don't have python. Any version of python.
6043			[...]
6044	root	1.387	%
6045	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
6046			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
6047			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
6048
6049			ok 1
6050			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
6051			not ok 2
6052			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
6053	root	1.387	%
6054	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
6055
6056			Cheers,
6057
6058			Andre Hedrick
6059			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
6060	root	1.387	%
6061	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
6062	root	1.247	>
6063	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
6064
6065			Or mutabloat :-(
6066	root	1.387	%
6067	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
6068			Outlook IS the solution.
6069	root	1.387	%
6070	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
6071	root	1.387	%
6072	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
6073
6074			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
6075			never bought anything from UUNet.
6076	root	1.387	%
6077	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
6078			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
6079			by delving below its surface meaning)
6080	root	1.387	%
6081	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
6082	root	1.387	%
6083	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
6084
6085			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
6086			> just go to court and say:
6087
6088			Oh glorious naivety.
6089
6090			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
6091			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
6092			> can do the work better than I).
6093
6094			You release the code
6095
6096			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
6097
6098			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
6099			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
6100			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
6101			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
6102
6103			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
6104			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
6105
6106			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
6107			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
6108
6109			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
6110
6111			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
6112			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
6113			or that the good guys win.
6114
6115			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
6116			US, and outside of most of the EU.
6117	root	1.387	%
6118	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
6119
6120			[...]
6121			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
6122			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
6123	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
6124	root	1.51	year to kill.
6125	root	1.387	%
6126	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
6127			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
6128
6129			[...]
6130			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
6131			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
6132			of for Windows desktop systems."
6133			[...]
6134			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
6135			months before Microsoft released its patch.
6136			[...]
6137			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
6138			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
6139			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
6140			turned on by default.
6141			[...]
6142			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
6143			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
6144			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
6145			[...]
6146			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
6147			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
6148			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
6149			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
6150			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
6151			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
6152			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
6153			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
6154			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
6155	root	1.387	%
6156	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
6157	root	1.387	%
6158	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
6159	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
6160	root	1.49
6161			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
6162
6163			Monday, 06. November 2000
6164	root	1.387	%
6165	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
6166			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
6167	root	1.387	%
6168	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
6169	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
6170			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
6171			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
6172	root	1.387	%
6173	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
6174			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
6175			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
6176			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
6177	root	1.387	%
6178	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
6179			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
6180
6181			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
6182			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
6183			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
6184	root	1.387	%
6185	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
6186			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
6187
6188			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
6189			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
6190			> dropped patches.
6191
6192			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
6193	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
6194	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
6195			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
6196			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
6197			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
6198	root	1.387	%
6199	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
6200			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
6201			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
6202	root	1.387	%
6203	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
6204
6205			From: Bill Huey
6206			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
6207
6208			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
6209
6210			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
6211	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
6212	root	1.45	themselves.
6213
6214			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
6215			certain.
6216	root	1.387	%
6217	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
6218			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
6219			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
6220
6221			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
6222			appropriate approach to a problem.
6223	root	1.387	%
6224	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
6225	root	1.44	^^^^
6226			[...]
6227			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
6228			[...]
6229			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
6230			-15 Nice winter day
6231			-10 Slightly warm winter day
6232			-5 Nice warm winter day
6233			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
6234	root	1.387	%
6235	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
6236			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
6237			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
6238			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
6239	root	1.387	%
6240	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6241			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
6242
6243			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
6244
6245			-ben
6246	root	1.387	%
6247	root	1.43	[...]
6248	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
6249			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
6250			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
6251			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
6252			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
6253			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
6254			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
6255			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
6256			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
6257			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
6258			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
6259	root	1.387	%
6260	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
6261			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
6262	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
6263	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
6264			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
6265			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
6266			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
6267			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
6268			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
6269	root	1.43	statt...
6270	root	1.387	%
6271	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
6272	root	1.387	%
6273	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
6274			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
6275			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
6276			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
6277			values." Who writes this stuff?
6278	root	1.387	%
6279	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
6280	root	1.387	%
6281	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
6282			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
6283			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
6284			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
6285			> "Macao".
6286			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
6287			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
6288	root	1.387	%
6289	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
6290	root	1.387	%
6291	root	1.40	Beitrag
6292	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
6293	root	1.40
6294			fucklinux
6295
6296			IP: 217.83.123.198
6297
6298			1. FUCK LINUX
6299
6300	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6301	root	1.40
6302			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6303	root	1.387	%
6304	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6305	root	1.40
6306			[...]
6307			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6308			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6309			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6310			read...
6311	root	1.387	%
6312	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6313			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6314			depends on the unreasonable man.
6315
6316			-George Bernard Shaw
6317	root	1.387	%
6318	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6319
6320			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6321	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6322	root	1.387	%
6323	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:
6324	root	1.387	%
6325	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
6326			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6327			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6328			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6329			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6330	root	1.387	%
6331	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6332			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6333	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6334	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6335			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6336	root	1.387	%
6337	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6338			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6339			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6340			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6341			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6342			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6343			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6344			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).
6345			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6346			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6347	root	1.387	%
6348	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6349			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6350			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6351			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6352			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6353			removed in Windows XP.
6354
6355			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6356			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6357			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6358			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6359	root	1.387	%
6360	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6361			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6362			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6363			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6364			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6365			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6366			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6367			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6368			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6369			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6370
6371			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6372			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6373			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6374			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6375			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6376			you have no details?
6377			[...]
6378			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6379			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6380			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6381			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6382			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6383			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6384			the industrial terrorists want."
6385	root	1.387	%
6386	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6387			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6388	root	1.387	%
6389	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6390	root	1.387	%
6391	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6392			of each 50 days
6393	root	1.387	%
6394	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6395
6396			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6397			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6398			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6399	root	1.387	%
6400	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6401			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6402			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6403	root	1.387	%
6404	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6405			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6406	root	1.247	>
6407	root	1.35	> <...>
6408			>
6409			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6410			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6411			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6412	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6413	root	1.387	%
6414	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6415			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6416			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6417	root	1.387	%
6418	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6419			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6420			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6421
6422	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6423			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6424			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6425			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6426			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6427			changing run level, interactive boot.
6428	root	1.35
6429			Alan
6430	root	1.387	%
6431	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6432
6433			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6434			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6435
6436			First they came for the Communists,
6437			and I didn't speak up,
6438			because I wasn't a Communist.
6439			Then they came for the Jews,
6440			and I didn't speak up,
6441			because I wasn't a Jew.
6442			Then they came for the Catholics,
6443			and I didn't speak up,
6444			because I was a Protestant.
6445			Then they came for me,
6446			and by that time there was no one
6447			left to speak up for me.
6448
6449			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6450	root	1.387	%
6451	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6452	root	1.387	%
6453	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6454			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6455	root	1.387	%
6456	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6457			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6458			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6459			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6460
6461			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6462	root	1.387	%
6463	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6464
6465			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6466			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6467			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6468			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6469			used databases!"
6470	root	1.387	%
6471	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6472
6473			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6474
6475			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6476			change that was not?
6477			[...]
6478	root	1.387	%
6479	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6480
6481			[...]
6482
6483	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6484	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6485			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6486
6487	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6488	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6489			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6490			them anywhere else").
6491
6492			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6493			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6494	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6495	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6496			order..
6497
6498	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6499	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6500	root	1.387	%
6501	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6502			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6503			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6504
6505			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6506	root	1.387	%
6507	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6508	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6509			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6510			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6511			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6512	root	1.387	%
6513	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6514			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6515
6516			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6517			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6518			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6519			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6520			series.
6521
6522			[...]
6523	root	1.387	%
6524	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6525	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6526	root	1.387	%
6527	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6528			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6529			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6530
6531			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6532			then save." g
6533
6534			/* Steinar */
6535	root	1.387	%
6536	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6537			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6538
6539			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6540			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6541			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6542			a bill...
6543	root	1.387	%
6544	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6545			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6546			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6547
6548			Sorry. Mea culpa
6549
6550			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6551			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6552			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6553			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6554			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6555			*/
6556			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6557			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6558			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6559			int fpu_exception;
6560	root	1.387	%
6561	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6562
6563			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6564
6565			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6566			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6567			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6568			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6569			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6570	root	1.387	%
6571	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6572
6573			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6574			people.
6575	root	1.387	%
6576	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6577			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6578
6579			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6580			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6581			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6582			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6583			the question.
6584			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6585	root	1.387	%
6586	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6587			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6588			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6589			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6590			(September)
6591	root	1.387	%
6592	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6593	root	1.387	%
6594	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6595			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6596			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6597			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6598			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6599	root	1.387	%
6600	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6601			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6602	root	1.387	%
6603	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6604			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6605			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6606			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6607			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6608	root	1.387	%
6609	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6610	root	1.387	%
6611	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6612	root	1.387	%
6613	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6614			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6615			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6616			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6617			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6618			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6619			you tell them.
6620	root	1.387	%
6621	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6622			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6623			alcohol.
6624
6625			Regards
6626			Henning
6627	root	1.387	%
6628	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6629			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6630			> on a desktop system.
6631
6632			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6633			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6634
6635			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6636			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6637
6638			Alan
6639	root	1.387	%
6640	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6641			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6642
6643			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6644			>
6645			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6646			> Use Welsh
6647
6648			Don't forget
6649
6650			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6651			Use Finnish
6652
6653			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6654
6655			And while we're at it,
6656
6657			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6658			Use German
6659
6660			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6661			Use English
6662
6663			MfG Kai
6664	root	1.387	%
6665	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6666
6667			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6668			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6669			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6670			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6671			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6672			there's no one thinking there.
6673			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6674	root	1.387	%
6675	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6676			scores the rules:
6677
6678			[*]
6679			Score:: =-9999
6680	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6681	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6682			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6683			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6684			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6685
6686			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6687			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6688			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6689			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6690			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6691
6692			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6693			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6694			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6695			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6696	root	1.387	%
6697	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6698			98 IIS servers online...
6699	root	1.387	%
6700	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6701			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6702			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6703			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6704
6705			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6706			it to be otherwise.
6707
6708			Abigail
6709	root	1.387	%
6710	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6711	root	1.387	%
6712	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6713	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6714	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6715	root	1.387	%
6716	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6717	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6718	root	1.387	%
6719	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6720			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6721			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6722			software people doing the same)
6723
6724			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6725			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6726			irrelevant
6727
6728			Alan
6729	root	1.387	%
6730	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6731			Comments may nest.
6732	root	1.387	%
6733	root	1.22	[from findas]
6734			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6735			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6736			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6737			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6738			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6739			# address distributino is... arin.
6740	root	1.387	%
6741	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6742			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6743	root	1.387	%
6744	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6745			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6746			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6747			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6748			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6749	root	1.247	>
6750	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6751
6752			$foot->insert($mouth);
6753
6754			# or is that
6755
6756			$mouth->insert($foot);
6757
6758			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6759			How utterly optimistic :-)
6760	root	1.387	%
6761	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6762			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6763			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6764			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6765			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6766			>can see why it happens)
6767			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6768
6769			Well, there's perl... :)
6770	root	1.387	%
6771	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6772			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6773			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6774			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6775			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6776	root	1.247	* boxes.
6777	root	1.387	%
6778	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6779			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6780			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6781	root	1.387	%
6782	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6783			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6784	root	1.387	%
6785	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6786			From: Juergen Christoffel
6787			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6788			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6789
6790			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6791
6792			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6793			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6794			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6795			schon;
6796
6797			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6798			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6799			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6800
6801			Danke, JC
6802	root	1.387	%
6803	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6804			#undef REASONABLE
6805	root	1.387	%
6806	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6807			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6808
6809			Alan
6810	root	1.387	%
6811	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6812			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6813			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6814			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6815	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6816	root	1.18	> anything.
6817
6818			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6819			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6820	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6821			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6822	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6823			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6824
6825			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6826			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6827			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6828			always a good idea.
6829	root	1.387	%
6830	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6831			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6832
6833	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6834	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6835	root	1.387	%
6836	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6837			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6838			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6839			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6840	root	1.387	%
6841	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6842	root	1.387	%
6843	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6844	root	1.18
6845			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6846			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6847	root	1.387	%
6848	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6849			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6850			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6851			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6852	root	1.387	%
6853	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6854	root	1.387	%
6855	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6856			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6857			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6858			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6859			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6860			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6861	root	1.387	%
6862	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6863
6864			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6865			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6866			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6867			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6868			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6869			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6870			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6871	root	1.387	%
6872	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6873			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6874			future. Bleeeh]
6875
6876			From: Larry McVoy
6877
6878	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6879	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6880			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6881			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6882			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6883			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6884			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6885			not for the exceptional case.
6886	root	1.387	%
6887	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6888			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6889			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6890			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6891			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6892			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6893			stack.
6894
6895			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6896			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6897			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6898
6899			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6900			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6901	root	1.387	%
6902	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6903
6904	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6905			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6906			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6907			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6908	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6909	root	1.247	>
6910	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6911			> on the CPU?
6912
6913			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6914	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6915	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6916			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6917
6918			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6919			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6920			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6921			the point again".
6922	root	1.387	%
6923	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6924
6925	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6926			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6927	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6928	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6929	root	1.247	>
6930	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6931			> scenario.
6932
6933			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6934	root	1.387	%
6935	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6936	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6937			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6938			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6939	root	1.387	%
6940	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6941			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6942			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6943			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6944			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6945			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6946			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6947			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6948			anything.
6949	root	1.387	%
6950	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6951	root	1.387	%
6952	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6953			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6954	root	1.387	%
6955	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6956			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6957			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6958			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6959			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6960
6961			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6962	root	1.387	%
6963	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6964
6965			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6966
6967			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6968			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6969			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6970			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6971			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6972
6973			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6974			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6975			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6976			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6977			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6978			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6979			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6980			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6981			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6982			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6983			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6984			to work through the learning curve.
6985	root	1.387	%
6986	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6987	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6988	root	1.387	%
6989	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6990			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6991	root	1.387	%
6992	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6993			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6994	root	1.387	%
6995	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6996			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6997	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6998			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6999	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
7000	root	1.387	%
7001	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
7002	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
7003	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
7004	root	1.387	%
7005	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
7006			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
7007	root	1.387	%
7008	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
7009			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
7010			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
7011			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
7012			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
7013			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
7014			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
7015			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
7016
7017	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
7018	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
7019	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
7020	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
7021			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
7022
7023			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
7024			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
7025			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
7026			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
7027			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
7028			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
7029			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
7030	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
7031	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
7032			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
7033			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
7034	root	1.387	%
7035	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
7036			/*---.
7037			\| ? \|
7038			`---*/
7039	root	1.387	%
7040	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
7041	root	1.387	%
7042	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
7043			From: Joe Buck
7044			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
7045			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
7046	root	1.387	%
7047	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
7048			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
7049	root	1.387	%
7050	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
7051	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
7052	root	1.387	%
7053	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
7054	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
7055	root	1.387	%
7056	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
7057	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
7058	root	1.4	...
7059			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
7060	root	1.387	%
7061	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
7062	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
7063			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
7064			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
7065
7066			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
7067
7068			Alan
7069	root	1.387	%
7070	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
7071	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
7072			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
7073			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
7074			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
7075	root	1.387	%
7076	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
7077	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
7078			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
7079			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
7080			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
7081			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
7082			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
7083	root	1.387	%
7084	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
7085			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
7086			will find an easier way to do it.
7087	root	1.387	%
7088	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
7089	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
7090			Paul wrote:
7091			>Marc wrote:
7092	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
7093			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
7094			> den richtigen.
7095	root	1.387	%
7096	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
7097			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
7098	root	1.387	%
7099	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
7100			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
7101	root	1.387	%
7102	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
7103			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
7104	root	1.387	%
7105	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
7106			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
7107			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7108			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7109			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7110	root	1.387	%
7111	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7112			[...]
7113
7114			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
7115
7116			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
7117	root	1.387	%
7118	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
7119			> constants.
7120
7121			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
7122	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
7123	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
7124	root	1.387	%
7125	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
7126	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
7127
7128			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
7129			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
7130			much to do with IRC.
7131	root	1.387	%
7132	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
7133			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
7134
7135			[...]
7136			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
7137
7138			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
7139			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
7140	root	1.387	%
7141	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
7142	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
7143	root	1.387	%
7144	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
7145
7146			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
7147			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
7148			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
7149
7150			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
7151			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
7152			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
7153			shows how much you know, pal.
7154
7155			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
7156	root	1.387	%
7157	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
7158			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7159			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7160	root	1.387	%
7161	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
7162			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
7163			y yzzyyccss;;##s
7164			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
7165	root	1.387	%
7166	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
7167			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
7168			Your version of perl sucks.
7169	root	1.387	%
7170	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
7171			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
7172			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
7173			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
7174			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
7175			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
7176			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
7177			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
7178	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
7179	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
7180			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
7181	root	1.387	%
7182	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
7183			before you can understand it :)
7184	root	1.387	%
7185	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
7186			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
7187			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
7188	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
7189	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
7190			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
7191			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
7192
7193			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
7194			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
7195			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
7196			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
7197			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
7198			be worth attempting).
7199
7200			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
7201			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
7202			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
7203
7204			Nick.
7205	root	1.387	%
7206	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
7207			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
7208			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
7209
7210	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
7211	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
7212			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
7213			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
7214			magic_bone@hotmail.com
7215	root	1.387	%
7216	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
7217			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
7218			> > > to work :-)
7219	root	1.247	> >
7220	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
7221	root	1.247	>
7222	root	1.1	> Eh?
7223	root	1.247	>
7224	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
7225			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
7226
7227			He didn't say it worked. :)
7228	root	1.387	%
7229	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7230
7231			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
7232			> I find it irksome that
7233	root	1.247	>
7234	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
7235
7236			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
7237	root	1.387	%
7238	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
7239			From: Simon Cozens
7240
7241			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
7242			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
7243			> Produces SIGSEGV.
7244
7245			Looks like a feature to me.
7246	root	1.387	%
7247	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
7248	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
7249	root	1.387	%
7250	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
7251			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
7252
7253			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
7254			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
7255			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
7256			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
7257
7258			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
7259			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
7260			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
7261			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
7262			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
7263			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
7264	root	1.387	%
7265	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
7266			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
7267			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
7268			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
7269			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
7270			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
7271			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
7272			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
7273			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
7274			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
7275			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
7276			accurate and not subject to tampering."
7277
7278			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
7279			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
7280			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
7281
7282			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
7283	root	1.387	%
7284	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
7285			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
7286			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
7287			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
7288			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
7289			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
7290			replication."
7291			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
7292	root	1.387	%
7293	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
7294			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7295
7296			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7297			shows.
7298
7299			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7300			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7301			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7302
7303			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7304			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7305			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7306			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7307			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7308
7309			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7310			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7311			up with a saner protocol.
7312	root	1.387	%
7313	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7314			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7315			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7316
7317			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7318			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7319			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7320	root	1.387	%
7321	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7322			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7323			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7324			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7325			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7326			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7327	root	1.387	%
7328	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7329			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7330	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7331			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7332			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7333			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7334	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7335	root	1.387	%
7336	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7337	root	1.387	%
7338	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7339			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7340	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7341	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7342	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7343	root	1.387	%
7344	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7345			"ist mir egal"
7346	root	1.387	%
7347	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7348			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7349
7350			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7351	root	1.387	%
7352	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7353			hallole
7354	root	1.387	%
7355	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7356			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7357			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7358	root	1.387	%
7359	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7360			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7361			1929 The pause that refreshes
7362			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7363			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7364			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7365			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7366			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7367			1939 Thirst stops here
7368			1942 It's the real thing
7369			1947 Have a Coke
7370			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7371			1963 Things go better with Coke
7372			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7373			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7374			1982 Coke is it!
7375			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7376	root	1.387	%
7377	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7378			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7379	root	1.387	%
7380	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7381			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7382	root	1.387	%
7383	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7384	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7385			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7386			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7387			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7388			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7389			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7390			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7391			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7392			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7393			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7394			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7395			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7396			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7397			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7398
7399			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7400			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7401	root	1.387	%
7402	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7403			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7404
7405			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7406			uncool thing to do. [...]
7407	root	1.387	%
7408	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7409			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7410			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7411	root	1.387	%
7412	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7413	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7414	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7415	root	1.1
7416	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7417			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7418			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7419			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7420	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7421			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7422	root	1.387	%
7423	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7424			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7425			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7426			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7427			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7428			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7429			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7430
7431			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7432			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7433			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7434	root	1.387	%
7435	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7436
7437			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7438	root	1.387	%
7439	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7440			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7441			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7442			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7443			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7444	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7445	root	1.387	%
7446	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7447			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7448			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7449
7450			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7451			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7452
7453			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7454	root	1.387	%
7455	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7456	root	1.387	%
7457	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7458			From: Alan Cox
7459			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7460			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7461	root	1.247	>
7462			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7463	root	1.1
7464	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7465	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7466	root	1.387	%
7467	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7468			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7469			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7470
7471			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7472			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7473			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7474			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7475
7476			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7477
7478			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7479	root	1.387	%
7480	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7481	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7482			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7483	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7484	root	1.387	%
7485	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7486	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7487			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7488	root	1.387	%
7489	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7490			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7491	root	1.387	%
7492	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7493	root	1.387	%
7494	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7495			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7496			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7497	root	1.387	%
7498	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7499			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7500			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7501			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7502			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7503	root	1.387	%
7504	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7505	root	1.387	%
7506	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7507			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7508			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7509			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7510			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7511			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7512			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7513	root	1.387	%
7514	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7515			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7516	root	1.387	%
7517	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7518			perl:]
7519
7520			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7521
7522			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7523			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7524			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7525			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7526			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7527			disable the message and pray it works"]
7528	root	1.387	%
7529	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7530			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7531			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7532			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7533
7534			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7535			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7536			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7537			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7538			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7539	root	1.387	%
7540	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7541			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7542			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7543	root	1.387	%
7544	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7545			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7546			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7547			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7548			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7549	root	1.387	%
7550	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7551			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7552			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7553	root	1.387	%
7554	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7555			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7556	root	1.387	%
7557	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7558			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7559	root	1.387	%
7560	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7561			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7562			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7563			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7564			> it's a hard requirement.
7565
7566			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7567			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7568			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7569			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7570			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7571			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7572			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7573			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7574	root	1.387	%
7575	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7576			> Netscape?"
7577	root	1.247
7578	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7579			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7580	root	1.387	%
7581	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7582			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7583			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7584			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7585			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7586			the specified task step-by-step.
7587	root	1.387	%
7588	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7589
7590			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7591			be damned hard to understand."
7592	root	1.387	%
7593	root	1.1	[Linus]
7594			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7595			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7596			wrong. It's that simple.
7597	root	1.387	%
7598	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7599	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7600	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7601			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7602			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7603	root	1.247	Undernet>
7604	root	1.387	%
7605	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7606			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7607			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7608			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7609
7610			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7611			document that contains an element or attribute named
7612	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7613	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7614			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7615			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7616			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7617			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7618			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7619	root	1.387	%
7620	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7621			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7622			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7623			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7624			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7625			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7626	root	1.387	%
7627	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7628			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7629			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7630			[... snip ...]
7631			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7632			tragedy...
7633	root	1.387	%
7634	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7635	root	1.247
7636	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7637			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7638			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7639			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7640			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7641			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7642			>message plus attorney's fees.
7643			[SNIP long sig]
7644	root	1.247
7645	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7646			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7647			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7648	root	1.247
7649	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7650			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7651			procmailable address.
7652	root	1.247
7653	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7654			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7655			just a waste of bandwidth.
7656	root	1.387	%
7657	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7658	root	1.387	%
7659	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7660			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7661	root	1.387	%
7662	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7663	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7664	root	1.387	%
7665	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7666	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7667			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7668			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7669	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7670	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7671			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7672			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7673			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7674	root	1.387	%
7675	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7676	root	1.387	%
7677	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7678	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7679	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7680	root	1.387	%
7681	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7682			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7683			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7684			immediately and not block the calling process.
7685
7686			the man pages are wrong
7687
7688			--cw
7689	root	1.387	%
7690	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7691			...
7692			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7693	root	1.387	%
7694	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7695			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7696	root	1.387	%
7697	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7698			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7699			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7700
7701			How fast does it oops?
7702	root	1.387	%
7703	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7704
7705			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7706			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7707			> touch is 2Gig.
7708
7709			In theory, yes.
7710			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7711			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7712	root	1.387	%
7713	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7714			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7715			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7716			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7717			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7718			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7719			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7720			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7721			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7722			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7723			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7724			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7725			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7726			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7727			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7728			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7729	root	1.387	%
7730	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7731	root	1.387	%
7732	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7733			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7734			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7735			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7736			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7737	root	1.387	%
7738	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7739			[Lukas Grunwald]
7740	root	1.387	%
7741	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7742			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7743			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7744			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7745
7746			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7747			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7748			> > prompt.
7749			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7750			> /proc/info/authors?
7751	root	1.247
7752	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7753			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7754			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7755			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7756			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7757			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7758	root	1.247
7759	root	1.1	NOT.
7760			[...]
7761	root	1.387	%
7762	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7763			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7764			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7765	root	1.247
7766	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7767			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7768			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7769			> an interesting experiment.
7770	root	1.247
7771	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7772			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7773			to disagree...
7774	root	1.387	%
7775	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7776			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7777			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7778			[und Lukas sagt:]
7779			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7780	root	1.387	%
7781	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7782			report:]
7783			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7784			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7785			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7786			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7787	root	1.387	%
7788	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7789			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7790	root	1.387	%
7791	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7792			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7793			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7794
7795			Alexander Viro wrote:
7796			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7797			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7798			>
7799			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7800			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7801			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7802			> UNIX.
7803
7804			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7805			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7806			docs... ew!
7807	root	1.387	%
7808	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7809			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7810			> protected mode?
7811
7812			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7813			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7814			registers loaded ;)
7815	root	1.387	%
7816	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7817			[...]
7818			> backports hurt forward progress.
7819
7820			beware of content free dogma
7821	root	1.387	%
7822	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7823			> wondering.
7824
7825			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7826			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7827			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7828			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7829			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7830			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7831			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7832
7833			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7834	root	1.387	%
7835	root	1.1	>Keith,
7836	root	1.247	>
7837	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7838			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7839			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7840
7841			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7842			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7843			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7844			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7845			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7846			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7847			do the right thing.
7848
7849			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7850			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7851			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7852			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7853			and they have to fix it.
7854	root	1.387	%
7855	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7856			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7857			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7858			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7859	root	1.387	%
7860	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7861			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7862	root	1.387	%
7863	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7864			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7865			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7866			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7867
7868			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7869			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7870	root	1.387	%
7871	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7872			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7873	root	1.387	%
7874	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7875			glibc-2.2 was released]
7876			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7877	root	1.387	%
7878	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7879	root	1.387	%
7880	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7881			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7882			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7883	root	1.387	%
7884	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7885			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7886			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7887	root	1.387	%
7888	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7889
7890			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7891			standards-compliant.
7892			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7893			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7894			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7895			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7896			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7897			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7898	root	1.387	%
7899	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7900			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7901			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7902
7903			That's your problem.
7904
7905			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7906
7907			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7908			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7909	root	1.387	%
7910	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7911			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7912			> > out there) in the foot?
7913
7914			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7915
7916			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7917			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7918			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7919	root	1.387	%
7920	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7921			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7922			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7923
7924			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7925			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7926			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7927			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7928			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7929			--
7930			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7931	root	1.387	%
7932	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7933
7934			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7935			>
7936			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7937			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7938			>
7939			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7940
7941			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7942	root	1.387	%
7943	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7944			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7945			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7946	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7947	root	1.387	%
7948	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7949			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7950			Bullschildt below ;)]
7951
7952			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7953			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7954	root	1.387	%
7955	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7956			>
7957			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7958			>
7959			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7960			>
7961			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7962	root	1.387	%
7963	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7964
7965			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7966			it did the same thing.
7967
7968			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7969			a week ago. :(
7970
7971			--Jack
7972	root	1.387	%
7973	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7974	root	1.387	%
7975	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7976			-- K&R
7977	root	1.387	%
7978	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7979	root	1.387	%
7980	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7981			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7982	root	1.387	%
7983	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7984	root	1.387	%
7985	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7986			$modules => { "" => "" };
7987	root	1.387	%
7988	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7989	root	1.387	%
7990	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7991	root	1.387	%
7992	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7993			> --
7994			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7995			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7996	root	1.387	%
7997	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7998			From: "David Schwartz"
7999
8000			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
8001			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
8002			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
8003			> pretty spiffy.
8004
8005			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
8006			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
8007			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
8008			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
8009	root	1.387	%
8010	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
8011	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
8012	root	1.387	%
8013	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
8014			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
8015			> of having bough one.
8016
8017			Not an uncommon thought :)
8018	root	1.387	%
8019	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
8020
8021			Hi Marc !
8022
8023			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
8024			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
8025			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
8026
8027			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
8028	root	1.387	%
8029	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
8030			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
8031			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
8032			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
8033
8034			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
8035			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
8036			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
8037
8038			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
8039			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
8040			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
8041			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
8042			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
8043			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
8044
8045			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
8046			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
8047
8048			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
8049			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
8050			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
8051			right to left.
8052
8053			>But no culture
8054			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
8055			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
8056			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
8057			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
8058			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
8059
8060			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
8061
8062			--Alex
8063	root	1.387	%
8064	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
8065			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
8066			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
8067
8068			[most of the reply snipped...]
8069
8070			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
8071			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
8072			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
8073
8074			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
8075
8076			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
8077			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
8078			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
8079			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
8080			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
8081
8082			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
8083			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
8084			try to claim that they do?)
8085	root	1.387	%
8086	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
8087
8088			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
8089			> {
8090			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
8091			> flush(load);
8092			> else
8093			> wear(load);
8094			> }
8095
8096			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
8097			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
8098
8099			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
8100			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
8101
8102			--
8103			dwmw2
8104	root	1.387	%
8105	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
8106			are are overturned.
8107	root	1.387	%
8108	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
8109	root	1.387	%
8110	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
8111			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
8112	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
8113			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
8114	root	1.387	%
8115	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
8116			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
8117			Marc gives some dumb comments.
8118			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
8119			Marc: Yeah.. and?
8120			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
8121			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
8122	root	1.387	%
8123	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
8124			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
8125			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
8126
8127			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
8128			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
8129			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
8130	root	1.387	%
8131	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
8132			Deadlock, n.:
8133			Deceased Rasterman.
8134	root	1.387	%
8135	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
8136			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
8137			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
8138			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
8139	root	1.387	%
8140	root	1.1	[some .signature]
8141			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
8142	root	1.387	%
8143	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
8144			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
8145	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
8146			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
8147			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
8148			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
8149	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
8150			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
8151	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
8152			Positionen für unwählbar.
8153	root	1.1
8154			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
8155	root	1.387	%
8156	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
8157			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
8158			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
8159
8160			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
8161
8162			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
8163			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
8164			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
8165			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
8166			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
8167
8168			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
8169			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
8170			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
8171			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
8172			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
8173			results simply because I make a mistake!
8174
8175			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
8176			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
8177			errors.
8178
8179			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
8180			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
8181			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
8182			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
8183	root	1.387	%
8184	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
8185			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
8186			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
8187			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
8188			>
8189			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
8190	root	1.387	%
8191	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
8192			of nothing."
8193	root	1.387	%
8194	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
8195			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
8196			>
8197			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
8198			> CPU?
8199
8200			Root password? :)
8201
8202			John.Fulmer
8203	root	1.387	%
8204	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
8205
8206			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
8207	root	1.387	%
8208	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
8209			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
8210			> which I prefer...
8211
8212			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
8213			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
8214			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
8215			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
8216			updater for the new SCSI controller.
8217			--
8218			Horst von Brand
8219	root	1.387	%
8220	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
8221
8222			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
8223
8224			[...]
8225
8226			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
8227	root	1.387	%
8228	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
8229			at your problem:]
8230
8231			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
8232			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
8233			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
8234	root	1.387	%
8235	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
8236			cp is inherently inefficient.
8237	root	1.387	%
8238	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
8239			>breaking seals on them.
8240
8241			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
8242			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
8243			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
8244
8245			...
8246
8247			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
8248			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
8249			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
8250			could be just an urban myth though.
8251
8252			Russell Coker
8253	root	1.387	%
8254	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
8255			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
8256
8257			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
8258	root	1.387	%
8259	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
8260			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
8261			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
8262			> > deleting.
8263			>
8264			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
8265
8266			Wrong. Yury does.
8267			:(
8268
8269			--
8270			Stefan
8271	root	1.387	%
8272	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
8273			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
8274			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
8275			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
8276			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
8277			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
8278			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
8279
8280			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
8281
8282			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
8283	root	1.387	%
8284	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
8285	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
8286	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
8287	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
8288			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
8289	root	1.387	%
8290	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
8291			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
8292			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
8293			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
8294			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8295			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8296			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8297			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8298			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8299			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8300	root	1.387	%
8301	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8302			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8303			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8304	root	1.1	aus!
8305	root	1.387	%
8306	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8307			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8308	root	1.387	%
8309	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8310			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8311			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8312			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8313	root	1.387	%
8314	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8315			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8316	root	1.387	%
8317	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8318			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8319			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8320			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8321
8322			--tom
8323	root	1.387	%
8324	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8325			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8326
8327			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8328			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8329			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8330			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8331			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8332	root	1.387	%
8333	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8334			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8335			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8336			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8337			solutions.
8338
8339			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8340
8341			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8342			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8343			the background]
8344	root	1.387	%
8345	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8346			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8347			Security Response Center:
8348
8349			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8350			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8351
8352			[and later]
8353			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8354
8355			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8356
8357			[Phil closes]
8358			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8359
8360			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8361			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8362	root	1.387	%
8363	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8364			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8365			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8366			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8367			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8368			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8369			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8370	root	1.387	%
8371	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8372			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8373			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8374			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8375
8376			[Trashey / Quasars]
8377	root	1.387	%
8378	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8379			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8380			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8381
8382			Irony potential in
8383
8384			man perlrtfm
8385
8386			is left to the reader.
8387
8388			Nat
8389	root	1.387	%
8390	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8391			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8392
8393			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8394			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8395	root	1.387	%
8396	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8397			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8398			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8399	root	1.387	%
8400	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8401			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8402			Paul Tomblin
8403	root	1.387	%
8404	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8405			>I am morally
8406			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8407
8408			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8409			possibility...
8410
8411			Dan
8412	root	1.387	%
8413	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8414	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8415	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 :)
8416			<Mr> zugabe
8417	root	1.387	%
8418	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8419			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8420	root	1.387	%
8421	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8422			[cobol, sigh]
8423	root	1.387	%
8424	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8425			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8426			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8427			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8428			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8429			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8430			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8431			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8432
8433			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8434	root	1.387	%
8435	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8436
8437			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8438			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8439			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8440			after they regain their composure."
8441
8442			-- Paul Rinaldo
8443			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8444	root	1.387	%
8445	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8446			>
8447			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8448			>
8449			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8450
8451			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8452
8453			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8454
8455			;-}
8456
8457			--
8458
8459			ciao -
8460			Stefan
8461
8462	root	1.387	%
8463	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8464			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8465
8466			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8467			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8468			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8469			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8470			one' type remarks.
8471			[Alan Cox]
8472	root	1.387	%
8473	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8474
8475			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8476			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8477
8478			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8479	root	1.387	%
8480	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8481
8482			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8483			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8484			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8485	root	1.387	%
8486	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8487			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8488			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8489			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8490	root	1.387	%
8491	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8492			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8493
8494			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8495			is to me ok.
8496	root	1.387	%
8497	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8498
8499			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8500	root	1.387	%
8501	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8502			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8503	root	1.387	%
8504	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8505			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8506	root	1.387	%
8507	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8508			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8509			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8510
8511			Ralf
8512	root	1.387	%
8513	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8514			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8515			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8516
8517			david parsons
8518	root	1.387	%
8519	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8520			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8521
8522			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8523			>so that trick is not portable.
8524
8525			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8526			127.0.0.1 localhost
8527
8528			--tom
8529	root	1.387	%
8530	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8531			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8532			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8533			> >the question is moot.
8534			>
8535			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8536
8537			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8538
8539			Ilya
8540	root	1.387	%
8541	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8542			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8543			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8544			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8545			> trying.
8546
8547			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8548			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8549	root	1.387	%
8550	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8551			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8552			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8553			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8554	root	1.387	%
8555	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8556			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8557			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8558	root	1.387	%
8559	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8560			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8561			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8562			> blocking :-)
8563
8564			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8565			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8566			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8567			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8568			reasons.
8569
8570			DS
8571	root	1.387	%
8572	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8573	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8574	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8575	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8576	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8577
8578			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8579	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8580	root	1.387	%
8581	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8582			[...]
8583			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8584			[...]
8585
8586			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8587			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8588			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8589			with each other on the same channel.
8590
8591			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8592			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8593
8594			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8595	root	1.387	%
8596	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8597			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8598	root	1.387	%
8599	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8600	root	1.387	%
8601	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8602			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8603			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8604			ok
8605	root	1.387	%
8606	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8607			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8608	root	1.387	%
8609	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8610			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8611			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8612			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8613			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8614			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8615			<Xach> burrito, focus
8616			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8617	root	1.387	%
8618	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8619			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8620			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8621			tested it." ...
8622	root	1.387	%
8623	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8624	root	1.387	%
8625	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8626
8627			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8628			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8629			>
8630			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8631			>
8632			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8633			>
8634			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8635			>
8636			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8637			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8638			>systems.
8639
8640
8641			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8642			had.
8643
8644			--
8645			Neal Bridges
8646	root	1.387	%
8647	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8648
8649			> Hi folks,
8650			> 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?
8651			> please reply to
8652			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8653			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8654
8655			Parse error.
8656
8657			---
8658			Alex
8659	root	1.387	%
8660	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8661
8662			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8663			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8664
8665			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8666			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8667			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8668
8669			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8670	root	1.387	%
8671	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8672	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8673	root	1.387	%
8674	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8675			ii = 44;
8676			p = &ii;
8677			p = ii/p;
8678			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8679			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8680	root	1.387	%
8681	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8682			> Linux time then.
8683
8684			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8685
8686			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8687			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8688
8689			Roger.
8690	root	1.387	%
8691	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8692	root	1.387	%
8693	root	1.1	auto accident;
8694			register voters;
8695			static electricity;
8696			struct by_lightning;
8697			void *where_prohibited;
8698			char broiled;
8699			short circuit;
8700			short changed;
8701			long johns;
8702			unsigned long letter;
8703			double entendre;
8704			double trouble;
8705			union organizer;
8706			float valve;
8707			short pants;
8708			union station;
8709			void check; unsigned check;
8710			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8711	root	1.387	%
8712	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8713			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8714			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8715	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8716	root	1.387	%
8717	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8718
8719			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8720			worstation.
8721	root	1.387	%
8722	root	1.1	I wrote
8723			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8724			$/
8725
8726			Damn shift key.
8727
8728
8729			Mike Guy
8730	root	1.387	%
8731	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8732			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8733			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8734			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8735			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8736			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8737			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8738			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8739			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8740	root	1.387	%
8741	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8742
8743			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8744
8745			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8746			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8747			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8748			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8749
8750			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8751	root	1.387	%
8752	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8753			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8754
8755			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8756			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8757			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8758			easy to bother.
8759
8760			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8761			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8762			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8763			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8764
8765			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8766
8767			Larry
8768	root	1.387	%
8769	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8770			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8771			Yeah. :-)
8772	root	1.387	%
8773	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8774			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8775			[...]
8776			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8777
8778			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8779			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8780			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8781			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8782
8783			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8784			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8785			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8786			receipts aren't used anymore.
8787	root	1.387	%
8788	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8789			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8790			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8791	root	1.387	%
8792	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8793			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8794			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8795			> versteht?"
8796	root	1.387	%
8797	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8798			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8799			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8800			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8801	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8802	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8803	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8804	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8805			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8806			ji!
8807	root	1.387	%
8808	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8809			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8810			[Larry Wall]
8811	root	1.387	%
8812	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8813			Altpreussen.
8814			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8815			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8816	root	1.387	%
8817	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8818			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8819			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8820			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8821			>
8822	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8823			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8824	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8825
8826	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8827	root	1.1	Norbert?
8828	root	1.387	%
8829	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8830	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8831			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8832	root	1.387	%
8833	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8834	root	1.387	%
8835	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8836	root	1.387	%
8837	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8838			From: "Steve"
8839			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8840			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8841			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8842
8843			[the following was a single line, of course]
8844			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8845			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8846			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8847			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8848			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8849
8850			Thanks,
8851
8852			Steve
8853	root	1.387	%
8854	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8855			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8856			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8857			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8858	root	1.387	%
8859	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8860			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8861			<tigert> ahem
8862	root	1.387	%
8863	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8864			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8865			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8866	root	1.387	%
8867	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8868			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8869			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8870			Subject: It's soup.
8871
8872			Okay, it's there.
8873
8874			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8875
8876			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8877
8878			Larry
8879	root	1.387	%
8880	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8881	root	1.387	%
8882	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8883			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8884			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8885			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8886			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8887	root	1.387	%
8888	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8889			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8890			>
8891			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8892			> And there's no mouse.
8893			>
8894			> Abigail
8895
8896			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8897
8898			Matt.
8899	root	1.387	%
8900	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8901			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8902
8903			- --tom
8904	root	1.387	%
8905	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8906			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8907
8908			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8909			>
8910			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8911			> 2.2.11 release?
8912
8913			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8914
8915			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8916
8917			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8918	root	1.387	%
8919	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8920	root	1.387	%
8921	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8922			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8923			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8924			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8925			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8926			> that much ;-)
8927
8928			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8929	root	1.387	%
8930	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8931			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8932	root	1.387	%
8933	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8934			<QUOTE>
8935			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8936
8937			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8938			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8939			</QUOTE>
8940	root	1.387	%
8941	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8942			and routes around it.
8943
8944			Roger Larsson
8945	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8946	root	1.387	%
8947	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8948			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8949	root	1.387	%
8950	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8951			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8952	root	1.387	%
8953	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8954
8955			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8956			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8957			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8958			on different JVMs.
8959
8960			[and later]
8961
8962			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8963			adventure gaming:
8964
8965			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8966			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8967	root	1.387	%
8968	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8969			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8970
8971			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8972
8973			NK> ?? -> huh?
8974
8975			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8976
8977			<chaim>
8978	root	1.387	%
8979	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8980			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8981			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8982			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8983			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8984			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8985	root	1.387	%
8986	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8987	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8988	root	1.387	%
8989	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8990			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8991			page]
8992			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8993			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8994			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8995			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8996			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8997			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8998			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8999			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
9000			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
9001			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
9002	root	1.387	%
9003	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
9004			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
9005			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
9006			don't actually get anything DONE.
9007	root	1.387	%
9008	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
9009			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
9010			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
9011			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
9012	root	1.387	%
9013	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
9014			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
9015			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
9016			> get the serial number from the OS)?
9017
9018			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
9019	root	1.387	%
9020	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
9021			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
9022			they have continued that legacy to this day."
9023	root	1.387	%
9024	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
9025			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
9026			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
9027	root	1.387	%
9028	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
9029
9030			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
9031			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
9032			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
9033			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
9034			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
9035			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
9036			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
9037			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
9038			got the T-shirt.
9039	root	1.387	%
9040	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9041			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9042			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
9043			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
9044			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
9045			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9046			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
9047
9048			Linus writes, to Craig:
9049
9050			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
9051			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
9052			> thus choices than gcc.
9053
9054			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
9055			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
9056			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
9057			far more complex than the kernel.
9058
9059			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
9060			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
9061
9062			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
9063	root	1.387	%
9064	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9065			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
9066			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
9067
9068			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
9069			[...]
9070			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
9071			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
9072			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
9073			>let the user be in control.
9074
9075			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
9076			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
9077			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
9078			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
9079			compilers?
9080	root	1.387	%
9081	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9082			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9083
9084			Linus writes:
9085			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
9086			> gcc could do better?
9087
9088			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
9089			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
9090			before you had so many worshippers.
9091	root	1.387	%
9092	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9093			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
9094			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
9095			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9096			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
9097
9098			Linus Torvalds wrote:
9099
9100			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
9101			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
9102			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
9103			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
9104
9105			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
9106
9107			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
9108
9109			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
9110			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
9111
9112			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
9113
9114			>:->
9115
9116			Brane
9117
9118
9119			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
9120			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
9121			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
9122			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
9123			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
9124
9125
9126			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
9127	root	1.387	%
9128	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
9129	root	1.387	%
9130	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
9131			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
9132			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
9133	root	1.387	%
9134	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
9135			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
9136			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
9137	root	1.387	%
9138	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
9139
9140			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
9141
9142			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
9143	root	1.387	%
9144	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
9145			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
9146			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
9147			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
9148
9149			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
9150
9151			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
9152			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
9153			:
9154			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
9155			:
9156			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
9157			:
9158			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
9159	root	1.387	%
9160	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
9161	root	1.387	%
9162	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
9163			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
9164			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
9165			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
9166			>
9167			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
9168			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
9169
9170			The classic example:
9171
9172			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
9173			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
9174	root	1.387	%
9175	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
9176			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
9177
9178			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
9179			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
9180			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
9181
9182			What's next, a String class for Perl?
9183
9184			--tom
9185	root	1.387	%
9186	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
9187			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
9188			working on something for me
9189			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
9190			to me nutting concerning y ok
9191			piece
9192			russ
9193	root	1.387	%
9194	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
9195
9196			pico (text editor for beginners)
9197			vi (text editor for advanced users)
9198			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
9199			ed (text editor for beginners)
9200	root	1.387	%
9201	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
9202
9203			use Python;
9204
9205			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
9206			Except maybe faster. :-)
9207
9208			Larry
9209	root	1.387	%
9210	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
9211
9212			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
9213			2010.
9214
9215			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
9216	root	1.387	%
9217	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
9218			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
9219			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
9220			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
9221			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
9222			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
9223			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
9224			been created.
9225	root	1.387	%
9226	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
9227			>
9228			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
9229			> $3.99.
9230			>
9231			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
9232			>
9233			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
9234			>
9235			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
9236			>
9237			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
9238			>
9239			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
9240			>
9241			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
9242			> got integrated Coke!
9243			>
9244			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
9245			> to drink the Coke.
9246			>
9247			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
9248			>
9249			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
9250			>
9251			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
9252			> inseparable.
9253			>
9254			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
9255			>
9256			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
9257			>
9258			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
9259			>
9260			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
9261			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
9262			> continuous taste across all your foods.
9263	root	1.387	%
9264	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
9265			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
9266	root	1.40	Rob Pike
9267	root	1.387	%
9268	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
9269
9270			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
9271			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
9272			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
9273			for you to digest this book.
9274			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
9275			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
9276			Join The Trickle
9277			Python: more popular than Dylan!
9278			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
9279			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
9280	root	1.387	%
9281	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
9282			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
9283			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
9284			complete and utter vapourware.
9285
9286			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
9287	root	1.387	%
9288	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
9289
9290			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
9291			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
9292	root	1.387	%
9293	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
9294
9295			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9296			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9297			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9298			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9299			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9300			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9301			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9302			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9303			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9304			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9305			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9306			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9307			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9308			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9309			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9310			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9311			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9312			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9313			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9314			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9315			work.
9316			[...]
9317			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9318			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9319			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9320			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9321			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9322			search generically - then it has some potential.
9323			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9324			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9325			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9326			intellectual value whatsoever.
9327
9328			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9329			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9330			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9331	root	1.387	%
9332	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9333	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9334	root	1.387	%
9335	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9336			#!/usr/bin/sh
9337			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9338			# All Rights Reserved
9339
9340			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9341			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9342			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9343
9344			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9345			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9346	root	1.387	%
9347	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.
9348	root	1.387	%
9349	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9350			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9351			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9352	root	1.387	%
9353	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9354
9355			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9356			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9357
9358			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9359			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9360			machine]
9361
9362			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9363			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9364			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9365
9366			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9367	root	1.387	%
9368	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9369			spamming:]
9370
9371			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9372			>>
9373			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9374			>>------------------------------------------------------
9375			>>
9376			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9377			>>
9378			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9379
9380			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9381			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9382	root	1.387	%
9383	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9384			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9385	root	1.387	%
9386	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9387			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9388	root	1.387	%
9389	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9390			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9391
9392			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9393	root	1.387	%
9394	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9395
9396			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9397			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9398			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9399			he's full of.
9400
9401			Support BSD/Linux.
9402
9403			--tom
9404	root	1.387	%
9405	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9406	root	1.387	%
9407	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9408	root	1.387	%
9409	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9410			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9411
9412			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9413			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9414			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9415			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9416	root	1.387	%
9417	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9418
9419			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9420			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9421	root	1.387	%
9422	root	1.1	[the creation]
9423			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9424	root	1.387	%
9425	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9426
9427			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9428			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9429			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9430	root	1.387	%
9431	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9432			selbst schliesse.
9433			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9434			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9435	root	1.387	%
9436	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9437			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9438
9439			No:
9440
9441			use Borg;
9442			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9443
9444			--
9445			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9446	root	1.387	%
9447	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9448			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9449			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9450			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9451			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9452			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9453			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9454			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9455			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9456			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9457			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9458			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9459			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9460			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9461			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9462			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9463			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9464			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9465			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9466			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9467			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9468			dispensers."
9469
9470			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9471	root	1.387	%
9472	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9473			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9474			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9475			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9476	root	1.387	%
9477	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9478			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9479			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9480	root	1.387	%
9481	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9482	root	1.1
9483			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9484	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9485	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9486	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9487	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9488			Student: "..."
9489			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9490			Student: "..."
9491			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9492	root	1.387	%
9493	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9494
9495			> Just morbid curiosity,
9496			>
9497			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9498
9499			Yes. Broken ones.
9500
9501			dgris
9502	root	1.387	%
9503	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9504			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9505	root	1.387	%
9506	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9507			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9508	root	1.387	%
9509	root	1.1	...
9510
9511			<AOL>
9512
9513			Me too!
9514
9515			</AOL>
9516
9517			Tig
9518	root	1.387	%
9519	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9520	root	1.387	%
9521	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9522	root	1.387	%
9523	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9524
9525			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9526			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9527			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9528			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9529			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9530			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9531			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9532
9533			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9534
9535			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9536			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9537			get really really pissed.
9538
9539			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9540			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9541	root	1.387	%
9542	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9543			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9544			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9545			> period.
9546			>
9547			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9548			> Nic
9549			>
9550
9551			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9552
9553			-hpa
9554	root	1.387	%
9555	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9556	root	1.387	%
9557	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9558			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9559			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9560			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9561			happy."
9562			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9563	root	1.387	%
9564	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9565			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9566			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9567
9568			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9569			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9570			I also forwarded the offending code.
9571
9572			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9573			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9574			service.
9575
9576			Daniel
9577	root	1.387	%
9578	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9579			...
9580			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9581	root	1.387	%
9582	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9583			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9584			[RJL]
9585	root	1.387	%
9586	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9587			right.''
9588	root	1.387	%
9589	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9590
9591			Amazing--they actually listened.
9592	root	1.387	%
9593	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9594			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9595			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9596
9597			# less foo
9598			sh: command not found
9599			# more foo
9600			sh: command not found
9601			# emacs foo
9602			sh: command not found
9603			# ed foo
9604			0
9605			help
9606			?
9607			quit
9608			?
9609			exit
9610			?
9611			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9612			?
9613
9614			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9615	root	1.387	%
9616	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9617			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9618			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9619
9620			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9621
9622			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9623
9624			tim> would be most correct in style.
9625
9626			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9627			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9628	root	1.387	%
9629	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9630			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9631			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9632			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9633			too bad --- ]
9634	root	1.387	%
9635	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9636	root	1.387	%
9637	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9638
9639			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9640			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9641
9642			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9643			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9644	root	1.387	%
9645	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9646			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9647			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9648			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9649			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9650	root	1.387	%
9651	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9652
9653			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9654			include wrong #include files in their source.
9655	root	1.387	%
9656	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9657
9658			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9659			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9660			Consider it a rite of passage.
9661	root	1.387	%
9662	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9663			"Oops."
9664			-- MST3K
9665	root	1.387	%
9666	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9667			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9668			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9669
9670			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9671			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9672			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9673			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9674			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9675			it. ;)
9676	root	1.387	%
9677	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9678			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9679			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9680			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9681			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9682
9683			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9684			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9685			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9686			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9687
9688			--tom
9689	root	1.387	%
9690	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9691
9692			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9693
9694			>Why does it end ?
9695
9696			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9697
9698			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9699			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9700
9701			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9702	root	1.387	%
9703	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9704			-- Tom Christiansen
9705	root	1.387	%
9706	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9707
9708			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9709			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9710			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9711			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9712			of Sputnik.
9713	root	1.387	%
9714	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9715			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9716			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9717			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9718			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9719	root	1.387	%
9720	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9721			- Hanlons razor -
9722	root	1.387	%
9723	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9724			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9725	root	1.387	%
9726	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9727			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9728			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9729			> offered no significant advantages.
9730
9731			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9732	root	1.387	%
9733	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9734			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9735			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9736			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9737			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9738			in front of me says so."
9739
9740			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9741	root	1.387	%
9742	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9743			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9744			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9745			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9746			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9747			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9748			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9749			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9750			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9751			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9752			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9753	root	1.387	%
9754	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9755			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9756			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9757			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9758			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9759	root	1.387	%
9760	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9761	root	1.387	%
9762	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9763	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9764			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9765			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9766			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9767	root	1.387	%
9768	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9769			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9770			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9771			>
9772			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9773			> and/or screen.
9774
9775			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9776	root	1.387	%
9777	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9778			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9779
9780			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9781			> use pedantic;
9782			> use strict 'code';
9783			>
9784			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9785
9786			use syntax 'python';
9787
9788			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9789
9790	root	1.387	%
9791	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9792			>
9793			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9794			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9795			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9796			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9797			>
9798			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9799	root	1.387	%
9800	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9801			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9802	root	1.387	%
9803	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9804			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9805			> be time-consuming.
9806
9807			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9808	root	1.387	%
9809	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9810			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9811			however, they do not handle C++...
9812			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9813	root	1.387	%
9814	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9815			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9816
9817			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9818
9819			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9820
9821			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9822
9823			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9824			already of old time, which was before us.
9825			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9826			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9827
9828			Regards,
9829			Tigran.
9830	root	1.387	%
9831	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9832	root	1.387	%
9833	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9834			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9835			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9836			main(){
9837			extrn hw;
9838			putchar(0[hw]);
9839			hw=+1;
9840			putchar(0[hw]);
9841			}
9842	root	1.387	%
9843	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9844
9845			The egg. Always. By definition.
9846	root	1.387	%
9847	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9848			>
9849			> Better check your scsi cables.
9850	root	1.387	%
9851	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9852			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9853	root	1.387	%
9854	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9855			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9856			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9857			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9858
9859	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9860	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9861			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9862
9863	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9864	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9865	root	1.387	%
9866	root	1.1	>James :\
9867			>
9868			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9869
9870			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9871	root	1.387	%
9872	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9873			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9874			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9875	root	1.387	%
9876	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9877			> is just asking for a black eye.
9878
9879			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9880
9881			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9882			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9883			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9884
9885			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9886			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9887			area.
9888	root	1.387	%
9889	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9890			[Lukas Grunwald]
9891	root	1.387	%
9892	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9893
9894			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9895			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9896			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9897			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9898			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9899	root	1.387	%
9900	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9901			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9902
9903			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9904	root	1.387	%
9905	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9906			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9907			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9908
9909			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9910
9911			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9912
9913			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9914
9915			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9916			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9917	root	1.387	%
9918	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9919	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9920	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9921	root	1.387	%
9922	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9923			longer...
9924	root	1.387	%
9925	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9926			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9927			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9928	root	1.387	%
9929	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9930			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9931			> > world :) I just love it...
9932			>
9933			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9934			>
9935			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9936			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9937			practical...
9938			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9939			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9940			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9941			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9942			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9943
9944			Jan Hubicka
9945	root	1.387	%
9946	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9947			[...]
9948			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9949
9950			No, it is not. What you meant is
9951
9952			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9953	root	1.387	%
9954	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9955			> A) perl-5.00553
9956			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9957			> cc = cl.exe
9958			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9959
9960			[...]
9961
9962			Ilya
9963	root	1.387	%
9964	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9965
9966			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9967
9968			p.
9969	root	1.387	%
9970	root	1.1	[tomc]
9971			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9972			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9973
9974			+------------------------------------------+
9975			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9976			+------------------------------------------+
9977
9978			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9979			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9980
9981			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9982			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9983			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9984			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9985			interesting way.
9986			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9987			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9988			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9989			interesting things.
9990			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9991			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9992			things.
9993	root	1.387	%
9994	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9995			--Dennis Ritchie
9996	root	1.387	%
9997	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9998	root	1.387	%
9999	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
10000
10001			switch (x)
10002			default:
10003			if (prime(x))
10004			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
10005			process_prime(x);
10006			else
10007			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
10008			process_composite(x);
10009	root	1.387	%
10010	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
10011			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
10012			in megabytes, required for execution?
10013
10014			Craig Milo Rogers
10015	root	1.387	%
10016	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
10017			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
10018			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
10019
10020			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
10021			US (apparently in Canada too?).
10022
10023			Ilya
10024	root	1.387	%
10025	root	1.1	[from p5p]
10026			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
10027
10028			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
10029			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
10030			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
10031
10032			Nat
10033	root	1.387	%
10034	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
10035			much steroids for a while. =)
10036
10037			--Albert Dvornik
10038			<bert@genscan.com>
10039	root	1.387	%
10040	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
10041			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
10042			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
10043
10044			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
10045
10046			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
10047			or tcl crowd instead of here.
10048
10049			--tom
10050	root	1.387	%
10051	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
10052
10053			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
10054
10055			Linus
10056	root	1.387	%
10057	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
10058			devil added HTML mail...
10059	root	1.387	%
10060	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
10061			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
10062			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
10063	root	1.387	%
10064	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
10065			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
10066
10067			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
10068			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
10069			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
10070
10071			Arm the gnus!
10072	root	1.387	%
10073	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
10074
10075			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
10076			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
10077			gcc, so go away.
10078	root	1.387	%
10079	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
10080			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
10081
10082			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
10083
10084			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
10085			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
10086	root	1.387	%
10087	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10088			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
10089			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
10090			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
10091
10092			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
10093			was released today" madness.
10094	root	1.387	%
10095	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10096			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
10097			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
10098			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
10099			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
10100			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
10101			>
10102			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
10103			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
10104			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
10105			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
10106			> marketing name, anyway.
10107
10108			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
10109			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
10110			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
10111
10112			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
10113			violence..." :-)
10114	root	1.387	%
10115	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
10116			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
10117	root	1.387	%
10118	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
10119			> >poor drivers
10120			>
10121			> No it doesn't.
10122
10123			Indeed. Its down to
10124
10125			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
10126
10127			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
10128			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
10129			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
10130			or binaries.
10131	root	1.387	%
10132	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
10133	root	1.387	%
10134	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
10135	root	1.387	%
10136	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
10137
10138			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
10139			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
10140			\|>
10141			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
10142
10143			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
10144
10145			Andreas.
10146	root	1.387	%
10147	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10148			...
10149			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
10150
10151			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
10152			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
10153			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
10154			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
10155			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
10156			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
10157	root	1.387	%
10158	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10159
10160			Paul Eggert writes:
10161			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
10162
10163			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
10164			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
10165	root	1.387	%
10166	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
10167			however.
10168
10169			"We don't have the tools"
10170			"We can't support a non intel build"
10171			"We don't have that sort of machine"
10172			"Its not worth the time cost"
10173			"Whats an Alpha ?"
10174	root	1.387	%
10175	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
10176
10177			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
10178			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
10179			>
10180			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
10181			> <mailproc@fred>
10182			>
10183			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
10184			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10185			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10186			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
10187			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
10188	root	1.387	%
10189	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
10190			> No documented problem
10191			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
10192			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
10193			>
10194			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
10195	root	1.387	%
10196	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
10197			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
10198	root	1.387	%
10199	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
10200			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
10201
10202			dave
10203	root	1.387	%
10204	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10205			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
10206
10207			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
10208	root	1.387	%
10209	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10210
10211			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
10212			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
10213
10214			Paul Eggert writes:
10215			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
10216
10217			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
10218			1 month before 29 March?
10219
10220			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
10221
10222			1 month before 28 March?
10223
10224			28 February.
10225
10226			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
10227			_before_ 27 February?
10228
10229			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
10230	root	1.387	%
10231	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10232
10233			>Nils Goesche wrote:
10234			>> So make a security check first:
10235			>>
10236			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
10237			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
10238			>
10239			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
10240			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
10241			>
10242			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
10243			> = instead of == error*/
10244			> launch_full_counterstrike();
10245			>
10246			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
10247			>
10248			>--
10249			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
10250
10251			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
10252
10253			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
10254			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
10255	root	1.387	%
10256	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
10257			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
10258
10259			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
10260			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
10261			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
10262			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
10263			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
10264			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
10265			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
10266			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
10267
10268			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
10269			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
10270			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
10271			available for that hardware from any source.
10272			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
10273			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
10274			sniffing!
10275	root	1.387	%
10276	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
10277			technical support line that isn't"
10278	root	1.387	%
10279	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
10280			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
10281	root	1.387	%
10282	root	1.1	[...]
10283			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
10284			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
10285
10286			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
10287			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
10288			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
10289			"Nothing else"
10290			"Sorry"
10291			[Click]
10292
10293			Alan
10294	root	1.387	%
10295	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10296			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10297	root	1.387	%
10298	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10299			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10300			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10301			> users excepted, of course!).
10302
10303			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10304			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10305			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10306			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10307			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10308			is installed"
10309
10310			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10311	root	1.387	%
10312	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10313
10314			L. Harris wrote:
10315			>
10316			> Testing
10317
10318			you failed.
10319	root	1.387	%
10320	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10321			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10322	root	1.387	%
10323	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10324			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10325			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10326			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10327	root	1.387	%
10328	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10329			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10330			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10331
10332			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10333	root	1.387	%
10334	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10335			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10336			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10337			where else...
10338	root	1.387	%
10339	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10340			[...]
10341			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10342			: about a certain topic.
10343	root	1.387	%
10344	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10345			>
10346			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10347			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10348
10349			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10350			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10351
10352			void main (void)
10353			{
10354			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10355			printf ("\n");
10356			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10357			printf ("You have died.\n");
10358			printf ("\n");
10359			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10360			}
10361
10362			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10363
10364			--
10365			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10366	root	1.387	%
10367	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10368			mistake I ever made]
10369
10370			From: "Tom Miller"
10371			Subject: Can
10372			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10373
10374			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10375			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10376			my name is Tom Miller
10377
10378			From: "Tom Miller"
10379			Subject: Wait
10380			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10381
10382			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10383			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10384	root	1.387	%
10385	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10386
10387			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10388			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10389			so why bother? [...]
10390	root	1.387	%
10391	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10392	root	1.1
10393			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10394
10395			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10396			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10397			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10398			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10399			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10400			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10401			sich dann.
10402	root	1.387	%
10403	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10404			no fs
10405			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10406			Definitely hardware or software error.
10407
10408			Unix Version 7 Manual
10409	root	1.387	%
10410	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10411			>
10412			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10413			>
10414			> =for C
10415			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10416			> =end
10417			> =for C++
10418			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10419			> =end
10420			> =for Java
10421			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10422			> =end
10423			>
10424			> :-)
10425	root	1.387	%
10426	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10427	root	1.387	%
10428	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10429
10430			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10431			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10432			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10433			turn it on.
10434	root	1.387	%
10435	root	1.1	[...]
10436			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10437			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10438			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10439			[...]
10440	root	1.387	%
10441	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10442
10443			Chad C Giffin
10444	root	1.387	%
10445	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10446			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10447			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10448			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10449			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10450			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10451
10452			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10453			through the door.
10454			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10455			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10456			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10457			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10458			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10459			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10460			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10461			usually.)
10462
10463			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10464			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10465			your tire pressure..."
10466			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10467			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10468			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10469			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10470			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10471			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10472			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10473			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10474	root	1.387	%
10475	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10476
10477			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10478	root	1.387	%
10479	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10480
10481			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10482			:-(
10483	root	1.387	%
10484	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10485			>dies alles geschieht.
10486			>Und es verging nicht.
10487
10488			So what?
10489
10490			Ich dachte eher an:
10491
10492			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10493			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10494			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10495			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10496			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10497			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10498			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10499			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10500			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10501			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10502			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10503			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10504
10505			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10506
10507			Antje
10508	root	1.387	%
10509	root	1.1	[....]
10510
10511			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10512			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10513			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10514			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10515			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10516			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10517
10518			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10519
10520			Antje
10521	root	1.387	%
10522	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10523			lalala, I love you baby..."
10524			--
10525			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10526	root	1.387	%
10527	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10528			>
10529			> Kubys
10530
10531			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10532
10533			Linus
10534	root	1.387	%
10535	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10536
10537			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10538			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10539			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10540	root	1.387	%
10541	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10542
10543			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10544			out what it means.
10545			--
10546			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10547	root	1.387	%
10548	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10549			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10550	root	1.387	%
10551	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10552			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10553
10554			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10555
10556			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10557			> is being discussed.
10558
10559			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10560	root	1.387	%
10561	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10562
10563			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10564
10565			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10566
10567			[and the button reads]
10568
10569			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10570	root	1.387	%
10571	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10572
10573			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10574
10575			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10576			certain amount of redundancy.
10577	root	1.387	%
10578	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10579			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10580
10581			...
10582
10583			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10584	root	1.387	%
10585	root	1.1	>Hello,
10586			>
10587			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10588			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10589			>
10590
10591			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10592			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10593			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10594			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10595	root	1.387	%
10596	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10597			on the country as a whole.
10598			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10599			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10600			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10601	root	1.387	%
10602	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10603			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10604	root	1.387	%
10605	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10606	root	1.387	%
10607	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10608			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10609			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10610
10611			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10612
10613			--tom
10614			--
10615			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10616			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10617	root	1.387	%
10618	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10619			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10620	root	1.387	%
10621	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10622
10623			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10624			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10625			> NO CARRIER
10626			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10627	root	1.387	%
10628	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10629			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10630			> better.
10631
10632			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10633			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10634	root	1.387	%
10635	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10636			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10637	root	1.387	%
10638	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10639			\|>
10640			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10641			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10642			\|>
10643			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10644			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10645
10646			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10647			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10648			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10649			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10650			build Bison, and then cook it.
10651
10652			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10653	root	1.387	%
10654	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10655			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10656			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10657			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10658			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10659	root	1.387	%
10660	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10661			-- lbxproxy(1)
10662	root	1.387	%
10663	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10664
10665			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10666
10667			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10668			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10669	root	1.387	%
10670	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10671
10672			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10673	root	1.387	%
10674	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10675			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10676			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10677			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10678			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10679
10680			\|> What does this mean.
10681
10682			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10683			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10684	root	1.387	%
10685	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10686
10687			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10688			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10689
10690			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10691	root	1.387	%
10692	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10693			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10694			streams)."
10695			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10696	root	1.387	%
10697	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10698			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10699	root	1.387	%
10700	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10701
10702			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10703
10704			Klaro.
10705
10706			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10707			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10708			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10709			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10710
10711	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10712	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10713
10714			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10715			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10716			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10717			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10718			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10719			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10720			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10721
10722			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10723			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10724			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10725	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10726			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10727			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10728			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10729	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10730
10731			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10732	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10733			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10734			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10735			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10736			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10737			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10738			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10739	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10740			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10741
10742			cu in hell 2002
10743	root	1.387	%
10744	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10745	root	1.387	%
10746	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10747
10748			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10749			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10750			the man page for crypt(1).
10751
10752			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10753			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10754			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10755
10756			man -s3 crypt
10757
10758			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10759			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10760
10761			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10762			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10763			he can figure out to use the command
10764
10765			man -s3 Intro.3
10766
10767			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10768			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10769
10770			man -s3c crypt
10771
10772			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10773			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10774			any trouble.
10775			--
10776			Michael M Rubenstein
10777	root	1.387	%
10778	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10779
10780			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10781
10782			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10783
10784			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10785
10786			Regards,
10787			Tim Bunce.
10788
10789			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10790			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10791			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10792	root	1.387	%
10793	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10794
10795			...
10796
10797			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10798			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10799			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10800
10801			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10802			its unusable, believe me I do.
10803	root	1.387	%
10804	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10805
10806			Semour Cray
10807	root	1.387	%
10808	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10809
10810			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10811	root	1.387	%
10812	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10813			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10814
10815			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10816			it only supports parts of it
10817	root	1.387	%
10818	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10819			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10820	root	1.387	%
10821	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10822			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10823			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10824			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10825			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10826			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10827			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10828
10829			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10830			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10831			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10832			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10833			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10834			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10835			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10836			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10837			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10838			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10839
10840			tq vm, (burley)
10841	root	1.387	%
10842	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10843			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10844			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10845			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10846			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10847			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10848			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10849	root	1.387	%
10850	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10851			/*
10852			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10853			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10854			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10855			* files won't compile.
10856			*/
10857	root	1.387	%
10858	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10859			> great.
10860
10861			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10862
10863			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10864
10865			This rock is below water half of the time!
10866			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10867			on a regular basis! ;-)
10868	root	1.387	%
10869	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10870			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10871			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10872	root	1.387	%
10873	root	1.1	>
10874			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10875			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10876			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10877
10878			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10879	root	1.387	%
10880	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10881
10882			>Hello!
10883
10884			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10885			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10886			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10887
10888
10889			Perl.
10890
10891			regards
10892			jobst
10893	root	1.387	%
10894	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10895			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10896			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10897
10898			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10899			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10900
10901			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10902			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10903			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10904			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10905			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10906			the absolute pits.
10907	root	1.387	%
10908	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10909	root	1.387	%
10910	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10911			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10912
10913			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10914	root	1.387	%
10915	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10916			ketchup and mustard
10917	root	1.387	%
10918	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10919
10920			vimal gajjar wrote:
10921			>
10922			> Hi there,
10923			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10924			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10925			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10926			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10927			> 5% of cpu
10928			> 2 Mb of RAM
10929			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10930			>
10931			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10932
10933			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10934			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10935			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10936	root	1.387	%
10937	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10938			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10939			>
10940			> >s/usually/never/
10941			>
10942			> s/sometimes/never/
10943
10944			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10945	root	1.387	%
10946	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10947			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10948			:Perl, IMO.
10949
10950			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10951
10952			TC
10953	root	1.387	%
10954	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10955	root	1.387	%
10956	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10957
10958			Hi guys!
10959
10960			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10961	root	1.387	%
10962	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10963
10964			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10965			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10966			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10967			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10968			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10969			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10970	root	1.387	%
10971	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10972			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10973			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10974
10975			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10976			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10977			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10978			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10979
10980			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10981			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10982			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10983			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10984
10985			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10986
10987			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10988
10989			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10990			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10991			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10992
10993			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10994			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10995
10996			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10997			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10998
10999			Did I miss any? ;-)
11000
11001			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
11002			Laugh. Please.
11003
11004			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
11005			--Scott
11006	root	1.387	%
11007	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
11008
11009			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
11010			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
11011			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
11012			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
11013	root	1.387	%
11014	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
11015			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
11016
11017			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
11018
11019			This is not mail.
11020
11021			This is Usenet.
11022
11023			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
11024	root	1.387	%
11025	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
11026			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
11027			--- ide1: reset: success
11028			-----------> I like Linux !
11029	root	1.387	%
11030	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
11031			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
11032
11033			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
11034			do.
11035	root	1.387	%
11036	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
11037			++ PLONK.
11038	root	1.387	%
11039	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
11040			Re: Subraumfunk
11041
11042			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
11043			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
11044
11045			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
11046			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
11047			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
11048			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
11049			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
11050	root	1.387	%
11051	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
11052			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
11053			>
11054			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
11055
11056			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
11057	root	1.387	%
11058	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
11059			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
11060	root	1.387	%
11061	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
11062			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
11063
11064			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
11065			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
11066
11067			Bill Jones
11068	root	1.387	%
11069	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
11070
11071			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
11072			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
11073			#include <windows.h>
11074			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
11075			#endif
11076	root	1.387	%
11077	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
11078
11079			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
11080			is, invoking the URL
11081
11082			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
11083
11084			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
11085	root	1.387	%
11086	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
11087			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
11088			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
11089			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
11090			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
11091			"I am using CGI!"
11092
11093			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
11094	root	1.387	%
11095	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
11096			> > kennenlernen koennen?
11097			>
11098	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
11099	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
11100
11101			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
11102	root	1.387	%
11103	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
11104			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
11105	root	1.387	%
11106	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
11107			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
11108			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
11109			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
11110	root	1.387	%
11111	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
11112
11113			pcg@goof.com said:
11114			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
11115
11116			Hehe - I know the feeling.
11117
11118			"It's broken."
11119			"What's wrong with it?."
11120			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
11121			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
11122			"It just doesn't work."
11123			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
11124			"It gives an error message."
11125			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
11126			"It says.... something about there being an error."
11127			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
11128			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
11129			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
11130			letter for letter this time."
11131	root	1.387	%
11132	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
11133
11134			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
11135			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
11136			2.6, the mode was 04555.
11137
11138			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
11139			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
11140			perms.
11141
11142			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
11143	root	1.387	%
11144	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
11145			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
11146
11147			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
11148
11149			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
11150			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
11151			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
11152
11153			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
11154			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
11155	root	1.387	%
11156	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
11157			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
11158	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
11159
11160			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
11161			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
11162			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
11163			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
11164			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
11165			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
11166			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
11167			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
11168			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
11169			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
11170			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
11171
11172			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
11173
11174			normarz@aol.com
11175	root	1.387	%
11176	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
11177	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
11178	root	1.1	>Legion
11179			>schlagen?
11180
11181			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
11182
11183			Bye
11184			Andreas
11185	root	1.387	%
11186	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
11187
11188			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
11189			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
11190
11191			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
11192			companies.
11193
11194			Kind regards
11195			Henning
11196	root	1.387	%
11197	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
11198			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
11199			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
11200
11201			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
11202			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
11203			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
11204
11205			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
11206			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
11207			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
11208			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
11209			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
11210			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
11211			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
11212			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
11213			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
11214			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
11215	root	1.387	%
11216	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
11217			We might support that sometime next year.
11218			-=- Microsoft
11219			(But I doubt it.)
11220			-=- Me
11221			-=- James Mastros
11222	root	1.387	%
11223	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
11224			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
11225			> following methods, but the output was split into two
11226			>lines.
11227
11228			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
11229			put newlines in the middle of your string.
11230	root	1.387	%
11231	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
11232	root	1.387	%
11233	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
11234			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
11235			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
11236			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
11237	root	1.387	%
11238	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
11239
11240			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
11241			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
11242			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
11243			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
11244			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
11245			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
11246			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
11247			it's not all his fault.
11248
11249			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
11250			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
11251			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
11252			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
11253			content.
11254
11255			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
11256			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
11257			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
11258			learn (or pay for it;)
11259
11260			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
11261			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
11262			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
11263			just for fun or to get the op.
11264
11265			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
11266			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
11267			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
11268			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
11269
11270			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
11271
11272			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
11273			course, Linux and Linux people.
11274	root	1.387	%
11275	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
11276			then he rewrote it as WNT.
11277
11278			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
11279			--
11280			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
11281	root	1.387	%
11282	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
11283
11284			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
11285			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
11286			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
11287
11288			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
11289			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
11290			tradition.
11291	root	1.387	%
11292	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
11293			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
11294	root	1.387	%
11295	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11296			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11297	root	1.387	%
11298	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11299			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11300			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11301			Or GIRLS for short.
11302	root	1.387	%
11303	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11304	root	1.387	%
11305	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11306			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11307			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11308			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11309			5_004_03 to build!"
11310
11311			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11312			have no patience."
11313
11314			xoxo,
11315			Andy
11316	root	1.387	%
11317	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11318			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11319			We all have our cross to bear.
11320	root	1.387	%
11321	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11322
11323			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11324			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11325			Subject: Re: system() question
11326
11327			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11328			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11329			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11330			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11331			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11332			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11333			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11334			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11335			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11336			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11337			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11338			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11339			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11340			humiliating for me!)
11341
11342			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11343			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11344			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11345			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11346			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11347			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11348			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11349			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11350			really knows the answer.
11351
11352			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11353			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11354			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11355			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11356
11357			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11358			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11359			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11360			for that.
11361
11362			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11363			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11364			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11365			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11366			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11367			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11368			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11369
11370			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11371
11372			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11373			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11374			something for free.''
11375
11376			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11377
11378			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11379			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11380
11381			(Good question.)
11382
11383			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11384			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11385			once I have run it.''
11386			(Good question.)
11387
11388			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11389
11390			(Good question.)
11391
11392			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11393			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11394			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11395			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11396			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11397
11398			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11399			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11400			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11401			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11402			comp.lang.perl?
11403			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11404			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11405			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11406			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11407			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11408			in comp.lang.perl?
11409
11410			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11411			you my rate card.
11412
11413			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11414			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11415			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11416			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11417			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11418			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11419			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11420			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11421			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11422			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11423
11424			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11425			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11426			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11427			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11428			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11429			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11430			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11431			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11432			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11433			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11434			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11435			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11436			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11437			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11438			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11439			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11440
11441			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11442			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11443			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11444			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11445			someone will. Maybe I will.
11446
11447			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11448			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11449			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11450			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11451			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11452			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11453			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11454			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11455
11456			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11457			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11458			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11459			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11460			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11461			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11462			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11463			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11464			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11465			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11466			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11467			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11468			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11469			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11470
11471			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11472			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11473			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11474			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11475
11476			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11477
11478			`I want to accomplish X.
11479
11480			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11481
11482			...
11483
11484			But instead it does Y.
11485
11486			Why is that?''
11487
11488			This one is also pretty good:
11489
11490			`I want to accomplish X.
11491			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11492
11493			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11494			because of Z.
11495
11496			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11497
11498			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11499			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11500
11501
11502			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11503			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11504
11505			--
11506			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11507			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11508	root	1.387	%
11509	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11510			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11511
11512			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11513			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11514			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11515
11516			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11517
11518			bye, Georg
11519	root	1.387	%
11520	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11521			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11522			convince me.
11523
11524			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11525
11526			Linus
11527	root	1.387	%
11528	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11529			++
11530
11531			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11532			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11533
11534	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11535	root	1.1
11536			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11537			understanding the above line.
11538
11539			Abigail
11540	root	1.387	%
11541	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11542			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11543	root	1.387	%
11544	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11545			++ button?
11546			Yes.
11547
11548			++ 100 pictures or so?
11549			Yes.
11550
11551			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11552			Yes.
11553
11554			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11555			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11556
11557			Abigail
11558	root	1.387	%
11559	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11560
11561			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11562
11563			Martien
11564	root	1.387	%
11565	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11566			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11567			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11568			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11569	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11570	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11571			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11572			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11573			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11574	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11575	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11576			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11577	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11578			nicht. ;)
11579
11580	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11581			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11582			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11583	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11584			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11585	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11586	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11587
11588	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11589			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11590	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11591	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11592	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11593
11594	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11595	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11596	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11597			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11598	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11599	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11600	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11601			"unvorstellbar".
11602
11603			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11604	root	1.387	%
11605	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11606			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11607			^^^
11608			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11609	root	1.387	%
11610	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11611			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11612	root	1.387	%
11613	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11614			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11615	root	1.387	%
11616	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11617			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11618			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11619
11620			An artificial pile of rocks.
11621	root	1.387	%
11622	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11623			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11624			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11625			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11626			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11627			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11628
11629			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11630			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11631			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11632			grosser Flipperautomat.
11633
11634			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11635	root	1.387	%
11636	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11637			>
11638			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11639			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11640			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11641			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11642			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11643	root	1.387	%
11644	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11645			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11646	root	1.1
11647			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11648	root	1.387	%
11649	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11650
11651			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11652
11653			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11654			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11655			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11656			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11657			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11658			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11659			Unix environment.
11660	root	1.387	%
11661	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11662			between these:
11663
11664			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11665			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11666
11667			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11668			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11669			;#", and the print gets executed!
11670
11671			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11672			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11673			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11674			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11675
11676			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11677			'perl'".
11678
11679			--
11680			Randal L. Schwartz
11681	root	1.387	%
11682	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11683
11684			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11685			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11686			>
11687			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11688
11689			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11690
11691			--
11692			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11693	root	1.387	%
11694	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11695	root	1.387	%
11696	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11697			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11698	root	1.387	%
11699	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11700			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11701	root	1.387	%
11702	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11703			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11704			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11705			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11706			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11707			example.
11708	root	1.387	%
11709	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11710			resemble a nail.
11711	root	1.387	%
11712	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11713			> I did wrong.
11714
11715			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11716			newsgroup.
11717	root	1.387	%
11718	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11719	root	1.387	%
11720	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11721			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11722	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11723
11724			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11725	root	1.387	%
11726	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11727	root	1.1
11728	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11729	root	1.387	%
11730	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11731			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11732			expired instantly!!!
11733	root	1.387	%
11734	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11735			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11736
11737			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11738			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11739			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11740
11741			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11742			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11743			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11744			than double Linus's programming experience?
11745
11746			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11747			> pretty straight forward.
11748
11749			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11750			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11751	root	1.387	%
11752	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11753			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11754			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11755			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11756			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11757			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11758	root	1.387	%
11759	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11760	root	1.387	%
11761	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11762			Example:
11763			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11764	root	1.387	%
11765	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11766			Randal gets his hands on it
11767	root	1.387	%
11768	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11769	root	1.387	%
11770	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11771
11772			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11773			first if you get it working.
11774	root	1.387	%
11775	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11776			> Think different.
11777
11778			Think Again.
11779	root	1.387	%
11780	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11781	root	1.387	%
11782	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11783			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11784			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11785
11786			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11787	root	1.387	%
11788	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11789			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11790	root	1.387	%
11791	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11792			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11793			\| top.
11794	root	1.387	%
11795	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11796			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11797	root	1.387	%
11798	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11799			^^^^^^^^^
11800			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11801
11802			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11803	root	1.387	%
11804	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11805			>gehen soll?
11806
11807	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11808	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11809			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11810	root	1.387	%
11811	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11812	root	1.387	%
11813	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11814			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11815	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11816			>
11817			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11818
11819			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11820			Schuh aus!
11821	root	1.387	%
11822	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11823
11824	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11825	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11826	root	1.387	%
11827	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11828
11829
11830			First opportunity
11831			Approximate
11832			Orbit Internet
11833			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11834
11835			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11836			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11837			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11838			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11839
11840			Second opportunity
11841			Approximate
11842			Orbit Internet
11843			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11844
11845			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11846			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11847			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11848			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11849
11850			Third opportunity
11851			Approximate
11852			Orbit Internet
11853			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11854
11855			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11856			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11857			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11858			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11859
11860	root	1.387	%
11861	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11862	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11863			> >würden.
11864	root	1.1	>
11865			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11866			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11867			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11868			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11869			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11870			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11871			implizierst.
11872	root	1.387	%
11873	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11874			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11875	root	1.387	%
11876	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11877			Big improvement.
11878	root	1.387	%
11879	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11880			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11881			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11882			-- "Why that one?"
11883			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11884			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11885	root	1.387	%
11886	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11887			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11888			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11889	root	1.387	%
11890	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11891			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11892			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11893
11894			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11895
11896			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11897			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11898			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11899
11900			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11901
11902			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11903			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11904			> er eigentlich ist?
11905
11906	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11907	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11908	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11909	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11910	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11911	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11912	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11913	root	1.1	Ciao
11914			Stefan
11915	root	1.387	%
11916	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11917			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11918			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11919			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11920	root	1.387	%
11921	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11922			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11923			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11924			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11925			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11926			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11927			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11928			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11929			off.
11930	root	1.387	%
11931	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11932			Meet interesting people,
11933			Kill them.
11934	root	1.387	%
11935	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11936			> umwandelbar ist.
11937
11938			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11939	root	1.387	%
11940	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11941	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11942	root	1.387	%
11943	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11944			>
11945			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11946			> >> ruckartig.
11947			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11948			>
11949	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11950	root	1.1
11951			:-)
11952	root	1.387	%
11953	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11954	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11955			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11956	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11957			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11958			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11959			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11960
11961			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11962			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11963	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11964			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11965	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11966	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11967			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11968			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11969	root	1.1	Union.
11970
11971	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11972			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11973	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11974	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11975			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11976			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11977	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11978	root	1.387	%
11979	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11980			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11981	root	1.387	%
11982	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11983	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11984	root	1.1	>>
11985			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11986	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11987			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11988	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11989			>
11990			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11991			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11992	root	1.387	%
11993	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11994	root	1.387	%
11995	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11996			> into a random order???
11997			>
11998
11999			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
12000			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
12001
12002			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
12003			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
12004			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
12005			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
12006			number less than 42.
12007	root	1.387	%
12008	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
12009			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
12010			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
12011			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
12012			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
12013			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
12014			eventually invent Unix.
12015	root	1.387	%
12016	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
12017			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
12018			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
12019			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
12020			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
12021			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
12022			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
12023			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
12024			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
12025			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
12026			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
12027			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
12028			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
12029			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
12030			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
12031			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
12032	root	1.387	%
12033	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
12034			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
12035			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
12036	root	1.387	%
12037	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
12038			using a Perl CGI script?
12039	root	1.387	%
12040	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
12041
12042			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
12043			week.
12044	root	1.387	%
12045	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
12046			Brieweb> of PERL.
12047			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
12048			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
12049			[Randal Schwartz]
12050	root	1.387	%
12051	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
12052			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
12053			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
12054			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
12055	root	1.387	%
12056	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
12057			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
12058			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
12059			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
12060			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
12061			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
12062			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
12063			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
12064			system and restricting their options.
12065			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
12066	root	1.387	%
12067	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
12068			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
12069			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
12070	root	1.387	%
12071	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
12072			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
12073			Ernie Hai
12074			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
12075	root	1.387	%
12076	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
12077			: results" report from the users.
12078
12079			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
12080			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
12081			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
12082			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
12083	root	1.387	%
12084	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
12085			They are all owned by cats.
12086	root	1.387	%
12087	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
12088			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
12089			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
12090	root	1.387	%
12091	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
12092			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
12093
12094			Yesterday it worked
12095			Today it is not working
12096			Windows is like that
12097			- - -
12098			wind catches lily
12099			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
12100			segmentation fault
12101			- - -
12102			Three things are certain:
12103			Death, taxes, and lost data.
12104			Guess which has occurred.
12105			- - -
12106			A file that big?
12107			It might be very useful.
12108			But now it is gone.
12109			- - -
12110			Windows NT crashed.
12111			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
12112			No one hears your screams.
12113			- - -
12114			Errors have occurred.
12115			We won't tell you where or why.
12116			Lazy programmers.
12117			- - -
12118			Seeing my great fault
12119			Through darkening blue windows
12120			I begin again
12121			- - -
12122			The code was willing,
12123			It considered your request,
12124			But the chips were weak.
12125			- - -
12126			Printer not ready.
12127			Could be a fatal error.
12128			Have a pen handy?
12129			- - -
12130			Server's poor response
12131			Not quick enough for browser.
12132			Timed out, plum blossom.
12133			- - -
12134			Chaos reigns within.
12135			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
12136			Order shall return.
12137			- - -
12138			Login incorrect.
12139			Only perfect spellers may
12140			enter this system.
12141			- - -
12142			This site has been moved.
12143			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
12144			have to delete you.
12145			- - -
12146			ABORTED effort:
12147			Close all that you have.
12148			You ask way too much.
12149			- - -
12150			First snow, then silence.
12151			This thousand dollar screen dies
12152			so beautifully.
12153			- - -
12154			With searching comes loss
12155			and the presence of absence:
12156			"My Novel" not found.
12157			- - -
12158			The Tao that is seen
12159			Is not the true Tao, until
12160			You bring fresh toner.
12161			- - -
12162			The Web site you seek
12163			cannot be located but
12164			endless others exist
12165			- - -
12166			Stay the patient course
12167			Of little worth is your ire
12168			The network is down
12169			- - -
12170			A crash reduces
12171			your expensive computer
12172			to a simple stone.
12173			- - -
12174			There is a chasm
12175			of carbon and silicon
12176			the software can't bridge
12177			- - -
12178			To have no errors
12179			Would be life without meaning
12180			No struggle, no joy
12181			- - -
12182			You step in the stream,
12183			but the water has moved on.
12184			This page is not here.
12185			- - -
12186			No keyboard present
12187			Hit F1 to continue
12188			Zen engineering?
12189			- - -
12190			Hal, open the file
12191			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
12192			open it, please Hal
12193			- - -
12194			Out of memory.
12195			We wish to hold the whole sky,
12196			But we never will.
12197			- - -
12198			Having been erased,
12199			The document you're seeking
12200			Must now be retyped.
12201			- - -
12202			The ten thousand things
12203			How long do any persist?
12204			Netscape, too, has gone.
12205			- - -
12206			Rather than a beep
12207			Or a rude error message,
12208			These words: "File not found."
12209			- - -
12210			Serious error.
12211			All shortcuts have disappeared
12212			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
12213	root	1.387	%
12214	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
12215			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
12216	root	1.387	%
12217	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
12218			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
12219
12220			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
12221			early 1980s.
12222	root	1.387	%
12223	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
12224			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
12225			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
12226			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
12227
12228			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
12229			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
12230			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
12231			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
12232			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
12233			many new features that it just stops working.
12234
12235			This also applies to Microsoft products.
12236
12237			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
12238			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
12239
12240			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
12241			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
12242			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
12243
12244			Hope this explains what's going on
12245			Martien Verbruggen
12246	root	1.387	%
12247	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
12248	root	1.387	%
12249	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
12250	root	1.387	%
12251	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
12252	root	1.387	%
12253	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
12254			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
12255			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
12256	root	1.387	%
12257	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
12258			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
12259			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
12260			>
12261			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
12262
12263			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
12264			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
12265	root	1.387	%
12266	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
12267			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
12268			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
12269			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
12270	root	1.387	%
12271	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
12272			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
12273			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
12274			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
12275			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
12276			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
12277			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
12278			convienience store.")
12279	root	1.387	%
12280	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
12281			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
12282	root	1.387	%
12283	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
12284	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
12285	root	1.1
12286			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
12287			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
12288	root	1.387	%
12289	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
12290			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
12291			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
12292			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
12293	root	1.387	%
12294	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12295			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12296			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12297	root	1.387	%
12298	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12299			(A => B) => (B => A)
12300			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12301			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12302	root	1.387	%
12303	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12304	root	1.387	%
12305	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12306			-Barry Shein
12307	root	1.387	%
12308	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12309			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12310			read the manual.
12311	root	1.387	%
12312	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12313	root	1.387	%
12314	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12315			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12316			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12317			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12318			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12319			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12320			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12321			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12322			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12323	root	1.387	%
12324	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12325	root	1.387	%
12326	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12327			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12328			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12329	root	1.387	%
12330	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12331
12332			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12333			need.
12334	root	1.387	%
12335	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12336			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12337			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12338	root	1.387	%
12339	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12340			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12341			newsreaders. You know,
12342			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12343			back
12344			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12345			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12346			out what they're saying.
12347	root	1.387	%
12348	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12349			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12350	root	1.387	%
12351	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12352			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12353			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12354
12355			But the combination.... sutters
12356	root	1.387	%
12357	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12358			Darn it.
12359	root	1.387	%
12360	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12361	root	1.387	%
12362	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12363	root	1.387	%
12364	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12365			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12366			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12367			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12368			trying to use it.
12369	root	1.387	%
12370	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12371	root	1.387	%
12372	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12373			>
12374			> Is this group active?
12375			No.
12376
12377			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12378			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12379
12380			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12381			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12382	root	1.387	%
12383	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12384			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12385	root	1.387	%
12386	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12387			Press any key to continue..."
12388	root	1.387	%
12389	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12390			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12391			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12392	root	1.387	%
12393	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12394			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12395			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12396			adjust your travel plans.
12397	root	1.387	%
12398	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12399			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12400	root	1.387	%
12401	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12402			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12403
12404			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12405			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12406
12407			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12408
12409			tak 18 12 6
12410	root	1.387	%
12411	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12412			-- Bill Gates
12413			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12414			-- Bill Gates
12415			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12416			-- logical conclusion
12417	root	1.387	%
12418	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12419			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12420			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12421			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12422			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12423			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12424			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12425			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12426			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12427			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12428			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12429			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12430			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12431			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12432			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12433			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12434			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12435			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12436			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12437			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12438			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12439	root	1.387	%
12440	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12441			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12442			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12443			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12444	root	1.387	%
12445	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.