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1	root	1.479	Apparently "zork" was a nonsense word used at MIT for the current
2			uninstalled program in progress, and stuck. Just as this document uses
3			the term "Z-machine" for both the machine and its loaded program (which
4			is also sometimes called the "story file"), so ZIP (Zork Implementation
5			Program) was used to mean either the interpreter or the object code it
6			interpreted. Code was written in ZIL (Zork Implementation Language),
7			which was derived from MDL (informally called "muddle"), a particularly
8			unhelpful form of LISP. It was then compiled by ZILCH to assembly code
9			which was passed to ZAP to make the ZIP.
10
11			[http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/appd.html]
12			%
13	root	1.478	"How We Test Power Supply Units"
14
15			In case a PSU explodes [...], we note this in the review and subtract the
16			corresponding performance points from its overall performance score.
17
18			[https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-we-test-psu,4042-12.html]
19			%
20	root	1.477	22:15:54 <Mikachu> the whole thing didn't strictly crash, but the game used --in-process-gpu and the gpu
21			process called exit when it couldn't init the gpu
22			22:16:01 <Mikachu> without that the game ran in software at 1fps just fine
23			%
24			Whatever feature of the STE you want to use, it will either not work as
25			planned or require special treatment. If it works as planned and does not
26			require special treatment, it will definetly not work on the TT or the
27			Falcon.
28
29			[http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Atari_STE_FAQ_compiled_by_The_Paranoid_/_Paradox]
30			%
31	root	1.476	In 1729, how could they know where the north pole was when it was only
32			discovered in 1909?
33			-- Ebon Kim, Flat-Earth Youtuber
34			%
35	root	1.475	Fun with the north korean Red Star OS:
36
37			It does have some components that prevent the normal user from
38			editing/deleting various protected files (securityd, scnprc and opprc). We
39			call it “oppression” if we’re speaking of DPRK and “defending your
40			privacy and security” if we’re speaking of Apple. Two sides of the
41			same coin, I guess, depends on which side you’re on.
42
43			[https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/]
44			%
45	root	1.474	Minister for Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam clarified in Parliament
46			during the Committee of Supply debate on Mar. 3 that inmates in Singapore
47			do not need to thank prison staff after being caned.
48
49			[https://mothership.sg/2022/03/no-requirement-thank-guard-after-caning/]
50			%
51			The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered" that the
52			HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and tasked a working group with
53			preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule. This ruled out any
54			basis for the new HTTP/2.0 other than the SPDY protocol. With only
55			the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at
56			improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus," the
57			IETF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every
58			principle ever held dear in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping
59			Google's initiative.
60
61			Poul-Henning Kamp, in https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=27162
62			%
63			[HGST engineer, taking about drive reliability]
64
65			we don't want to test it, because that costs time, we just wait for the
66			market feedback and put that into our calculations.
67			%
68	root	1.473	[wdleng.c in unix V6 iolib]
69
70			wdleng ()
71			/* returns number of bits in a machine integer */
72			/* written so kernighan can tell where he is running */
73			{
74			int k, leng;
75			k = leng = 1;
76			while (k =<< 1)
77	root	1.476	leng++;
78	root	1.473	return (leng);
79			}
80			%
81	root	1.470	Dana Angluin's List of Proof Techniques
82
83			Proof by example:
84			The author gives only the case n=2 and suggests that it contains most
85			of the ideas of the general proof.
86
87			Proof by intimidation:
88			'Trivial.'
89
90			Proof by vigorous handwaving:
91			Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.
92
93			Proof by cumbersome notation:
94			Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.
95
96			Proof by exhaustion:
97			An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful.
98
99			Proof by omission:
100			'The reader may easily supply the details.'
101			'The other 253 cases are analogous.'
102			'...'
103
104			Proof by obfuscation:
105			A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically
106			related statements.
107
108			Proof by wishful citation:
109			The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem
110			from the literature to support his claims.
111
112			Proof by funding:
113			How could three different government agencies be wrong?
114
115			Proof by eminent authority:
116			'I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP-complete.'
117
118			Proof by personal communication:
119			'Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete' [Karp,
120			personal commmunication].
121
122			Proof by reduction to the wrong problem:
123			'To see that infinite-dimensional colored cycle stripping is decidable,
124			we reduce it to the halting problem.'
125
126			Proof by reference to inaccessible literature:
127			The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a
128			privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society,
129			1883.
130
131			Proof by importance:
132			A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.
133
134			Proof by accumulated evidence:
135			Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.
136
137			Proof by cosmology:
138			The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular
139			for proofs of the existence of God.
140
141			Proof by mutual reference:
142			In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference
143			B, which is shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is
144			an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A.
145
146			Proof by meta-proof:
147			A method is given to construct the desired proof. The correctness of
148			the method is proved by any of these techniques.
149
150			Proof by picture:
151			A more convincing form of proof by example. Combines well with proof by omission.
152
153			Proof by vehement assertion:
154			It is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience.
155
156			Proof by ghost reference:
157			Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given.
158
159			Proof by forward reference:
160			Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is
161			often not as forthcoming as at first.
162
163			Proof by semantic shift:
164			Some standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the
165			statement of the result.
166
167			Proof by appeal to intuition:
168			Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.
169
170			Proof by elimination of the counterexample:
171			'Assume for the moment that the hypothesis is true. Now, let's
172			suppose we find a counterexample. So what? QED.' (from Don Woods
173			<DON@SU-AI.ARPA>)
174
175			[https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~riesbeck/proofs.html]
176			%
177	root	1.469	polkit: Similar to sudo but much more complicated
178
179			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
180			%
181			D-Bus: IPC, but complicated. Why do we need XML schema files, why is there
182			sometimes / notation and sometimes ., and so on. IPC is a good thing, but
183			this implementation is too complicated!
184
185			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
186			%
187			Pipewire: Solution in search of a problem you don't have without Wayland?
188
189			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
190			%
191			In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server.
192
193			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
194			%
195			The Wayland "reference implementation" is a small set of libraries that
196			can be used to build a compositor or a client application. These libraries
197			currently have hard dependencies on Linux kernel APIs like epoll. In
198			pkgsrc we've patched the libraries to add kqueue(2) support, but the
199			patches haven't been accepted upstream. Wayland is written with the
200			assumption of Linux to the extent that every client application tends to
201			#include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's designers didn't see the need
202			to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse button IDs.
203
204			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
205			%
206	root	1.468	As best I can tell (from the long and unsatisfactory thread I pursed on
207			the Wayland Developers list some little time ago), the core issue with
208			Wayland and Color is social, not technical:
209
210			1. none of the key developers have the faintest idea what Color or Color
211			Management is, and (worse):
212
213			2. they have no idea why it would be at all important.
214
215			[https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804/4]
216			%
217			> (isn't it the case with ifconfig vs. ip already?)
218
219			Wayland is more like they created ip but named the command ifconfig, then
220			told you to go fix your scripts.
221
222			If the Wayland developers had sense, they would have carefully considered
223			how to make it a seemless transition for developers. Instead, they decided
224			they were the ultimate authority on software engineering and screw
225			developers, they are all doing it wrong anyways.
226
227			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3862027]
228			%
229			Wayland is written with the assumption of Linux to the extent that every
230			client application tends to #include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's
231			designers didn't see the need to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse
232			button IDs.
233
234			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
235			%
236			... a basic barebones TWM for X11 works better and offers more features
237			than Weston which contains ~20 times more code
238
239			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3526530]
240			%
241			"It is true that Wayland somewhat sucks ass" -- The Lutris founder
242			[The Lutris founder quoting himself]
243			%
244			Eine solche Regulierung schafft man in Deutschland nur für wirklich
245			wichtige Themen wie zur Durchsetzung der Bereitstellung von Schnittstellen
246			für die Telekommunikationsüberwachung. Bei so irrelevanten Themen wie
247			dem Katastrophenschutz und der Alarmierung der Bevölkerung braucht man
248			den Markt nicht zu regulieren.
249
250			[https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20210719-smscb/]
251			From: Stephen Searle
252			Date: 18 Mar 1998, 09:00:00
253			Subject: A Clockwork Nethacker
254
255			What if the next version of Nethack has a new class based on the Droogs
256			of Anthony Burgess' novel (and later Stanley Kubrick film) "A Clockwork
257			Orange"?
258
259			I imagine the language would be radically different, like the
260			Samurai-speak only much, much more so...
261
262			Your rookers glow red -more-
263			You tolchock the floating glazzy real horrorshow! -more-
264			The floating glazzy appears bezoomny.
265			You brosay your britva at the floating glazzy -more-
266			The floating glazzy is oobivatted!
267
268			Ugh - that Pishcha was rotten! -more-
269			You feel a malenky bit bolnoy.
270
271			You govoreet with the charlie of Bog -more-
272			The charlie asks you for some cutter for the temple.
273
274			The devotchka flashes her groodies at you -more-
275			"Take off your platties, they're in the way" -more-
276			Raz stands still while you and the devotchka lie in each other's rookers...
277			(or:)
278			"You're such a bolshy chelloveck, I wish..."
279
280			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you!
281			Your shlem blocks the attack to your gulliver.
282			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you real horrorshow!
283			Your brain is eaten! You feel gloopy!
284
285			An enormous dook appears next to you!
286			You are poogly to snuffit and unable to itty!
287
288			You slooshy someone cursing prestoopnicks.
289
290			You ittied from the shop without pretty pollying! -more-
291			You crasted 100 gollies worth of veshches! -more-
292			A millicent's whistle zvooks -more-
293			The Keystone rozzes are after you!
294
295
296			Heh... I think I will have to write a little text filter for Nethack :-)
297
298			-SJS
299
300			[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/c/3P5KdEPru6o/m/UxXyLvAsJUwJ]
301			%
302			"Validity of journal" is not an argument from authority fallacy, it is an
303			assessment of the prior on source quality.
304			%
305	root	1.467	You know what they say though, if the punishment for a crime is a fee
306			then it’s only a crime for the poor.
307			%
308	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
309
310			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
311			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
312			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
313			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
314			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
315			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
316			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
317			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
318			time. There is no other significance to these files.
319			%
320	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
321			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
322			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
323			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
324			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
325			- John Rogers
326			%
327	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
328			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
329			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
330			become witches.
331
332			– Bret Weinstein
333			%
334	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
335			- Rumsfeld 2003
336			%
337	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
338
339			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
340
341			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
342
343			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
344
345			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
346
347			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
348			%
349	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
350			- a rust tutorial
351			%
352	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
353			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
354			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
355
356			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
357			%
358			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
359			that has been problematic for a long time.
360
361			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
362			%
363	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
364			GPL Protected it
365			GOD Blessed it
366
367			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
368			%
369	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
370			kinship term she'd ever heard.
371
372			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
373			%
374			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
375			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
376			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
377
378			I don't agree.
379
380			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
381			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
382			> is not as clear as it could be.
383
384			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
385			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
386			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
387			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
388			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
389
390			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
391			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
392			%
393			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
394
395			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
396			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
397			other conventions exist for a very long time.
398
399			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
400			%
401			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
402
403			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
404			%
405	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
406			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
407			and government agency portal.
408
409			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
410			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
411
412			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
413			%
414			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
415
416			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
417			%
418			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
419			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
420			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
421
422			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
423			%
424			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
425			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
426			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
427			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
428			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
429			%
430	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
431			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
432			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
433			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
434			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
435			penalty. This makes really a difference.
436
437			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
438			%
439			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
440			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
441
442			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
443			%
444	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
445
446			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
447			%
448	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
449
450			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
451			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
452
453			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
454			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
455			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
456
457			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
458			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
459
460			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
461			%
462	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
463
464			Vim 15.2%
465			Emacs 3.8%
466
467			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
468
469			Vim 26.1%
470			Emacs 5.2%
471			%
472	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
473
474			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
475
476			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
477
478			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?"
479
480			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
481
482			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
483
484			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
485
486			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
487
488			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
489
490			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."
491
492			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
493
494			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
495			%
496			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
497
498			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
499			>>> their own servers.
500			>>
501			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
502			>
503			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
504
505			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
506			%
507	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
508
509			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
510			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
511			%
512	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
513			================================
514
515	root	1.449	November 2002
516
517			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
518			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
519			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
520
521			---
522
523			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
524			dehydration and fatigue.
525
526			---
527
528			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
529			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
530
531			---
532
533			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
534
535			November 19 2200 hrs
536			guard check - Rahman is alive.
537
538			2300 hrs
539			guard check - Rahman is alive.
540
541			November 20 0400 hrs
542			guard check - Rahman is alive.
543
544			0800 hrs
545			guard check - Rahman is alive.
546
547			1000 hrs
548			guard check - Rahman is dead.
549
550			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
551			%
552	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
553			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
554			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
555			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
556			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
557			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
558			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
559			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
560			be a better place.
561
562			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
563			%
564	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
565			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
566			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
567			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
568			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
569			> in technology.
570
571			-P
572			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
573
574			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
575			%
576			> Simon Cooke wrote:
577			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
578
579			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
580
581			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
582			%
583	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
584			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
585			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
586			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
587			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
588
589			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
590			%
591	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
592			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
593			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
594			hashtag #sexualassault.
595
596			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
597			%
598	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
599
600			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
601			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
602
603			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
604			%
605			> How is the old way a problem?
606
607			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
608			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
609			it's smarter than you.
610
611			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
612			%
613	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
614			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
615			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
616			less lethal.
617
618			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
619			%
620	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
621
622			[...]
623
624			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
625
626			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
627			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
628			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
629			%
630	root	1.470	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to "Teyrnas
631			Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or "Rìoghachd Aonaichte
632			Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to "Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
633			also now legal names for the UK.
634	root	1.441
635			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
636			%
637			From: Russ Allbery
638			To: tz@iana.org
639			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
640
641			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
642			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
643			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
644			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
645			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
646			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
647			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
648
649			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
650			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
651
652			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
653			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
654			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
655			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
656			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
657
658			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
659			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
660			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
661			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
662			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
663			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
664			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
665			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
666			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
667
668			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
669			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
670			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
671			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
672			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
673			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
674			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
675			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
676			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
677			maintainer.
678			%
679	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
680
681			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
682			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
683			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
684			"BST", but no:
685			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
686			%
687			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
688			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
689
690			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
691			> When can we expect the updated version
692
693			About three weeks ago.
694			%
695	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
696			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
697			%
698			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
699
700			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
701			%
702	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
703			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
704			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
705
706			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
707			%
708			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
709
710			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
711
712			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
713			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
714
715			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
716			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
717			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
718
719			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
720			full day per year.
721			%
722	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
723			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
724			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
725			%
726			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
727			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
728			%
729			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
730			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
731			me - lately?".
732			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
733			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
734
735			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
736			%
737			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
738			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
739			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
740			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
741
742			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
743			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
744			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
745			your lives be a living hell.
746
747			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
748			%
749	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
750			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
751			%
752			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
753			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
754			out with a problem I'm having?
755
756			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
757
758			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
759
760			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
761			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
762			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
763			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
764
765			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
766
767			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
768
769			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
770
771			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
772			[http://c2.com/]
773			%
774			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
775			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
776			right-parenthesis.
777			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
778			%
779			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
780			yourself?
781			Software development is the career for you!
782
783			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
784			%
785	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
786			-- Richard Dawkins
787			%
788			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
789			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
790			and security.
791
792			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
793			%
794			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
795
796			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
797			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
798			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
799			%
800			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
801			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
802			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
803			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
804			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
805			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
806
807			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
808			%
809			tiny hsv2rgb
810			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;}
811
812			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
813			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
814			}
815			%
816			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
817			Only Java makes it possible!
818
819			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
820			%
821			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
822			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
823			extremely poettering''
824			%
825			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
826			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
827			%
828			"I drank what?!"
829			-- Socrates
830			%
831			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
832			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
833			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
834
835			Jon Callas in
836			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
837			%
838			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
839			-- Conway's Law
840			%
841			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
842			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
843			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
844			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
845			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
846			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
847			untangling this mess right now so).
848
849			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
850			%
851			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
852			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
853			enabled on platforms that support it.
854			[xorg.conf(5)]
855			%
856			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
857			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
858			> would work on code.
859
860			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
861			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
862			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
863			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
864			%
865	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
866			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
867			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
868			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
869			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
870			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
871			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
872			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
873			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
874			%
875			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
876			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
877			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
878			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
879			very beginning.
880			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
881			%
882			systemd creates user session information in
883			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
884			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
885			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
886			allowed one session per user.
887			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
888			%
889	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
890			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
891			> about anything else.
892			>
893			> Why is it like that?
894
895			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
896
897			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
898			%
899			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
900
901			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
902			>>
903			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
904			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
905			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
906			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
907			>
908			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
909
910			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
911			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
912			%
913			(partial) Beaufort Table
914			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
915			Calm 0 0 0
916			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
917			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
918			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
919			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
920			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
921			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
922			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
923			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
924			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
925			%
926			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
927			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
928			%
929			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
930			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
931			%
932			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
933			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
934			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
935			on the cards.
936			%
937			[random comment from amule sources]
938			// trust noone ;-)
939			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
940			// wtf you guys are weird.
941			%
942	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
943			- Kin Hubbard
944			%
945			[random .sig]
946			I'm a muslim.
947
948			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
949			%
950			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
951			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
952			before.
953
954			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
955			%
956			<imho>
957
958			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
959			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
960			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
961			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
962
963			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
964			Java - public static void not fun.
965			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
966			C - usually not fun.
967
968			What about modern scripting languages?
969
970			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
971			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
972			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
973
974			</imho>
975
976			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
977			%
978			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
979			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
980			%
981
982			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
983			*
984			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
985
986			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
987			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
988			%
989			# The user is always right.
990			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
991			[autoconf]
992			%
993			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
994
995			/*
996			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
997			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
998			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
999			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
1000			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
1001			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
1002			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
1003			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
1004			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
1005			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
1006			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
1007			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
1008			*/
1009			%
1010			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
1011			was new to me:
1012
1013			switch(c)
1014			{
1015			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
1016			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1017			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1018			case 'd': base=-10; }
1019			switch(type)
1020			{
1021			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
1022			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
1023			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
1024			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
1025			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
1026			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
1027			default:val=0; break;
1028			}
1029			cp = __numout(val,base);
1030			if(0) {
1031			case 's':
1032			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
1033			}
1034			%
1035			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
1036			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
1037			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
1038			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
1039			extra second and see how far you get :-)
1040			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
1041			%
1042			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
1043			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
1044			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
1045			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
1046			>
1047			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
1048			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
1049
1050			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
1051			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
1052
1053			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
1054			%
1055			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
1056			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
1057			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
1058
1059			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
1060
1061			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
1062			%
1063			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
1064			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
1065			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
1066			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
1067			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
1068			settings)
1069
1070			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
1071			%
1072			How do I deal with memory leaks?
1073
1074			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
1075
1076			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
1077			%
1078			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
1079			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
1080
1081			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
1082			%
1083			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
1084			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
1085			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
1086			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
1087
1088			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
1089			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
1090			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
1091			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
1092			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
1093			rewarded for their creativity.
1094
1095			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
1096			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
1097			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
1098			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
1099			would never have made it in the first place.
1100
1101			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
1102			%
1103			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
1104			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
1105			%
1106			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
1107			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
1108			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
1109			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
1110			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
1111
1112			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
1113			%
1114			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
1115			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
1116			- Mohandas Gandhi
1117			%
1118			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
1119			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
1120			handiwork of the Lord."
1121			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
1122			%
1123			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
1124
1125			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
1126			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
1127			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
1128
1129			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
1130			Scientist A publishes results.
1131
1132			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
1133			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
1134			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
1135
1136			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
1137			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
1138			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
1139			A: ...
1140			B: You fraud!
1141
1142			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
1143
1144			A publishes results.
1145
1146			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
1147			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
1148			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
1149			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
1150			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
1151			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
1152
1153			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
1154			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
1155			%
1156			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
1157			them because they need the money to operate]
1158
1159			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
1160			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
1161			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
1162			site or its bottom line."
1163			%
1164			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
1165			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
1166			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
1167			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
1168			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
1169			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
1170			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
1171			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
1172			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
1173			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
1174			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
1175			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
1176			%
1177			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
1178
1179			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
1180
1181			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
1182			%
1183			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
1184
1185			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
1186			>>>> and the beating of children?
1187			>>>
1188			>>> Subjugation of women...
1189			>>
1190			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
1191			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
1192			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
1193			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
1194			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
1195			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
1196			>> shake partner.
1197			>
1198			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
1199			>
1200			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
1201			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
1202			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
1203			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
1204			>
1205
1206			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
1207			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
1208			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
1209			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
1210			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
1211			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
1212			and your wife.
1213			%
1214			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
1215			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
1216			still kill you. - arestheblue
1217			%
1218			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
1219			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
1220			specifications for GSS-API.
1221
1222			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
1223			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
1224
1225			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
1226			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
1227
1228			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
1229			%
1230			[from the minix 3 users guide]
1231
1232			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
1233			%
1234			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
1235
1236			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
1237			[...]
1238			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
1239			complaintant to guess this is true.
1240			%
1241			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
1242			- Ken Thompson.
1243			%
1244			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
1245
1246			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
1247
1248			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
1249			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
1250			source code excerpt:
1251
1252			int sn()
1253			{
1254			char pwr;
1255
1256			int input1 = 0;
1257			double output1 = 0;
1258
1259			system("clear");
1260			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
1261			cin>>input1;
1262			output1 = (sin(input1));
1263			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
1264			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
1265			cin>>pwr;
1266			if(pwr == 'a')
1267			sq();
1268			if(pwr == 'm')
1269			system("pause");
1270
1271			}
1272			%
1273			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
1274			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
1275
1276			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
1277
1278			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
1279			%
1280			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
1281			app for me" department:
1282
1283			From: Evan LeCompte
1284
1285			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
1286			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
1287			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
1288			%
1289			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
1290			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
1291			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
1292
1293			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
1294			%
1295			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
1296			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
1297			– Steve Jobs[47]
1298
1299			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
1300			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
1301			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
1302			%
1303			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
1304			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
1305			%
1306			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1307			From: Patrick Horgan
1308			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1309			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1310
1311			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1312			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1313			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1314			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1315			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1316			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1317
1318			[...]
1319			%
1320	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1321			— Peter Abelard
1322			%
1323			A man said to the universe:
1324			"Sir I exist!"
1325			"However," replied the universe,
1326			"The fact has not created in me
1327	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1328			- Steven Crane
1329	root	1.431	%
1330			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1331
1332			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1333
1334			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1335
1336			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1337
1338			– Sanskrit Saying
1339			%
1340			[anonymised discussion]
1341			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1342			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1343			%
1344			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1345
1346	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1347	root	1.431
1348			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1349			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1350			appear.
1351			%
1352			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1353			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1354			- Douglas Adams
1355			%
1356			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1357			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1358			%
1359	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1360			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1361	root	1.431	%
1362			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1363			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1364			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1365			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1366			%
1367			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1368			%
1369			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1370			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1371			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1372			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1373			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1374			%
1375			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1376			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1377			or her career.
1378			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1379			%
1380			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1381			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1382			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1383			%
1384			I LOVE YOU
1385			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1386			%
1387			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1388			the air impeller.
1389
1390			Alan Cox
1391			%
1392			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1393			with a minimum computer science background."
1394			%
1395			From: Eric Sosman
1396			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1397			Subject: Re: about graphics
1398
1399			prince wrote:
1400			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1401
1402			#include <stdio.h>
1403			int main(void) {
1404			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1405			return 0;
1406			}
1407			%
1408			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1409			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1410			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1411			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1412			%
1413			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1414
1415	root	1.471	While the 2^128 step search [takes] a very long time indeed,
1416	root	1.431	it still is a constant-time attack.
1417			%
1418			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1419			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1420			%
1421			From: David Damerell
1422
1423			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1424			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1425			>caps to make it different.
1426
1427			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1428			painful but will take less typing.
1429			%
1430			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1431			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1432			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1433
1434			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1435			%
1436			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1437
1438			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1439			> free than the BSD.
1440			>
1441			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1442
1443			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1444			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1445			%
1446			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1447
1448			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1449			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1450			from incompatible pointer type
1451			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1452			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1453			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1454			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1455			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1456			%
1457			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1458			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1459			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1460			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1461			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1462			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1463
1464			[Chandon Seldon]
1465			%
1466			[Wikipedia]
1467			Differences between vi and Emacs
1468
1469			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1470			%
1471			[lost the reference]
1472			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1473			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1474			%
1475			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1476			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1477			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1478			%
1479			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1480
1481			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1482			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1483			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1484			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1485			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1486
1487			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1488			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1489			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1490			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1491			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1492			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1493			piss on your leg.
1494
1495			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1496			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1497			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1498
1499			[then, a day later]
1500
1501			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1502			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1503			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1504			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1505			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1506
1507			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1508			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1509			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1510			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1511			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1512			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1513			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1514			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1515			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1516
1517
1518			-----Original Message-----
1519			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1520			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1521			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1522			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1523
1524
1525
1526			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1527	root	1.432	>
1528	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1529
1530			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1531
1532			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1533			I hope you don't object :)
1534			%
1535			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1536			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1537
1538			You made my day
1539			%
1540			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1541
1542			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1543			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1544			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1545
1546			Linus
1547			%
1548			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1549
1550			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1551
1552			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 ...
1553
1554			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1555
1556			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1557			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1558			when sending emails to other people:
1559			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1560
1561			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1562
1563			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1564			%
1565			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1566			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1567			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1568			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1569			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1570			%
1571			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1572			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1573
1574			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1575			%
1576			[on italy]
1577
1578			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1579
1580			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1581			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1582			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1583			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1584
1585			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1586			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1587			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1588			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1589			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1590			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1591
1592			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1593
1594			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1595			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1596			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1597			from fascism period.
1598
1599			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1600			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1601			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1602			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1603			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1604			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1605			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1606			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1607			SIAE.
1608
1609			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1610			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1611			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1612			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1613			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1614			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1615			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1616			electronic ones
1617
1618			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1619
1620			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1621			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1622			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1623			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1624			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1625			western country.
1626
1627			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1628			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1629			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1630			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1631			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1632			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1633			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1634			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1635			also the governments of "center-left".
1636
1637			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1638
1639			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1640			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1641			without any restriction.
1642
1643			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1644			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1645			world.
1646
1647			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1648			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1649			Thank you for reading.
1650			%
1651			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1652			>
1653			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1654
1655			How very ironic.
1656			%
1657			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1658			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1659			takes religion."
1660
1661			--Steve Weinberg
1662			%
1663			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1664			%
1665			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1666			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1667			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1668
1669			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1670			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1671			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1672			%
1673			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1674			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1675			the right tool for me.
1676			%
1677			[deliantra]
1678			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1679			%
1680			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1681			%
1682			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1683			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1684			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1685			%
1686			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1687
1688			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1689			%
1690			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1691			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1692
1693			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1694			actually tells you it's American.
1695			%
1696			[better do not hire this programmer]
1697			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1698			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1699			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1700
1701			Hi
1702
1703			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1704			someone here can advise me.
1705
1706			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1707			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1708			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1709			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1710			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1711
1712			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1713			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1714			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1715			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1716			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1717			corresponding thing in C?
1718
1719			Thanks!
1720			%
1721			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1722
1723			// See bug 53763.
1724			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1725			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1726			if (shell) {
1727			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1728			%
1729			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1730			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1731
1732			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1733			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1734			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1735			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1736			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1737			%
1738			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1739			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1740			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1741			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1742	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1743	root	1.431
1744			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1745			%
1746			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1747
1748	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1749	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1750
1751			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1752
1753			x / y * z
1754
1755			and
1756
1757			x / y * z
1758
1759			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1760
1761			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1762			design decisions.)
1763			%
1764			endergt:
1765			> snoofle:
1766			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1767			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1768			> > you understand what you are doing...
1769			>
1770	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1771	root	1.431
1772	root	1.432	debug
1773	root	1.431	%
1774			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%.
1775
1776			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1777			%
1778			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1779			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1780			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1781
1782			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1783			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1784			6 Decompilation
1785
1786			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1787			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1788			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1789			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1790			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1791			conditions are met: [...]"
1792			%
1793			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1794			%
1795			Why Linux Sux ?
1796
1797			Easy .
1798			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1799			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1800			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 .
1801			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1802			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1803			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1804			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! ) .
1805			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 .
1806			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1807
1808			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1809			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1810			working ones . Screw linux users .
1811			%
1812			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1813			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1814			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1815			%
1816			> The Dell 30"...
1817
1818			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1819			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1820			%
1821	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1822	root	1.431
1823			> > 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".
1824	root	1.432	>
1825	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!
1826	root	1.432	>
1827	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1828	root	1.432
1829	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1830
1831			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1832			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.
1833			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1834	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.
1835	root	1.431	%
1836			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1837			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1838			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1839			%
1840			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1841
1842			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1843			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1844			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1845
1846			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1847			anderen betriebssystemen.
1848
1849			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1850			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1851
1852			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1853			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1854			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1855			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1856			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1857
1858			Frage?
1859			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1860			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1861			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1862
1863			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1864			%
1865			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1866			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1867			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1868			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1869			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1870			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1871			%
1872			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1873			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1874			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1875			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1876			%
1877			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1878			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1879
1880			God bless the re-inventers
1881
1882			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1883			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1884
1885	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1886	root	1.431
1887			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1888			one.
1889			%
1890			[rfc2665]
1891			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1892			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1893			useful in theory than in practice.
1894			%
1895			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1896	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1897	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1898			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1899			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1900			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1901			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1902			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1903	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1904	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1905			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1906	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1907	root	1.431	15:30
1908			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1909			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1910			%
1911			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1912			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1913			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1914			%
1915			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1916
1917			Strictly for beginners
1918
1919			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1920			[...]
1921			%
1922			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1923			%
1924			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1925			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1926			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1927			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1928			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1929			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1930			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1931			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1932			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1933			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1934			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1935			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1936			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1937			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1938			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1939			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1940			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1941			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1942			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1943			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1944			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1945			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1946			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1947			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1948			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1949			%
1950			[A Gentoo User]
1951			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1952			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1953			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1954			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1955			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1956			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1957			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1958			%
1959			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1960			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1961			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1962			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1963			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1964	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1965			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1966	root	1.431	can do
1967			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1968			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1969			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1970			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1971			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1972			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1973			%
1974			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1975	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1976			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1977			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1978	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1979			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1980	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1981			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1982	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1983			%
1984			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1985			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1986			%
1987			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1988
1989			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1990			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1991			be slow in Windows 2000"
1992
1993			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1994			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1995			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1996			%
1997			[so much for type-safety]
1998			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1999			lst.add(null);
2000			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
2001			%
2002			[just for reference]
2003			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
2004			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
2005			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
2006			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
2007			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
2008			es nicht.
2009
2010			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
2011			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
2012			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
2013			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
2014			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
2015			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
2016
2017			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
2018			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
2019			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
2020			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
2021			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
2022			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
2023			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
2024			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
2025			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
2026			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
2027			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
2028			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
2029			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
2030			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
2031
2032			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
2033			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
2034			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
2035			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
2036			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
2037			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
2038			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
2039
2040			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
2041			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
2042			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
2043			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
2044			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
2045			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
2046			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
2047			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
2048			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
2049			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
2050			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
2051			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
2052			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
2053			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
2054			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
2055			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
2056			alternativ' Idioten!
2057
2058			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
2059			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
2060			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
2061			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
2062			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
2063			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
2064			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
2065			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
2066			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
2067			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
2068			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
2069			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
2070			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
2071			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
2072
2073			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
2074			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
2075			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
2076
2077			Ich will R A C H E !
2078
2079			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
2080			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
2081			Dinge zu sagen:
2082
2083			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
2084
2085			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
2086			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
2087			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
2088			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
2089			anfange.
2090
2091			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
2092			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
2093			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
2094			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
2095			dieser verdammten schule!
2096
2097			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
2098			die Welt zu bieten hat!
2099
2100			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
2101
2102			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
2103			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
2104			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
2105			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
2106			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
2107			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
2108			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
2109			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
2110			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
2111			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
2112
2113			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
2114			Einschulung.
2115
2116			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
2117			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
2118			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
2119			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
2120			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
2121			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
2122			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
2123			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
2124			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
2125			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
2126
2127			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
2128			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
2129
2130			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
2131			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
2132			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
2133			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
2134			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
2135			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
2136			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
2137			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
2138
2139			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
2140			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
2141			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
2142			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
2143			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
2144			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
2145			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
2146			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
2147
2148			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
2149			ihr dafür bezahlen!
2150
2151			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
2152			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
2153			Hand genommen.
2154
2155			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
2156			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
2157
2158			Ich bin weg...
2159			%
2160			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
2161			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
2162			%
2163	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
2164			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
2165			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
2166			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
2167	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
2168			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
2169			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
2170			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
2171			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
2172			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
2173			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
2174			%
2175			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
2176			%
2177			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
2178			[The reason I left Perl 6]
2179
2180			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
2181			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
2182			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
2183			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
2184			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
2185			%
2186			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
2187			%
2188			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
2189			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
2190			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
2191			%
2192			[very funny read]
2193			Hack-a-Bike
2194			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
2195			%
2196			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
2197			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
2198			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
2199			still can.
2200
2201			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
2202			%
2203	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
2204			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
2205	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
2206			%
2207			[without words]
2208			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
2209			%
2210			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
2211			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
2212			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
2213			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
2214			actual kid in an actual bath.
2215			%
2216			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
2217			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
2218			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
2219			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
2220			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
2221			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
2222			what happened to you.
2223			%
2224	root	1.472	--
2225	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
2226
2227			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
2228			Q: Why is top posting bad?
2229			%
2230			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
2231	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
2232			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
2233	root	1.431	> important difference.)
2234
2235			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
2236			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
2237			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
2238			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
2239			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
2240
2241			- Ted
2242			%
2243			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
2244			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
2245			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
2246			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
2247			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
2248			me, but we have the truth!"
2249			%
2250			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
2251			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
2252			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
2253			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
2254			%
2255			[nethack extinctionist faq]
2256			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
2257			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
2258			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
2259			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
2260			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
2261			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
2262			genociding every monster.
2263
2264			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
2265			genocide them for good measure!
2266			%%
2267			[nethack instadeath faq]
2268
2269			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
2270
2271			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
2272			%
2273			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
2274			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
2275	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
2276	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
2277			17:58 <Murch> lol
2278			%
2279			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
2280			%
2281			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
2282			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
2283			%
2284			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
2285			%
2286			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
2287
2288			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
2289			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
2290			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
2291			%
2292			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
2293
2294			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
2295			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
2296			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
2297			the Eastern Time Zone.
2298			[...]
2299			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
2300			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
2301			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
2302			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
2303			%
2304			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
2305
2306			_dl_profile_output
2307			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2308			%
2309			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2310			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2311			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2312			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2313			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2314			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2315			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2316
2317			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2318			%
2319			[famous last words]
2320			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2321			%
2322			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2323
2324			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2325
2326			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2327
2328			--
2329			Jay Hennigan
2330			%
2331			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2332			%
2333			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2334			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2335			of homeland security]
2336			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2337			%
2338			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2339	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2340	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2341			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2342			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2343			range of spyware available to us?"
2344
2345			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2346			%
2347			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2348			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2349			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2350			%
2351	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2352	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2353			%
2354			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2355			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2356			%
2357			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2358			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2359			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2360			shooter.
2361
2362			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2363			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2364			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2365			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2366			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2367			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2368
2369			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2370			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2371			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2372			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2373			way.
2374
2375			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2376			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2377			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2378
2379			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2380			%
2381			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2382			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2383			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2384			> above comment about Hitler).
2385
2386			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2387			mention Hitler loses.
2388			%
2389			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2390			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2391			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2392			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2393			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2394			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2395			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2396			including <windows.h>.
2397			[...]
2398			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2399			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2400			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2401			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2402			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2403			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2404			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2405			environments.
2406			%
2407			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2408			%
2409			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2410			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2411			%
2412			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2413			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2414			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2415			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2416			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2417			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2418			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2419			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2420			companies want to own your computer.
2421
2422			Some examples:
2423
2424			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2425			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2426			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2427			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2428			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2429			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2430			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2431			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2432			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2433	root	1.432
2434	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2435			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2436			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2437			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2438			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2439
2440			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2441			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2442			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2443			from Microsoft? You can't.
2444
2445			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2446			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2447			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2448			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2449			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2450			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2451			adversely affect its business partners.
2452
2453			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2454			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2455			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2456			about your behavior.
2457
2458			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2459			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2460			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2461			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2462			presumed infractions.
2463
2464			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2465			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2466			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2467
2468			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2469			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2470			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2471			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2472			user's device against him.
2473			[...]
2474			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2475			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2476			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2477			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2478			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2479			back-room marketing deals.
2480			%
2481			[John Carmack on Java]
2482			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2483			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2484			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2485			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2486			performance.
2487			%
2488			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2489
2490			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2491			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2492			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2493			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2494			%
2495			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2496			%
2497			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2498			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2499			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2500			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2501			%
2502			http://funroll-loops.org/
2503			%
2504			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2505			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2506			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2507			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2508			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2509			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2510			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2511			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2512			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2513			Fahrenheit documentation.
2514			%
2515			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2516			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2517			sure its much slower than CVS]
2518			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2519			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2520			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2521	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2522	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2523			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2524	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2525	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2526			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2527	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2528	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2529			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2530			%
2531	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2532
2533			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2534			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2535	root	1.431	%
2536	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2537
2538			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2539			> systems ?
2540
2541			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2542			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2543
2544			Jesper
2545			%
2546	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2547
2548			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2549			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2550
2551	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2552	root	1.429	%
2553	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2554			%
2555	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2556
2557			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2558			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2559			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2560			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2561			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2562			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2563			but that's the truth.
2564			%
2565	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2566
2567			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2568
2569	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2570			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2571			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2572			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2573	root	1.424
2574			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2575	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2576			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2577	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2578
2579			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2580			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2581	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2582	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2583			in Richtung Boden.
2584
2585			[...]
2586
2587	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2588	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2589	root	1.424
2590			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2591	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2592	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2593
2594			[...]
2595
2596			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2597	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2598	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2599	root	1.424
2600			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2601	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2602			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2603			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2604	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2605			sofort.
2606			%
2607	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2608			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2609			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2610			software from Microsoft.)
2611	root	1.424	%
2612	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2613	root	1.424	%
2614	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2615
2616			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2617			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2618			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2619			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2620	root	1.424	%
2621	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2622	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2623	root	1.424	%
2624	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2625			From: Rodrigo Severo
2626			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2627			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2628
2629			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2630
2631			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2632			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2633			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2634
2635			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2636			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2637			brazilian ;)
2638			Rodrigo Severo
2639	root	1.424	%
2640	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2641	root	1.417
2642			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2643	root	1.424	%
2644	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2645
2646			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2647
2648			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2649
2650			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2651			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2652
2653			sigh
2654	root	1.424	%
2655	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2656			By Bertrand Russell
2657
2658			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2659			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2660			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2661			might be set forth as follows:
2662
2663			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2664
2665			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2666			evidence is sure to come to light.
2667
2668			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2669
2670			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2671			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2672			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2673
2674			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2675			contrary authorities to be found.
2676
2677			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2678			do the opinions will suppress you.
2679
2680			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2681			was once eccentric.
2682
2683			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2684			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2685			agreement than the latter.
2686
2687			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2688			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2689
2690			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2691			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2692
2693			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2694			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2695	root	1.424	%
2696	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2697	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2698			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2699			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2700
2701			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2702			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2703			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2704			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2705			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2706			United States."
2707	root	1.413	---
2708			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2709			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2710			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2711	root	1.414	---
2712			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2713			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2714			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2715			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2716			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2717
2718			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2719			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2720	root	1.424	%
2721	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2722			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2723	root	1.424	%
2724	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2725
2726			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2727			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2728
2729			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2730			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2731
2732			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2733
2734			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2735			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2736	root	1.424	%
2737	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2738			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2739	root	1.424	%
2740	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2741			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2742			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2743			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2744			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2745			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2746	root	1.424	%
2747	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2748
2749			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2750			they care about it?"
2751			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2752	root	1.407
2753			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2754	root	1.424	%
2755	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2756			-- Gregory Chaitin
2757	root	1.424	%
2758	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2759	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2760			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2761			[...]
2762	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2763			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2764	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2765	root	1.424	%
2766	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2767			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2768			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2769			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2770			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2771			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2772	root	1.424	%
2773	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2774
2775			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2776	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2777			return 0;
2778	root	1.424	%
2779	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2780	root	1.401
2781			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2782			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2783			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2784			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2785			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2786			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2787			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2788			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2789			> transparent.
2790
2791			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2792			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2793			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2794			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2795	root	1.424	%
2796	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2797			aber falsche Lösungen.
2798	root	1.424	%
2799	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2800			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2801			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2802			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2803	root	1.424	%
2804	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2805			>
2806			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2807			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2808			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2809			> than useful to the user.
2810
2811			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2812
2813			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2814			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2815			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2816			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2817
2818			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2819
2820			Linus
2821	root	1.424	%
2822	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2823			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2824			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2825			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2826	root	1.424	%
2827	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2828			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2829
2830	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2831	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2832			--
2833			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2834
2835			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2836	root	1.424	%
2837	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2838			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2839
2840			Person: What do you do?
2841			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2842			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2843
2844			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2845			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2846			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2847	root	1.394
2848			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2849			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2850	root	1.424	%
2851	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2852			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2853			illegal downloaders."
2854
2855			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2856
2857			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2858			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2859			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2860			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2861			have to emerge."
2862
2863			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2864	root	1.424	%
2865	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2866	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2867
2868			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2869			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2870
2871			Bye, Andy
2872	root	1.424	%
2873	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2874	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2875	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2876	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2877	root	1.390
2878			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2879			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2880			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2881			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2882			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2883			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2884			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2885			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2886			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2887			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2888			alle Benutzer.
2889			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2890			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2891			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2892			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2893			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2894			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2895			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2896			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2897			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2898			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2899			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2900	root	1.424	%
2901	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2902
2903			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2904			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2905			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2906			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2907			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2908			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2909			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2910			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2911			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2912			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2913			unfinished operations, etc.
2914			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2915
2916			Valid options:
2917			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2918			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2919
2920			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2921	root	1.424	%
2922	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2923			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2924			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2925			to provide.
2926			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2927	root	1.424	%
2928	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2929
2930			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2931			alarm people more.
2932
2933			-Nate
2934
2935			[...]
2936
2937			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2938			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2939			image of the language that is created here.
2940
2941			Juerd
2942
2943			[...]
2944
2945			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2946			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2947			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2948
2949	root	1.432	--
2950	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2951	root	1.387	%
2952	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2953	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2954	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2955			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2956	root	1.387	%
2957	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2958			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2959	root	1.387	%
2960	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2961			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2962	root	1.387	%
2963	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2964			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2965			[...]
2966			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2967			"Windows is broken."
2968	root	1.387	%
2969	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2970			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2971			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2972	root	1.387	%
2973	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2974			on being able to kill their children legally]
2975			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2976	root	1.387	%
2977	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2978			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2979			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2980	root	1.387	%
2981	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2982			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2983			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2984			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2985			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2986			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2987	root	1.378	--
2988			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2989			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2990			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2991			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2992			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2993			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2994			wasteful government spending."
2995	root	1.387	%
2996	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2997			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2998	root	1.387	%
2999	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
3000			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
3001	root	1.387	%
3002	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
3003			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
3004	root	1.387	%
3005	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
3006			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
3007	root	1.387	%
3008	root	1.374	[Copyright]
3009	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
3010	root	1.387	%
3011	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
3012			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
3013	root	1.387	%
3014	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
3015			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
3016	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
3017	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
3018			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
3019	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
3020	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
3021			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
3022	root	1.387	%
3023	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
3024			http://www.counterpunch.org/
3025	root	1.387	%
3026	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
3027			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
3028			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
3029			their weapons over our heads."
3030			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
3031	root	1.387	%
3032	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
3033			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
3034	root	1.387	%
3035	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
3036			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
3037			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
3038			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
3039			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
3040	root	1.387	%
3041	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
3042	root	1.387	%
3043	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
3044			several requests for clarification.
3045
3046			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
3047			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
3048			unter TCG definitions.
3049	root	1.387	%
3050	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
3051			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
3052			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
3053			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
3054	root	1.387	%
3055	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
3056			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
3057			get people on board.
3058			%
3059	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
3060			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
3061			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
3062			DRM.
3063
3064			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
3065			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
3066	root	1.387	%
3067	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
3068			switch ($decade) {
3069			case "the 50's":
3070			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
3071			break;
3072			case "the 60's":
3073			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
3074			break;
3075			case "the 70's":
3076			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
3077			break;
3078			case "the 80's":
3079			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
3080			break;
3081			case "the 90's":
3082			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
3083			break;
3084			case "the 00's":
3085			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
3086			break;
3087			}
3088	root	1.387	%
3089	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
3090
3091			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
3092			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
3093			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
3094			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
3095
3096			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
3097			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
3098			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
3099
3100			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
3101			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
3102			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
3103			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
3104			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
3105			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
3106			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
3107			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
3108			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
3109			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
3110	root	1.387	%
3111	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
3112			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
3113			married or unmarried."
3114
3115			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
3116			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
3117			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
3118			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
3119			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
3120	root	1.387	%
3121	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
3122
3123			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
3124			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
3125			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
3126			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
3127			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
3128			conditioning.
3129
3130			[And this is religion at its best:]
3131			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
3132			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
3133			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
3134	root	1.387	%
3135	root	1.361	[Racism]
3136			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
3137	root	1.387	%
3138	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
3139			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
3140	root	1.387	%
3141	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
3142			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
3143
3144			I apologise for this.
3145
3146			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
3147			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
3148	root	1.387	%
3149	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
3150			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
3151			el says: ich kenn da wen
3152			el says: bei dem wars so
3153			[...]
3154			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
3155			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
3156			el says: gehirntumor auch
3157			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
3158	root	1.387	%
3159	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
3160	root	1.387	%
3161	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
3162			no sense in the kernel]
3163			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
3164
3165			[...]
3166
3167			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
3168			models.
3169
3170			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
3171			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
3172			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
3173	root	1.387	%
3174	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
3175			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
3176			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
3177			--
3178			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
3179	root	1.355	--
3180			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
3181			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
3182			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
3183			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
3184	root	1.387	%
3185	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
3186			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
3187			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
3188			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
3189			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
3190			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
3191			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
3192			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
3193	root	1.387	%
3194	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
3195			which you currently do not posess]
3196			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
3197	root	1.387	%
3198	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
3199			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
3200	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
3201	root	1.387	%
3202	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
3203	root	1.387	%
3204	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
3205			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
3206	root	1.387	%
3207	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
3208			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
3209			paragraphs.
3210	root	1.387	%
3211	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
3212			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
3213			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
3214	root	1.387	%
3215	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
3216			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
3217
3218			Most catholics aren't American.
3219	root	1.387	%
3220	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
3221
3222			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
3223			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
3224			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
3225			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
3226			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
3227
3228			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
3229			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
3230	root	1.387	%
3231	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
3232			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
3233			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
3234			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
3235			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
3236			criminals."
3237	root	1.387	%
3238	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
3239			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
3240	root	1.387	%
3241	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
3242			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
3243	root	1.387	%
3244	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
3245			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
3246	root	1.387	%
3247	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
3248			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
3249			card (They went up in flames).
3250	root	1.387	%
3251	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
3252			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
3253			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
3254			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
3255	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
3256	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
3257	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
3258	root	1.387	%
3259	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
3260			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
3261			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
3262
3263			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
3264
3265			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
3266	root	1.387	%
3267	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
3268			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
3269			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
3270			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
3271			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
3272			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
3273			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
3274			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
3275			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
3276			--
3277			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
3278			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
3279			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
3280			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
3281			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
3282			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
3283	root	1.387	%
3284	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
3285			The Obfuscated V contest
3286	root	1.387	%
3287	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
3288			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
3289			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
3290			cigarette lighters."
3291			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
3292	root	1.387	%
3293	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
3294			Does it run under Windows ?
3295			- Who cares?
3296	root	1.387	%
3297	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
3298	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
3299	root	1.387	%
3300	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
3301			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
3302			[...]
3303			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
3304			[...]
3305			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
3306			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3307			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3308	root	1.387	%
3309	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3310	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3311			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3312			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3313	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3314	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3315	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3316	root	1.330	> mehr!
3317			> richy.
3318
3319			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3320	root	1.387	%
3321	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3322	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3323			> zugetragen hat?
3324
3325			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3326			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3327	root	1.388	[später]
3328			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3329	root	1.329
3330			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3331			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3332			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3333			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3334			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3335
3336			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3337
3338			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3339			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3340			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3341	root	1.387	%
3342	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3343	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3344			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3345	root	1.387	%
3346	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3347			/* give the hook another try */
3348			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3349			break;
3350	root	1.387	%
3351	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3352	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3353	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3354			#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))
3355	root	1.387	%
3356	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3357	root	1.387	%
3358	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3359	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3360	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3361	root	1.432	>
3362			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3363			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3364	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3365	root	1.432	>
3366			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3367			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3368	root	1.324	> as TO).
3369	root	1.432	>
3370	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3371
3372			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3373			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3374			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3375			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3376			being discourteous to.
3377
3378			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3379			--
3380			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3381	root	1.387	%
3382	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3383	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3384	root	1.387	%
3385	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3386			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3387			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3388			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3389			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3390	root	1.387	%
3391	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3392			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3393			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3394			you don't have any'."
3395	root	1.323
3396			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3397			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3398			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3399			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3400	root	1.387	%
3401	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3402			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3403			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3404			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3405	root	1.387	%
3406	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3407			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3408			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3409			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3410			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3411			reason will not win many fans.
3412
3413			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3414			documents in the algorithm section]
3415	root	1.387	%
3416	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3417			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3418			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3419			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3420			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3421
3422			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3423	root	1.387	%
3424	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3425			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3426			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3427	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3428	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3429			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3430	root	1.387	%
3431	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3432	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3433	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3434	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3435			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3436	root	1.387	%
3437	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3438			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3439			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3440			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3441			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3442			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3443	root	1.387	%
3444	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3445			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3446	root	1.387	%
3447	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3448	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3449	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3450			* at their price list.
3451	root	1.387	%
3452	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3453			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3454			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3455			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3456			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3457			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3458			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3459	root	1.387	%
3460	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3461			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3462	root	1.387	%
3463	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3464			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3465			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3466			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3467	root	1.387	%
3468	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3469	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3470	root	1.387	%
3471	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3472			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3473	root	1.387	%
3474	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3475	root	1.387	%
3476	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3477			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3478			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3479			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3480			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3481			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3482			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3483			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3484	root	1.387	%
3485	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3486			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3487	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3488	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3489	root	1.387	%
3490	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3491	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3492	root	1.387	%
3493	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3494	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3495			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3496			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3497	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3498
3499			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3500
3501			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3502			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3503	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3504	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3505
3506			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3507
3508			[usw.]
3509
3510			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3511	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3512	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3513
3514			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3515			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3516			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3517			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3518			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3519	root	1.387	%
3520	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3521	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3522			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3523	root	1.387	%
3524	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3525			Which fanboy are you?
3526
3527			1. Windows
3528
3529			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3530			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3531			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3532			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3533			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3534			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3535			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3536			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3537			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3538
3539			2. Apple
3540
3541			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3542			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3543			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3544			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3545			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3546			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3547			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3548			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3549
3550			3. Linspire
3551
3552			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3553			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3554			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3555			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3556			installed Linspire on your machine.
3557
3558			4. Umbongo
3559
3560			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3561			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3562			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3563			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3564			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3565			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3566			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3567			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3568			themselves.
3569
3570			5. Gentoy
3571
3572			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3573			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3574			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3575			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3576			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3577			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3578			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3579			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3580
3581			6. Linux From Scratch
3582
3583			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3584			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3585			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3586			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3587			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3588			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3589			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3590	root	1.387	%
3591	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3592			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3593	root	1.387	%
3594	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3595
3596			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3597			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3598
3599			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3600	root	1.387	%
3601	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3602
3603			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3604	root	1.432	>
3605	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3606	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3607	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3608			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3609			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3610	root	1.432	>
3611			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3612	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3613	root	1.432	>
3614	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3615			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3616	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3617	root	1.387	%
3618	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3619	root	1.387	%
3620	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3621	root	1.387	%
3622	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3623	root	1.387	%
3624	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3625			show "Correspondent"]
3626	root	1.288
3627			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3628			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3629
3630			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3631			%
3632	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3633			cock sucking, blowjob
3634			=> fellatio, fellation
3635			=> oral sex, head
3636			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3637			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3638			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3639			=> organic process, biological process
3640			=> process
3641			=> phenomenon
3642	root	1.387	%
3643	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3644			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3645	root	1.387	%
3646	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3647			[slightly edited]
3648			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3649			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3650			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3651			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3652
3653			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3654			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3655			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3656
3657			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3658			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3659	root	1.387	%
3660	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3661			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3662	root	1.387	%
3663	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3664	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3665	root	1.387	%
3666	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3667	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3668			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3669	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3670	root	1.387	%
3671	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3672			- oesi
3673	root	1.387	%
3674	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3675			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3676	root	1.387	%
3677	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3678	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3679	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3680			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3681
3682			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3683			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3684			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3685			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3686			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3687			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3688			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3689			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3690			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3691			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3692			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3693			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3694			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3695			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3696			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3697			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3698			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3699			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3700			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3701			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3702			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3703			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3704			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3705			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3706
3707			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3708			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3709			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3710			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3711			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3712
3713			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3714			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3715			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3716			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3717			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3718			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3719			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3720			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3721			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3722			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3723			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3724
3725			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3726			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3727			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3728			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3729			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3730			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3731			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3732			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3733			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3734			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3735			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3736			sovereign nation.
3737
3738			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3739			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3740			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3741			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3742			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3743			CSPAN, don't post here.
3744
3745			-scott
3746	root	1.387	%
3747	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3748			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3749			capacity to feel pain.
3750
3751			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3752			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3753	root	1.387	%
3754	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3755			From: Sven Neumann
3756
3757			Hi,
3758
3759	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3760	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3761	root	1.273
3762			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3763			that
3764
3765			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3766
3767			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3768	root	1.387	%
3769	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3770	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3771			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3772			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3773	root	1.387	%
3774	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3775			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3776			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3777			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3778			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3779			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3780	root	1.387	%
3781	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3782	root	1.270	interesting read]
3783			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3784	root	1.387	%
3785	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3786			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3787			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3788	root	1.387	%
3789	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3790			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3791			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3792			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3793			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3794			locks can open the gate.
3795
3796			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3797			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3798			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3799	root	1.387	%
3800	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3801			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3802	root	1.387	%
3803	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3804
3805			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3806
3807			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3808			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3809			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3810			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3811			explanation of this.
3812
3813			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3814
3815			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3816			which explains why the hammer falls.
3817
3818			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3819			how a population's genome can change over time.
3820
3821	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3822			mathematical relationship between two values.
3823	root	1.265
3824			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3825			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3826
3827			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3828			acceleration.
3829
3830			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3831			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3832			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3833			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3834			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3835			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3836			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3837			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3838			false.
3839
3840			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3841	root	1.387	%
3842	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3843	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3844
3845			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3846			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3847	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3848			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3849			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3850	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3851
3852	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3853			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3854			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3855			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3856			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3857			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3858			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3859	root	1.264
3860			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3861	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3862			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3863			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3864			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3865	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3866	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3867	root	1.264	sportlich.
3868
3869	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3870			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3871			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3872			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3873			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3874	root	1.264
3875	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3876	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3877	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3878			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3879	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3880
3881			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3882			Forscher.
3883	root	1.387	%
3884	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3885			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3886			EULA-style license]
3887	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3888	root	1.387	%
3889	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3890			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3891			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3892			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3893			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3894			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3895			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3896	root	1.387	%
3897	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3898	root	1.387	%
3899	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3900			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3901			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3902			00:24 <schmorp> re
3903	root	1.387	%
3904	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3905	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3906			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3907	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3908			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3909	root	1.387	%
3910	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3911			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3912			proponents of such theories.]
3913			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3914			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3915			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3916			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3917			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3918			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3919			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3920			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3921			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3922			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3923			(below, right)."
3924	root	1.387	%
3925	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3926			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3927			[useful info...]
3928			http://www.snopes.com/
3929	root	1.387	%
3930	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3931			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3932	root	1.387	%
3933	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3934			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3935	root	1.387	%
3936	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3937	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3938			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3939	root	1.387	%
3940	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3941			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3942			#!/usr/bin/sh
3943			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3944			# All Rights Reserved
3945
3946			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3947			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3948			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3949
3950			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3951	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3952	root	1.387	%
3953	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3954			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3955			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3956	root	1.387	%
3957	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3958			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3959			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3960			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3961			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3962			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3963			#
3964			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3965	root	1.387	%
3966	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3967	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3968			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3969			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3970	root	1.387	%
3971	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3972	root	1.387	%
3973	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3974	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3975			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3976	root	1.387	%
3977	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3978			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3979			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3980	root	1.387	%
3981	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3982	root	1.387	%
3983	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3984			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3985			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3986			that you have a problem.)
3987			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3988	root	1.387	%
3989	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3990			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3991	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3992	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3993
3994			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3995			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3996	root	1.387	%
3997	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3998			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3999
4000			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
4001			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
4002			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
4003			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
4004			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
4005			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
4006			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
4007			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
4008			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
4009			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
4010			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
4011			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
4012			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
4013			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
4014
4015			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
4016			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
4017			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
4018			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
4019			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
4020			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
4021			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
4022	root	1.387	%
4023	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
4024	root	1.239
4025			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
4026			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
4027			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
4028	root	1.387	%
4029	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
4030			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
4031			knows this, and it's true for software too.
4032	root	1.387	%
4033	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
4034
4035			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
4036			;)
4037	root	1.387	%
4038	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
4039			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
4040			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
4041			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
4042
4043			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
4044
4045	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
4046			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
4047	root	1.387	%
4048	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
4049			using so many abbreviations...]
4050
4051			Hi Volker -
4052
4053			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
4054	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
4055			spät ...
4056	root	1.234
4057			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
4058
4059			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
4060
4061	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
4062			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
4063	root	1.234
4064	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
4065	root	1.234
4066			tom
4067	root	1.247
4068	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
4069	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
4070	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
4071	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
4072	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
4073	root	1.387	%
4074	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
4075			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
4076			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
4077
4078			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
4079	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
4080			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
4081	root	1.233	> someone else?
4082
4083			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
4084			===================================================================
4085			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
4086			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
4087			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
4088			S: 79098 Freiburg
4089			S: Germany
4090
4091			+N: Hans Reiser
4092			+E: reiser@namesys.com
4093			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
4094			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
4095			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
4096			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
4097			+S: USA
4098			+
4099			N: Joerg Reuter
4100			E: jreuter@yaina.de
4101			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
4102	root	1.387	%
4103	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
4104			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
4105	root	1.387	%
4106	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
4107			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
4108	root	1.387	%
4109	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
4110			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
4111	root	1.387	%
4112	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
4113			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
4114			[...]
4115			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
4116			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
4117			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
4118			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
4119			[...]
4120			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
4121			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
4122			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
4123			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
4124	root	1.387	%
4125	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
4126			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
4127			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
4128			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
4129			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
4130			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
4131	root	1.387	%
4132	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
4133	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
4134			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
4135			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
4136			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
4137			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
4138			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
4139			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
4140			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
4141	root	1.387	%
4142	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
4143			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
4144	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
4145	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
4146	root	1.387	%
4147	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
4148			[yes, the whole thing]
4149	root	1.387	%
4150	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
4151	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
4152			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
4153			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
4154	root	1.221	>
4155			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
4156
4157			We'll use a larger wall.
4158	root	1.387	%
4159	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
4160			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
4161			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
4162			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
4163
4164			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
4165			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
4166
4167			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
4168			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
4169
4170			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
4171			cost.
4172			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
4173	root	1.387	%
4174	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
4175
4176	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
4177	root	1.219
4178			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
4179
4180	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
4181	root	1.387	%
4182	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
4183			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
4184	root	1.387	%
4185	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
4186			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
4187	root	1.387	%
4188	root	1.215	[translated]
4189			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
4190			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
4191			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
4192			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
4193			23:07 <schmorp> ...
4194			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
4195			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
4196			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
4197	root	1.387	%
4198	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
4199			-- Lord Balfour
4200	root	1.387	%
4201	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
4202	root	1.387	%
4203	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
4204			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
4205			him to forgive me.
4206	root	1.387	%
4207	root	1.211	[slashdot]
4208			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
4209
4210			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
4211	root	1.387	%
4212	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
4213			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
4214			get bored during the sex scenes.
4215	root	1.387	%
4216	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
4217			strangler is to the woman home alone.
4218			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
4219	root	1.387	%
4220	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
4221			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
4222			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
4223			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
4224			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
4225			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
4226	root	1.387	%
4227	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
4228			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
4229			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
4230			HP-UX customer. [...]
4231	root	1.387	%
4232	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
4233			>>
4234			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
4235			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
4236			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
4237			>>spelled it in UC.
4238	root	1.247	>
4239			>
4240	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
4241
4242			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
4243	root	1.387	%
4244	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
4245			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
4246
4247			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
4248			usage.
4249
4250			Richard
4251	root	1.387	%
4252	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
4253			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
4254			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
4255			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
4256			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
4257			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
4258	root	1.387	%
4259	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
4260			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
4261	root	1.387	%
4262	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
4263	root	1.387	%
4264	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
4265			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
4266			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
4267			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
4268			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
4269			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
4270			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
4271			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
4272			existence means and implies.
4273
4274			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
4275	root	1.387	%
4276	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
4277			>
4278			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
4279			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
4280			>
4281			> You're WRONG!
4282
4283	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
4284			and §7.20.3.1).
4285	root	1.387	%
4286	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
4287			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
4288			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
4289	root	1.387	%
4290	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
4291			A. It should be obvious.
4292			Q. How is it hard?
4293			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
4294			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
4295	root	1.387	%
4296	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
4297			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
4298
4299			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
4300			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
4301
4302			- works ok on linux
4303			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
4304
4305			Any clues why?
4306			I am new to the non windows world.
4307
4308			Thanks
4309	root	1.387	%
4310	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4311			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4312			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4313			> this ?
4314
4315			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4316			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4317	root	1.387	%
4318	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4319			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4320			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4321
4322			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4323	root	1.247	>
4324			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4325			>
4326	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4327	root	1.387	%
4328	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4329			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4330
4331			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4332	root	1.387	%
4333	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4334			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4335	root	1.387	%
4336	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4337	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4338	root	1.194
4339			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4340			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4341	root	1.387	%
4342	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4343			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4344	root	1.387	%
4345	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4346	root	1.387	%
4347	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4348			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4349	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4350	root	1.387	%
4351	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4352			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4353			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4354	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4355
4356	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4357	root	1.190
4358	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4359	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4360			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4361			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4362	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4363			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4364			schützen können.
4365	root	1.387	%
4366	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4367			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4368	root	1.387	%
4369	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4370			[...]
4371	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4372	root	1.188	[...]
4373	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4374			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4375			never get your message.
4376	root	1.387	%
4377	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4378			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4379			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4380	root	1.387	%
4381	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4382			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4383			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4384	root	1.387	%
4385	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4386			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4387			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4388			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4389			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4390			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4391			01:15 <schmorp> g
4392			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4393	root	1.387	%
4394	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4395			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4396			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4397			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4398			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4399			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4400			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4401			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4402	root	1.387	%
4403	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4404			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4405			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4406	root	1.387	%
4407	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4408			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4409			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4410			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4411			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4412			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4413			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4414	root	1.387	%
4415	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4416			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4417	root	1.387	%
4418	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4419			GNOME TERMINAL
4420			[...]
4421			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4422			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4423			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4424			[.. later]
4425			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4426			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4427			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4428	root	1.387	%
4429	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4430			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4431			/*
4432	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4433	root	1.179	*/
4434			void blip()
4435	root	1.247	{
4436	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4437			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4438			fflush(stderr);
4439	root	1.247	}
4440	root	1.387	%
4441	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4442			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4443
4444			Why not 666? :-).
4445	root	1.387	%
4446	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4447			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4448			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4449			users are clueless.
4450	root	1.387	%
4451	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4452			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4453	root	1.387	%
4454	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4455			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4456	root	1.387	%
4457	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4458			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4459	root	1.387	%
4460	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4461			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4462			and", and finally, ampersand.
4463	root	1.387	%
4464	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4465			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4466			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4467			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4468			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4469	root	1.387	%
4470	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4471			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4472			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4473			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4474			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4475	root	1.387	%
4476	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4477			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4478			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4479			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4480			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4481			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4482			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4483	root	1.387	%
4484	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4485	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4486			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4487	root	1.387	%
4488	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4489			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4490			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4491	root	1.387	%
4492	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4493	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4494	root	1.387	%
4495	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4496	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4497			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4498			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4499	root	1.167	%
4500	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4501	root	1.387	%
4502	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4503			<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
4504	root	1.387	%
4505	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4506			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4507	root	1.164	einfach :)
4508			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4509	root	1.387	%
4510	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4511			/*
4512			* Function compares two strings.
4513	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4514	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4515			*/
4516			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4517			{
4518			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4519			[...]
4520	root	1.387	%
4521	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4522	root	1.387	%
4523	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4524	root	1.387	%
4525	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4526			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4527			Get_Colours ();
4528	root	1.387	%
4529	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4530	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4531			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4532			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4533			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4534			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4535			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4536			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4537			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4538	root	1.161	[...]
4539			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4540			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4541			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4542			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4543			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4544	root	1.387	%
4545	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4546			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4547	root	1.387	%
4548	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4549			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4550	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4551	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4552			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4553			#endif
4554	root	1.387	%
4555	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4556			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4557			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4558	root	1.387	%
4559	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4560			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4561			>
4562			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4563
4564			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4565			--
4566			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4567	root	1.387	%
4568	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4569			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4570			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4571			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4572			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4573			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4574			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4575	root	1.387	%
4576	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4577			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4578	root	1.387	%
4579	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4580	root	1.387	%
4581	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4582			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4583			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4584			-- Robert Fisk
4585	root	1.387	%
4586	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4587			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4588	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4589			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4590	root	1.387	%
4591	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4592			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4593			high-violence culture"
4594			[...]
4595			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4596			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4597			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4598			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4599			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4600			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4601			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4602			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4603
4604			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4605			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4606	root	1.387	%
4607	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4608			Subject: Re: [...]
4609
4610			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4611
4612			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4613			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4614			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4615			> saved it :)
4616
4617			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4618			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4619			[...]
4620	root	1.387	%
4621	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4622			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4623			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4624			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4625			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4626
4627			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4628			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4629			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4630			[...]
4631	root	1.387	%
4632	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4633	root	1.387	%
4634	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4635	root	1.387	%
4636	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4637	root	1.387	%
4638	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4639			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4640			claim to have decades of java experience]
4641			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4642			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4643			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4644			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4645	root	1.387	%
4646	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4647	root	1.387	%
4648	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4649	root	1.387	%
4650	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4651	root	1.387	%
4652	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4653			[mail not to be delivered]
4654			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4655	root	1.247	>
4656	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4657
4658			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4659			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4660	root	1.387	%
4661	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4662
4663			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4664			>
4665			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4666			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4667			> >
4668			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4669			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4670			> > language which does support this?
4671			>
4672
4673			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4674
4675			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4676			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4677			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4678			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4679			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4680			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4681	root	1.387	%
4682	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4683			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4684			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4685	root	1.387	%
4686	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4687			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4688			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4689
4690			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4691			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4692			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4693			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4694			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4695
4696			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4697			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4698			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4699			and thwart them that way.
4700	root	1.387	%
4701	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4702			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4703			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4704			unfortunate decision.
4705	root	1.387	%
4706	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4707	root	1.146	fest ;)
4708	root	1.387	%
4709	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4710
4711			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4712	root	1.387	%
4713	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4714	root	1.387	%
4715	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4716			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4717	root	1.387	%
4718	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4719
4720			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4721			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4722			local object as a "he":
4723
4724			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4725			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4726			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4727			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4728			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4729			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4730			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4731			EX-PARROT!"
4732
4733			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4734	root	1.387	%
4735	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4736			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4737	root	1.387	%
4738	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4739			The police will shoot you.
4740
4741			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4742			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4743
4744	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4745	root	1.387	%
4746	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4747			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4748			reply.
4749
4750			pls. cc my email address
4751
4752			tia
4753			pd
4754
4755
4756	root	1.247	--
4757	root	1.141	^X^C
4758			q
4759			quit
4760			:q
4761			^C
4762			end
4763			x
4764			exit
4765			ZZ
4766			^D
4767			?
4768			help
4769			shit
4770			.
4771	root	1.387	%
4772	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4773	root	1.387	%
4774	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4775			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4776			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4777			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4778	root	1.387	%
4779	root	1.140	[I love it]
4780			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4781			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4782	root	1.387	%
4783	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4784			- Douglas Adams
4785	root	1.387	%
4786	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4787			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4788			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4789			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4790
4791	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4792			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4793			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4794			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4795			their software properly.
4796	root	1.138
4797			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4798			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4799			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4800			told the publication.
4801
4802	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4803			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4804			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4805			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4806			who want visibility and glory.
4807	root	1.387	%
4808	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4809
4810			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4811
4812			x Try not using it.
4813	root	1.387	%
4814	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4815			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4816			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4817			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4818			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4819			had given.
4820
4821			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4822			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4823			person as well."
4824	root	1.387	%
4825	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4826	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4827			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4828	root	1.387	%
4829	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4830	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4831	root	1.134
4832			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4833	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4834	root	1.135	[...]
4835	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4836	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4837	root	1.135	[...]
4838			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4839			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4840	root	1.387	%
4841	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4842	root	1.387	%
4843	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4844			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4845			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4846			-- Ulrich Drepper
4847	root	1.387	%
4848	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4849			-- Ulrich Drepper
4850	root	1.387	%
4851	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4852			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4853	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4854	root	1.387	%
4855	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4856			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4857			-- Ulrich Drepper
4858	root	1.387	%
4859	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4860			-- Ulrich Drepper
4861	root	1.387	%
4862	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4863	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4864			zuverlässiger
4865	root	1.387	%
4866	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4867			/*
4868			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4869			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4870			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4871			*/
4872	root	1.387	%
4873	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4874			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4875			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4876			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4877			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4878	root	1.387	%
4879	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4880			Pirating Movies
4881
4882			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4883			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4884			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4885	root	1.387	%
4886	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4887			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4888	root	1.387	%
4889	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4890			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4891	root	1.387	%
4892	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4893			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4894			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4895			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4896			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4897	root	1.387	%
4898	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4899			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4900			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4901			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4902			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4903
4904			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4905			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4906
4907			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4908			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4909			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4910			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4911			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4912			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4913			the first place!
4914	root	1.387	%
4915	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4916			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4917			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4918	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4919	root	1.387	%
4920	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4921			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4922	root	1.387	%
4923	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4924			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4925	root	1.387	%
4926	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4927			platform."
4928			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4929	root	1.387	%
4930	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4931			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4932			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4933			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4934			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4935	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4936	root	1.387	%
4937	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4938			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4939	root	1.387	%
4940	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4941			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4942			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4943			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4944			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4945			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4946			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4947			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4948			daily.
4949	root	1.387	%
4950	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4951	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4952			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4953	root	1.387	%
4954	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4955			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4956			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4957			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4958			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4959			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4960			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4961	root	1.387	%
4962	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4963	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4964	root	1.387	%
4965	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4966			[...so it must be good]
4967			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4968	root	1.387	%
4969	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4970			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4971			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4972	root	1.387	%
4973	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4974			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4975			No idea why I announce it here...
4976	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4977	root	1.387	%
4978	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4979			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4980	root	1.387	%
4981	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4982	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4985			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4986			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4987			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4988			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4989
4990			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4991			Sacha.
4992	root	1.387	%
4993	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4994			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4995			desk one morning:
4996
4997			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4998
4999			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
5000
5001			Employee: 123456
5002
5003			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
5004			photograph of the employee.]
5005
5006			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
5007			identification which has your picture on it?
5008
5009			Employee: Why would you need that?
5010
5011			Security Guard: To match against our records.
5012
5013			Employee: A picture of my face?
5014
5015			Security Guard: Yes
5016
5017			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
5018
5019			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
5020			compare against this one.
5021	root	1.387	%
5022	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
5023			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
5024			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
5025	root	1.387	%
5026	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
5027			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
5028			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
5029
5030			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
5031			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
5032	root	1.387	%
5033	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
5034	root	1.387	%
5035	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
5036			"RV K-17"
5037	root	1.387	%
5038	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
5039			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
5040	root	1.387	%
5041	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
5042			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
5043			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
5044			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
5045	root	1.387	%
5046	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
5047			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
5048	root	1.387	%
5049	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
5050	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
5051			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
5052	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
5053	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
5054			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
5055	root	1.387	%
5056	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
5057	root	1.387	%
5058	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
5059			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
5060	root	1.387	%
5061	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
5062			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
5063			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5064			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5065	root	1.387	%
5066	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
5067			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
5068			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
5069			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
5070			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
5071			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
5072			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
5073			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
5074			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
5075			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
5076			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
5077			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
5078			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
5079			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
5080			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
5081			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
5082			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
5083			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
5084			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
5085	root	1.387	%
5086	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
5087			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
5088	root	1.387	%
5089	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
5090			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
5091	root	1.387	%
5092	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
5093			Lester Moore,
5094			Shot in the head with a .44.
5095			No Les, no more.
5096	root	1.387	%
5097	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
5098			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
5099
5100			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
5101			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
5102	root	1.387	%
5103	root	1.113	[Fallout]
5104			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
5105			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
5106	root	1.387	%
5107	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
5108			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
5109			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
5110			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
5111			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
5112	root	1.112	[...]
5113			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
5114			[...]
5115			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
5116			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
5117			the result with SHA.
5118	root	1.387	%
5119	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
5120	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
5121			> ist!
5122	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
5123			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
5124	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
5125	root	1.387	%
5126	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
5127			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
5128	root	1.387	%
5129	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
5130	root	1.387	%
5131	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
5132			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
5133			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
5134			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
5135			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
5136			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
5137	root	1.387	%
5138	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
5139			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
5140	root	1.387	%
5141	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
5142			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
5143	root	1.387	%
5144	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
5145			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
5146	root	1.387	%
5147	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
5148
5149			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
5150			* control history, is that we should at least
5151			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
5152			* "initialisation"? */
5153			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
5154	root	1.387	%
5155	root	1.105	[man pem]
5156			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
5157	root	1.387	%
5158	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
5159
5160			/* ``If you can't do it in
5161	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
5162	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
5163	root	1.387	%
5164	root	1.104	[subculture]
5165	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
5166			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
5167	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
5168
5169			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
5170	root	1.424	%
5171	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
5172			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
5173	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
5174	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
5175	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
5176	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
5177			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
5178	root	1.387	%
5179	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
5180	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
5181			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
5182			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
5183	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
5184	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
5185			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
5186			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
5187	root	1.387	%
5188	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
5189			aber wenig freude.
5190	root	1.387	%
5191	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
5192			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
5193			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
5194			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
5195			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
5196			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
5197			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
5198			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
5199			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
5200			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
5201	root	1.387	%
5202	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
5203			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
5204	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
5205			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
5206	root	1.387	%
5207	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
5208			don't work well in practise.
5209			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
5210	root	1.387	%
5211	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
5212			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
5213			"ready, fire, aim."
5214	root	1.387	%
5215	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
5216			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
5217			free countries like Germany [1].
5218			[...]
5219			Regards
5220			Henning
5221
5222			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
5223			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
5224			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
5225	root	1.387	%
5226	root	1.98	[...]
5227			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
5228			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
5229			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
5230			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
5231			itself give you none of these rights at all.
5232			[...]
5233			Wolfgang Walter
5234	root	1.387	%
5235	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
5236			burro: it seemed very clever
5237			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
5238			burro: it forgot to defend later..
5239			burro: oops
5240			burro: accidental poetry
5241	root	1.387	%
5242	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
5243			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
5244			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
5245	root	1.387	%
5246	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
5247			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
5248	root	1.387	%
5249	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
5250			-- Oscar Wilde
5251	root	1.387	%
5252	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
5253			"guilty until proven innocent"
5254			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
5255	root	1.387	%
5256	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
5257			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
5258			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
5259			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
5260			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
5261			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
5262			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
5263			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
5264			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
5265			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
5266			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
5267			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
5268			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
5269			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
5270			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
5271	root	1.387	%
5272	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
5273			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
5274			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
5275			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
5276			// suit particular needs.
5277			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
5278	root	1.387	%
5279	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
5280			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
5281			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
5282	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
5283	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
5284	root	1.387	%
5285	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
5286			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
5287	root	1.387	%
5288	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
5289			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
5290	root	1.387	%
5291	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
5292			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
5293			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
5294	root	1.387	%
5295	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
5296			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
5297	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
5298			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
5299	root	1.387	%
5300	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
5301
5302			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
5303			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
5304			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
5305			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
5306			is not [...]
5307	root	1.387	%
5308	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5309	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5310			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5311	root	1.387	%
5312	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5313			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5314
5315	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5316	root	1.94
5317			GUI
5318			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5319			Globale Variable
5320	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5321	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5322			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5323			strukturiert
5324			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5325			Multithreaded
5326	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5327	root	1.94	Windows 95
5328	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5329	root	1.94	Emacs
5330	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5331			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5332			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5333	root	1.94	IPv6
5334			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5335			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5336			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5337			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5338	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5339			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5340	root	1.247	PHP
5341	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5342	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5343	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5344			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5345	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5346	root	1.94	Bunt.
5347	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5348			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5349			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5350	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5351	root	1.387	%
5352	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5353			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5354	root	1.387	%
5355	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5356	root	1.387	%
5357	root	1.93	[nah]
5358			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5359			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5360			paint dry."
5361	root	1.387	%
5362	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5363			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5364			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5365	root	1.387	%
5366	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5367	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5368			importance.
5369	root	1.387	%
5370	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5371			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5372			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5373			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5374
5375			You have to trust Microsoft.
5376
5377			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5378			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5379			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5380			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5381			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5382			useless chrome.
5383
5384			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5385			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5386			I'd like to trust them with.
5387	root	1.93	[...]
5388	root	1.387	%
5389	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5390			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5391			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5392			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5393			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5394	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5395	root	1.91	--------------^
5396	root	1.387	%
5397	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5398			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5399			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5400			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5401			English grammar, I assure you.
5402	root	1.387	%
5403	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5404			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5405			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5406			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5407			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5408			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5409			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5410
5411			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5412			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5413			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5414			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5415			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5416			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5417			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5418			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5419			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5420			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5421
5422			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5423			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5424			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5425			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5426
5427			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5428			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5429	root	1.387	%
5430	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5431			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5432			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5433			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5434			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5435			work etc first:
5436
5437			#include <stdio.h>
5438
5439			int main (void) {
5440			while (1)
5441			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5442
5443			return 0;
5444			}
5445	root	1.387	%
5446	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5447			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5448	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5449	root	1.387	%
5450	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5451			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5452			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5453			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5454	root	1.387	%
5455	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5456			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5457			proprietary and patentend technology.
5458	root	1.387	%
5459	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5460	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5461	root	1.387	%
5462	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5463	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5464	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5465			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5466			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5467	root	1.387	%
5468	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5469			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5470	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5471	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5472			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5473	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5474	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5475	root	1.87
5476	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5477			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5478			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5479			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5480			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5481			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5482	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5483			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5484
5485	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5486			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5487			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5488			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5489			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5490			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5491			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5492			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5493			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5494			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5495	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5496	root	1.387	%
5497	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5498			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5499	root	1.387	%
5500	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5501			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5502			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5503	root	1.387	%
5504	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5505			"linux" thing will fail]
5506			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5507			[...]
5508	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5509	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5510			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5511			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5512
5513			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5514			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5515			life to the public good.
5516
5517			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5518			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5519			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5520			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5521			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5522
5523			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5524			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5525			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5526			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5527			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5528			software to work on the linux kernel!
5529
5530			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5531			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5532			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5533			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5534			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5535	root	1.387	%
5536	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5537	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5538			[...]
5539			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5540	root	1.387	%
5541	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5542			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5543			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5544			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5545	root	1.387	%
5546	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5547	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5548			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5549			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5550			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5551			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5552	root	1.387	%
5553	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5554			-- Leonard Brandwein
5555	root	1.387	%
5556	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5557	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5558			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5559			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5560			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5561			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5562			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5563			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5564			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5565			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5566			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5567			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5568	root	1.387	%
5569	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5570			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5571	root	1.387	%
5572	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5573			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5574			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5575			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5576			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5577			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5578			jurisprudence fun?
5579			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5580	root	1.387	%
5581	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5582			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5583			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5584	root	1.84	[...]
5585	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5586	root	1.387	%
5587	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5588			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5589			- Paul Ginsparg.
5590	root	1.387	%
5591	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5592			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5593			home.":))
5594			[erm...]
5595	root	1.387	%
5596	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5597
5598	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5599	root	1.387	%
5600	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5601	root	1.387	%
5602	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5603
5604			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5605			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5606			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5607			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5608	root	1.387	%
5609	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5610			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5611			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5612	root	1.387	%
5613	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5614	root	1.83
5615			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5616	root	1.82
5617			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5618			to use in future emails?
5619	root	1.387	%
5620	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5621			please?
5622
5623			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5624			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5625
5626	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5627	root	1.387	%
5628	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5629			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5630			last until February 16th 2003.
5631
5632			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5633			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5634			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5635			end.
5636
5637			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5638
5639			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5640			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5641			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5642			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5643			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5644			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5645			take place on October 27th.
5646
5647			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5648			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5649			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5650			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5651			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5652			the clock)...
5653	root	1.387	%
5654	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5655			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5656			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5657			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5658			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5659
5660			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5661			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5662			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5663			RedHat and SuSE).
5664
5665			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5666
5667			Pavel
5668	root	1.387	%
5669	root	1.81	Rik
5670	root	1.247	--
5671	root	1.81	A: No.
5672			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5673	root	1.387	%
5674	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5675	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5676			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5677	root	1.81
5678			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5679			no useful data.
5680
5681	root	1.247	--
5682	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5683	root	1.387	%
5684	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5685			there was a long do..while construct,
5686			which contained a switch statement,
5687			which contained an if clause,
5688			which contained a break,
5689			which was intended for the if clause,
5690			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5691
5692			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5693			network January 15, 1990
5694	root	1.387	%
5695	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5696
5697	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5698			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5699			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5700			violation of network policies.
5701	root	1.80
5702			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5703
5704			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5705			The format is as follows:
5706
5707			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5708	root	1.387	%
5709	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5710			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5711			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5712	root	1.387	%
5713	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5714			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5715			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5716			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5717			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5718			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5719			...
5720			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5721			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5722			the effort."
5723	root	1.387	%
5724	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5725	root	1.387	%
5726	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5727			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5728	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5729	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5730			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5731	root	1.387	%
5732	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5733	root	1.387	%
5734	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5735	root	1.387	%
5736	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5737			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5738			[Albert Cahalan]
5739	root	1.387	%
5740	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5741			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5742			least as bad, but lesser known.
5743	root	1.387	%
5744	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5745			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5746			different.
5747	root	1.387	%
5748	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.
5749	root	1.387	%
5750	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5751			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5752	root	1.387	%
5753	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5754			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5755			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5756			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5757			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5758			without a show.
5759	root	1.387	%
5760	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5761	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5762	root	1.387	%
5763	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5764	root	1.387	%
5765	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5766			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5767	root	1.387	%
5768	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5769			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5770			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5771	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5772	root	1.71	going on.
5773			[...]
5774	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5775			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5776			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5777	root	1.387	%
5778	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5779			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5780	root	1.387	%
5781	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5782	root	1.387	%
5783	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5784	root	1.387	%
5785	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5786			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5787			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5788	root	1.387	%
5789	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5790			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5791			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5792			returned data.
5793
5794	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5795			FindExInfoStandard
5796			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5797	root	1.387	%
5798	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5799	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5800			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5801	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5802	root	1.387	%
5803	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5804			it doesn't work:]
5805			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5806			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5807			this MIME type as the final determination.
5808	root	1.387	%
5809	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5810
5811			Recode 0.1.1
5812			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5813
5814			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5815			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5816
5817			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5818	root	1.387	%
5819	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5820	root	1.387	%
5821	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5822	root	1.387	%
5823	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5824
5825			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5826			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5827			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5828			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5829			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5830			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5831			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5832			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5833			century."
5834
5835			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5836			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5837			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5838			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5839			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5840			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5841			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5842			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5843			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5844			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5845			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5846			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5847			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5848			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5849
5850			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5851			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5852			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5853			hilarious in light of the above.
5854			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5855
5856			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5857			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5858			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5859			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5860			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5861			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5862			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5863
5864			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5865			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5866			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5867			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5868	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5869	root	1.387	%
5870	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5871	root	1.387	%
5872	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5873			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5874	root	1.387	%
5875	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5876			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5877			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5878
5879			Tony Hoare
5880	root	1.387	%
5881	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5882			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5883	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5884	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5885	root	1.387	%
5886	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5887
5888			[...]
5889			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5890			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5891			system. Basically its windows computer
5892	root	1.387	%
5893	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5894	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5895	root	1.387	%
5896	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5897
5898			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5899			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5900			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5901			> software developers...
5902
5903			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5904	root	1.387	%
5905	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5906			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5907			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5908			>
5909			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5910
5911			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5912			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5913
5914			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5915			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5916
5917			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5918			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5919			off by throwing away the patch.
5920
5921			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5922			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5923			patch any time soon.
5924
5925			--
5926			Daniel
5927	root	1.387	%
5928	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5929			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5930			[...]
5931			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5932			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5933			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5934	root	1.387	%
5935	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5936
5937			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5938			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5939			Is it realy needed?
5940	root	1.387	%
5941	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5942
5943			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5944
5945			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5946			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5947			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5948	root	1.387	%
5949	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5950			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5951			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5952			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5953			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5954			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5955			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5956	root	1.387	%
5957	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5958
5959			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5960			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5961			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5962			>
5963			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5964
5965			This is an ex-parrot
5966	root	1.387	%
5967	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5968
5969			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5970			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5971			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5972			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5973			>
5974			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5975			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5976
5977			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5978
5979			while (!sorted(data))
5980			;
5981	root	1.387	%
5982	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5983			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5984
5985			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5986
5987			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5988			to computing
5989	root	1.387	%
5990	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5991
5992			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5993			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5994
5995			Common sense, one would hope.
5996	root	1.387	%
5997	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5998			[...]
5999
6000			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
6001			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
6002			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
6003
6004			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
6005
6006			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
6007			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
6008			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
6009			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
6010
6011			:-)
6012	root	1.387	%
6013	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
6014			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
6015			their C programs."
6016	root	1.60
6017			Robert Firth
6018	root	1.387	%
6019	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
6020	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
6021	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
6022			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
6023	root	1.387	%
6024	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
6025	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
6026	root	1.387	%
6027	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
6028			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
6029	root	1.387	%
6030	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
6031	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
6032	root	1.387	%
6033	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
6034	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
6035			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
6036	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
6037			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
6038	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
6039			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
6040
6041			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
6042
6043			\Gisbert
6044	root	1.387	%
6045	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
6046	root	1.387	%
6047	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
6048			world like English did. Er, as English did...
6049			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
6050	root	1.387	%
6051	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
6052			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
6053
6054			I don't have python. Any version of python.
6055			[...]
6056	root	1.387	%
6057	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
6058			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
6059			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
6060
6061			ok 1
6062			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
6063			not ok 2
6064			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
6065	root	1.387	%
6066	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
6067
6068			Cheers,
6069
6070			Andre Hedrick
6071			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
6072	root	1.387	%
6073	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
6074	root	1.247	>
6075	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
6076
6077			Or mutabloat :-(
6078	root	1.387	%
6079	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
6080			Outlook IS the solution.
6081	root	1.387	%
6082	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
6083	root	1.387	%
6084	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
6085
6086			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
6087			never bought anything from UUNet.
6088	root	1.387	%
6089	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
6090			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
6091			by delving below its surface meaning)
6092	root	1.387	%
6093	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
6094	root	1.387	%
6095	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
6096
6097			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
6098			> just go to court and say:
6099
6100			Oh glorious naivety.
6101
6102			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
6103			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
6104			> can do the work better than I).
6105
6106			You release the code
6107
6108			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
6109
6110			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
6111			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
6112			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
6113			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
6114
6115			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
6116			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
6117
6118			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
6119			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
6120
6121			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
6122
6123			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
6124			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
6125			or that the good guys win.
6126
6127			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
6128			US, and outside of most of the EU.
6129	root	1.387	%
6130	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
6131
6132			[...]
6133			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
6134			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
6135	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
6136	root	1.51	year to kill.
6137	root	1.387	%
6138	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
6139			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
6140
6141			[...]
6142			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
6143			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
6144			of for Windows desktop systems."
6145			[...]
6146			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
6147			months before Microsoft released its patch.
6148			[...]
6149			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
6150			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
6151			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
6152			turned on by default.
6153			[...]
6154			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
6155			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
6156			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
6157			[...]
6158			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
6159			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
6160			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
6161			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
6162			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
6163			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
6164			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
6165			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
6166			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
6167	root	1.387	%
6168	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
6169	root	1.387	%
6170	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
6171	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
6172	root	1.49
6173			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
6174
6175			Monday, 06. November 2000
6176	root	1.387	%
6177	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
6178			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
6179	root	1.387	%
6180	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
6181	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
6182			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
6183			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
6184	root	1.387	%
6185	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
6186			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
6187			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
6188			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
6189	root	1.387	%
6190	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
6191			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
6192
6193			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
6194			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
6195			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
6196	root	1.387	%
6197	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
6198			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
6199
6200			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
6201			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
6202			> dropped patches.
6203
6204			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
6205	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
6206	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
6207			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
6208			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
6209			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
6210	root	1.387	%
6211	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
6212			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
6213			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
6214	root	1.387	%
6215	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
6216
6217			From: Bill Huey
6218			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
6219
6220			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
6221
6222			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
6223	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
6224	root	1.45	themselves.
6225
6226			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
6227			certain.
6228	root	1.387	%
6229	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
6230			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
6231			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
6232
6233			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
6234			appropriate approach to a problem.
6235	root	1.387	%
6236	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
6237	root	1.44	^^^^
6238			[...]
6239			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
6240			[...]
6241			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
6242			-15 Nice winter day
6243			-10 Slightly warm winter day
6244			-5 Nice warm winter day
6245			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
6246	root	1.387	%
6247	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
6248			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
6249			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
6250			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
6251	root	1.387	%
6252	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6253			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
6254
6255			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
6256
6257			-ben
6258	root	1.387	%
6259	root	1.43	[...]
6260	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
6261			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
6262			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
6263			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
6264			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
6265			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
6266			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
6267			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
6268			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
6269			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
6270			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
6271	root	1.387	%
6272	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
6273			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
6274	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
6275	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
6276			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
6277			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
6278			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
6279			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
6280			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
6281	root	1.43	statt...
6282	root	1.387	%
6283	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
6284	root	1.387	%
6285	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
6286			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
6287			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
6288			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
6289			values." Who writes this stuff?
6290	root	1.387	%
6291	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
6292	root	1.387	%
6293	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
6294			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
6295			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
6296			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
6297			> "Macao".
6298			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
6299			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
6300	root	1.387	%
6301	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
6302	root	1.387	%
6303	root	1.40	Beitrag
6304	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
6305	root	1.40
6306			fucklinux
6307
6308			IP: 217.83.123.198
6309
6310			1. FUCK LINUX
6311
6312	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6313	root	1.40
6314			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6315	root	1.387	%
6316	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6317	root	1.40
6318			[...]
6319			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6320			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6321			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6322			read...
6323	root	1.387	%
6324	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6325			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6326			depends on the unreasonable man.
6327
6328			-George Bernard Shaw
6329	root	1.387	%
6330	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6331
6332			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6333	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6334	root	1.387	%
6335	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:
6336	root	1.387	%
6337	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
6338			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6339			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6340			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6341			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6342	root	1.387	%
6343	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6344			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6345	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6346	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6347			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6348	root	1.387	%
6349	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6350			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6351			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6352			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6353			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6354			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6355			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6356			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).
6357			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6358			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6359	root	1.387	%
6360	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6361			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6362			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6363			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6364			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6365			removed in Windows XP.
6366
6367			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6368			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6369			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6370			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6371	root	1.387	%
6372	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6373			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6374			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6375			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6376			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6377			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6378			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6379			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6380			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6381			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6382
6383			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6384			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6385			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6386			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6387			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6388			you have no details?
6389			[...]
6390			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6391			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6392			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6393			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6394			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6395			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6396			the industrial terrorists want."
6397	root	1.387	%
6398	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6399			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6400	root	1.387	%
6401	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6402	root	1.387	%
6403	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6404			of each 50 days
6405	root	1.387	%
6406	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6407
6408			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6409			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6410			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6411	root	1.387	%
6412	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6413			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6414			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6415	root	1.387	%
6416	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6417			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6418	root	1.247	>
6419	root	1.35	> <...>
6420			>
6421			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6422			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6423			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6424	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6425	root	1.387	%
6426	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6427			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6428			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6429	root	1.387	%
6430	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6431			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6432			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6433
6434	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6435			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6436			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6437			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6438			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6439			changing run level, interactive boot.
6440	root	1.35
6441			Alan
6442	root	1.387	%
6443	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6444
6445			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6446			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6447
6448			First they came for the Communists,
6449			and I didn't speak up,
6450			because I wasn't a Communist.
6451			Then they came for the Jews,
6452			and I didn't speak up,
6453			because I wasn't a Jew.
6454			Then they came for the Catholics,
6455			and I didn't speak up,
6456			because I was a Protestant.
6457			Then they came for me,
6458			and by that time there was no one
6459			left to speak up for me.
6460
6461			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6462	root	1.387	%
6463	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6464	root	1.387	%
6465	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6466			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6467	root	1.387	%
6468	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6469			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6470			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6471			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6472
6473			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6474	root	1.387	%
6475	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6476
6477			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6478			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6479			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6480			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6481			used databases!"
6482	root	1.387	%
6483	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6484
6485			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6486
6487			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6488			change that was not?
6489			[...]
6490	root	1.387	%
6491	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6492
6493			[...]
6494
6495	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6496	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6497			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6498
6499	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6500	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6501			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6502			them anywhere else").
6503
6504			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6505			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6506	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6507	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6508			order..
6509
6510	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6511	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6512	root	1.387	%
6513	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6514			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6515			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6516
6517			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6518	root	1.387	%
6519	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6520	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6521			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6522			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6523			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6524	root	1.387	%
6525	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6526			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6527
6528			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6529			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6530			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6531			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6532			series.
6533
6534			[...]
6535	root	1.387	%
6536	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6537	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6538	root	1.387	%
6539	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6540			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6541			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6542
6543			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6544			then save." g
6545
6546			/* Steinar */
6547	root	1.387	%
6548	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6549			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6550
6551			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6552			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6553			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6554			a bill...
6555	root	1.387	%
6556	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6557			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6558			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6559
6560			Sorry. Mea culpa
6561
6562			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6563			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6564			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6565			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6566			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6567			*/
6568			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6569			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6570			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6571			int fpu_exception;
6572	root	1.387	%
6573	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6574
6575			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6576
6577			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6578			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6579			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6580			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6581			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6582	root	1.387	%
6583	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6584
6585			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6586			people.
6587	root	1.387	%
6588	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6589			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6590
6591			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6592			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6593			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6594			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6595			the question.
6596			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6597	root	1.387	%
6598	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6599			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6600			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6601			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6602			(September)
6603	root	1.387	%
6604	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6605	root	1.387	%
6606	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6607			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6608			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6609			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6610			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6611	root	1.387	%
6612	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6613			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6614	root	1.387	%
6615	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6616			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6617			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6618			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6619			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6620	root	1.387	%
6621	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6622	root	1.387	%
6623	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6624	root	1.387	%
6625	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6626			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6627			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6628			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6629			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6630			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6631			you tell them.
6632	root	1.387	%
6633	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6634			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6635			alcohol.
6636
6637			Regards
6638			Henning
6639	root	1.387	%
6640	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6641			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6642			> on a desktop system.
6643
6644			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6645			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6646
6647			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6648			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6649
6650			Alan
6651	root	1.387	%
6652	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6653			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6654
6655			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6656			>
6657			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6658			> Use Welsh
6659
6660			Don't forget
6661
6662			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6663			Use Finnish
6664
6665			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6666
6667			And while we're at it,
6668
6669			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6670			Use German
6671
6672			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6673			Use English
6674
6675			MfG Kai
6676	root	1.387	%
6677	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6678
6679			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6680			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6681			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6682			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6683			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6684			there's no one thinking there.
6685			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6686	root	1.387	%
6687	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6688			scores the rules:
6689
6690			[*]
6691			Score:: =-9999
6692	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6693	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6694			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6695			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6696			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6697
6698			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6699			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6700			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6701			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6702			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6703
6704			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6705			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6706			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6707			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6708	root	1.387	%
6709	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6710			98 IIS servers online...
6711	root	1.387	%
6712	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6713			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6714			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6715			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6716
6717			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6718			it to be otherwise.
6719
6720			Abigail
6721	root	1.387	%
6722	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6723	root	1.387	%
6724	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6725	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6726	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6727	root	1.387	%
6728	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6729	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6730	root	1.387	%
6731	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6732			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6733			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6734			software people doing the same)
6735
6736			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6737			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6738			irrelevant
6739
6740			Alan
6741	root	1.387	%
6742	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6743			Comments may nest.
6744	root	1.387	%
6745	root	1.22	[from findas]
6746			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6747			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6748			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6749			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6750			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6751			# address distributino is... arin.
6752	root	1.387	%
6753	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6754			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6755	root	1.387	%
6756	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6757			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6758			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6759			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6760			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6761	root	1.247	>
6762	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6763
6764			$foot->insert($mouth);
6765
6766			# or is that
6767
6768			$mouth->insert($foot);
6769
6770			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6771			How utterly optimistic :-)
6772	root	1.387	%
6773	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6774			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6775			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6776			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6777			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6778			>can see why it happens)
6779			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6780
6781			Well, there's perl... :)
6782	root	1.387	%
6783	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6784			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6785			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6786			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6787			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6788	root	1.247	* boxes.
6789	root	1.387	%
6790	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6791			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6792			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6793	root	1.387	%
6794	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6795			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6796	root	1.387	%
6797	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6798			From: Juergen Christoffel
6799			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6800			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6801
6802			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6803
6804			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6805			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6806			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6807			schon;
6808
6809			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6810			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6811			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6812
6813			Danke, JC
6814	root	1.387	%
6815	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6816			#undef REASONABLE
6817	root	1.387	%
6818	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6819			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6820
6821			Alan
6822	root	1.387	%
6823	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6824			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6825			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6826			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6827	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6828	root	1.18	> anything.
6829
6830			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6831			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6832	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6833			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6834	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6835			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6836
6837			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6838			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6839			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6840			always a good idea.
6841	root	1.387	%
6842	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6843			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6844
6845	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6846	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6847	root	1.387	%
6848	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6849			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6850			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6851			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6852	root	1.387	%
6853	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6854	root	1.387	%
6855	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6856	root	1.18
6857			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6858			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6859	root	1.387	%
6860	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6861			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6862			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6863			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6864	root	1.387	%
6865	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6866	root	1.387	%
6867	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6868			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6869			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6870			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6871			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6872			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6873	root	1.387	%
6874	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6875
6876			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6877			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6878			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6879			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6880			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6881			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6882			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6883	root	1.387	%
6884	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6885			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6886			future. Bleeeh]
6887
6888			From: Larry McVoy
6889
6890	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6891	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6892			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6893			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6894			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6895			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6896			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6897			not for the exceptional case.
6898	root	1.387	%
6899	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6900			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6901			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6902			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6903			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6904			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6905			stack.
6906
6907			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6908			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6909			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6910
6911			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6912			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6913	root	1.387	%
6914	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6915
6916	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6917			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6918			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6919			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6920	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6921	root	1.247	>
6922	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6923			> on the CPU?
6924
6925			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6926	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6927	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6928			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6929
6930			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6931			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6932			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6933			the point again".
6934	root	1.387	%
6935	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6936
6937	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6938			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6939	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6940	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6941	root	1.247	>
6942	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6943			> scenario.
6944
6945			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6946	root	1.387	%
6947	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6948	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6949			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6950			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6951	root	1.387	%
6952	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6953			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6954			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6955			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6956			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6957			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6958			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6959			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6960			anything.
6961	root	1.387	%
6962	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6963	root	1.387	%
6964	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6965			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6966	root	1.387	%
6967	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6968			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6969			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6970			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6971			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6972
6973			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6974	root	1.387	%
6975	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6976
6977			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6978
6979			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6980			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6981			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6982			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6983			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6984
6985			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6986			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6987			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6988			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6989			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6990			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6991			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6992			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6993			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6994			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6995			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6996			to work through the learning curve.
6997	root	1.387	%
6998	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6999	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
7000	root	1.387	%
7001	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
7002			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
7003	root	1.387	%
7004	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
7005			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
7006	root	1.387	%
7007	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
7008			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
7009	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
7010			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
7011	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
7012	root	1.387	%
7013	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
7014	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
7015	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
7016	root	1.387	%
7017	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
7018			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
7019	root	1.387	%
7020	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
7021			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
7022			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
7023			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
7024			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
7025			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
7026			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
7027			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
7028
7029	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
7030	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
7031	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
7032	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
7033			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
7034
7035			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
7036			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
7037			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
7038			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
7039			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
7040			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
7041			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
7042	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
7043	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
7044			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
7045			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
7046	root	1.387	%
7047	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
7048			/*---.
7049			\| ? \|
7050			`---*/
7051	root	1.387	%
7052	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
7053	root	1.387	%
7054	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
7055			From: Joe Buck
7056			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
7057			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
7058	root	1.387	%
7059	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
7060			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
7061	root	1.387	%
7062	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
7063	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
7064	root	1.387	%
7065	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
7066	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
7067	root	1.387	%
7068	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
7069	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
7070	root	1.4	...
7071			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
7072	root	1.387	%
7073	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
7074	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
7075			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
7076			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
7077
7078			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
7079
7080			Alan
7081	root	1.387	%
7082	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
7083	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
7084			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
7085			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
7086			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
7087	root	1.387	%
7088	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
7089	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
7090			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
7091			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
7092			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
7093			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
7094			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
7095	root	1.387	%
7096	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
7097			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
7098			will find an easier way to do it.
7099	root	1.387	%
7100	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
7101	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
7102			Paul wrote:
7103			>Marc wrote:
7104	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
7105			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
7106			> den richtigen.
7107	root	1.387	%
7108	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
7109			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
7110	root	1.387	%
7111	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
7112			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
7113	root	1.387	%
7114	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
7115			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
7116	root	1.387	%
7117	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
7118			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
7119			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7120			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7121			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7122	root	1.387	%
7123	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7124			[...]
7125
7126			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
7127
7128			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
7129	root	1.387	%
7130	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
7131			> constants.
7132
7133			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
7134	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
7135	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
7136	root	1.387	%
7137	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
7138	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
7139
7140			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
7141			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
7142			much to do with IRC.
7143	root	1.387	%
7144	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
7145			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
7146
7147			[...]
7148			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
7149
7150			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
7151			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
7152	root	1.387	%
7153	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
7154	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
7155	root	1.387	%
7156	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
7157
7158			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
7159			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
7160			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
7161
7162			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
7163			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
7164			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
7165			shows how much you know, pal.
7166
7167			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
7168	root	1.387	%
7169	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
7170			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7171			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7172	root	1.387	%
7173	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
7174			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
7175			y yzzyyccss;;##s
7176			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
7177	root	1.387	%
7178	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
7179			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
7180			Your version of perl sucks.
7181	root	1.387	%
7182	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
7183			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
7184			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
7185			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
7186			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
7187			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
7188			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
7189			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
7190	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
7191	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
7192			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
7193	root	1.387	%
7194	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
7195			before you can understand it :)
7196	root	1.387	%
7197	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
7198			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
7199			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
7200	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
7201	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
7202			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
7203			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
7204
7205			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
7206			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
7207			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
7208			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
7209			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
7210			be worth attempting).
7211
7212			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
7213			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
7214			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
7215
7216			Nick.
7217	root	1.387	%
7218	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
7219			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
7220			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
7221
7222	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
7223	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
7224			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
7225			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
7226			magic_bone@hotmail.com
7227	root	1.387	%
7228	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
7229			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
7230			> > > to work :-)
7231	root	1.247	> >
7232	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
7233	root	1.247	>
7234	root	1.1	> Eh?
7235	root	1.247	>
7236	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
7237			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
7238
7239			He didn't say it worked. :)
7240	root	1.387	%
7241	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7242
7243			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
7244			> I find it irksome that
7245	root	1.247	>
7246	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
7247
7248			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
7249	root	1.387	%
7250	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
7251			From: Simon Cozens
7252
7253			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
7254			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
7255			> Produces SIGSEGV.
7256
7257			Looks like a feature to me.
7258	root	1.387	%
7259	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
7260	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
7261	root	1.387	%
7262	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
7263			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
7264
7265			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
7266			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
7267			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
7268			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
7269
7270			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
7271			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
7272			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
7273			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
7274			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
7275			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
7276	root	1.387	%
7277	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
7278			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
7279			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
7280			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
7281			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
7282			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
7283			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
7284			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
7285			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
7286			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
7287			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
7288			accurate and not subject to tampering."
7289
7290			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
7291			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
7292			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
7293
7294			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
7295	root	1.387	%
7296	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
7297			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
7298			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
7299			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
7300			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
7301			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
7302			replication."
7303			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
7304	root	1.387	%
7305	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
7306			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7307
7308			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7309			shows.
7310
7311			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7312			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7313			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7314
7315			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7316			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7317			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7318			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7319			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7320
7321			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7322			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7323			up with a saner protocol.
7324	root	1.387	%
7325	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7326			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7327			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7328
7329			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7330			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7331			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7332	root	1.387	%
7333	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7334			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7335			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7336			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7337			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7338			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7339	root	1.387	%
7340	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7341			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7342	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7343			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7344			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7345			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7346	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7347	root	1.387	%
7348	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7349	root	1.387	%
7350	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7351			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7352	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7353	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7354	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7355	root	1.387	%
7356	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7357			"ist mir egal"
7358	root	1.387	%
7359	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7360			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7361
7362			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7363	root	1.387	%
7364	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7365			hallole
7366	root	1.387	%
7367	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7368			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7369			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7370	root	1.387	%
7371	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7372			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7373			1929 The pause that refreshes
7374			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7375			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7376			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7377			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7378			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7379			1939 Thirst stops here
7380			1942 It's the real thing
7381			1947 Have a Coke
7382			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7383			1963 Things go better with Coke
7384			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7385			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7386			1982 Coke is it!
7387			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7388	root	1.387	%
7389	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7390			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7391	root	1.387	%
7392	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7393			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7394	root	1.387	%
7395	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7396	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7397			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7398			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7399			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7400			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7401			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7402			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7403			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7404			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7405			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7406			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7407			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7408			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7409			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7410
7411			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7412			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7413	root	1.387	%
7414	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7415			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7416
7417			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7418			uncool thing to do. [...]
7419	root	1.387	%
7420	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7421			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7422			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7423	root	1.387	%
7424	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7425	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7426	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7427	root	1.1
7428	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7429			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7430			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7431			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7432	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7433			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7434	root	1.387	%
7435	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7436			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7437			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7438			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7439			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7440			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7441			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7442
7443			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7444			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7445			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7446	root	1.387	%
7447	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7448
7449			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7450	root	1.387	%
7451	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7452			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7453			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7454			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7455			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7456	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7457	root	1.387	%
7458	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7459			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7460			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7461
7462			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7463			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7464
7465			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7466	root	1.387	%
7467	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7468	root	1.387	%
7469	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7470			From: Alan Cox
7471			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7472			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7473	root	1.247	>
7474			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7475	root	1.1
7476	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7477	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7478	root	1.387	%
7479	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7480			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7481			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7482
7483			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7484			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7485			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7486			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7487
7488			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7489
7490			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7491	root	1.387	%
7492	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7493	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7494			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7495	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7496	root	1.387	%
7497	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7498	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7499			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7500	root	1.387	%
7501	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7502			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7503	root	1.387	%
7504	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7505	root	1.387	%
7506	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7507			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7508			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7509	root	1.387	%
7510	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7511			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7512			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7513			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7514			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7515	root	1.387	%
7516	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7517	root	1.387	%
7518	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7519			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7520			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7521			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7522			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7523			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7524			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7525	root	1.387	%
7526	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7527			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7528	root	1.387	%
7529	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7530			perl:]
7531
7532			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7533
7534			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7535			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7536			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7537			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7538			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7539			disable the message and pray it works"]
7540	root	1.387	%
7541	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7542			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7543			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7544			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7545
7546			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7547			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7548			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7549			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7550			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7551	root	1.387	%
7552	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7553			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7554			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7555	root	1.387	%
7556	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7557			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7558			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7559			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7560			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7561	root	1.387	%
7562	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7563			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7564			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7565	root	1.387	%
7566	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7567			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7568	root	1.387	%
7569	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7570			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7571	root	1.387	%
7572	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7573			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7574			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7575			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7576			> it's a hard requirement.
7577
7578			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7579			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7580			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7581			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7582			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7583			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7584			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7585			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7586	root	1.387	%
7587	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7588			> Netscape?"
7589	root	1.247
7590	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7591			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7592	root	1.387	%
7593	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7594			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7595			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7596			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7597			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7598			the specified task step-by-step.
7599	root	1.387	%
7600	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7601
7602			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7603			be damned hard to understand."
7604	root	1.387	%
7605	root	1.1	[Linus]
7606			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7607			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7608			wrong. It's that simple.
7609	root	1.387	%
7610	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7611	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7612	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7613			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7614			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7615	root	1.247	Undernet>
7616	root	1.387	%
7617	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7618			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7619			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7620			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7621
7622			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7623			document that contains an element or attribute named
7624	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7625	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7626			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7627			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7628			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7629			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7630			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7631	root	1.387	%
7632	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7633			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7634			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7635			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7636			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7637			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7638	root	1.387	%
7639	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7640			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7641			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7642			[... snip ...]
7643			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7644			tragedy...
7645	root	1.387	%
7646	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7647	root	1.247
7648	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7649			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7650			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7651			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7652			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7653			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7654			>message plus attorney's fees.
7655			[SNIP long sig]
7656	root	1.247
7657	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7658			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7659			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7660	root	1.247
7661	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7662			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7663			procmailable address.
7664	root	1.247
7665	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7666			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7667			just a waste of bandwidth.
7668	root	1.387	%
7669	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7670	root	1.387	%
7671	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7672			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7673	root	1.387	%
7674	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7675	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7676	root	1.387	%
7677	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7678	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7679			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7680			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7681	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7682	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7683			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7684			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7685			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7686	root	1.387	%
7687	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7688	root	1.387	%
7689	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7690	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7691	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7692	root	1.387	%
7693	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7694			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7695			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7696			immediately and not block the calling process.
7697
7698			the man pages are wrong
7699
7700			--cw
7701	root	1.387	%
7702	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7703			...
7704			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7705	root	1.387	%
7706	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7707			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7708	root	1.387	%
7709	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7710			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7711			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7712
7713			How fast does it oops?
7714	root	1.387	%
7715	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7716
7717			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7718			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7719			> touch is 2Gig.
7720
7721			In theory, yes.
7722			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7723			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7724	root	1.387	%
7725	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7726			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7727			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7728			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7729			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7730			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7731			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7732			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7733			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7734			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7735			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7736			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7737			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7738			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7739			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7740			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7741	root	1.387	%
7742	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7743	root	1.387	%
7744	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7745			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7746			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7747			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7748			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7749	root	1.387	%
7750	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7751			[Lukas Grunwald]
7752	root	1.387	%
7753	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7754			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7755			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7756			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7757
7758			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7759			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7760			> > prompt.
7761			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7762			> /proc/info/authors?
7763	root	1.247
7764	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7765			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7766			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7767			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7768			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7769			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7770	root	1.247
7771	root	1.1	NOT.
7772			[...]
7773	root	1.387	%
7774	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7775			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7776			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7777	root	1.247
7778	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7779			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7780			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7781			> an interesting experiment.
7782	root	1.247
7783	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7784			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7785			to disagree...
7786	root	1.387	%
7787	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7788			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7789			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7790			[und Lukas sagt:]
7791			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7792	root	1.387	%
7793	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7794			report:]
7795			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7796			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7797			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7798			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7799	root	1.387	%
7800	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7801			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7802	root	1.387	%
7803	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7804			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7805			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7806
7807			Alexander Viro wrote:
7808			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7809			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7810			>
7811			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7812			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7813			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7814			> UNIX.
7815
7816			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7817			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7818			docs... ew!
7819	root	1.387	%
7820	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7821			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7822			> protected mode?
7823
7824			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7825			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7826			registers loaded ;)
7827	root	1.387	%
7828	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7829			[...]
7830			> backports hurt forward progress.
7831
7832			beware of content free dogma
7833	root	1.387	%
7834	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7835			> wondering.
7836
7837			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7838			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7839			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7840			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7841			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7842			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7843			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7844
7845			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7846	root	1.387	%
7847	root	1.1	>Keith,
7848	root	1.247	>
7849	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7850			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7851			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7852
7853			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7854			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7855			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7856			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7857			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7858			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7859			do the right thing.
7860
7861			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7862			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7863			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7864			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7865			and they have to fix it.
7866	root	1.387	%
7867	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7868			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7869			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7870			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7871	root	1.387	%
7872	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7873			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7874	root	1.387	%
7875	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7876			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7877			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7878			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7879
7880			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7881			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7882	root	1.387	%
7883	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7884			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7885	root	1.387	%
7886	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7887			glibc-2.2 was released]
7888			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7889	root	1.387	%
7890	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7891	root	1.387	%
7892	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7893			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7894			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7895	root	1.387	%
7896	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7897			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7898			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7899	root	1.387	%
7900	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7901
7902			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7903			standards-compliant.
7904			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7905			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7906			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7907			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7908			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7909			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7910	root	1.387	%
7911	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7912			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7913			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7914
7915			That's your problem.
7916
7917			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7918
7919			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7920			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7921	root	1.387	%
7922	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7923			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7924			> > out there) in the foot?
7925
7926			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7927
7928			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7929			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7930			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7931	root	1.387	%
7932	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7933			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7934			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7935
7936			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7937			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7938			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7939			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7940			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7941			--
7942			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7943	root	1.387	%
7944	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7945
7946			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7947			>
7948			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7949			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7950			>
7951			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7952
7953			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7954	root	1.387	%
7955	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7956			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7957			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7958	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7959	root	1.387	%
7960	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7961			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7962			Bullschildt below ;)]
7963
7964			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7965			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7966	root	1.387	%
7967	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7968			>
7969			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7970			>
7971			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7972			>
7973			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7974	root	1.387	%
7975	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7976
7977			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7978			it did the same thing.
7979
7980			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7981			a week ago. :(
7982
7983			--Jack
7984	root	1.387	%
7985	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7986	root	1.387	%
7987	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7988			-- K&R
7989	root	1.387	%
7990	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7991	root	1.387	%
7992	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7993			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7994	root	1.387	%
7995	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7996	root	1.387	%
7997	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7998			$modules => { "" => "" };
7999	root	1.387	%
8000	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
8001	root	1.387	%
8002	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
8003	root	1.387	%
8004	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
8005			> --
8006			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
8007			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
8008	root	1.387	%
8009	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
8010			From: "David Schwartz"
8011
8012			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
8013			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
8014			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
8015			> pretty spiffy.
8016
8017			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
8018			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
8019			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
8020			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
8021	root	1.387	%
8022	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
8023	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
8024	root	1.387	%
8025	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
8026			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
8027			> of having bough one.
8028
8029			Not an uncommon thought :)
8030	root	1.387	%
8031	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
8032
8033			Hi Marc !
8034
8035			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
8036			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
8037			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
8038
8039			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
8040	root	1.387	%
8041	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
8042			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
8043			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
8044			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
8045
8046			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
8047			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
8048			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
8049
8050			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
8051			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
8052			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
8053			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
8054			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
8055			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
8056
8057			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
8058			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
8059
8060			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
8061			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
8062			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
8063			right to left.
8064
8065			>But no culture
8066			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
8067			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
8068			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
8069			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
8070			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
8071
8072			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
8073
8074			--Alex
8075	root	1.387	%
8076	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
8077			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
8078			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
8079
8080			[most of the reply snipped...]
8081
8082			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
8083			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
8084			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
8085
8086			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
8087
8088			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
8089			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
8090			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
8091			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
8092			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
8093
8094			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
8095			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
8096			try to claim that they do?)
8097	root	1.387	%
8098	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
8099
8100			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
8101			> {
8102			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
8103			> flush(load);
8104			> else
8105			> wear(load);
8106			> }
8107
8108			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
8109			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
8110
8111			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
8112			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
8113
8114			--
8115			dwmw2
8116	root	1.387	%
8117	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
8118			are are overturned.
8119	root	1.387	%
8120	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
8121	root	1.387	%
8122	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
8123			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
8124	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
8125			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
8126	root	1.387	%
8127	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
8128			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
8129			Marc gives some dumb comments.
8130			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
8131			Marc: Yeah.. and?
8132			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
8133			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
8134	root	1.387	%
8135	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
8136			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
8137			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
8138
8139			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
8140			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
8141			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
8142	root	1.387	%
8143	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
8144			Deadlock, n.:
8145			Deceased Rasterman.
8146	root	1.387	%
8147	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
8148			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
8149			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
8150			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	[some .signature]
8153			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
8154	root	1.387	%
8155	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
8156			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
8157	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
8158			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
8159			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
8160			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
8161	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
8162			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
8163	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
8164			Positionen für unwählbar.
8165	root	1.1
8166			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
8167	root	1.387	%
8168	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
8169			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
8170			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
8171
8172			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
8173
8174			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
8175			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
8176			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
8177			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
8178			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
8179
8180			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
8181			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
8182			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
8183			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
8184			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
8185			results simply because I make a mistake!
8186
8187			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
8188			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
8189			errors.
8190
8191			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
8192			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
8193			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
8194			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
8195	root	1.387	%
8196	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
8197			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
8198			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
8199			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
8200			>
8201			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
8202	root	1.387	%
8203	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
8204			of nothing."
8205	root	1.387	%
8206	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
8207			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
8208			>
8209			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
8210			> CPU?
8211
8212			Root password? :)
8213
8214			John.Fulmer
8215	root	1.387	%
8216	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
8217
8218			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
8219	root	1.387	%
8220	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
8221			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
8222			> which I prefer...
8223
8224			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
8225			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
8226			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
8227			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
8228			updater for the new SCSI controller.
8229			--
8230			Horst von Brand
8231	root	1.387	%
8232	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
8233
8234			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
8235
8236			[...]
8237
8238			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
8239	root	1.387	%
8240	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
8241			at your problem:]
8242
8243			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
8244			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
8245			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
8246	root	1.387	%
8247	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
8248			cp is inherently inefficient.
8249	root	1.387	%
8250	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
8251			>breaking seals on them.
8252
8253			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
8254			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
8255			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
8256
8257			...
8258
8259			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
8260			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
8261			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
8262			could be just an urban myth though.
8263
8264			Russell Coker
8265	root	1.387	%
8266	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
8267			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
8268
8269			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
8270	root	1.387	%
8271	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
8272			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
8273			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
8274			> > deleting.
8275			>
8276			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
8277
8278			Wrong. Yury does.
8279			:(
8280
8281			--
8282			Stefan
8283	root	1.387	%
8284	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
8285			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
8286			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
8287			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
8288			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
8289			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
8290			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
8291
8292			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
8293
8294			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
8295	root	1.387	%
8296	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
8297	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
8298	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
8299	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
8300			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
8301	root	1.387	%
8302	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
8303			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
8304			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
8305			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
8306			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8307			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8308			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8309			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8310			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8311			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8312	root	1.387	%
8313	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8314			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8315			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8316	root	1.1	aus!
8317	root	1.387	%
8318	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8319			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8320	root	1.387	%
8321	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8322			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8323			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8324			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8325	root	1.387	%
8326	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8327			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8328	root	1.387	%
8329	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8330			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8331			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8332			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8333
8334			--tom
8335	root	1.387	%
8336	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8337			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8338
8339			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8340			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8341			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8342			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8343			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8344	root	1.387	%
8345	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8346			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8347			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8348			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8349			solutions.
8350
8351			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8352
8353			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8354			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8355			the background]
8356	root	1.387	%
8357	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8358			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8359			Security Response Center:
8360
8361			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8362			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8363
8364			[and later]
8365			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8366
8367			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8368
8369			[Phil closes]
8370			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8371
8372			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8373			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8374	root	1.387	%
8375	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8376			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8377			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8378			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8379			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8380			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8381			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8382	root	1.387	%
8383	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8384			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8385			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8386			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8387
8388			[Trashey / Quasars]
8389	root	1.387	%
8390	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8391			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8392			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8393
8394			Irony potential in
8395
8396			man perlrtfm
8397
8398			is left to the reader.
8399
8400			Nat
8401	root	1.387	%
8402	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8403			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8404
8405			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8406			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8407	root	1.387	%
8408	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8409			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8410			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8411	root	1.387	%
8412	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8413			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8414			Paul Tomblin
8415	root	1.387	%
8416	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8417			>I am morally
8418			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8419
8420			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8421			possibility...
8422
8423			Dan
8424	root	1.387	%
8425	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8426	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8427	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 :)
8428			<Mr> zugabe
8429	root	1.387	%
8430	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8431			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8432	root	1.387	%
8433	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8434			[cobol, sigh]
8435	root	1.387	%
8436	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8437			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8438			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8439			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8440			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8441			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8442			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8443			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8444
8445			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8446	root	1.387	%
8447	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8448
8449			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8450			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8451			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8452			after they regain their composure."
8453
8454			-- Paul Rinaldo
8455			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8456	root	1.387	%
8457	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8458			>
8459			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8460			>
8461			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8462
8463			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8464
8465			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8466
8467			;-}
8468
8469			--
8470
8471			ciao -
8472			Stefan
8473
8474	root	1.387	%
8475	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8476			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8477
8478			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8479			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8480			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8481			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8482			one' type remarks.
8483			[Alan Cox]
8484	root	1.387	%
8485	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8486
8487			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8488			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8489
8490			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8491	root	1.387	%
8492	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8493
8494			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8495			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8496			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8497	root	1.387	%
8498	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8499			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8500			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8501			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8502	root	1.387	%
8503	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8504			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8505
8506			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8507			is to me ok.
8508	root	1.387	%
8509	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8510
8511			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8512	root	1.387	%
8513	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8514			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8515	root	1.387	%
8516	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8517			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8518	root	1.387	%
8519	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8520			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8521			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8522
8523			Ralf
8524	root	1.387	%
8525	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8526			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8527			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8528
8529			david parsons
8530	root	1.387	%
8531	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8532			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8533
8534			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8535			>so that trick is not portable.
8536
8537			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8538			127.0.0.1 localhost
8539
8540			--tom
8541	root	1.387	%
8542	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8543			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8544			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8545			> >the question is moot.
8546			>
8547			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8548
8549			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8550
8551			Ilya
8552	root	1.387	%
8553	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8554			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8555			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8556			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8557			> trying.
8558
8559			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8560			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8561	root	1.387	%
8562	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8563			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8564			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8565			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8566	root	1.387	%
8567	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8568			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8569			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8570	root	1.387	%
8571	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8572			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8573			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8574			> blocking :-)
8575
8576			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8577			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8578			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8579			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8580			reasons.
8581
8582			DS
8583	root	1.387	%
8584	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8585	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8586	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8587	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8588	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8589
8590			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8591	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8592	root	1.387	%
8593	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8594			[...]
8595			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8596			[...]
8597
8598			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8599			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8600			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8601			with each other on the same channel.
8602
8603			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8604			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8605
8606			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8607	root	1.387	%
8608	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8609			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8610	root	1.387	%
8611	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8612	root	1.387	%
8613	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8614			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8615			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8616			ok
8617	root	1.387	%
8618	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8619			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8620	root	1.387	%
8621	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8622			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8623			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8624			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8625			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8626			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8627			<Xach> burrito, focus
8628			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8629	root	1.387	%
8630	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8631			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8632			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8633			tested it." ...
8634	root	1.387	%
8635	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8636	root	1.387	%
8637	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8638
8639			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8640			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8641			>
8642			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8643			>
8644			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8645			>
8646			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8647			>
8648			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8649			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8650			>systems.
8651
8652
8653			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8654			had.
8655
8656			--
8657			Neal Bridges
8658	root	1.387	%
8659	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8660
8661			> Hi folks,
8662			> 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?
8663			> please reply to
8664			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8665			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8666
8667			Parse error.
8668
8669			---
8670			Alex
8671	root	1.387	%
8672	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8673
8674			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8675			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8676
8677			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8678			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8679			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8680
8681			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8682	root	1.387	%
8683	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8684	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8685	root	1.387	%
8686	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8687			ii = 44;
8688			p = &ii;
8689			p = ii/p;
8690			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8691			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8692	root	1.387	%
8693	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8694			> Linux time then.
8695
8696			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8697
8698			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8699			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8700
8701			Roger.
8702	root	1.387	%
8703	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8704	root	1.387	%
8705	root	1.1	auto accident;
8706			register voters;
8707			static electricity;
8708			struct by_lightning;
8709			void *where_prohibited;
8710			char broiled;
8711			short circuit;
8712			short changed;
8713			long johns;
8714			unsigned long letter;
8715			double entendre;
8716			double trouble;
8717			union organizer;
8718			float valve;
8719			short pants;
8720			union station;
8721			void check; unsigned check;
8722			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8723	root	1.387	%
8724	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8725			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8726			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8727	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8728	root	1.387	%
8729	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8730
8731			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8732			worstation.
8733	root	1.387	%
8734	root	1.1	I wrote
8735			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8736			$/
8737
8738			Damn shift key.
8739
8740
8741			Mike Guy
8742	root	1.387	%
8743	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8744			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8745			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8746			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8747			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8748			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8749			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8750			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8751			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8752	root	1.387	%
8753	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8754
8755			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8756
8757			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8758			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8759			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8760			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8761
8762			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8763	root	1.387	%
8764	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8765			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8766
8767			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8768			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8769			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8770			easy to bother.
8771
8772			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8773			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8774			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8775			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8776
8777			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8778
8779			Larry
8780	root	1.387	%
8781	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8782			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8783			Yeah. :-)
8784	root	1.387	%
8785	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8786			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8787			[...]
8788			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8789
8790			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8791			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8792			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8793			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8794
8795			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8796			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8797			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8798			receipts aren't used anymore.
8799	root	1.387	%
8800	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8801			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8802			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8803	root	1.387	%
8804	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8805			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8806			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8807			> versteht?"
8808	root	1.387	%
8809	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8810			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8811			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8812			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8813	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8814	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8815	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8816	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8817			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8818			ji!
8819	root	1.387	%
8820	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8821			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8822			[Larry Wall]
8823	root	1.387	%
8824	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8825			Altpreussen.
8826			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8827			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8828	root	1.387	%
8829	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8830			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8831			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8832			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8833			>
8834	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8835			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8836	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8837
8838	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8839	root	1.1	Norbert?
8840	root	1.387	%
8841	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8842	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8843			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8844	root	1.387	%
8845	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8846	root	1.387	%
8847	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8848	root	1.387	%
8849	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8850			From: "Steve"
8851			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8852			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8853			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8854
8855			[the following was a single line, of course]
8856			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8857			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8858			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8859			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8860			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8861
8862			Thanks,
8863
8864			Steve
8865	root	1.387	%
8866	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8867			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8868			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8869			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8870	root	1.387	%
8871	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8872			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8873			<tigert> ahem
8874	root	1.387	%
8875	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8876			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8877			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8878	root	1.387	%
8879	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8880			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8881			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8882			Subject: It's soup.
8883
8884			Okay, it's there.
8885
8886			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8887
8888			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8889
8890			Larry
8891	root	1.387	%
8892	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8893	root	1.387	%
8894	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8895			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8896			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8897			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8898			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8899	root	1.387	%
8900	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8901			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8902			>
8903			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8904			> And there's no mouse.
8905			>
8906			> Abigail
8907
8908			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8909
8910			Matt.
8911	root	1.387	%
8912	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8913			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8914
8915			- --tom
8916	root	1.387	%
8917	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8918			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8919
8920			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8921			>
8922			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8923			> 2.2.11 release?
8924
8925			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8926
8927			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8928
8929			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8930	root	1.387	%
8931	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8932	root	1.387	%
8933	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8934			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8935			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8936			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8937			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8938			> that much ;-)
8939
8940			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8941	root	1.387	%
8942	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8943			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8944	root	1.387	%
8945	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8946			<QUOTE>
8947			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8948
8949			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8950			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8951			</QUOTE>
8952	root	1.387	%
8953	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8954			and routes around it.
8955
8956			Roger Larsson
8957	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8958	root	1.387	%
8959	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8960			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8961	root	1.387	%
8962	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8963			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8964	root	1.387	%
8965	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8966
8967			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8968			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8969			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8970			on different JVMs.
8971
8972			[and later]
8973
8974			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8975			adventure gaming:
8976
8977			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8978			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8979	root	1.387	%
8980	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8981			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8982
8983			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8984
8985			NK> ?? -> huh?
8986
8987			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8988
8989			<chaim>
8990	root	1.387	%
8991	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8992			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8993			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8994			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8995			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8996			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8997	root	1.387	%
8998	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8999	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
9000	root	1.387	%
9001	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
9002			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
9003			page]
9004			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
9005			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
9006			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
9007			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
9008			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
9009			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
9010			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
9011			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
9012			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
9013			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
9014	root	1.387	%
9015	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
9016			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
9017			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
9018			don't actually get anything DONE.
9019	root	1.387	%
9020	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
9021			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
9022			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
9023			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
9024	root	1.387	%
9025	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
9026			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
9027			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
9028			> get the serial number from the OS)?
9029
9030			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
9031	root	1.387	%
9032	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
9033			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
9034			they have continued that legacy to this day."
9035	root	1.387	%
9036	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
9037			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
9038			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
9039	root	1.387	%
9040	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
9041
9042			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
9043			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
9044			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
9045			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
9046			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
9047			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
9048			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
9049			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
9050			got the T-shirt.
9051	root	1.387	%
9052	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9053			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9054			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
9055			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
9056			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
9057			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9058			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
9059
9060			Linus writes, to Craig:
9061
9062			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
9063			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
9064			> thus choices than gcc.
9065
9066			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
9067			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
9068			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
9069			far more complex than the kernel.
9070
9071			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
9072			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
9073
9074			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
9075	root	1.387	%
9076	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9077			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
9078			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
9079
9080			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
9081			[...]
9082			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
9083			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
9084			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
9085			>let the user be in control.
9086
9087			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
9088			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
9089			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
9090			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
9091			compilers?
9092	root	1.387	%
9093	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9094			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9095
9096			Linus writes:
9097			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
9098			> gcc could do better?
9099
9100			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
9101			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
9102			before you had so many worshippers.
9103	root	1.387	%
9104	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9105			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
9106			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
9107			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9108			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
9109
9110			Linus Torvalds wrote:
9111
9112			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
9113			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
9114			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
9115			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
9116
9117			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
9118
9119			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
9120
9121			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
9122			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
9123
9124			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
9125
9126			>:->
9127
9128			Brane
9129
9130
9131			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
9132			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
9133			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
9134			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
9135			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
9136
9137
9138			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
9139	root	1.387	%
9140	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
9141	root	1.387	%
9142	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
9143			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
9144			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
9145	root	1.387	%
9146	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
9147			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
9148			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
9149	root	1.387	%
9150	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
9151
9152			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
9153
9154			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
9155	root	1.387	%
9156	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
9157			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
9158			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
9159			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
9160
9161			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
9162
9163			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
9164			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
9165			:
9166			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
9167			:
9168			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
9169			:
9170			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
9171	root	1.387	%
9172	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
9173	root	1.387	%
9174	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
9175			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
9176			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
9177			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
9178			>
9179			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
9180			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
9181
9182			The classic example:
9183
9184			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
9185			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
9186	root	1.387	%
9187	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
9188			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
9189
9190			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
9191			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
9192			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
9193
9194			What's next, a String class for Perl?
9195
9196			--tom
9197	root	1.387	%
9198	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
9199			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
9200			working on something for me
9201			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
9202			to me nutting concerning y ok
9203			piece
9204			russ
9205	root	1.387	%
9206	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
9207
9208			pico (text editor for beginners)
9209			vi (text editor for advanced users)
9210			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
9211			ed (text editor for beginners)
9212	root	1.387	%
9213	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
9214
9215			use Python;
9216
9217			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
9218			Except maybe faster. :-)
9219
9220			Larry
9221	root	1.387	%
9222	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
9223
9224			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
9225			2010.
9226
9227			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
9228	root	1.387	%
9229	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
9230			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
9231			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
9232			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
9233			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
9234			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
9235			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
9236			been created.
9237	root	1.387	%
9238	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
9239			>
9240			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
9241			> $3.99.
9242			>
9243			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
9244			>
9245			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
9246			>
9247			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
9248			>
9249			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
9250			>
9251			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
9252			>
9253			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
9254			> got integrated Coke!
9255			>
9256			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
9257			> to drink the Coke.
9258			>
9259			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
9260			>
9261			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
9262			>
9263			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
9264			> inseparable.
9265			>
9266			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
9267			>
9268			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
9269			>
9270			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
9271			>
9272			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
9273			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
9274			> continuous taste across all your foods.
9275	root	1.387	%
9276	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
9277			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
9278	root	1.40	Rob Pike
9279	root	1.387	%
9280	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
9281
9282			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
9283			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
9284			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
9285			for you to digest this book.
9286			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
9287			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
9288			Join The Trickle
9289			Python: more popular than Dylan!
9290			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
9291			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
9292	root	1.387	%
9293	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
9294			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
9295			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
9296			complete and utter vapourware.
9297
9298			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
9299	root	1.387	%
9300	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
9301
9302			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
9303			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
9304	root	1.387	%
9305	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
9306
9307			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9308			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9309			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9310			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9311			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9312			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9313			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9314			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9315			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9316			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9317			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9318			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9319			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9320			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9321			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9322			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9323			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9324			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9325			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9326			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9327			work.
9328			[...]
9329			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9330			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9331			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9332			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9333			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9334			search generically - then it has some potential.
9335			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9336			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9337			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9338			intellectual value whatsoever.
9339
9340			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9341			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9342			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9343	root	1.387	%
9344	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9345	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9346	root	1.387	%
9347	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9348			#!/usr/bin/sh
9349			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9350			# All Rights Reserved
9351
9352			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9353			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9354			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9355
9356			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9357			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9358	root	1.387	%
9359	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.
9360	root	1.387	%
9361	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9362			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9363			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9364	root	1.387	%
9365	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9366
9367			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9368			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9369
9370			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9371			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9372			machine]
9373
9374			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9375			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9376			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9377
9378			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9379	root	1.387	%
9380	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9381			spamming:]
9382
9383			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9384			>>
9385			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9386			>>------------------------------------------------------
9387			>>
9388			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9389			>>
9390			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9391
9392			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9393			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9394	root	1.387	%
9395	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9396			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9397	root	1.387	%
9398	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9399			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9400	root	1.387	%
9401	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9402			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9403
9404			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9405	root	1.387	%
9406	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9407
9408			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9409			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9410			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9411			he's full of.
9412
9413			Support BSD/Linux.
9414
9415			--tom
9416	root	1.387	%
9417	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9418	root	1.387	%
9419	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9420	root	1.387	%
9421	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9422			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9423
9424			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9425			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9426			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9427			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9428	root	1.387	%
9429	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9430
9431			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9432			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9433	root	1.387	%
9434	root	1.1	[the creation]
9435			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9436	root	1.387	%
9437	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9438
9439			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9440			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9441			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9442	root	1.387	%
9443	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9444			selbst schliesse.
9445			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9446			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9447	root	1.387	%
9448	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9449			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9450
9451			No:
9452
9453			use Borg;
9454			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9455
9456			--
9457			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9458	root	1.387	%
9459	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9460			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9461			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9462			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9463			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9464			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9465			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9466			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9467			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9468			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9469			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9470			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9471			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9472			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9473			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9474			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9475			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9476			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9477			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9478			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9479			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9480			dispensers."
9481
9482			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9483	root	1.387	%
9484	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9485			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9486			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9487			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9488	root	1.387	%
9489	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9490			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9491			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9492	root	1.387	%
9493	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9494	root	1.1
9495			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9496	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9497	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9498	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9499	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9500			Student: "..."
9501			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9502			Student: "..."
9503			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9504	root	1.387	%
9505	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9506
9507			> Just morbid curiosity,
9508			>
9509			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9510
9511			Yes. Broken ones.
9512
9513			dgris
9514	root	1.387	%
9515	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9516			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9517	root	1.387	%
9518	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9519			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9520	root	1.387	%
9521	root	1.1	...
9522
9523			<AOL>
9524
9525			Me too!
9526
9527			</AOL>
9528
9529			Tig
9530	root	1.387	%
9531	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9532	root	1.387	%
9533	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9534	root	1.387	%
9535	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9536
9537			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9538			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9539			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9540			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9541			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9542			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9543			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9544
9545			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9546
9547			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9548			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9549			get really really pissed.
9550
9551			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9552			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9553	root	1.387	%
9554	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9555			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9556			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9557			> period.
9558			>
9559			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9560			> Nic
9561			>
9562
9563			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9564
9565			-hpa
9566	root	1.387	%
9567	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9568	root	1.387	%
9569	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9570			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9571			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9572			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9573			happy."
9574			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9575	root	1.387	%
9576	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9577			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9578			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9579
9580			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9581			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9582			I also forwarded the offending code.
9583
9584			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9585			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9586			service.
9587
9588			Daniel
9589	root	1.387	%
9590	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9591			...
9592			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9593	root	1.387	%
9594	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9595			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9596			[RJL]
9597	root	1.387	%
9598	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9599			right.''
9600	root	1.387	%
9601	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9602
9603			Amazing--they actually listened.
9604	root	1.387	%
9605	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9606			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9607			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9608
9609			# less foo
9610			sh: command not found
9611			# more foo
9612			sh: command not found
9613			# emacs foo
9614			sh: command not found
9615			# ed foo
9616			0
9617			help
9618			?
9619			quit
9620			?
9621			exit
9622			?
9623			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9624			?
9625
9626			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9627	root	1.387	%
9628	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9629			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9630			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9631
9632			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9633
9634			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9635
9636			tim> would be most correct in style.
9637
9638			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9639			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9640	root	1.387	%
9641	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9642			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9643			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9644			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9645			too bad --- ]
9646	root	1.387	%
9647	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9648	root	1.387	%
9649	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9650
9651			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9652			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9653
9654			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9655			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9656	root	1.387	%
9657	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9658			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9659			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9660			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9661			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9662	root	1.387	%
9663	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9664
9665			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9666			include wrong #include files in their source.
9667	root	1.387	%
9668	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9669
9670			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9671			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9672			Consider it a rite of passage.
9673	root	1.387	%
9674	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9675			"Oops."
9676			-- MST3K
9677	root	1.387	%
9678	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9679			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9680			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9681
9682			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9683			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9684			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9685			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9686			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9687			it. ;)
9688	root	1.387	%
9689	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9690			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9691			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9692			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9693			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9694
9695			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9696			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9697			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9698			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9699
9700			--tom
9701	root	1.387	%
9702	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9703
9704			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9705
9706			>Why does it end ?
9707
9708			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9709
9710			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9711			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9712
9713			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9714	root	1.387	%
9715	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9716			-- Tom Christiansen
9717	root	1.387	%
9718	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9719
9720			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9721			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9722			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9723			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9724			of Sputnik.
9725	root	1.387	%
9726	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9727			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9728			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9729			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9730			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9731	root	1.387	%
9732	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9733			- Hanlons razor -
9734	root	1.387	%
9735	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9736			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9737	root	1.387	%
9738	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9739			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9740			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9741			> offered no significant advantages.
9742
9743			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9744	root	1.387	%
9745	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9746			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9747			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9748			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9749			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9750			in front of me says so."
9751
9752			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9753	root	1.387	%
9754	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9755			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9756			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9757			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9758			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9759			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9760			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9761			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9762			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9763			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9764			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9765	root	1.387	%
9766	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9767			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9768			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9769			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9770			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9771	root	1.387	%
9772	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9773	root	1.387	%
9774	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9775	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9776			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9777			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9778			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9779	root	1.387	%
9780	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9781			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9782			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9783			>
9784			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9785			> and/or screen.
9786
9787			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9788	root	1.387	%
9789	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9790			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9791
9792			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9793			> use pedantic;
9794			> use strict 'code';
9795			>
9796			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9797
9798			use syntax 'python';
9799
9800			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9801
9802	root	1.387	%
9803	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9804			>
9805			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9806			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9807			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9808			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9809			>
9810			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9811	root	1.387	%
9812	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9813			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9814	root	1.387	%
9815	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9816			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9817			> be time-consuming.
9818
9819			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9820	root	1.387	%
9821	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9822			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9823			however, they do not handle C++...
9824			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9825	root	1.387	%
9826	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9827			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9828
9829			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9830
9831			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9832
9833			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9834
9835			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9836			already of old time, which was before us.
9837			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9838			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9839
9840			Regards,
9841			Tigran.
9842	root	1.387	%
9843	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9844	root	1.387	%
9845	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9846			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9847			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9848			main(){
9849			extrn hw;
9850			putchar(0[hw]);
9851			hw=+1;
9852			putchar(0[hw]);
9853			}
9854	root	1.387	%
9855	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9856
9857			The egg. Always. By definition.
9858	root	1.387	%
9859	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9860			>
9861			> Better check your scsi cables.
9862	root	1.387	%
9863	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9864			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9865	root	1.387	%
9866	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9867			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9868			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9869			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9870
9871	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9872	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9873			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9874
9875	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9876	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9877	root	1.387	%
9878	root	1.1	>James :\
9879			>
9880			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9881
9882			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9883	root	1.387	%
9884	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9885			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9886			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9887	root	1.387	%
9888	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9889			> is just asking for a black eye.
9890
9891			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9892
9893			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9894			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9895			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9896
9897			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9898			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9899			area.
9900	root	1.387	%
9901	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9902			[Lukas Grunwald]
9903	root	1.387	%
9904	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9905
9906			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9907			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9908			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9909			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9910			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9911	root	1.387	%
9912	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9913			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9914
9915			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9916	root	1.387	%
9917	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9918			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9919			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9920
9921			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9922
9923			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9924
9925			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9926
9927			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9928			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9929	root	1.387	%
9930	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9931	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9932	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9933	root	1.387	%
9934	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9935			longer...
9936	root	1.387	%
9937	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9938			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9939			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9940	root	1.387	%
9941	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9942			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9943			> > world :) I just love it...
9944			>
9945			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9946			>
9947			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9948			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9949			practical...
9950			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9951			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9952			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9953			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9954			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9955
9956			Jan Hubicka
9957	root	1.387	%
9958	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9959			[...]
9960			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9961
9962			No, it is not. What you meant is
9963
9964			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9965	root	1.387	%
9966	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9967			> A) perl-5.00553
9968			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9969			> cc = cl.exe
9970			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9971
9972			[...]
9973
9974			Ilya
9975	root	1.387	%
9976	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9977
9978			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9979
9980			p.
9981	root	1.387	%
9982	root	1.1	[tomc]
9983			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9984			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9985
9986			+------------------------------------------+
9987			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9988			+------------------------------------------+
9989
9990			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9991			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9992
9993			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9994			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9995			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9996			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9997			interesting way.
9998			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9999			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
10000			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
10001			interesting things.
10002			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
10003			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
10004			things.
10005	root	1.387	%
10006	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
10007			--Dennis Ritchie
10008	root	1.387	%
10009	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
10010	root	1.387	%
10011	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
10012
10013			switch (x)
10014			default:
10015			if (prime(x))
10016			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
10017			process_prime(x);
10018			else
10019			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
10020			process_composite(x);
10021	root	1.387	%
10022	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
10023			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
10024			in megabytes, required for execution?
10025
10026			Craig Milo Rogers
10027	root	1.387	%
10028	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
10029			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
10030			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
10031
10032			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
10033			US (apparently in Canada too?).
10034
10035			Ilya
10036	root	1.387	%
10037	root	1.1	[from p5p]
10038			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
10039
10040			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
10041			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
10042			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
10043
10044			Nat
10045	root	1.387	%
10046	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
10047			much steroids for a while. =)
10048
10049			--Albert Dvornik
10050			<bert@genscan.com>
10051	root	1.387	%
10052	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
10053			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
10054			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
10055
10056			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
10057
10058			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
10059			or tcl crowd instead of here.
10060
10061			--tom
10062	root	1.387	%
10063	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
10064
10065			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
10066
10067			Linus
10068	root	1.387	%
10069	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
10070			devil added HTML mail...
10071	root	1.387	%
10072	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
10073			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
10074			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
10075	root	1.387	%
10076	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
10077			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
10078
10079			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
10080			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
10081			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
10082
10083			Arm the gnus!
10084	root	1.387	%
10085	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
10086
10087			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
10088			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
10089			gcc, so go away.
10090	root	1.387	%
10091	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
10092			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
10093
10094			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
10095
10096			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
10097			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
10098	root	1.387	%
10099	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10100			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
10101			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
10102			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
10103
10104			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
10105			was released today" madness.
10106	root	1.387	%
10107	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10108			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
10109			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
10110			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
10111			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
10112			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
10113			>
10114			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
10115			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
10116			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
10117			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
10118			> marketing name, anyway.
10119
10120			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
10121			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
10122			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
10123
10124			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
10125			violence..." :-)
10126	root	1.387	%
10127	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
10128			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
10129	root	1.387	%
10130	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
10131			> >poor drivers
10132			>
10133			> No it doesn't.
10134
10135			Indeed. Its down to
10136
10137			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
10138
10139			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
10140			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
10141			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
10142			or binaries.
10143	root	1.387	%
10144	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
10145	root	1.387	%
10146	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
10147	root	1.387	%
10148	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
10149
10150			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
10151			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
10152			\|>
10153			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
10154
10155			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
10156
10157			Andreas.
10158	root	1.387	%
10159	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10160			...
10161			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
10162
10163			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
10164			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
10165			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
10166			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
10167			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
10168			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
10169	root	1.387	%
10170	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10171
10172			Paul Eggert writes:
10173			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
10174
10175			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
10176			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
10177	root	1.387	%
10178	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
10179			however.
10180
10181			"We don't have the tools"
10182			"We can't support a non intel build"
10183			"We don't have that sort of machine"
10184			"Its not worth the time cost"
10185			"Whats an Alpha ?"
10186	root	1.387	%
10187	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
10188
10189			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
10190			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
10191			>
10192			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
10193			> <mailproc@fred>
10194			>
10195			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
10196			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10197			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10198			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
10199			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
10200	root	1.387	%
10201	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
10202			> No documented problem
10203			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
10204			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
10205			>
10206			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
10207	root	1.387	%
10208	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
10209			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
10210	root	1.387	%
10211	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
10212			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
10213
10214			dave
10215	root	1.387	%
10216	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10217			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
10218
10219			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
10220	root	1.387	%
10221	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10222
10223			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
10224			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
10225
10226			Paul Eggert writes:
10227			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
10228
10229			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
10230			1 month before 29 March?
10231
10232			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
10233
10234			1 month before 28 March?
10235
10236			28 February.
10237
10238			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
10239			_before_ 27 February?
10240
10241			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
10242	root	1.387	%
10243	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10244
10245			>Nils Goesche wrote:
10246			>> So make a security check first:
10247			>>
10248			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
10249			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
10250			>
10251			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
10252			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
10253			>
10254			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
10255			> = instead of == error*/
10256			> launch_full_counterstrike();
10257			>
10258			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
10259			>
10260			>--
10261			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
10262
10263			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
10264
10265			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
10266			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
10267	root	1.387	%
10268	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
10269			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
10270
10271			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
10272			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
10273			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
10274			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
10275			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
10276			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
10277			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
10278			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
10279
10280			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
10281			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
10282			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
10283			available for that hardware from any source.
10284			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
10285			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
10286			sniffing!
10287	root	1.387	%
10288	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
10289			technical support line that isn't"
10290	root	1.387	%
10291	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
10292			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
10293	root	1.387	%
10294	root	1.1	[...]
10295			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
10296			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
10297
10298			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
10299			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
10300			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
10301			"Nothing else"
10302			"Sorry"
10303			[Click]
10304
10305			Alan
10306	root	1.387	%
10307	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10308			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10309	root	1.387	%
10310	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10311			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10312			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10313			> users excepted, of course!).
10314
10315			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10316			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10317			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10318			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10319			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10320			is installed"
10321
10322			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10323	root	1.387	%
10324	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10325
10326			L. Harris wrote:
10327			>
10328			> Testing
10329
10330			you failed.
10331	root	1.387	%
10332	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10333			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10334	root	1.387	%
10335	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10336			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10337			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10338			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10339	root	1.387	%
10340	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10341			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10342			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10343
10344			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10345	root	1.387	%
10346	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10347			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10348			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10349			where else...
10350	root	1.387	%
10351	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10352			[...]
10353			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10354			: about a certain topic.
10355	root	1.387	%
10356	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10357			>
10358			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10359			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10360
10361			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10362			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10363
10364			void main (void)
10365			{
10366			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10367			printf ("\n");
10368			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10369			printf ("You have died.\n");
10370			printf ("\n");
10371			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10372			}
10373
10374			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10375
10376			--
10377			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10378	root	1.387	%
10379	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10380			mistake I ever made]
10381
10382			From: "Tom Miller"
10383			Subject: Can
10384			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10385
10386			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10387			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10388			my name is Tom Miller
10389
10390			From: "Tom Miller"
10391			Subject: Wait
10392			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10393
10394			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10395			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10396	root	1.387	%
10397	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10398
10399			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10400			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10401			so why bother? [...]
10402	root	1.387	%
10403	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10404	root	1.1
10405			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10406
10407			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10408			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10409			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10410			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10411			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10412			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10413			sich dann.
10414	root	1.387	%
10415	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10416			no fs
10417			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10418			Definitely hardware or software error.
10419
10420			Unix Version 7 Manual
10421	root	1.387	%
10422	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10423			>
10424			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10425			>
10426			> =for C
10427			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10428			> =end
10429			> =for C++
10430			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10431			> =end
10432			> =for Java
10433			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10434			> =end
10435			>
10436			> :-)
10437	root	1.387	%
10438	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10439	root	1.387	%
10440	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10441
10442			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10443			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10444			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10445			turn it on.
10446	root	1.387	%
10447	root	1.1	[...]
10448			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10449			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10450			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10451			[...]
10452	root	1.387	%
10453	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10454
10455			Chad C Giffin
10456	root	1.387	%
10457	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10458			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10459			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10460			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10461			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10462			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10463
10464			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10465			through the door.
10466			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10467			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10468			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10469			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10470			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10471			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10472			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10473			usually.)
10474
10475			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10476			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10477			your tire pressure..."
10478			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10479			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10480			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10481			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10482			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10483			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10484			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10485			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10486	root	1.387	%
10487	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10488
10489			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10490	root	1.387	%
10491	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10492
10493			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10494			:-(
10495	root	1.387	%
10496	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10497			>dies alles geschieht.
10498			>Und es verging nicht.
10499
10500			So what?
10501
10502			Ich dachte eher an:
10503
10504			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10505			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10506			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10507			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10508			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10509			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10510			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10511			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10512			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10513			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10514			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10515			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10516
10517			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10518
10519			Antje
10520	root	1.387	%
10521	root	1.1	[....]
10522
10523			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10524			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10525			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10526			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10527			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10528			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10529
10530			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10531
10532			Antje
10533	root	1.387	%
10534	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10535			lalala, I love you baby..."
10536			--
10537			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10538	root	1.387	%
10539	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10540			>
10541			> Kubys
10542
10543			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10544
10545			Linus
10546	root	1.387	%
10547	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10548
10549			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10550			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10551			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10552	root	1.387	%
10553	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10554
10555			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10556			out what it means.
10557			--
10558			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10559	root	1.387	%
10560	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10561			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10562	root	1.387	%
10563	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10564			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10565
10566			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10567
10568			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10569			> is being discussed.
10570
10571			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10572	root	1.387	%
10573	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10574
10575			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10576
10577			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10578
10579			[and the button reads]
10580
10581			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10582	root	1.387	%
10583	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10584
10585			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10586
10587			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10588			certain amount of redundancy.
10589	root	1.387	%
10590	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10591			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10592
10593			...
10594
10595			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10596	root	1.387	%
10597	root	1.1	>Hello,
10598			>
10599			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10600			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10601			>
10602
10603			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10604			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10605			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10606			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10607	root	1.387	%
10608	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10609			on the country as a whole.
10610			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10611			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10612			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10613	root	1.387	%
10614	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10615			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10616	root	1.387	%
10617	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10618	root	1.387	%
10619	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10620			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10621			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10622
10623			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10624
10625			--tom
10626			--
10627			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10628			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10629	root	1.387	%
10630	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10631			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10632	root	1.387	%
10633	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10634
10635			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10636			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10637			> NO CARRIER
10638			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10639	root	1.387	%
10640	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10641			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10642			> better.
10643
10644			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10645			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10646	root	1.387	%
10647	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10648			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10649	root	1.387	%
10650	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10651			\|>
10652			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10653			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10654			\|>
10655			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10656			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10657
10658			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10659			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10660			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10661			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10662			build Bison, and then cook it.
10663
10664			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10665	root	1.387	%
10666	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10667			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10668			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10669			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10670			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10671	root	1.387	%
10672	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10673			-- lbxproxy(1)
10674	root	1.387	%
10675	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10676
10677			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10678
10679			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10680			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10681	root	1.387	%
10682	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10683
10684			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10685	root	1.387	%
10686	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10687			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10688			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10689			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10690			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10691
10692			\|> What does this mean.
10693
10694			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10695			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10696	root	1.387	%
10697	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10698
10699			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10700			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10701
10702			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10703	root	1.387	%
10704	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10705			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10706			streams)."
10707			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10708	root	1.387	%
10709	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10710			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10711	root	1.387	%
10712	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10713
10714			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10715
10716			Klaro.
10717
10718			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10719			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10720			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10721			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10722
10723	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10724	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10725
10726			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10727			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10728			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10729			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10730			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10731			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10732			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10733
10734			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10735			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10736			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10737	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10738			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10739			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10740			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10741	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10742
10743			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10744	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10745			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10746			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10747			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10748			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10749			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10750			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10751	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10752			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10753
10754			cu in hell 2002
10755	root	1.387	%
10756	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10757	root	1.387	%
10758	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10759
10760			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10761			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10762			the man page for crypt(1).
10763
10764			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10765			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10766			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10767
10768			man -s3 crypt
10769
10770			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10771			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10772
10773			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10774			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10775			he can figure out to use the command
10776
10777			man -s3 Intro.3
10778
10779			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10780			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10781
10782			man -s3c crypt
10783
10784			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10785			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10786			any trouble.
10787			--
10788			Michael M Rubenstein
10789	root	1.387	%
10790	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10791
10792			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10793
10794			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10795
10796			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10797
10798			Regards,
10799			Tim Bunce.
10800
10801			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10802			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10803			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10804	root	1.387	%
10805	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10806
10807			...
10808
10809			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10810			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10811			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10812
10813			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10814			its unusable, believe me I do.
10815	root	1.387	%
10816	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10817
10818			Semour Cray
10819	root	1.387	%
10820	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10821
10822			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10823	root	1.387	%
10824	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10825			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10826
10827			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10828			it only supports parts of it
10829	root	1.387	%
10830	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10831			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10832	root	1.387	%
10833	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10834			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10835			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10836			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10837			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10838			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10839			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10840
10841			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10842			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10843			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10844			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10845			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10846			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10847			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10848			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10849			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10850			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10851
10852			tq vm, (burley)
10853	root	1.387	%
10854	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10855			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10856			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10857			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10858			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10859			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10860			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10861	root	1.387	%
10862	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10863			/*
10864			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10865			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10866			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10867			* files won't compile.
10868			*/
10869	root	1.387	%
10870	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10871			> great.
10872
10873			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10874
10875			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10876
10877			This rock is below water half of the time!
10878			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10879			on a regular basis! ;-)
10880	root	1.387	%
10881	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10882			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10883			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10884	root	1.387	%
10885	root	1.1	>
10886			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10887			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10888			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10889
10890			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10891	root	1.387	%
10892	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10893
10894			>Hello!
10895
10896			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10897			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10898			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10899
10900
10901			Perl.
10902
10903			regards
10904			jobst
10905	root	1.387	%
10906	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10907			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10908			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10909
10910			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10911			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10912
10913			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10914			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10915			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10916			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10917			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10918			the absolute pits.
10919	root	1.387	%
10920	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10921	root	1.387	%
10922	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10923			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10924
10925			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10926	root	1.387	%
10927	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10928			ketchup and mustard
10929	root	1.387	%
10930	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10931
10932			vimal gajjar wrote:
10933			>
10934			> Hi there,
10935			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10936			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10937			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10938			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10939			> 5% of cpu
10940			> 2 Mb of RAM
10941			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10942			>
10943			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10944
10945			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10946			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10947			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10948	root	1.387	%
10949	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10950			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10951			>
10952			> >s/usually/never/
10953			>
10954			> s/sometimes/never/
10955
10956			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10957	root	1.387	%
10958	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10959			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10960			:Perl, IMO.
10961
10962			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10963
10964			TC
10965	root	1.387	%
10966	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10967	root	1.387	%
10968	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10969
10970			Hi guys!
10971
10972			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10973	root	1.387	%
10974	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10975
10976			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10977			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10978			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10979			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10980			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10981			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10982	root	1.387	%
10983	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10984			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10985			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10986
10987			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10988			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10989			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10990			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10991
10992			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10993			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10994			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10995			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10996
10997			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10998
10999			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
11000
11001			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
11002			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
11003			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
11004
11005			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
11006			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
11007
11008			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
11009			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
11010
11011			Did I miss any? ;-)
11012
11013			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
11014			Laugh. Please.
11015
11016			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
11017			--Scott
11018	root	1.387	%
11019	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
11020
11021			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
11022			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
11023			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
11024			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
11025	root	1.387	%
11026	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
11027			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
11028
11029			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
11030
11031			This is not mail.
11032
11033			This is Usenet.
11034
11035			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
11036	root	1.387	%
11037	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
11038			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
11039			--- ide1: reset: success
11040			-----------> I like Linux !
11041	root	1.387	%
11042	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
11043			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
11044
11045			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
11046			do.
11047	root	1.387	%
11048	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
11049			++ PLONK.
11050	root	1.387	%
11051	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
11052			Re: Subraumfunk
11053
11054			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
11055			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
11056
11057			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
11058			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
11059			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
11060			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
11061			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
11062	root	1.387	%
11063	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
11064			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
11065			>
11066			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
11067
11068			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
11069	root	1.387	%
11070	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
11071			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
11072	root	1.387	%
11073	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
11074			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
11075
11076			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
11077			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
11078
11079			Bill Jones
11080	root	1.387	%
11081	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
11082
11083			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
11084			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
11085			#include <windows.h>
11086			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
11087			#endif
11088	root	1.387	%
11089	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
11090
11091			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
11092			is, invoking the URL
11093
11094			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
11095
11096			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
11097	root	1.387	%
11098	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
11099			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
11100			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
11101			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
11102			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
11103			"I am using CGI!"
11104
11105			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
11106	root	1.387	%
11107	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
11108			> > kennenlernen koennen?
11109			>
11110	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
11111	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
11112
11113			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
11114	root	1.387	%
11115	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
11116			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
11117	root	1.387	%
11118	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
11119			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
11120			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
11121			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
11122	root	1.387	%
11123	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
11124
11125			pcg@goof.com said:
11126			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
11127
11128			Hehe - I know the feeling.
11129
11130			"It's broken."
11131			"What's wrong with it?."
11132			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
11133			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
11134			"It just doesn't work."
11135			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
11136			"It gives an error message."
11137			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
11138			"It says.... something about there being an error."
11139			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
11140			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
11141			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
11142			letter for letter this time."
11143	root	1.387	%
11144	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
11145
11146			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
11147			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
11148			2.6, the mode was 04555.
11149
11150			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
11151			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
11152			perms.
11153
11154			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
11155	root	1.387	%
11156	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
11157			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
11158
11159			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
11160
11161			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
11162			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
11163			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
11164
11165			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
11166			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
11167	root	1.387	%
11168	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
11169			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
11170	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
11171
11172			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
11173			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
11174			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
11175			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
11176			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
11177			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
11178			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
11179			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
11180			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
11181			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
11182			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
11183
11184			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
11185
11186			normarz@aol.com
11187	root	1.387	%
11188	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
11189	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
11190	root	1.1	>Legion
11191			>schlagen?
11192
11193			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
11194
11195			Bye
11196			Andreas
11197	root	1.387	%
11198	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
11199
11200			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
11201			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
11202
11203			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
11204			companies.
11205
11206			Kind regards
11207			Henning
11208	root	1.387	%
11209	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
11210			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
11211			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
11212
11213			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
11214			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
11215			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
11216
11217			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
11218			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
11219			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
11220			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
11221			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
11222			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
11223			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
11224			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
11225			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
11226			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
11227	root	1.387	%
11228	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
11229			We might support that sometime next year.
11230			-=- Microsoft
11231			(But I doubt it.)
11232			-=- Me
11233			-=- James Mastros
11234	root	1.387	%
11235	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
11236			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
11237			> following methods, but the output was split into two
11238			>lines.
11239
11240			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
11241			put newlines in the middle of your string.
11242	root	1.387	%
11243	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
11244	root	1.387	%
11245	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
11246			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
11247			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
11248			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
11249	root	1.387	%
11250	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
11251
11252			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
11253			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
11254			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
11255			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
11256			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
11257			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
11258			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
11259			it's not all his fault.
11260
11261			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
11262			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
11263			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
11264			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
11265			content.
11266
11267			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
11268			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
11269			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
11270			learn (or pay for it;)
11271
11272			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
11273			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
11274			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
11275			just for fun or to get the op.
11276
11277			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
11278			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
11279			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
11280			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
11281
11282			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
11283
11284			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
11285			course, Linux and Linux people.
11286	root	1.387	%
11287	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
11288			then he rewrote it as WNT.
11289
11290			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
11291			--
11292			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
11293	root	1.387	%
11294	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
11295
11296			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
11297			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
11298			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
11299
11300			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
11301			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
11302			tradition.
11303	root	1.387	%
11304	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
11305			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
11306	root	1.387	%
11307	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11308			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11309	root	1.387	%
11310	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11311			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11312			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11313			Or GIRLS for short.
11314	root	1.387	%
11315	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11316	root	1.387	%
11317	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11318			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11319			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11320			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11321			5_004_03 to build!"
11322
11323			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11324			have no patience."
11325
11326			xoxo,
11327			Andy
11328	root	1.387	%
11329	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11330			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11331			We all have our cross to bear.
11332	root	1.387	%
11333	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11334
11335			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11336			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11337			Subject: Re: system() question
11338
11339			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11340			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11341			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11342			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11343			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11344			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11345			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11346			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11347			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11348			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11349			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11350			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11351			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11352			humiliating for me!)
11353
11354			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11355			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11356			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11357			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11358			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11359			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11360			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11361			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11362			really knows the answer.
11363
11364			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11365			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11366			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11367			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11368
11369			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11370			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11371			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11372			for that.
11373
11374			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11375			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11376			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11377			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11378			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11379			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11380			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11381
11382			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11383
11384			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11385			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11386			something for free.''
11387
11388			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11389
11390			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11391			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11392
11393			(Good question.)
11394
11395			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11396			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11397			once I have run it.''
11398			(Good question.)
11399
11400			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11401
11402			(Good question.)
11403
11404			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11405			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11406			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11407			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11408			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11409
11410			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11411			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11412			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11413			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11414			comp.lang.perl?
11415			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11416			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11417			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11418			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11419			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11420			in comp.lang.perl?
11421
11422			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11423			you my rate card.
11424
11425			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11426			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11427			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11428			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11429			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11430			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11431			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11432			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11433			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11434			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11435
11436			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11437			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11438			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11439			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11440			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11441			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11442			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11443			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11444			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11445			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11446			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11447			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11448			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11449			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11450			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11451			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11452
11453			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11454			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11455			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11456			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11457			someone will. Maybe I will.
11458
11459			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11460			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11461			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11462			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11463			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11464			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11465			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11466			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11467
11468			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11469			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11470			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11471			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11472			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11473			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11474			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11475			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11476			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11477			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11478			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11479			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11480			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11481			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11482
11483			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11484			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11485			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11486			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11487
11488			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11489
11490			`I want to accomplish X.
11491
11492			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11493
11494			...
11495
11496			But instead it does Y.
11497
11498			Why is that?''
11499
11500			This one is also pretty good:
11501
11502			`I want to accomplish X.
11503			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11504
11505			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11506			because of Z.
11507
11508			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11509
11510			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11511			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11512
11513
11514			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11515			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11516
11517			--
11518			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11519			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11520	root	1.387	%
11521	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11522			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11523
11524			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11525			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11526			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11527
11528			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11529
11530			bye, Georg
11531	root	1.387	%
11532	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11533			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11534			convince me.
11535
11536			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11537
11538			Linus
11539	root	1.387	%
11540	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11541			++
11542
11543			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11544			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11545
11546	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11547	root	1.1
11548			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11549			understanding the above line.
11550
11551			Abigail
11552	root	1.387	%
11553	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11554			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11555	root	1.387	%
11556	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11557			++ button?
11558			Yes.
11559
11560			++ 100 pictures or so?
11561			Yes.
11562
11563			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11564			Yes.
11565
11566			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11567			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11568
11569			Abigail
11570	root	1.387	%
11571	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11572
11573			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11574
11575			Martien
11576	root	1.387	%
11577	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11578			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11579			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11580			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11581	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11582	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11583			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11584			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11585			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11586	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11587	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11588			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11589	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11590			nicht. ;)
11591
11592	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11593			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11594			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11595	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11596			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11597	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11598	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11599
11600	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11601			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11602	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11603	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11604	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11605
11606	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11607	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11608	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11609			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11610	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11611	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11612	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11613			"unvorstellbar".
11614
11615			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11616	root	1.387	%
11617	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11618			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11619			^^^
11620			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11621	root	1.387	%
11622	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11623			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11624	root	1.387	%
11625	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11626			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11627	root	1.387	%
11628	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11629			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11630			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11631
11632			An artificial pile of rocks.
11633	root	1.387	%
11634	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11635			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11636			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11637			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11638			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11639			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11640
11641			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11642			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11643			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11644			grosser Flipperautomat.
11645
11646			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11647	root	1.387	%
11648	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11649			>
11650			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11651			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11652			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11653			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11654			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11655	root	1.387	%
11656	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11657			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11658	root	1.1
11659			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11660	root	1.387	%
11661	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11662
11663			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11664
11665			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11666			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11667			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11668			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11669			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11670			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11671			Unix environment.
11672	root	1.387	%
11673	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11674			between these:
11675
11676			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11677			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11678
11679			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11680			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11681			;#", and the print gets executed!
11682
11683			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11684			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11685			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11686			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11687
11688			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11689			'perl'".
11690
11691			--
11692			Randal L. Schwartz
11693	root	1.387	%
11694	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11695
11696			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11697			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11698			>
11699			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11700
11701			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11702
11703			--
11704			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11705	root	1.387	%
11706	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11707	root	1.387	%
11708	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11709			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11710	root	1.387	%
11711	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11712			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11713	root	1.387	%
11714	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11715			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11716			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11717			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11718			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11719			example.
11720	root	1.387	%
11721	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11722			resemble a nail.
11723	root	1.387	%
11724	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11725			> I did wrong.
11726
11727			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11728			newsgroup.
11729	root	1.387	%
11730	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11731	root	1.387	%
11732	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11733			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11734	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11735
11736			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11737	root	1.387	%
11738	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11739	root	1.1
11740	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11741	root	1.387	%
11742	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11743			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11744			expired instantly!!!
11745	root	1.387	%
11746	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11747			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11748
11749			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11750			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11751			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11752
11753			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11754			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11755			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11756			than double Linus's programming experience?
11757
11758			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11759			> pretty straight forward.
11760
11761			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11762			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11763	root	1.387	%
11764	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11765			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11766			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11767			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11768			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11769			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11770	root	1.387	%
11771	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11772	root	1.387	%
11773	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11774			Example:
11775			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11776	root	1.387	%
11777	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11778			Randal gets his hands on it
11779	root	1.387	%
11780	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11781	root	1.387	%
11782	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11783
11784			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11785			first if you get it working.
11786	root	1.387	%
11787	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11788			> Think different.
11789
11790			Think Again.
11791	root	1.387	%
11792	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11793	root	1.387	%
11794	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11795			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11796			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11797
11798			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11799	root	1.387	%
11800	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11801			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11802	root	1.387	%
11803	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11804			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11805			\| top.
11806	root	1.387	%
11807	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11808			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11809	root	1.387	%
11810	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11811			^^^^^^^^^
11812			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11813
11814			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11815	root	1.387	%
11816	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11817			>gehen soll?
11818
11819	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11820	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11821			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11822	root	1.387	%
11823	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11824	root	1.387	%
11825	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11826			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11827	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11828			>
11829			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11830
11831			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11832			Schuh aus!
11833	root	1.387	%
11834	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11835
11836	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11837	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11838	root	1.387	%
11839	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11840
11841
11842			First opportunity
11843			Approximate
11844			Orbit Internet
11845			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11846
11847			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11848			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11849			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11850			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11851
11852			Second opportunity
11853			Approximate
11854			Orbit Internet
11855			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11856
11857			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11858			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11859			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11860			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11861
11862			Third opportunity
11863			Approximate
11864			Orbit Internet
11865			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11866
11867			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11868			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11869			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11870			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11871
11872	root	1.387	%
11873	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11874	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11875			> >würden.
11876	root	1.1	>
11877			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11878			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11879			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11880			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11881			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11882			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11883			implizierst.
11884	root	1.387	%
11885	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11886			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11887	root	1.387	%
11888	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11889			Big improvement.
11890	root	1.387	%
11891	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11892			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11893			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11894			-- "Why that one?"
11895			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11896			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11897	root	1.387	%
11898	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11899			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11900			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11901	root	1.387	%
11902	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11903			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11904			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11905
11906			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11907
11908			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11909			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11910			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11911
11912			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11913
11914			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11915			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11916			> er eigentlich ist?
11917
11918	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11919	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11920	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11921	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11922	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11923	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11924	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11925	root	1.1	Ciao
11926			Stefan
11927	root	1.387	%
11928	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11929			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11930			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11931			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11932	root	1.387	%
11933	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11934			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11935			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11936			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11937			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11938			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11939			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11940			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11941			off.
11942	root	1.387	%
11943	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11944			Meet interesting people,
11945			Kill them.
11946	root	1.387	%
11947	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11948			> umwandelbar ist.
11949
11950			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11951	root	1.387	%
11952	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11953	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11954	root	1.387	%
11955	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11956			>
11957			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11958			> >> ruckartig.
11959			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11960			>
11961	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11962	root	1.1
11963			:-)
11964	root	1.387	%
11965	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11966	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11967			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11968	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11969			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11970			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11971			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11972
11973			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11974			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11975	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11976			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11977	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11978	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11979			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11980			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11981	root	1.1	Union.
11982
11983	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11984			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11985	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11986	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11987			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11988			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11989	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11990	root	1.387	%
11991	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11992			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11993	root	1.387	%
11994	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11995	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11996	root	1.1	>>
11997			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11998	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11999			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
12000	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
12001			>
12002			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
12003			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
12004	root	1.387	%
12005	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
12006	root	1.387	%
12007	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
12008			> into a random order???
12009			>
12010
12011			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
12012			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
12013
12014			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
12015			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
12016			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
12017			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
12018			number less than 42.
12019	root	1.387	%
12020	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
12021			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
12022			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
12023			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
12024			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
12025			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
12026			eventually invent Unix.
12027	root	1.387	%
12028	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
12029			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
12030			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
12031			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
12032			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
12033			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
12034			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
12035			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
12036			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
12037			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
12038			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
12039			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
12040			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
12041			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
12042			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
12043			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
12044	root	1.387	%
12045	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
12046			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
12047			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
12048	root	1.387	%
12049	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
12050			using a Perl CGI script?
12051	root	1.387	%
12052	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
12053
12054			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
12055			week.
12056	root	1.387	%
12057	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
12058			Brieweb> of PERL.
12059			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
12060			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
12061			[Randal Schwartz]
12062	root	1.387	%
12063	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
12064			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
12065			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
12066			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
12067	root	1.387	%
12068	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
12069			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
12070			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
12071			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
12072			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
12073			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
12074			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
12075			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
12076			system and restricting their options.
12077			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
12078	root	1.387	%
12079	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
12080			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
12081			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
12082	root	1.387	%
12083	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
12084			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
12085			Ernie Hai
12086			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
12087	root	1.387	%
12088	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
12089			: results" report from the users.
12090
12091			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
12092			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
12093			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
12094			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
12095	root	1.387	%
12096	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
12097			They are all owned by cats.
12098	root	1.387	%
12099	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
12100			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
12101			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
12102	root	1.387	%
12103	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
12104			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
12105
12106			Yesterday it worked
12107			Today it is not working
12108			Windows is like that
12109			- - -
12110			wind catches lily
12111			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
12112			segmentation fault
12113			- - -
12114			Three things are certain:
12115			Death, taxes, and lost data.
12116			Guess which has occurred.
12117			- - -
12118			A file that big?
12119			It might be very useful.
12120			But now it is gone.
12121			- - -
12122			Windows NT crashed.
12123			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
12124			No one hears your screams.
12125			- - -
12126			Errors have occurred.
12127			We won't tell you where or why.
12128			Lazy programmers.
12129			- - -
12130			Seeing my great fault
12131			Through darkening blue windows
12132			I begin again
12133			- - -
12134			The code was willing,
12135			It considered your request,
12136			But the chips were weak.
12137			- - -
12138			Printer not ready.
12139			Could be a fatal error.
12140			Have a pen handy?
12141			- - -
12142			Server's poor response
12143			Not quick enough for browser.
12144			Timed out, plum blossom.
12145			- - -
12146			Chaos reigns within.
12147			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
12148			Order shall return.
12149			- - -
12150			Login incorrect.
12151			Only perfect spellers may
12152			enter this system.
12153			- - -
12154			This site has been moved.
12155			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
12156			have to delete you.
12157			- - -
12158			ABORTED effort:
12159			Close all that you have.
12160			You ask way too much.
12161			- - -
12162			First snow, then silence.
12163			This thousand dollar screen dies
12164			so beautifully.
12165			- - -
12166			With searching comes loss
12167			and the presence of absence:
12168			"My Novel" not found.
12169			- - -
12170			The Tao that is seen
12171			Is not the true Tao, until
12172			You bring fresh toner.
12173			- - -
12174			The Web site you seek
12175			cannot be located but
12176			endless others exist
12177			- - -
12178			Stay the patient course
12179			Of little worth is your ire
12180			The network is down
12181			- - -
12182			A crash reduces
12183			your expensive computer
12184			to a simple stone.
12185			- - -
12186			There is a chasm
12187			of carbon and silicon
12188			the software can't bridge
12189			- - -
12190			To have no errors
12191			Would be life without meaning
12192			No struggle, no joy
12193			- - -
12194			You step in the stream,
12195			but the water has moved on.
12196			This page is not here.
12197			- - -
12198			No keyboard present
12199			Hit F1 to continue
12200			Zen engineering?
12201			- - -
12202			Hal, open the file
12203			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
12204			open it, please Hal
12205			- - -
12206			Out of memory.
12207			We wish to hold the whole sky,
12208			But we never will.
12209			- - -
12210			Having been erased,
12211			The document you're seeking
12212			Must now be retyped.
12213			- - -
12214			The ten thousand things
12215			How long do any persist?
12216			Netscape, too, has gone.
12217			- - -
12218			Rather than a beep
12219			Or a rude error message,
12220			These words: "File not found."
12221			- - -
12222			Serious error.
12223			All shortcuts have disappeared
12224			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
12225	root	1.387	%
12226	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
12227			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
12228	root	1.387	%
12229	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
12230			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
12231
12232			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
12233			early 1980s.
12234	root	1.387	%
12235	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
12236			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
12237			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
12238			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
12239
12240			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
12241			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
12242			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
12243			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
12244			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
12245			many new features that it just stops working.
12246
12247			This also applies to Microsoft products.
12248
12249			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
12250			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
12251
12252			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
12253			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
12254			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
12255
12256			Hope this explains what's going on
12257			Martien Verbruggen
12258	root	1.387	%
12259	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
12260	root	1.387	%
12261	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
12262	root	1.387	%
12263	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
12264	root	1.387	%
12265	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
12266			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
12267			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
12268	root	1.387	%
12269	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
12270			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
12271			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
12272			>
12273			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
12274
12275			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
12276			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
12277	root	1.387	%
12278	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
12279			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
12280			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
12281			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
12282	root	1.387	%
12283	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
12284			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
12285			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
12286			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
12287			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
12288			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
12289			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
12290			convienience store.")
12291	root	1.387	%
12292	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
12293			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
12294	root	1.387	%
12295	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
12296	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
12297	root	1.1
12298			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
12299			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
12300	root	1.387	%
12301	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
12302			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
12303			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
12304			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
12305	root	1.387	%
12306	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12307			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12308			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12309	root	1.387	%
12310	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12311			(A => B) => (B => A)
12312			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12313			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12314	root	1.387	%
12315	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12316	root	1.387	%
12317	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12318			-Barry Shein
12319	root	1.387	%
12320	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12321			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12322			read the manual.
12323	root	1.387	%
12324	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12325	root	1.387	%
12326	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12327			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12328			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12329			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12330			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12331			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12332			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12333			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12334			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12335	root	1.387	%
12336	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12337	root	1.387	%
12338	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12339			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12340			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12341	root	1.387	%
12342	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12343
12344			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12345			need.
12346	root	1.387	%
12347	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12348			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12349			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12350	root	1.387	%
12351	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12352			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12353			newsreaders. You know,
12354			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12355			back
12356			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12357			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12358			out what they're saying.
12359	root	1.387	%
12360	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12361			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12362	root	1.387	%
12363	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12364			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12365			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12366
12367			But the combination.... sutters
12368	root	1.387	%
12369	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12370			Darn it.
12371	root	1.387	%
12372	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12373	root	1.387	%
12374	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12375	root	1.387	%
12376	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12377			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12378			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12379			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12380			trying to use it.
12381	root	1.387	%
12382	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12383	root	1.387	%
12384	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12385			>
12386			> Is this group active?
12387			No.
12388
12389			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12390			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12391
12392			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12393			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12394	root	1.387	%
12395	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12396			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12397	root	1.387	%
12398	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12399			Press any key to continue..."
12400	root	1.387	%
12401	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12402			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12403			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12404	root	1.387	%
12405	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12406			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12407			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12408			adjust your travel plans.
12409	root	1.387	%
12410	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12411			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12412	root	1.387	%
12413	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12414			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12415
12416			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12417			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12418
12419			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12420
12421			tak 18 12 6
12422	root	1.387	%
12423	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12424			-- Bill Gates
12425			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12426			-- Bill Gates
12427			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12428			-- logical conclusion
12429	root	1.387	%
12430	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12431			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12432			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12433			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12434			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12435			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12436			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12437			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12438			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12439			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12440			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12441			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12442			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12443			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12444			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12445			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12446			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12447			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12448			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12449			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12450			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12451	root	1.387	%
12452	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12453			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12454			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12455			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12456	root	1.387	%
12457	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.