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1	root	1.483	> So whats the purpose of jail time, punishment if the person will always be punished?
2			>
3			> Granted, a person is dead and the one that did might be genuinely sorry, but man...
4			> This is probably a clash between US and European view on the purpose of putting people behind bars. Something cultural.
5
6			Very simplified:
7			US: Once a criminal, always a criminal, mark them as baddies for life. Jailtime is revenge. Europeans are naive hippies.
8			European: Make them understand what they did wrong, then help them to get back into normal society. Jailtime is education. US guys are stuck in stone age.
9
10			[https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1437235?p=1437359#post1437359]
11			%
12	root	1.482	Re: An die Klimakritiker: Einfach mal Yoga tun!
13			der.Schtefan schrieb am 09.10.2023 10:38:
14
15			> Da lernt man nämlich dass der Zustand, und alles was kommt, OKAY
16			> sind. Es ist OKAY wenn Veränderung auftritt. Es ist OKAY wenn das Klima
17			> sich erwärmt, das hat es in der Vergangenheit auch getan. Auch das
18			> eigene Vergehen, oder Nihilismus sind OKAY.
19
20			Es ist OKAY, dass da der Bus direkt auf dich zu kommt. Es ist OKAY, dass
21			er dich gleich voll erwischen wird. Du musst nicht zu Seite gehen!
22
23			[https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/Kommentare///posting-43202248/show/]
24			%
25	root	1.481	There was a longstanding meme in the meetings (and on comp.std.c) that "if
26			you don't understand the reasoning behing something in the C Standard, the
27			answer is the IBM AS400".
28
29			[Clive D.W. Feather in <Y1onchv4w2mQsJDQ@davros.org>]
30			%
31	root	1.480	MRT sagt:
32			29. Juli 2022 um 17:02 Uhr
33
34			Rein spekulativ angenommen: was wären denn mögliche Konsequenzen wenn
35			heraus kommen würde, dass ein EU-Mitgliedsstaat (z.B. Ungarn) Spionage
36			gegen die EU betreibt?
37
38			René sagt:
39			29. Juli 2022 um 20:30 Uhr
40
41			Suche Dir das stumpfste Schwert aus.
42
43			[https://netzpolitik.org/2022/pegasus-ausschuss-eu-kommission-bestaetigt-hacking-spuren-auf-geraeten/]
44			%
45	root	1.479	Apparently "zork" was a nonsense word used at MIT for the current
46			uninstalled program in progress, and stuck. Just as this document uses
47			the term "Z-machine" for both the machine and its loaded program (which
48			is also sometimes called the "story file"), so ZIP (Zork Implementation
49			Program) was used to mean either the interpreter or the object code it
50			interpreted. Code was written in ZIL (Zork Implementation Language),
51			which was derived from MDL (informally called "muddle"), a particularly
52			unhelpful form of LISP. It was then compiled by ZILCH to assembly code
53			which was passed to ZAP to make the ZIP.
54
55			[http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/appd.html]
56			%
57	root	1.478	"How We Test Power Supply Units"
58
59			In case a PSU explodes [...], we note this in the review and subtract the
60			corresponding performance points from its overall performance score.
61
62			[https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-we-test-psu,4042-12.html]
63			%
64	root	1.477	22:15:54 <Mikachu> the whole thing didn't strictly crash, but the game used --in-process-gpu and the gpu
65			process called exit when it couldn't init the gpu
66			22:16:01 <Mikachu> without that the game ran in software at 1fps just fine
67			%
68			Whatever feature of the STE you want to use, it will either not work as
69			planned or require special treatment. If it works as planned and does not
70			require special treatment, it will definetly not work on the TT or the
71			Falcon.
72
73			[http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Atari_STE_FAQ_compiled_by_The_Paranoid_/_Paradox]
74			%
75	root	1.476	In 1729, how could they know where the north pole was when it was only
76			discovered in 1909?
77			-- Ebon Kim, Flat-Earth Youtuber
78			%
79	root	1.475	Fun with the north korean Red Star OS:
80
81			It does have some components that prevent the normal user from
82			editing/deleting various protected files (securityd, scnprc and opprc). We
83			call it “oppression” if we’re speaking of DPRK and “defending your
84			privacy and security” if we’re speaking of Apple. Two sides of the
85			same coin, I guess, depends on which side you’re on.
86
87			[https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/]
88			%
89	root	1.474	Minister for Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam clarified in Parliament
90			during the Committee of Supply debate on Mar. 3 that inmates in Singapore
91			do not need to thank prison staff after being caned.
92
93			[https://mothership.sg/2022/03/no-requirement-thank-guard-after-caning/]
94			%
95			The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered" that the
96			HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and tasked a working group with
97			preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule. This ruled out any
98			basis for the new HTTP/2.0 other than the SPDY protocol. With only
99			the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at
100			improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus," the
101			IETF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every
102			principle ever held dear in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping
103			Google's initiative.
104
105			Poul-Henning Kamp, in https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=27162
106			%
107			[HGST engineer, taking about drive reliability]
108
109			we don't want to test it, because that costs time, we just wait for the
110			market feedback and put that into our calculations.
111			%
112	root	1.473	[wdleng.c in unix V6 iolib]
113
114			wdleng ()
115			/* returns number of bits in a machine integer */
116			/* written so kernighan can tell where he is running */
117			{
118			int k, leng;
119			k = leng = 1;
120			while (k =<< 1)
121	root	1.476	leng++;
122	root	1.473	return (leng);
123			}
124			%
125	root	1.470	Dana Angluin's List of Proof Techniques
126
127			Proof by example:
128			The author gives only the case n=2 and suggests that it contains most
129			of the ideas of the general proof.
130
131			Proof by intimidation:
132			'Trivial.'
133
134			Proof by vigorous handwaving:
135			Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.
136
137			Proof by cumbersome notation:
138			Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.
139
140			Proof by exhaustion:
141			An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful.
142
143			Proof by omission:
144			'The reader may easily supply the details.'
145			'The other 253 cases are analogous.'
146			'...'
147
148			Proof by obfuscation:
149			A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically
150			related statements.
151
152			Proof by wishful citation:
153			The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem
154			from the literature to support his claims.
155
156			Proof by funding:
157			How could three different government agencies be wrong?
158
159			Proof by eminent authority:
160			'I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP-complete.'
161
162			Proof by personal communication:
163			'Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete' [Karp,
164			personal commmunication].
165
166			Proof by reduction to the wrong problem:
167			'To see that infinite-dimensional colored cycle stripping is decidable,
168			we reduce it to the halting problem.'
169
170			Proof by reference to inaccessible literature:
171			The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a
172			privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society,
173			1883.
174
175			Proof by importance:
176			A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.
177
178			Proof by accumulated evidence:
179			Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.
180
181			Proof by cosmology:
182			The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular
183			for proofs of the existence of God.
184
185			Proof by mutual reference:
186			In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference
187			B, which is shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is
188			an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A.
189
190			Proof by meta-proof:
191			A method is given to construct the desired proof. The correctness of
192			the method is proved by any of these techniques.
193
194			Proof by picture:
195			A more convincing form of proof by example. Combines well with proof by omission.
196
197			Proof by vehement assertion:
198			It is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience.
199
200			Proof by ghost reference:
201			Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given.
202
203			Proof by forward reference:
204			Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is
205			often not as forthcoming as at first.
206
207			Proof by semantic shift:
208			Some standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the
209			statement of the result.
210
211			Proof by appeal to intuition:
212			Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.
213
214			Proof by elimination of the counterexample:
215			'Assume for the moment that the hypothesis is true. Now, let's
216			suppose we find a counterexample. So what? QED.' (from Don Woods
217			<DON@SU-AI.ARPA>)
218
219			[https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~riesbeck/proofs.html]
220			%
221	root	1.469	polkit: Similar to sudo but much more complicated
222
223			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
224			%
225			D-Bus: IPC, but complicated. Why do we need XML schema files, why is there
226			sometimes / notation and sometimes ., and so on. IPC is a good thing, but
227			this implementation is too complicated!
228
229			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
230			%
231			Pipewire: Solution in search of a problem you don't have without Wayland?
232
233			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
234			%
235			In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server.
236
237			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
238			%
239			The Wayland "reference implementation" is a small set of libraries that
240			can be used to build a compositor or a client application. These libraries
241			currently have hard dependencies on Linux kernel APIs like epoll. In
242			pkgsrc we've patched the libraries to add kqueue(2) support, but the
243			patches haven't been accepted upstream. Wayland is written with the
244			assumption of Linux to the extent that every client application tends to
245			#include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's designers didn't see the need
246			to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse button IDs.
247
248			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
249			%
250	root	1.468	As best I can tell (from the long and unsatisfactory thread I pursed on
251			the Wayland Developers list some little time ago), the core issue with
252			Wayland and Color is social, not technical:
253
254			1. none of the key developers have the faintest idea what Color or Color
255			Management is, and (worse):
256
257			2. they have no idea why it would be at all important.
258
259			[https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804/4]
260			%
261			> (isn't it the case with ifconfig vs. ip already?)
262
263			Wayland is more like they created ip but named the command ifconfig, then
264			told you to go fix your scripts.
265
266			If the Wayland developers had sense, they would have carefully considered
267			how to make it a seemless transition for developers. Instead, they decided
268			they were the ultimate authority on software engineering and screw
269			developers, they are all doing it wrong anyways.
270
271			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3862027]
272			%
273			Wayland is written with the assumption of Linux to the extent that every
274			client application tends to #include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's
275			designers didn't see the need to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse
276			button IDs.
277
278			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
279			%
280			... a basic barebones TWM for X11 works better and offers more features
281			than Weston which contains ~20 times more code
282
283			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3526530]
284			%
285			"It is true that Wayland somewhat sucks ass" -- The Lutris founder
286			[The Lutris founder quoting himself]
287			%
288			Eine solche Regulierung schafft man in Deutschland nur für wirklich
289			wichtige Themen wie zur Durchsetzung der Bereitstellung von Schnittstellen
290			für die Telekommunikationsüberwachung. Bei so irrelevanten Themen wie
291			dem Katastrophenschutz und der Alarmierung der Bevölkerung braucht man
292			den Markt nicht zu regulieren.
293
294			[https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20210719-smscb/]
295			From: Stephen Searle
296			Date: 18 Mar 1998, 09:00:00
297			Subject: A Clockwork Nethacker
298
299			What if the next version of Nethack has a new class based on the Droogs
300			of Anthony Burgess' novel (and later Stanley Kubrick film) "A Clockwork
301			Orange"?
302
303			I imagine the language would be radically different, like the
304			Samurai-speak only much, much more so...
305
306			Your rookers glow red -more-
307			You tolchock the floating glazzy real horrorshow! -more-
308			The floating glazzy appears bezoomny.
309			You brosay your britva at the floating glazzy -more-
310			The floating glazzy is oobivatted!
311
312			Ugh - that Pishcha was rotten! -more-
313			You feel a malenky bit bolnoy.
314
315			You govoreet with the charlie of Bog -more-
316			The charlie asks you for some cutter for the temple.
317
318			The devotchka flashes her groodies at you -more-
319			"Take off your platties, they're in the way" -more-
320			Raz stands still while you and the devotchka lie in each other's rookers...
321			(or:)
322			"You're such a bolshy chelloveck, I wish..."
323
324			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you!
325			Your shlem blocks the attack to your gulliver.
326			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you real horrorshow!
327			Your brain is eaten! You feel gloopy!
328
329			An enormous dook appears next to you!
330			You are poogly to snuffit and unable to itty!
331
332			You slooshy someone cursing prestoopnicks.
333
334			You ittied from the shop without pretty pollying! -more-
335			You crasted 100 gollies worth of veshches! -more-
336			A millicent's whistle zvooks -more-
337			The Keystone rozzes are after you!
338
339
340			Heh... I think I will have to write a little text filter for Nethack :-)
341
342			-SJS
343
344			[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/c/3P5KdEPru6o/m/UxXyLvAsJUwJ]
345			%
346			"Validity of journal" is not an argument from authority fallacy, it is an
347			assessment of the prior on source quality.
348			%
349	root	1.467	You know what they say though, if the punishment for a crime is a fee
350			then it’s only a crime for the poor.
351			%
352	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
353
354			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
355			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
356			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
357			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
358			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
359			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
360			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
361			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
362			time. There is no other significance to these files.
363			%
364	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
365			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
366			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
367			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
368			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
369			- John Rogers
370			%
371	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
372			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
373			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
374			become witches.
375
376			– Bret Weinstein
377			%
378	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
379			- Rumsfeld 2003
380			%
381	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
382
383			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
384
385			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
386
387			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
388
389			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
390
391			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
392			%
393	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
394			- a rust tutorial
395			%
396	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
397			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
398			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
399
400			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
401			%
402			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
403			that has been problematic for a long time.
404
405			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
406			%
407	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
408			GPL Protected it
409			GOD Blessed it
410
411			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
412			%
413	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
414			kinship term she'd ever heard.
415
416			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
417			%
418			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
419			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
420			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
421
422			I don't agree.
423
424			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
425			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
426			> is not as clear as it could be.
427
428			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
429			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
430			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
431			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
432			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
433
434			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
435			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
436			%
437			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
438
439			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
440			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
441			other conventions exist for a very long time.
442
443			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
444			%
445			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
446
447			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
448			%
449	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
450			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
451			and government agency portal.
452
453			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
454			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
455
456			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
457			%
458			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
459
460			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
461			%
462			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
463			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
464			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
465
466			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
467			%
468			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
469			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
470			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
471			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
472			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
473			%
474	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
475			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
476			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
477			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
478			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
479			penalty. This makes really a difference.
480
481			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
482			%
483			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
484			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
485
486			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
487			%
488	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
489
490			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
491			%
492	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
493
494			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
495			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
496
497			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
498			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
499			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
500
501			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
502			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
503
504			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
505			%
506	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
507
508			Vim 15.2%
509			Emacs 3.8%
510
511			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
512
513			Vim 26.1%
514			Emacs 5.2%
515			%
516	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
517
518			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
519
520			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
521
522			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?"
523
524			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
525
526			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
527
528			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
529
530			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
531
532			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
533
534			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."
535
536			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
537
538			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
539			%
540			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
541
542			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
543			>>> their own servers.
544			>>
545			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
546			>
547			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
548
549			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
550			%
551	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
552
553			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
554			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
555			%
556	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
557			================================
558
559	root	1.449	November 2002
560
561			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
562			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
563			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
564
565			---
566
567			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
568			dehydration and fatigue.
569
570			---
571
572			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
573			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
574
575			---
576
577			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
578
579			November 19 2200 hrs
580			guard check - Rahman is alive.
581
582			2300 hrs
583			guard check - Rahman is alive.
584
585			November 20 0400 hrs
586			guard check - Rahman is alive.
587
588			0800 hrs
589			guard check - Rahman is alive.
590
591			1000 hrs
592			guard check - Rahman is dead.
593
594			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
595			%
596	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
597			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
598			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
599			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
600			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
601			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
602			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
603			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
604			be a better place.
605
606			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
607			%
608	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
609			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
610			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
611			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
612			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
613			> in technology.
614
615			-P
616			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
617
618			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
619			%
620			> Simon Cooke wrote:
621			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
622
623			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
624
625			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
626			%
627	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
628			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
629			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
630			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
631			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
632
633			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
634			%
635	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
636			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
637			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
638			hashtag #sexualassault.
639
640			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
641			%
642	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
643
644			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
645			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
646
647			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
648			%
649			> How is the old way a problem?
650
651			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
652			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
653			it's smarter than you.
654
655			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
656			%
657	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
658			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
659			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
660			less lethal.
661
662			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
663			%
664	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
665
666			[...]
667
668			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
669
670			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
671			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
672			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
673			%
674	root	1.470	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to "Teyrnas
675			Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or "Rìoghachd Aonaichte
676			Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to "Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
677			also now legal names for the UK.
678	root	1.441
679			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
680			%
681			From: Russ Allbery
682			To: tz@iana.org
683			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
684
685			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
686			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
687			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
688			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
689			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
690			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
691			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
692
693			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
694			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
695
696			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
697			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
698			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
699			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
700			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
701
702			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
703			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
704			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
705			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
706			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
707			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
708			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
709			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
710			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
711
712			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
713			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
714			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
715			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
716			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
717			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
718			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
719			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
720			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
721			maintainer.
722			%
723	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
724
725			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
726			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
727			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
728			"BST", but no:
729			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
730			%
731			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
732			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
733
734			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
735			> When can we expect the updated version
736
737			About three weeks ago.
738			%
739	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
740			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
741			%
742			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
743
744			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
745			%
746	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
747			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
748			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
749
750			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
751			%
752			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
753
754			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
755
756			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
757			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
758
759			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
760			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
761			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
762
763			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
764			full day per year.
765			%
766	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
767			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
768			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
769			%
770			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
771			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
772			%
773			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
774			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
775			me - lately?".
776			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
777			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
778
779			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
780			%
781			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
782			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
783			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
784			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
785
786			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
787			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
788			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
789			your lives be a living hell.
790
791			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
792			%
793	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
794			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
795			%
796			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
797			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
798			out with a problem I'm having?
799
800			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
801
802			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
803
804			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
805			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
806			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
807			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
808
809			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
810
811			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
812
813			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
814
815			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
816			[http://c2.com/]
817			%
818			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
819			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
820			right-parenthesis.
821			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
822			%
823			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
824			yourself?
825			Software development is the career for you!
826
827			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
828			%
829	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
830			-- Richard Dawkins
831			%
832			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
833			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
834			and security.
835
836			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
837			%
838			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
839
840			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
841			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
842			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
843			%
844			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
845			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
846			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
847			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
848			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
849			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
850
851			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
852			%
853			tiny hsv2rgb
854			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;}
855
856			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
857			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
858			}
859			%
860			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
861			Only Java makes it possible!
862
863			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
864			%
865			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
866			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
867			extremely poettering''
868			%
869			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
870			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
871			%
872			"I drank what?!"
873			-- Socrates
874			%
875			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
876			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
877			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
878
879			Jon Callas in
880			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
881			%
882			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
883			-- Conway's Law
884			%
885			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
886			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
887			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
888			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
889			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
890			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
891			untangling this mess right now so).
892
893			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
894			%
895			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
896			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
897			enabled on platforms that support it.
898			[xorg.conf(5)]
899			%
900			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
901			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
902			> would work on code.
903
904			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
905			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
906			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
907			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
908			%
909	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
910			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
911			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
912			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
913			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
914			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
915			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
916			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
917			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
918			%
919			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
920			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
921			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
922			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
923			very beginning.
924			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
925			%
926			systemd creates user session information in
927			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
928			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
929			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
930			allowed one session per user.
931			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
932			%
933	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
934			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
935			> about anything else.
936			>
937			> Why is it like that?
938
939			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
940
941			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
942			%
943			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
944
945			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
946			>>
947			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
948			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
949			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
950			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
951			>
952			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
953
954			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
955			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
956			%
957			(partial) Beaufort Table
958			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
959			Calm 0 0 0
960			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
961			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
962			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
963			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
964			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
965			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
966			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
967			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
968			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
969			%
970			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
971			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
972			%
973			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
974			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
975			%
976			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
977			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
978			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
979			on the cards.
980			%
981			[random comment from amule sources]
982			// trust noone ;-)
983			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
984			// wtf you guys are weird.
985			%
986	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
987			- Kin Hubbard
988			%
989			[random .sig]
990			I'm a muslim.
991
992			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
993			%
994			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
995			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
996			before.
997
998			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
999			%
1000			<imho>
1001
1002			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
1003			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
1004			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
1005			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
1006
1007			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
1008			Java - public static void not fun.
1009			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
1010			C - usually not fun.
1011
1012			What about modern scripting languages?
1013
1014			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
1015			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
1016			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
1017
1018			</imho>
1019
1020			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
1021			%
1022			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
1023			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
1024			%
1025
1026			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
1027			*
1028			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
1029
1030			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
1031			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
1032			%
1033			# The user is always right.
1034			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
1035			[autoconf]
1036			%
1037			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
1038
1039			/*
1040			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
1041			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
1042			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
1043			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
1044			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
1045			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
1046			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
1047			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
1048			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
1049			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
1050			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
1051			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
1052			*/
1053			%
1054			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
1055			was new to me:
1056
1057			switch(c)
1058			{
1059			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
1060			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1061			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1062			case 'd': base=-10; }
1063			switch(type)
1064			{
1065			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
1066			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
1067			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
1068			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
1069			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
1070			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
1071			default:val=0; break;
1072			}
1073			cp = __numout(val,base);
1074			if(0) {
1075			case 's':
1076			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
1077			}
1078			%
1079			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
1080			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
1081			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
1082			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
1083			extra second and see how far you get :-)
1084			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
1085			%
1086			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
1087			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
1088			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
1089			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
1090			>
1091			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
1092			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
1093
1094			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
1095			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
1096
1097			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
1098			%
1099			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
1100			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
1101			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
1102
1103			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
1104
1105			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
1106			%
1107			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
1108			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
1109			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
1110			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
1111			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
1112			settings)
1113
1114			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
1115			%
1116			How do I deal with memory leaks?
1117
1118			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
1119
1120			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
1121			%
1122			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
1123			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
1124
1125			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
1126			%
1127			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
1128			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
1129			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
1130			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
1131
1132			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
1133			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
1134			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
1135			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
1136			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
1137			rewarded for their creativity.
1138
1139			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
1140			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
1141			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
1142			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
1143			would never have made it in the first place.
1144
1145			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
1146			%
1147			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
1148			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
1149			%
1150			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
1151			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
1152			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
1153			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
1154			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
1155
1156			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
1157			%
1158			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
1159			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
1160			- Mohandas Gandhi
1161			%
1162			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
1163			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
1164			handiwork of the Lord."
1165			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
1166			%
1167			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
1168
1169			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
1170			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
1171			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
1172
1173			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
1174			Scientist A publishes results.
1175
1176			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
1177			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
1178			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
1179
1180			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
1181			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
1182			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
1183			A: ...
1184			B: You fraud!
1185
1186			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
1187
1188			A publishes results.
1189
1190			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
1191			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
1192			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
1193			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
1194			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
1195			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
1196
1197			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
1198			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
1199			%
1200			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
1201			them because they need the money to operate]
1202
1203			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
1204			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
1205			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
1206			site or its bottom line."
1207			%
1208			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
1209			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
1210			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
1211			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
1212			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
1213			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
1214			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
1215			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
1216			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
1217			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
1218			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
1219			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
1220			%
1221			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
1222
1223			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
1224
1225			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
1226			%
1227			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
1228
1229			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
1230			>>>> and the beating of children?
1231			>>>
1232			>>> Subjugation of women...
1233			>>
1234			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
1235			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
1236			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
1237			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
1238			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
1239			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
1240			>> shake partner.
1241			>
1242			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
1243			>
1244			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
1245			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
1246			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
1247			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
1248			>
1249
1250			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
1251			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
1252			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
1253			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
1254			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
1255			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
1256			and your wife.
1257			%
1258			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
1259			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
1260			still kill you. - arestheblue
1261			%
1262			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
1263			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
1264			specifications for GSS-API.
1265
1266			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
1267			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
1268
1269			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
1270			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
1271
1272			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
1273			%
1274			[from the minix 3 users guide]
1275
1276			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
1277			%
1278			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
1279
1280			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
1281			[...]
1282			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
1283			complaintant to guess this is true.
1284			%
1285			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
1286			- Ken Thompson.
1287			%
1288			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
1289
1290			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
1291
1292			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
1293			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
1294			source code excerpt:
1295
1296			int sn()
1297			{
1298			char pwr;
1299
1300			int input1 = 0;
1301			double output1 = 0;
1302
1303			system("clear");
1304			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
1305			cin>>input1;
1306			output1 = (sin(input1));
1307			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
1308			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
1309			cin>>pwr;
1310			if(pwr == 'a')
1311			sq();
1312			if(pwr == 'm')
1313			system("pause");
1314
1315			}
1316			%
1317			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
1318			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
1319
1320			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
1321
1322			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
1323			%
1324			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
1325			app for me" department:
1326
1327			From: Evan LeCompte
1328
1329			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
1330			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
1331			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
1332			%
1333			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
1334			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
1335			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
1336
1337			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
1338			%
1339			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
1340			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
1341			– Steve Jobs[47]
1342
1343			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
1344			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
1345			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
1346			%
1347			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
1348			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
1349			%
1350			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1351			From: Patrick Horgan
1352			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1353			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1354
1355			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1356			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1357			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1358			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1359			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1360			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1361
1362			[...]
1363			%
1364	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1365			— Peter Abelard
1366			%
1367			A man said to the universe:
1368			"Sir I exist!"
1369			"However," replied the universe,
1370			"The fact has not created in me
1371	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1372			- Steven Crane
1373	root	1.431	%
1374			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1375
1376			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1377
1378			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1379
1380			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1381
1382			– Sanskrit Saying
1383			%
1384			[anonymised discussion]
1385			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1386			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1387			%
1388			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1389
1390	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1391	root	1.431
1392			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1393			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1394			appear.
1395			%
1396			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1397			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1398			- Douglas Adams
1399			%
1400			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1401			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1402			%
1403	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1404			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1405	root	1.431	%
1406			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1407			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1408			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1409			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1410			%
1411			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1412			%
1413			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1414			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1415			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1416			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1417			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1418			%
1419			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1420			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1421			or her career.
1422			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1423			%
1424			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1425			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1426			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1427			%
1428			I LOVE YOU
1429			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1430			%
1431			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1432			the air impeller.
1433
1434			Alan Cox
1435			%
1436			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1437			with a minimum computer science background."
1438			%
1439			From: Eric Sosman
1440			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1441			Subject: Re: about graphics
1442
1443			prince wrote:
1444			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1445
1446			#include <stdio.h>
1447			int main(void) {
1448			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1449			return 0;
1450			}
1451			%
1452			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1453			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1454			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1455			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1456			%
1457			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1458
1459	root	1.471	While the 2^128 step search [takes] a very long time indeed,
1460	root	1.431	it still is a constant-time attack.
1461			%
1462			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1463			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1464			%
1465			From: David Damerell
1466
1467			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1468			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1469			>caps to make it different.
1470
1471			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1472			painful but will take less typing.
1473			%
1474			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1475			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1476			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1477
1478			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1479			%
1480			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1481
1482			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1483			> free than the BSD.
1484			>
1485			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1486
1487			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1488			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1489			%
1490			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1491
1492			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1493			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1494			from incompatible pointer type
1495			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1496			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1497			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1498			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1499			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1500			%
1501			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1502			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1503			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1504			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1505			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1506			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1507
1508			[Chandon Seldon]
1509			%
1510			[Wikipedia]
1511			Differences between vi and Emacs
1512
1513			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1514			%
1515			[lost the reference]
1516			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1517			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1518			%
1519			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1520			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1521			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1522			%
1523			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1524
1525			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1526			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1527			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1528			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1529			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1530
1531			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1532			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1533			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1534			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1535			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1536			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1537			piss on your leg.
1538
1539			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1540			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1541			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1542
1543			[then, a day later]
1544
1545			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1546			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1547			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1548			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1549			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1550
1551			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1552			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1553			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1554			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1555			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1556			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1557			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1558			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1559			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1560
1561
1562			-----Original Message-----
1563			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1564			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1565			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1566			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1567
1568
1569
1570			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1571	root	1.432	>
1572	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1573
1574			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1575
1576			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1577			I hope you don't object :)
1578			%
1579			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1580			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1581
1582			You made my day
1583			%
1584			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1585
1586			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1587			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1588			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1589
1590			Linus
1591			%
1592			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1593
1594			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1595
1596			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 ...
1597
1598			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1599
1600			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1601			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1602			when sending emails to other people:
1603			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1604
1605			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1606
1607			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1608			%
1609			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1610			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1611			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1612			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1613			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1614			%
1615			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1616			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1617
1618			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1619			%
1620			[on italy]
1621
1622			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1623
1624			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1625			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1626			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1627			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1628
1629			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1630			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1631			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1632			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1633			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1634			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1635
1636			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1637
1638			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1639			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1640			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1641			from fascism period.
1642
1643			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1644			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1645			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1646			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1647			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1648			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1649			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1650			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1651			SIAE.
1652
1653			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1654			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1655			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1656			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1657			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1658			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1659			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1660			electronic ones
1661
1662			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1663
1664			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1665			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1666			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1667			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1668			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1669			western country.
1670
1671			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1672			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1673			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1674			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1675			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1676			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1677			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1678			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1679			also the governments of "center-left".
1680
1681			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1682
1683			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1684			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1685			without any restriction.
1686
1687			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1688			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1689			world.
1690
1691			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1692			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1693			Thank you for reading.
1694			%
1695			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1696			>
1697			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1698
1699			How very ironic.
1700			%
1701			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1702			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1703			takes religion."
1704
1705			--Steve Weinberg
1706			%
1707			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1708			%
1709			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1710			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1711			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1712
1713			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1714			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1715			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1716			%
1717			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1718			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1719			the right tool for me.
1720			%
1721			[deliantra]
1722			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1723			%
1724			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1725			%
1726			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1727			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1728			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1729			%
1730			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1731
1732			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1733			%
1734			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1735			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1736
1737			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1738			actually tells you it's American.
1739			%
1740			[better do not hire this programmer]
1741			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1742			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1743			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1744
1745			Hi
1746
1747			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1748			someone here can advise me.
1749
1750			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1751			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1752			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1753			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1754			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1755
1756			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1757			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1758			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1759			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1760			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1761			corresponding thing in C?
1762
1763			Thanks!
1764			%
1765			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1766
1767			// See bug 53763.
1768			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1769			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1770			if (shell) {
1771			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1772			%
1773			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1774			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1775
1776			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1777			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1778			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1779			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1780			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1781			%
1782			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1783			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1784			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1785			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1786	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1787	root	1.431
1788			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1789			%
1790			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1791
1792	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1793	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1794
1795			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1796
1797			x / y * z
1798
1799			and
1800
1801			x / y * z
1802
1803			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1804
1805			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1806			design decisions.)
1807			%
1808			endergt:
1809			> snoofle:
1810			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1811			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1812			> > you understand what you are doing...
1813			>
1814	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1815	root	1.431
1816	root	1.432	debug
1817	root	1.431	%
1818			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%.
1819
1820			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1821			%
1822			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1823			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1824			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1825
1826			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1827			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1828			6 Decompilation
1829
1830			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1831			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1832			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1833			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1834			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1835			conditions are met: [...]"
1836			%
1837			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1838			%
1839			Why Linux Sux ?
1840
1841			Easy .
1842			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1843			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1844			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 .
1845			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1846			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1847			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1848			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! ) .
1849			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 .
1850			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1851
1852			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1853			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1854			working ones . Screw linux users .
1855			%
1856			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1857			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1858			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1859			%
1860			> The Dell 30"...
1861
1862			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1863			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1864			%
1865	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1866	root	1.431
1867			> > 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".
1868	root	1.432	>
1869	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!
1870	root	1.432	>
1871	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1872	root	1.432
1873	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1874
1875			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1876			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.
1877			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1878	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.
1879	root	1.431	%
1880			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1881			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1882			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1883			%
1884			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1885
1886			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1887			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1888			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1889
1890			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1891			anderen betriebssystemen.
1892
1893			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1894			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1895
1896			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1897			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1898			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1899			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1900			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1901
1902			Frage?
1903			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1904			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1905			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1906
1907			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1908			%
1909			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1910			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1911			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1912			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1913			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1914			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1915			%
1916			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1917			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1918			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1919			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1920			%
1921			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1922			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1923
1924			God bless the re-inventers
1925
1926			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1927			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1928
1929	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1930	root	1.431
1931			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1932			one.
1933			%
1934			[rfc2665]
1935			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1936			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1937			useful in theory than in practice.
1938			%
1939			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1940	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1941	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1942			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1943			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1944			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1945			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1946			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1947	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1948	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1949			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1950	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1951	root	1.431	15:30
1952			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1953			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1954			%
1955			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1956			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1957			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1958			%
1959			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1960
1961			Strictly for beginners
1962
1963			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1964			[...]
1965			%
1966			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1967			%
1968			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1969			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1970			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1971			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1972			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1973			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1974			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1975			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1976			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1977			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1978			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1979			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1980			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1981			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1982			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1983			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1984			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1985			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1986			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1987			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1988			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1989			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1990			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1991			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1992			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1993			%
1994			[A Gentoo User]
1995			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1996			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1997			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1998			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1999			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
2000			environment and think LFS is to much work.
2001			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
2002			%
2003			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
2004			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
2005			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
2006			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
2007			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
2008	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
2009			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
2010	root	1.431	can do
2011			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
2012			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
2013			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
2014			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
2015			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
2016			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
2017			%
2018			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
2019	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
2020			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
2021			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
2022	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
2023			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
2024	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
2025			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
2026	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
2027			%
2028			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
2029			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
2030			%
2031			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
2032
2033			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
2034			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
2035			be slow in Windows 2000"
2036
2037			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
2038			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
2039			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
2040			%
2041			[so much for type-safety]
2042			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
2043			lst.add(null);
2044			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
2045			%
2046			[just for reference]
2047			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
2048			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
2049			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
2050			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
2051			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
2052			es nicht.
2053
2054			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
2055			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
2056			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
2057			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
2058			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
2059			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
2060
2061			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
2062			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
2063			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
2064			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
2065			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
2066			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
2067			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
2068			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
2069			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
2070			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
2071			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
2072			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
2073			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
2074			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
2075
2076			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
2077			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
2078			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
2079			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
2080			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
2081			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
2082			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
2083
2084			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
2085			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
2086			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
2087			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
2088			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
2089			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
2090			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
2091			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
2092			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
2093			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
2094			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
2095			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
2096			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
2097			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
2098			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
2099			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
2100			alternativ' Idioten!
2101
2102			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
2103			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
2104			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
2105			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
2106			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
2107			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
2108			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
2109			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
2110			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
2111			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
2112			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
2113			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
2114			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
2115			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
2116
2117			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
2118			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
2119			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
2120
2121			Ich will R A C H E !
2122
2123			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
2124			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
2125			Dinge zu sagen:
2126
2127			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
2128
2129			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
2130			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
2131			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
2132			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
2133			anfange.
2134
2135			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
2136			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
2137			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
2138			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
2139			dieser verdammten schule!
2140
2141			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
2142			die Welt zu bieten hat!
2143
2144			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
2145
2146			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
2147			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
2148			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
2149			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
2150			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
2151			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
2152			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
2153			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
2154			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
2155			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
2156
2157			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
2158			Einschulung.
2159
2160			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
2161			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
2162			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
2163			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
2164			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
2165			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
2166			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
2167			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
2168			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
2169			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
2170
2171			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
2172			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
2173
2174			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
2175			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
2176			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
2177			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
2178			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
2179			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
2180			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
2181			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
2182
2183			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
2184			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
2185			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
2186			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
2187			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
2188			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
2189			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
2190			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
2191
2192			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
2193			ihr dafür bezahlen!
2194
2195			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
2196			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
2197			Hand genommen.
2198
2199			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
2200			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
2201
2202			Ich bin weg...
2203			%
2204			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
2205			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
2206			%
2207	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
2208			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
2209			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
2210			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
2211	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
2212			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
2213			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
2214			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
2215			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
2216			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
2217			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
2218			%
2219			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
2220			%
2221			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
2222			[The reason I left Perl 6]
2223
2224			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
2225			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
2226			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
2227			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
2228			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
2229			%
2230			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
2231			%
2232			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
2233			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
2234			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
2235			%
2236			[very funny read]
2237			Hack-a-Bike
2238			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
2239			%
2240			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
2241			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
2242			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
2243			still can.
2244
2245			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
2246			%
2247	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
2248			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
2249	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
2250			%
2251			[without words]
2252			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
2253			%
2254			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
2255			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
2256			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
2257			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
2258			actual kid in an actual bath.
2259			%
2260			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
2261			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
2262			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
2263			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
2264			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
2265			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
2266			what happened to you.
2267			%
2268	root	1.472	--
2269	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
2270
2271			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
2272			Q: Why is top posting bad?
2273			%
2274			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
2275	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
2276			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
2277	root	1.431	> important difference.)
2278
2279			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
2280			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
2281			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
2282			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
2283			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
2284
2285			- Ted
2286			%
2287			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
2288			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
2289			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
2290			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
2291			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
2292			me, but we have the truth!"
2293			%
2294			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
2295			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
2296			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
2297			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
2298			%
2299			[nethack extinctionist faq]
2300			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
2301			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
2302			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
2303			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
2304			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
2305			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
2306			genociding every monster.
2307
2308			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
2309			genocide them for good measure!
2310			%%
2311			[nethack instadeath faq]
2312
2313			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
2314
2315			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
2316			%
2317			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
2318			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
2319	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
2320	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
2321			17:58 <Murch> lol
2322			%
2323			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
2324			%
2325			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
2326			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
2327			%
2328			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
2329			%
2330			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
2331
2332			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
2333			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
2334			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
2335			%
2336			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
2337
2338			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
2339			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
2340			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
2341			the Eastern Time Zone.
2342			[...]
2343			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
2344			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
2345			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
2346			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
2347			%
2348			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
2349
2350			_dl_profile_output
2351			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2352			%
2353			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2354			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2355			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2356			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2357			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2358			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2359			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2360
2361			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2362			%
2363			[famous last words]
2364			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2365			%
2366			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2367
2368			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2369
2370			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2371
2372			--
2373			Jay Hennigan
2374			%
2375			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2376			%
2377			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2378			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2379			of homeland security]
2380			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2381			%
2382			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2383	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2384	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2385			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2386			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2387			range of spyware available to us?"
2388
2389			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2390			%
2391			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2392			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2393			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2394			%
2395	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2396	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2397			%
2398			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2399			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2400			%
2401			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2402			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2403			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2404			shooter.
2405
2406			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2407			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2408			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2409			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2410			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2411			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2412
2413			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2414			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2415			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2416			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2417			way.
2418
2419			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2420			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2421			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2422
2423			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2424			%
2425			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2426			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2427			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2428			> above comment about Hitler).
2429
2430			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2431			mention Hitler loses.
2432			%
2433			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2434			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2435			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2436			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2437			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2438			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2439			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2440			including <windows.h>.
2441			[...]
2442			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2443			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2444			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2445			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2446			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2447			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2448			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2449			environments.
2450			%
2451			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2452			%
2453			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2454			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2455			%
2456			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2457			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2458			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2459			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2460			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2461			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2462			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2463			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2464			companies want to own your computer.
2465
2466			Some examples:
2467
2468			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2469			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2470			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2471			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2472			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2473			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2474			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2475			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2476			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2477	root	1.432
2478	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2479			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2480			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2481			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2482			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2483
2484			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2485			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2486			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2487			from Microsoft? You can't.
2488
2489			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2490			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2491			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2492			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2493			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2494			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2495			adversely affect its business partners.
2496
2497			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2498			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2499			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2500			about your behavior.
2501
2502			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2503			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2504			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2505			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2506			presumed infractions.
2507
2508			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2509			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2510			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2511
2512			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2513			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2514			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2515			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2516			user's device against him.
2517			[...]
2518			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2519			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2520			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2521			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2522			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2523			back-room marketing deals.
2524			%
2525			[John Carmack on Java]
2526			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2527			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2528			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2529			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2530			performance.
2531			%
2532			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2533
2534			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2535			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2536			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2537			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2538			%
2539			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2540			%
2541			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2542			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2543			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2544			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2545			%
2546			http://funroll-loops.org/
2547			%
2548			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2549			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2550			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2551			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2552			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2553			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2554			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2555			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2556			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2557			Fahrenheit documentation.
2558			%
2559			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2560			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2561			sure its much slower than CVS]
2562			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2563			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2564			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2565	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2566	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2567			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2568	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2569	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2570			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2571	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2572	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2573			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2574			%
2575	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2576
2577			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2578			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2579	root	1.431	%
2580	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2581
2582			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2583			> systems ?
2584
2585			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2586			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2587
2588			Jesper
2589			%
2590	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2591
2592			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2593			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2594
2595	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2596	root	1.429	%
2597	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2598			%
2599	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2600
2601			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2602			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2603			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2604			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2605			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2606			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2607			but that's the truth.
2608			%
2609	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2610
2611			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2612
2613	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2614			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2615			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2616			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2617	root	1.424
2618			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2619	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2620			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2621	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2622
2623			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2624			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2625	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2626	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2627			in Richtung Boden.
2628
2629			[...]
2630
2631	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2632	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2633	root	1.424
2634			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2635	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2636	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2637
2638			[...]
2639
2640			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2641	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2642	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2643	root	1.424
2644			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2645	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2646			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2647			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2648	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2649			sofort.
2650			%
2651	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2652			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2653			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2654			software from Microsoft.)
2655	root	1.424	%
2656	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2657	root	1.424	%
2658	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2659
2660			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2661			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2662			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2663			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2664	root	1.424	%
2665	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2666	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2667	root	1.424	%
2668	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2669			From: Rodrigo Severo
2670			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2671			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2672
2673			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2674
2675			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2676			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2677			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2678
2679			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2680			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2681			brazilian ;)
2682			Rodrigo Severo
2683	root	1.424	%
2684	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2685	root	1.417
2686			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2687	root	1.424	%
2688	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2689
2690			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2691
2692			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2693
2694			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2695			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2696
2697			sigh
2698	root	1.424	%
2699	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2700			By Bertrand Russell
2701
2702			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2703			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2704			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2705			might be set forth as follows:
2706
2707			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2708
2709			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2710			evidence is sure to come to light.
2711
2712			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2713
2714			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2715			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2716			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2717
2718			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2719			contrary authorities to be found.
2720
2721			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2722			do the opinions will suppress you.
2723
2724			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2725			was once eccentric.
2726
2727			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2728			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2729			agreement than the latter.
2730
2731			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2732			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2733
2734			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2735			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2736
2737			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2738			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2739	root	1.424	%
2740	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2741	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2742			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2743			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2744
2745			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2746			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2747			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2748			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2749			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2750			United States."
2751	root	1.413	---
2752			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2753			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2754			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2755	root	1.414	---
2756			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2757			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2758			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2759			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2760			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2761
2762			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2763			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2764	root	1.424	%
2765	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2766			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2767	root	1.424	%
2768	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2769
2770			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2771			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2772
2773			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2774			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2775
2776			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2777
2778			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2779			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2780	root	1.424	%
2781	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2782			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2783	root	1.424	%
2784	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2785			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2786			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2787			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2788			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2789			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2790	root	1.424	%
2791	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2792
2793			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2794			they care about it?"
2795			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2796	root	1.407
2797			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2798	root	1.424	%
2799	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2800			-- Gregory Chaitin
2801	root	1.424	%
2802	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2803	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2804			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2805			[...]
2806	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2807			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2808	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2809	root	1.424	%
2810	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2811			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2812			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2813			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2814			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2815			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2816	root	1.424	%
2817	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2818
2819			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2820	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2821			return 0;
2822	root	1.424	%
2823	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2824	root	1.401
2825			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2826			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2827			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2828			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2829			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2830			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2831			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2832			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2833			> transparent.
2834
2835			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2836			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2837			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2838			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2839	root	1.424	%
2840	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2841			aber falsche Lösungen.
2842	root	1.424	%
2843	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2844			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2845			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2846			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2847	root	1.424	%
2848	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2849			>
2850			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2851			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2852			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2853			> than useful to the user.
2854
2855			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2856
2857			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2858			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2859			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2860			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2861
2862			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2863
2864			Linus
2865	root	1.424	%
2866	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2867			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2868			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2869			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2870	root	1.424	%
2871	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2872			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2873
2874	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2875	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2876			--
2877			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2878
2879			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2880	root	1.424	%
2881	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2882			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2883
2884			Person: What do you do?
2885			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2886			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2887
2888			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2889			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2890			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2891	root	1.394
2892			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2893			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2894	root	1.424	%
2895	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2896			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2897			illegal downloaders."
2898
2899			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2900
2901			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2902			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2903			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2904			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2905			have to emerge."
2906
2907			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2908	root	1.424	%
2909	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2910	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2911
2912			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2913			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2914
2915			Bye, Andy
2916	root	1.424	%
2917	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2918	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2919	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2920	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2921	root	1.390
2922			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2923			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2924			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2925			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2926			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2927			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2928			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2929			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2930			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2931			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2932			alle Benutzer.
2933			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2934			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2935			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2936			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2937			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2938			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2939			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2940			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2941			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2942			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2943			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2944	root	1.424	%
2945	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2946
2947			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2948			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2949			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2950			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2951			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2952			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2953			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2954			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2955			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2956			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2957			unfinished operations, etc.
2958			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2959
2960			Valid options:
2961			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2962			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2963
2964			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2965	root	1.424	%
2966	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2967			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2968			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2969			to provide.
2970			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2971	root	1.424	%
2972	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2973
2974			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2975			alarm people more.
2976
2977			-Nate
2978
2979			[...]
2980
2981			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2982			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2983			image of the language that is created here.
2984
2985			Juerd
2986
2987			[...]
2988
2989			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2990			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2991			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2992
2993	root	1.432	--
2994	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2995	root	1.387	%
2996	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2997	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2998	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2999			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
3000	root	1.387	%
3001	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
3002			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
3003	root	1.387	%
3004	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
3005			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
3006	root	1.387	%
3007	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
3008			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
3009			[...]
3010			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
3011			"Windows is broken."
3012	root	1.387	%
3013	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
3014			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
3015			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
3016	root	1.387	%
3017	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
3018			on being able to kill their children legally]
3019			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
3020	root	1.387	%
3021	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
3022			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
3023			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
3024	root	1.387	%
3025	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
3026			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
3027			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
3028			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
3029			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
3030			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
3031	root	1.378	--
3032			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
3033			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
3034			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
3035			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
3036			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
3037			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
3038			wasteful government spending."
3039	root	1.387	%
3040	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
3041			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
3042	root	1.387	%
3043	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
3044			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
3045	root	1.387	%
3046	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
3047			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
3048	root	1.387	%
3049	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
3050			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
3051	root	1.387	%
3052	root	1.374	[Copyright]
3053	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
3054	root	1.387	%
3055	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
3056			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
3057	root	1.387	%
3058	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
3059			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
3060	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
3061	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
3062			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
3063	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
3064	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
3065			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
3066	root	1.387	%
3067	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
3068			http://www.counterpunch.org/
3069	root	1.387	%
3070	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
3071			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
3072			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
3073			their weapons over our heads."
3074			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
3075	root	1.387	%
3076	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
3077			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
3078	root	1.387	%
3079	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
3080			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
3081			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
3082			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
3083			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
3084	root	1.387	%
3085	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
3086	root	1.387	%
3087	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
3088			several requests for clarification.
3089
3090			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
3091			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
3092			unter TCG definitions.
3093	root	1.387	%
3094	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
3095			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
3096			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
3097			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
3098	root	1.387	%
3099	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
3100			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
3101			get people on board.
3102			%
3103	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
3104			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
3105			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
3106			DRM.
3107
3108			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
3109			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
3110	root	1.387	%
3111	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
3112			switch ($decade) {
3113			case "the 50's":
3114			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
3115			break;
3116			case "the 60's":
3117			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
3118			break;
3119			case "the 70's":
3120			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
3121			break;
3122			case "the 80's":
3123			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
3124			break;
3125			case "the 90's":
3126			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
3127			break;
3128			case "the 00's":
3129			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
3130			break;
3131			}
3132	root	1.387	%
3133	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
3134
3135			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
3136			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
3137			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
3138			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
3139
3140			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
3141			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
3142			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
3143
3144			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
3145			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
3146			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
3147			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
3148			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
3149			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
3150			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
3151			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
3152			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
3153			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
3154	root	1.387	%
3155	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
3156			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
3157			married or unmarried."
3158
3159			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
3160			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
3161			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
3162			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
3163			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
3164	root	1.387	%
3165	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
3166
3167			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
3168			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
3169			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
3170			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
3171			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
3172			conditioning.
3173
3174			[And this is religion at its best:]
3175			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
3176			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
3177			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
3178	root	1.387	%
3179	root	1.361	[Racism]
3180			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
3181	root	1.387	%
3182	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
3183			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
3184	root	1.387	%
3185	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
3186			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
3187
3188			I apologise for this.
3189
3190			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
3191			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
3192	root	1.387	%
3193	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
3194			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
3195			el says: ich kenn da wen
3196			el says: bei dem wars so
3197			[...]
3198			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
3199			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
3200			el says: gehirntumor auch
3201			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
3202	root	1.387	%
3203	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
3204	root	1.387	%
3205	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
3206			no sense in the kernel]
3207			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
3208
3209			[...]
3210
3211			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
3212			models.
3213
3214			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
3215			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
3216			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
3217	root	1.387	%
3218	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
3219			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
3220			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
3221			--
3222			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
3223	root	1.355	--
3224			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
3225			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
3226			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
3227			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
3228	root	1.387	%
3229	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
3230			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
3231			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
3232			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
3233			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
3234			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
3235			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
3236			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
3237	root	1.387	%
3238	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
3239			which you currently do not posess]
3240			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
3241	root	1.387	%
3242	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
3243			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
3244	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
3245	root	1.387	%
3246	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
3247	root	1.387	%
3248	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
3249			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
3250	root	1.387	%
3251	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
3252			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
3253			paragraphs.
3254	root	1.387	%
3255	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
3256			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
3257			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
3258	root	1.387	%
3259	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
3260			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
3261
3262			Most catholics aren't American.
3263	root	1.387	%
3264	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
3265
3266			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
3267			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
3268			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
3269			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
3270			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
3271
3272			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
3273			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
3274	root	1.387	%
3275	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
3276			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
3277			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
3278			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
3279			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
3280			criminals."
3281	root	1.387	%
3282	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
3283			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
3284	root	1.387	%
3285	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
3286			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
3287	root	1.387	%
3288	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
3289			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
3290	root	1.387	%
3291	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
3292			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
3293			card (They went up in flames).
3294	root	1.387	%
3295	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
3296			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
3297			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
3298			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
3299	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
3300	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
3301	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
3302	root	1.387	%
3303	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
3304			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
3305			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
3306
3307			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
3308
3309			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
3310	root	1.387	%
3311	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
3312			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
3313			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
3314			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
3315			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
3316			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
3317			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
3318			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
3319			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
3320			--
3321			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
3322			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
3323			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
3324			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
3325			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
3326			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
3327	root	1.387	%
3328	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
3329			The Obfuscated V contest
3330	root	1.387	%
3331	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
3332			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
3333			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
3334			cigarette lighters."
3335			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
3336	root	1.387	%
3337	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
3338			Does it run under Windows ?
3339			- Who cares?
3340	root	1.387	%
3341	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
3342	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
3343	root	1.387	%
3344	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
3345			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
3346			[...]
3347			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
3348			[...]
3349			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
3350			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3351			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3352	root	1.387	%
3353	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3354	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3355			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3356			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3357	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3358	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3359	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3360	root	1.330	> mehr!
3361			> richy.
3362
3363			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3364	root	1.387	%
3365	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3366	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3367			> zugetragen hat?
3368
3369			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3370			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3371	root	1.388	[später]
3372			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3373	root	1.329
3374			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3375			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3376			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3377			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3378			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3379
3380			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3381
3382			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3383			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3384			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3385	root	1.387	%
3386	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3387	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3388			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3389	root	1.387	%
3390	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3391			/* give the hook another try */
3392			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3393			break;
3394	root	1.387	%
3395	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3396	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3397	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3398			#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))
3399	root	1.387	%
3400	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3401	root	1.387	%
3402	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3403	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3404	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3405	root	1.432	>
3406			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3407			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3408	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3409	root	1.432	>
3410			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3411			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3412	root	1.324	> as TO).
3413	root	1.432	>
3414	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3415
3416			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3417			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3418			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3419			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3420			being discourteous to.
3421
3422			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3423			--
3424			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3425	root	1.387	%
3426	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3427	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3428	root	1.387	%
3429	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3430			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3431			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3432			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3433			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3434	root	1.387	%
3435	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3436			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3437			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3438			you don't have any'."
3439	root	1.323
3440			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3441			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3442			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3443			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3444	root	1.387	%
3445	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3446			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3447			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3448			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3449	root	1.387	%
3450	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3451			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3452			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3453			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3454			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3455			reason will not win many fans.
3456
3457			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3458			documents in the algorithm section]
3459	root	1.387	%
3460	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3461			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3462			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3463			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3464			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3465
3466			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3467	root	1.387	%
3468	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3469			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3470			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3471	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3472	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3473			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3474	root	1.387	%
3475	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3476	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3477	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3478	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3479			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3480	root	1.387	%
3481	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3482			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3483			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3484			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3485			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3486			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3487	root	1.387	%
3488	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3489			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3490	root	1.387	%
3491	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3492	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3493	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3494			* at their price list.
3495	root	1.387	%
3496	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3497			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3498			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3499			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3500			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3501			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3502			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3503	root	1.387	%
3504	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3505			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3506	root	1.387	%
3507	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3508			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3509			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3510			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3511	root	1.387	%
3512	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3513	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3514	root	1.387	%
3515	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3516			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3517	root	1.387	%
3518	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3519	root	1.387	%
3520	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3521			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3522			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3523			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3524			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3525			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3526			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3527			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3528	root	1.387	%
3529	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3530			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3531	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3532	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3533	root	1.387	%
3534	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3535	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3536	root	1.387	%
3537	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3538	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3539			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3540			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3541	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3542
3543			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3544
3545			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3546			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3547	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3548	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3549
3550			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3551
3552			[usw.]
3553
3554			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3555	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3556	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3557
3558			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3559			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3560			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3561			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3562			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3563	root	1.387	%
3564	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3565	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3566			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3567	root	1.387	%
3568	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3569			Which fanboy are you?
3570
3571			1. Windows
3572
3573			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3574			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3575			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3576			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3577			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3578			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3579			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3580			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3581			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3582
3583			2. Apple
3584
3585			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3586			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3587			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3588			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3589			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3590			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3591			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3592			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3593
3594			3. Linspire
3595
3596			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3597			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3598			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3599			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3600			installed Linspire on your machine.
3601
3602			4. Umbongo
3603
3604			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3605			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3606			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3607			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3608			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3609			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3610			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3611			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3612			themselves.
3613
3614			5. Gentoy
3615
3616			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3617			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3618			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3619			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3620			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3621			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3622			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3623			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3624
3625			6. Linux From Scratch
3626
3627			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3628			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3629			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3630			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3631			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3632			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3633			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3634	root	1.387	%
3635	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3636			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3637	root	1.387	%
3638	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3639
3640			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3641			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3642
3643			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3644	root	1.387	%
3645	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3646
3647			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3648	root	1.432	>
3649	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3650	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3651	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3652			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3653			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3654	root	1.432	>
3655			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3656	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3657	root	1.432	>
3658	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3659			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3660	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3661	root	1.387	%
3662	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3663	root	1.387	%
3664	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3665	root	1.387	%
3666	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3667	root	1.387	%
3668	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3669			show "Correspondent"]
3670	root	1.288
3671			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3672			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3673
3674			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3675			%
3676	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3677			cock sucking, blowjob
3678			=> fellatio, fellation
3679			=> oral sex, head
3680			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3681			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3682			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3683			=> organic process, biological process
3684			=> process
3685			=> phenomenon
3686	root	1.387	%
3687	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3688			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3689	root	1.387	%
3690	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3691			[slightly edited]
3692			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3693			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3694			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3695			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3696
3697			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3698			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3699			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3700
3701			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3702			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3703	root	1.387	%
3704	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3705			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3706	root	1.387	%
3707	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3708	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3709	root	1.387	%
3710	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3711	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3712			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3713	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3714	root	1.387	%
3715	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3716			- oesi
3717	root	1.387	%
3718	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3719			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3720	root	1.387	%
3721	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3722	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3723	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3724			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3725
3726			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3727			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3728			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3729			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3730			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3731			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3732			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3733			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3734			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3735			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3736			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3737			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3738			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3739			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3740			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3741			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3742			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3743			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3744			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3745			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3746			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3747			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3748			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3749			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3750
3751			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3752			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3753			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3754			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3755			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3756
3757			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3758			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3759			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3760			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3761			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3762			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3763			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3764			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3765			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3766			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3767			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3768
3769			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3770			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3771			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3772			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3773			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3774			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3775			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3776			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3777			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3778			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3779			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3780			sovereign nation.
3781
3782			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3783			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3784			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3785			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3786			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3787			CSPAN, don't post here.
3788
3789			-scott
3790	root	1.387	%
3791	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3792			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3793			capacity to feel pain.
3794
3795			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3796			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3797	root	1.387	%
3798	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3799			From: Sven Neumann
3800
3801			Hi,
3802
3803	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3804	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3805	root	1.273
3806			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3807			that
3808
3809			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3810
3811			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3812	root	1.387	%
3813	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3814	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3815			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3816			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3817	root	1.387	%
3818	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3819			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3820			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3821			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3822			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3823			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3824	root	1.387	%
3825	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3826	root	1.270	interesting read]
3827			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3828	root	1.387	%
3829	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3830			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3831			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3832	root	1.387	%
3833	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3834			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3835			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3836			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3837			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3838			locks can open the gate.
3839
3840			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3841			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3842			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3843	root	1.387	%
3844	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3845			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3846	root	1.387	%
3847	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3848
3849			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3850
3851			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3852			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3853			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3854			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3855			explanation of this.
3856
3857			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3858
3859			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3860			which explains why the hammer falls.
3861
3862			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3863			how a population's genome can change over time.
3864
3865	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3866			mathematical relationship between two values.
3867	root	1.265
3868			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3869			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3870
3871			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3872			acceleration.
3873
3874			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3875			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3876			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3877			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3878			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3879			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3880			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3881			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3882			false.
3883
3884			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3885	root	1.387	%
3886	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3887	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3888
3889			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3890			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3891	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3892			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3893			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3894	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3895
3896	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3897			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3898			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3899			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3900			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3901			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3902			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3903	root	1.264
3904			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3905	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3906			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3907			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3908			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3909	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3910	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3911	root	1.264	sportlich.
3912
3913	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3914			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3915			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3916			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3917			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3918	root	1.264
3919	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3920	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3921	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3922			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3923	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3924
3925			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3926			Forscher.
3927	root	1.387	%
3928	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3929			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3930			EULA-style license]
3931	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3932	root	1.387	%
3933	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3934			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3935			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3936			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3937			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3938			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3939			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3940	root	1.387	%
3941	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3942	root	1.387	%
3943	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3944			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3945			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3946			00:24 <schmorp> re
3947	root	1.387	%
3948	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3949	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3950			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3951	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3952			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3953	root	1.387	%
3954	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3955			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3956			proponents of such theories.]
3957			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3958			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3959			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3960			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3961			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3962			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3963			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3964			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3965			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3966			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3967			(below, right)."
3968	root	1.387	%
3969	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3970			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3971			[useful info...]
3972			http://www.snopes.com/
3973	root	1.387	%
3974	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3975			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3976	root	1.387	%
3977	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3978			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3979	root	1.387	%
3980	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3981	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3982			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3983	root	1.387	%
3984	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3985			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3986			#!/usr/bin/sh
3987			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3988			# All Rights Reserved
3989
3990			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3991			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3992			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3993
3994			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3995	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3996	root	1.387	%
3997	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3998			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3999			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
4000	root	1.387	%
4001	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
4002			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
4003			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
4004			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
4005			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
4006			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
4007			#
4008			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
4009	root	1.387	%
4010	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
4011	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
4012			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
4013			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
4014	root	1.387	%
4015	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
4016	root	1.387	%
4017	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
4018	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
4019			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
4020	root	1.387	%
4021	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
4022			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
4023			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
4024	root	1.387	%
4025	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
4026	root	1.387	%
4027	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
4028			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
4029			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
4030			that you have a problem.)
4031			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
4032	root	1.387	%
4033	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
4034			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
4035	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
4036	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
4037
4038			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
4039			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
4040	root	1.387	%
4041	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
4042			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
4043
4044			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
4045			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
4046			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
4047			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
4048			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
4049			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
4050			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
4051			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
4052			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
4053			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
4054			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
4055			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
4056			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
4057			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
4058
4059			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
4060			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
4061			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
4062			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
4063			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
4064			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
4065			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
4066	root	1.387	%
4067	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
4068	root	1.239
4069			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
4070			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
4071			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
4072	root	1.387	%
4073	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
4074			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
4075			knows this, and it's true for software too.
4076	root	1.387	%
4077	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
4078
4079			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
4080			;)
4081	root	1.387	%
4082	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
4083			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
4084			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
4085			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
4086
4087			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
4088
4089	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
4090			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
4091	root	1.387	%
4092	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
4093			using so many abbreviations...]
4094
4095			Hi Volker -
4096
4097			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
4098	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
4099			spät ...
4100	root	1.234
4101			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
4102
4103			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
4104
4105	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
4106			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
4107	root	1.234
4108	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
4109	root	1.234
4110			tom
4111	root	1.247
4112	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
4113	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
4114	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
4115	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
4116	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
4117	root	1.387	%
4118	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
4119			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
4120			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
4121
4122			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
4123	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
4124			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
4125	root	1.233	> someone else?
4126
4127			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
4128			===================================================================
4129			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
4130			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
4131			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
4132			S: 79098 Freiburg
4133			S: Germany
4134
4135			+N: Hans Reiser
4136			+E: reiser@namesys.com
4137			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
4138			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
4139			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
4140			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
4141			+S: USA
4142			+
4143			N: Joerg Reuter
4144			E: jreuter@yaina.de
4145			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
4146	root	1.387	%
4147	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
4148			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
4149	root	1.387	%
4150	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
4151			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
4152	root	1.387	%
4153	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
4154			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
4155	root	1.387	%
4156	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
4157			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
4158			[...]
4159			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
4160			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
4161			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
4162			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
4163			[...]
4164			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
4165			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
4166			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
4167			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
4168	root	1.387	%
4169	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
4170			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
4171			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
4172			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
4173			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
4174			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
4175	root	1.387	%
4176	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
4177	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
4178			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
4179			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
4180			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
4181			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
4182			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
4183			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
4184			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
4185	root	1.387	%
4186	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
4187			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
4188	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
4189	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
4190	root	1.387	%
4191	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
4192			[yes, the whole thing]
4193	root	1.387	%
4194	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
4195	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
4196			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
4197			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
4198	root	1.221	>
4199			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
4200
4201			We'll use a larger wall.
4202	root	1.387	%
4203	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
4204			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
4205			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
4206			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
4207
4208			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
4209			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
4210
4211			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
4212			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
4213
4214			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
4215			cost.
4216			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
4217	root	1.387	%
4218	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
4219
4220	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
4221	root	1.219
4222			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
4223
4224	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
4225	root	1.387	%
4226	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
4227			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
4228	root	1.387	%
4229	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
4230			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
4231	root	1.387	%
4232	root	1.215	[translated]
4233			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
4234			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
4235			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
4236			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
4237			23:07 <schmorp> ...
4238			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
4239			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
4240			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
4241	root	1.387	%
4242	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
4243			-- Lord Balfour
4244	root	1.387	%
4245	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
4246	root	1.387	%
4247	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
4248			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
4249			him to forgive me.
4250	root	1.387	%
4251	root	1.211	[slashdot]
4252			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
4253
4254			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
4255	root	1.387	%
4256	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
4257			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
4258			get bored during the sex scenes.
4259	root	1.387	%
4260	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
4261			strangler is to the woman home alone.
4262			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
4263	root	1.387	%
4264	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
4265			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
4266			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
4267			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
4268			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
4269			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
4270	root	1.387	%
4271	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
4272			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
4273			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
4274			HP-UX customer. [...]
4275	root	1.387	%
4276	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
4277			>>
4278			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
4279			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
4280			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
4281			>>spelled it in UC.
4282	root	1.247	>
4283			>
4284	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
4285
4286			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
4287	root	1.387	%
4288	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
4289			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
4290
4291			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
4292			usage.
4293
4294			Richard
4295	root	1.387	%
4296	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
4297			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
4298			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
4299			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
4300			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
4301			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
4302	root	1.387	%
4303	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
4304			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
4305	root	1.387	%
4306	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
4307	root	1.387	%
4308	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
4309			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
4310			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
4311			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
4312			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
4313			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
4314			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
4315			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
4316			existence means and implies.
4317
4318			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
4319	root	1.387	%
4320	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
4321			>
4322			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
4323			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
4324			>
4325			> You're WRONG!
4326
4327	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
4328			and §7.20.3.1).
4329	root	1.387	%
4330	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
4331			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
4332			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
4333	root	1.387	%
4334	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
4335			A. It should be obvious.
4336			Q. How is it hard?
4337			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
4338			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
4339	root	1.387	%
4340	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
4341			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
4342
4343			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
4344			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
4345
4346			- works ok on linux
4347			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
4348
4349			Any clues why?
4350			I am new to the non windows world.
4351
4352			Thanks
4353	root	1.387	%
4354	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4355			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4356			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4357			> this ?
4358
4359			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4360			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4361	root	1.387	%
4362	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4363			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4364			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4365
4366			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4367	root	1.247	>
4368			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4369			>
4370	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4371	root	1.387	%
4372	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4373			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4374
4375			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4376	root	1.387	%
4377	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4378			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4379	root	1.387	%
4380	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4381	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4382	root	1.194
4383			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4384			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4385	root	1.387	%
4386	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4387			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4388	root	1.387	%
4389	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4390	root	1.387	%
4391	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4392			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4393	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4394	root	1.387	%
4395	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4396			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4397			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4398	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4399
4400	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4401	root	1.190
4402	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4403	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4404			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4405			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4406	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4407			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4408			schützen können.
4409	root	1.387	%
4410	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4411			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4412	root	1.387	%
4413	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4414			[...]
4415	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4416	root	1.188	[...]
4417	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4418			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4419			never get your message.
4420	root	1.387	%
4421	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4422			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4423			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4424	root	1.387	%
4425	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4426			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4427			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4428	root	1.387	%
4429	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4430			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4431			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4432			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4433			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4434			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4435			01:15 <schmorp> g
4436			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4437	root	1.387	%
4438	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4439			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4440			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4441			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4442			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4443			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4444			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4445			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4446	root	1.387	%
4447	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4448			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4449			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4450	root	1.387	%
4451	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4452			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4453			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4454			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4455			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4456			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4457			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4458	root	1.387	%
4459	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4460			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4461	root	1.387	%
4462	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4463			GNOME TERMINAL
4464			[...]
4465			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4466			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4467			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4468			[.. later]
4469			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4470			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4471			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4472	root	1.387	%
4473	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4474			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4475			/*
4476	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4477	root	1.179	*/
4478			void blip()
4479	root	1.247	{
4480	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4481			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4482			fflush(stderr);
4483	root	1.247	}
4484	root	1.387	%
4485	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4486			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4487
4488			Why not 666? :-).
4489	root	1.387	%
4490	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4491			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4492			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4493			users are clueless.
4494	root	1.387	%
4495	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4496			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4497	root	1.387	%
4498	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4499			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4500	root	1.387	%
4501	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4502			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4503	root	1.387	%
4504	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4505			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4506			and", and finally, ampersand.
4507	root	1.387	%
4508	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4509			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4510			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4511			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4512			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4513	root	1.387	%
4514	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4515			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4516			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4517			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4518			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4519	root	1.387	%
4520	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4521			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4522			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4523			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4524			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4525			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4526			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4527	root	1.387	%
4528	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4529	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4530			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4531	root	1.387	%
4532	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4533			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4534			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4535	root	1.387	%
4536	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4537	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4538	root	1.387	%
4539	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4540	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4541			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4542			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4543	root	1.167	%
4544	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4545	root	1.387	%
4546	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4547			<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
4548	root	1.387	%
4549	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4550			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4551	root	1.164	einfach :)
4552			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4553	root	1.387	%
4554	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4555			/*
4556			* Function compares two strings.
4557	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4558	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4559			*/
4560			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4561			{
4562			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4563			[...]
4564	root	1.387	%
4565	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4566	root	1.387	%
4567	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4568	root	1.387	%
4569	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4570			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4571			Get_Colours ();
4572	root	1.387	%
4573	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4574	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4575			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4576			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4577			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4578			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4579			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4580			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4581			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4582	root	1.161	[...]
4583			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4584			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4585			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4586			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4587			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4588	root	1.387	%
4589	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4590			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4591	root	1.387	%
4592	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4593			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4594	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4595	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4596			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4597			#endif
4598	root	1.387	%
4599	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4600			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4601			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4602	root	1.387	%
4603	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4604			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4605			>
4606			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4607
4608			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4609			--
4610			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4611	root	1.387	%
4612	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4613			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4614			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4615			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4616			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4617			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4618			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4619	root	1.387	%
4620	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4621			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4622	root	1.387	%
4623	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4624	root	1.387	%
4625	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4626			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4627			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4628			-- Robert Fisk
4629	root	1.387	%
4630	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4631			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4632	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4633			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4634	root	1.387	%
4635	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4636			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4637			high-violence culture"
4638			[...]
4639			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4640			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4641			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4642			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4643			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4644			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4645			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4646			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4647
4648			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4649			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4650	root	1.387	%
4651	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4652			Subject: Re: [...]
4653
4654			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4655
4656			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4657			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4658			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4659			> saved it :)
4660
4661			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4662			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4663			[...]
4664	root	1.387	%
4665	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4666			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4667			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4668			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4669			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4670
4671			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4672			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4673			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4674			[...]
4675	root	1.387	%
4676	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4677	root	1.387	%
4678	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4679	root	1.387	%
4680	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4681	root	1.387	%
4682	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4683			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4684			claim to have decades of java experience]
4685			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4686			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4687			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4688			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4689	root	1.387	%
4690	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4691	root	1.387	%
4692	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4693	root	1.387	%
4694	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4695	root	1.387	%
4696	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4697			[mail not to be delivered]
4698			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4699	root	1.247	>
4700	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4701
4702			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4703			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4704	root	1.387	%
4705	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4706
4707			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4708			>
4709			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4710			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4711			> >
4712			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4713			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4714			> > language which does support this?
4715			>
4716
4717			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4718
4719			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4720			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4721			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4722			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4723			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4724			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4725	root	1.387	%
4726	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4727			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4728			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4729	root	1.387	%
4730	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4731			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4732			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4733
4734			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4735			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4736			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4737			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4738			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4739
4740			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4741			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4742			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4743			and thwart them that way.
4744	root	1.387	%
4745	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4746			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4747			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4748			unfortunate decision.
4749	root	1.387	%
4750	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4751	root	1.146	fest ;)
4752	root	1.387	%
4753	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4754
4755			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4756	root	1.387	%
4757	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4758	root	1.387	%
4759	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4760			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4761	root	1.387	%
4762	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4763
4764			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4765			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4766			local object as a "he":
4767
4768			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4769			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4770			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4771			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4772			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4773			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4774			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4775			EX-PARROT!"
4776
4777			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4778	root	1.387	%
4779	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4780			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4781	root	1.387	%
4782	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4783			The police will shoot you.
4784
4785			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4786			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4787
4788	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4789	root	1.387	%
4790	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4791			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4792			reply.
4793
4794			pls. cc my email address
4795
4796			tia
4797			pd
4798
4799
4800	root	1.247	--
4801	root	1.141	^X^C
4802			q
4803			quit
4804			:q
4805			^C
4806			end
4807			x
4808			exit
4809			ZZ
4810			^D
4811			?
4812			help
4813			shit
4814			.
4815	root	1.387	%
4816	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4817	root	1.387	%
4818	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4819			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4820			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4821			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4822	root	1.387	%
4823	root	1.140	[I love it]
4824			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4825			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4826	root	1.387	%
4827	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4828			- Douglas Adams
4829	root	1.387	%
4830	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4831			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4832			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4833			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4834
4835	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4836			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4837			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4838			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4839			their software properly.
4840	root	1.138
4841			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4842			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4843			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4844			told the publication.
4845
4846	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4847			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4848			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4849			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4850			who want visibility and glory.
4851	root	1.387	%
4852	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4853
4854			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4855
4856			x Try not using it.
4857	root	1.387	%
4858	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4859			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4860			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4861			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4862			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4863			had given.
4864
4865			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4866			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4867			person as well."
4868	root	1.387	%
4869	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4870	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4871			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4872	root	1.387	%
4873	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4874	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4875	root	1.134
4876			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4877	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4878	root	1.135	[...]
4879	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4880	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4881	root	1.135	[...]
4882			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4883			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4884	root	1.387	%
4885	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4886	root	1.387	%
4887	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4888			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4889			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4890			-- Ulrich Drepper
4891	root	1.387	%
4892	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4893			-- Ulrich Drepper
4894	root	1.387	%
4895	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4896			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4897	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4898	root	1.387	%
4899	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4900			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4901			-- Ulrich Drepper
4902	root	1.387	%
4903	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4904			-- Ulrich Drepper
4905	root	1.387	%
4906	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4907	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4908			zuverlässiger
4909	root	1.387	%
4910	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4911			/*
4912			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4913			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4914			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4915			*/
4916	root	1.387	%
4917	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4918			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4919			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4920			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4921			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4922	root	1.387	%
4923	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4924			Pirating Movies
4925
4926			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4927			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4928			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4929	root	1.387	%
4930	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4931			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4932	root	1.387	%
4933	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4934			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4935	root	1.387	%
4936	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4937			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4938			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4939			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4940			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4941	root	1.387	%
4942	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4943			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4944			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4945			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4946			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4947
4948			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4949			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4950
4951			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4952			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4953			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4954			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4955			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4956			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4957			the first place!
4958	root	1.387	%
4959	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4960			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4961			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4962	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4963	root	1.387	%
4964	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4965			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4966	root	1.387	%
4967	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4968			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4969	root	1.387	%
4970	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4971			platform."
4972			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4973	root	1.387	%
4974	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4975			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4976			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4977			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4978			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4979	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4980	root	1.387	%
4981	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4982			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4985			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4986			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4987			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4988			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4989			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4990			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4991			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4992			daily.
4993	root	1.387	%
4994	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4995	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4996			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4997	root	1.387	%
4998	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4999			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
5000			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
5001			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
5002			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
5003			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
5004			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
5005	root	1.387	%
5006	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
5007	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
5008	root	1.387	%
5009	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
5010			[...so it must be good]
5011			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
5012	root	1.387	%
5013	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
5014			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
5015			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
5016	root	1.387	%
5017	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
5018			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
5019			No idea why I announce it here...
5020	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
5021	root	1.387	%
5022	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
5023			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
5024	root	1.387	%
5025	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
5026	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
5027	root	1.387	%
5028	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
5029			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
5030			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
5031			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
5032			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
5033
5034			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
5035			Sacha.
5036	root	1.387	%
5037	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5038			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
5039			desk one morning:
5040
5041			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
5042
5043			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
5044
5045			Employee: 123456
5046
5047			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
5048			photograph of the employee.]
5049
5050			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
5051			identification which has your picture on it?
5052
5053			Employee: Why would you need that?
5054
5055			Security Guard: To match against our records.
5056
5057			Employee: A picture of my face?
5058
5059			Security Guard: Yes
5060
5061			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
5062
5063			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
5064			compare against this one.
5065	root	1.387	%
5066	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
5067			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
5068			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
5069	root	1.387	%
5070	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
5071			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
5072			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
5073
5074			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
5075			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
5076	root	1.387	%
5077	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
5078	root	1.387	%
5079	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
5080			"RV K-17"
5081	root	1.387	%
5082	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
5083			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
5084	root	1.387	%
5085	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
5086			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
5087			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
5088			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
5089	root	1.387	%
5090	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
5091			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
5092	root	1.387	%
5093	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
5094	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
5095			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
5096	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
5097	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
5098			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
5099	root	1.387	%
5100	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
5101	root	1.387	%
5102	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
5103			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
5104	root	1.387	%
5105	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
5106			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
5107			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5108			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5109	root	1.387	%
5110	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
5111			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
5112			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
5113			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
5114			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
5115			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
5116			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
5117			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
5118			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
5119			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
5120			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
5121			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
5122			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
5123			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
5124			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
5125			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
5126			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
5127			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
5128			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
5129	root	1.387	%
5130	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
5131			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
5132	root	1.387	%
5133	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
5134			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
5135	root	1.387	%
5136	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
5137			Lester Moore,
5138			Shot in the head with a .44.
5139			No Les, no more.
5140	root	1.387	%
5141	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
5142			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
5143
5144			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
5145			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
5146	root	1.387	%
5147	root	1.113	[Fallout]
5148			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
5149			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
5150	root	1.387	%
5151	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
5152			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
5153			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
5154			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
5155			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
5156	root	1.112	[...]
5157			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
5158			[...]
5159			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
5160			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
5161			the result with SHA.
5162	root	1.387	%
5163	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
5164	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
5165			> ist!
5166	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
5167			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
5168	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
5169	root	1.387	%
5170	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
5171			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
5172	root	1.387	%
5173	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
5174	root	1.387	%
5175	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
5176			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
5177			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
5178			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
5179			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
5180			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
5181	root	1.387	%
5182	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
5183			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
5184	root	1.387	%
5185	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
5186			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
5187	root	1.387	%
5188	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
5189			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
5190	root	1.387	%
5191	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
5192
5193			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
5194			* control history, is that we should at least
5195			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
5196			* "initialisation"? */
5197			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
5198	root	1.387	%
5199	root	1.105	[man pem]
5200			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
5201	root	1.387	%
5202	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
5203
5204			/* ``If you can't do it in
5205	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
5206	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
5207	root	1.387	%
5208	root	1.104	[subculture]
5209	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
5210			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
5211	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
5212
5213			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
5214	root	1.424	%
5215	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
5216			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
5217	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
5218	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
5219	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
5220	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
5221			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
5222	root	1.387	%
5223	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
5224	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
5225			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
5226			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
5227	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
5228	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
5229			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
5230			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
5231	root	1.387	%
5232	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
5233			aber wenig freude.
5234	root	1.387	%
5235	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
5236			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
5237			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
5238			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
5239			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
5240			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
5241			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
5242			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
5243			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
5244			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
5245	root	1.387	%
5246	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
5247			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
5248	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
5249			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
5250	root	1.387	%
5251	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
5252			don't work well in practise.
5253			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
5254	root	1.387	%
5255	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
5256			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
5257			"ready, fire, aim."
5258	root	1.387	%
5259	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
5260			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
5261			free countries like Germany [1].
5262			[...]
5263			Regards
5264			Henning
5265
5266			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
5267			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
5268			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
5269	root	1.387	%
5270	root	1.98	[...]
5271			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
5272			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
5273			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
5274			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
5275			itself give you none of these rights at all.
5276			[...]
5277			Wolfgang Walter
5278	root	1.387	%
5279	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
5280			burro: it seemed very clever
5281			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
5282			burro: it forgot to defend later..
5283			burro: oops
5284			burro: accidental poetry
5285	root	1.387	%
5286	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
5287			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
5288			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
5289	root	1.387	%
5290	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
5291			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
5292	root	1.387	%
5293	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
5294			-- Oscar Wilde
5295	root	1.387	%
5296	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
5297			"guilty until proven innocent"
5298			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
5299	root	1.387	%
5300	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
5301			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
5302			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
5303			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
5304			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
5305			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
5306			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
5307			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
5308			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
5309			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
5310			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
5311			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
5312			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
5313			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
5314			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
5315	root	1.387	%
5316	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
5317			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
5318			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
5319			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
5320			// suit particular needs.
5321			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
5322	root	1.387	%
5323	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
5324			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
5325			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
5326	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
5327	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
5328	root	1.387	%
5329	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
5330			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
5331	root	1.387	%
5332	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
5333			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
5334	root	1.387	%
5335	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
5336			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
5337			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
5338	root	1.387	%
5339	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
5340			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
5341	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
5342			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
5343	root	1.387	%
5344	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
5345
5346			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
5347			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
5348			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
5349			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
5350			is not [...]
5351	root	1.387	%
5352	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5353	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5354			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5355	root	1.387	%
5356	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5357			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5358
5359	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5360	root	1.94
5361			GUI
5362			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5363			Globale Variable
5364	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5365	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5366			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5367			strukturiert
5368			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5369			Multithreaded
5370	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5371	root	1.94	Windows 95
5372	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5373	root	1.94	Emacs
5374	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5375			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5376			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5377	root	1.94	IPv6
5378			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5379			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5380			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5381			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5382	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5383			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5384	root	1.247	PHP
5385	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5386	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5387	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5388			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5389	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5390	root	1.94	Bunt.
5391	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5392			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5393			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5394	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5395	root	1.387	%
5396	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5397			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5398	root	1.387	%
5399	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5400	root	1.387	%
5401	root	1.93	[nah]
5402			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5403			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5404			paint dry."
5405	root	1.387	%
5406	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5407			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5408			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5409	root	1.387	%
5410	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5411	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5412			importance.
5413	root	1.387	%
5414	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5415			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5416			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5417			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5418
5419			You have to trust Microsoft.
5420
5421			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5422			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5423			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5424			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5425			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5426			useless chrome.
5427
5428			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5429			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5430			I'd like to trust them with.
5431	root	1.93	[...]
5432	root	1.387	%
5433	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5434			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5435			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5436			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5437			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5438	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5439	root	1.91	--------------^
5440	root	1.387	%
5441	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5442			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5443			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5444			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5445			English grammar, I assure you.
5446	root	1.387	%
5447	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5448			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5449			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5450			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5451			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5452			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5453			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5454
5455			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5456			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5457			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5458			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5459			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5460			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5461			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5462			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5463			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5464			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5465
5466			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5467			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5468			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5469			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5470
5471			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5472			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5473	root	1.387	%
5474	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5475			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5476			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5477			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5478			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5479			work etc first:
5480
5481			#include <stdio.h>
5482
5483			int main (void) {
5484			while (1)
5485			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5486
5487			return 0;
5488			}
5489	root	1.387	%
5490	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5491			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5492	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5493	root	1.387	%
5494	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5495			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5496			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5497			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5498	root	1.387	%
5499	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5500			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5501			proprietary and patentend technology.
5502	root	1.387	%
5503	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5504	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5505	root	1.387	%
5506	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5507	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5508	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5509			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5510			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5511	root	1.387	%
5512	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5513			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5514	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5515	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5516			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5517	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5518	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5519	root	1.87
5520	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5521			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5522			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5523			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5524			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5525			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5526	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5527			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5528
5529	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5530			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5531			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5532			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5533			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5534			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5535			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5536			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5537			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5538			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5539	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5540	root	1.387	%
5541	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5542			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5543	root	1.387	%
5544	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5545			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5546			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5547	root	1.387	%
5548	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5549			"linux" thing will fail]
5550			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5551			[...]
5552	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5553	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5554			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5555			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5556
5557			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5558			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5559			life to the public good.
5560
5561			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5562			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5563			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5564			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5565			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5566
5567			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5568			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5569			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5570			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5571			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5572			software to work on the linux kernel!
5573
5574			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5575			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5576			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5577			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5578			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5579	root	1.387	%
5580	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5581	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5582			[...]
5583			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5584	root	1.387	%
5585	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5586			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5587			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5588			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5589	root	1.387	%
5590	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5591	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5592			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5593			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5594			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5595			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5596	root	1.387	%
5597	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5598			-- Leonard Brandwein
5599	root	1.387	%
5600	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5601	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5602			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5603			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5604			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5605			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5606			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5607			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5608			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5609			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5610			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5611			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5612	root	1.387	%
5613	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5614			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5615	root	1.387	%
5616	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5617			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5618			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5619			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5620			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5621			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5622			jurisprudence fun?
5623			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5624	root	1.387	%
5625	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5626			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5627			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5628	root	1.84	[...]
5629	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5630	root	1.387	%
5631	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5632			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5633			- Paul Ginsparg.
5634	root	1.387	%
5635	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5636			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5637			home.":))
5638			[erm...]
5639	root	1.387	%
5640	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5641
5642	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5643	root	1.387	%
5644	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5645	root	1.387	%
5646	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5647
5648			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5649			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5650			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5651			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5652	root	1.387	%
5653	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5654			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5655			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5656	root	1.387	%
5657	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5658	root	1.83
5659			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5660	root	1.82
5661			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5662			to use in future emails?
5663	root	1.387	%
5664	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5665			please?
5666
5667			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5668			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5669
5670	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5671	root	1.387	%
5672	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5673			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5674			last until February 16th 2003.
5675
5676			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5677			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5678			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5679			end.
5680
5681			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5682
5683			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5684			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5685			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5686			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5687			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5688			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5689			take place on October 27th.
5690
5691			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5692			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5693			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5694			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5695			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5696			the clock)...
5697	root	1.387	%
5698	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5699			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5700			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5701			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5702			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5703
5704			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5705			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5706			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5707			RedHat and SuSE).
5708
5709			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5710
5711			Pavel
5712	root	1.387	%
5713	root	1.81	Rik
5714	root	1.247	--
5715	root	1.81	A: No.
5716			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5717	root	1.387	%
5718	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5719	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5720			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5721	root	1.81
5722			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5723			no useful data.
5724
5725	root	1.247	--
5726	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5727	root	1.387	%
5728	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5729			there was a long do..while construct,
5730			which contained a switch statement,
5731			which contained an if clause,
5732			which contained a break,
5733			which was intended for the if clause,
5734			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5735
5736			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5737			network January 15, 1990
5738	root	1.387	%
5739	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5740
5741	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5742			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5743			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5744			violation of network policies.
5745	root	1.80
5746			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5747
5748			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5749			The format is as follows:
5750
5751			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5752	root	1.387	%
5753	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5754			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5755			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5756	root	1.387	%
5757	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5758			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5759			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5760			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5761			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5762			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5763			...
5764			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5765			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5766			the effort."
5767	root	1.387	%
5768	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5769	root	1.387	%
5770	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5771			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5772	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5773	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5774			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5775	root	1.387	%
5776	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5777	root	1.387	%
5778	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5779	root	1.387	%
5780	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5781			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5782			[Albert Cahalan]
5783	root	1.387	%
5784	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5785			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5786			least as bad, but lesser known.
5787	root	1.387	%
5788	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5789			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5790			different.
5791	root	1.387	%
5792	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.
5793	root	1.387	%
5794	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5795			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5796	root	1.387	%
5797	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5798			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5799			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5800			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5801			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5802			without a show.
5803	root	1.387	%
5804	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5805	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5806	root	1.387	%
5807	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5808	root	1.387	%
5809	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5810			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5811	root	1.387	%
5812	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5813			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5814			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5815	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5816	root	1.71	going on.
5817			[...]
5818	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5819			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5820			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5821	root	1.387	%
5822	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5823			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5824	root	1.387	%
5825	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5826	root	1.387	%
5827	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5828	root	1.387	%
5829	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5830			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5831			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5832	root	1.387	%
5833	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5834			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5835			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5836			returned data.
5837
5838	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5839			FindExInfoStandard
5840			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5841	root	1.387	%
5842	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5843	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5844			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5845	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5846	root	1.387	%
5847	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5848			it doesn't work:]
5849			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5850			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5851			this MIME type as the final determination.
5852	root	1.387	%
5853	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5854
5855			Recode 0.1.1
5856			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5857
5858			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5859			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5860
5861			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5862	root	1.387	%
5863	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5864	root	1.387	%
5865	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5866	root	1.387	%
5867	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5868
5869			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5870			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5871			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5872			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5873			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5874			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5875			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5876			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5877			century."
5878
5879			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5880			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5881			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5882			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5883			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5884			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5885			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5886			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5887			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5888			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5889			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5890			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5891			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5892			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5893
5894			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5895			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5896			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5897			hilarious in light of the above.
5898			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5899
5900			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5901			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5902			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5903			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5904			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5905			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5906			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5907
5908			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5909			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5910			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5911			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5912	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5913	root	1.387	%
5914	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5915	root	1.387	%
5916	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5917			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5918	root	1.387	%
5919	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5920			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5921			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5922
5923			Tony Hoare
5924	root	1.387	%
5925	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5926			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5927	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5928	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5929	root	1.387	%
5930	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5931
5932			[...]
5933			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5934			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5935			system. Basically its windows computer
5936	root	1.387	%
5937	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5938	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5939	root	1.387	%
5940	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5941
5942			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5943			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5944			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5945			> software developers...
5946
5947			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5948	root	1.387	%
5949	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5950			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5951			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5952			>
5953			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5954
5955			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5956			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5957
5958			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5959			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5960
5961			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5962			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5963			off by throwing away the patch.
5964
5965			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5966			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5967			patch any time soon.
5968
5969			--
5970			Daniel
5971	root	1.387	%
5972	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5973			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5974			[...]
5975			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5976			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5977			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5978	root	1.387	%
5979	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5980
5981			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5982			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5983			Is it realy needed?
5984	root	1.387	%
5985	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5986
5987			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5988
5989			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5990			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5991			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5992	root	1.387	%
5993	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5994			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5995			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5996			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5997			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5998			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5999			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
6000	root	1.387	%
6001	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
6002
6003			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
6004			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
6005			> > found in the CML2 sources.
6006			>
6007			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
6008
6009			This is an ex-parrot
6010	root	1.387	%
6011	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
6012
6013			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
6014			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
6015			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
6016			> > algorithm ever" etc.
6017			>
6018			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
6019			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
6020
6021			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
6022
6023			while (!sorted(data))
6024			;
6025	root	1.387	%
6026	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
6027			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
6028
6029			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
6030
6031			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
6032			to computing
6033	root	1.387	%
6034	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
6035
6036			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
6037			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
6038
6039			Common sense, one would hope.
6040	root	1.387	%
6041	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
6042			[...]
6043
6044			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
6045			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
6046			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
6047
6048			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
6049
6050			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
6051			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
6052			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
6053			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
6054
6055			:-)
6056	root	1.387	%
6057	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
6058			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
6059			their C programs."
6060	root	1.60
6061			Robert Firth
6062	root	1.387	%
6063	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
6064	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
6065	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
6066			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
6067	root	1.387	%
6068	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
6069	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
6070	root	1.387	%
6071	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
6072			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
6073	root	1.387	%
6074	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
6075	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
6076	root	1.387	%
6077	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
6078	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
6079			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
6080	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
6081			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
6082	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
6083			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
6084
6085			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
6086
6087			\Gisbert
6088	root	1.387	%
6089	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
6090	root	1.387	%
6091	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
6092			world like English did. Er, as English did...
6093			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
6094	root	1.387	%
6095	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
6096			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
6097
6098			I don't have python. Any version of python.
6099			[...]
6100	root	1.387	%
6101	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
6102			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
6103			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
6104
6105			ok 1
6106			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
6107			not ok 2
6108			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
6109	root	1.387	%
6110	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
6111
6112			Cheers,
6113
6114			Andre Hedrick
6115			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
6116	root	1.387	%
6117	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
6118	root	1.247	>
6119	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
6120
6121			Or mutabloat :-(
6122	root	1.387	%
6123	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
6124			Outlook IS the solution.
6125	root	1.387	%
6126	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
6127	root	1.387	%
6128	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
6129
6130			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
6131			never bought anything from UUNet.
6132	root	1.387	%
6133	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
6134			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
6135			by delving below its surface meaning)
6136	root	1.387	%
6137	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
6138	root	1.387	%
6139	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
6140
6141			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
6142			> just go to court and say:
6143
6144			Oh glorious naivety.
6145
6146			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
6147			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
6148			> can do the work better than I).
6149
6150			You release the code
6151
6152			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
6153
6154			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
6155			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
6156			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
6157			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
6158
6159			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
6160			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
6161
6162			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
6163			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
6164
6165			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
6166
6167			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
6168			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
6169			or that the good guys win.
6170
6171			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
6172			US, and outside of most of the EU.
6173	root	1.387	%
6174	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
6175
6176			[...]
6177			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
6178			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
6179	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
6180	root	1.51	year to kill.
6181	root	1.387	%
6182	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
6183			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
6184
6185			[...]
6186			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
6187			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
6188			of for Windows desktop systems."
6189			[...]
6190			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
6191			months before Microsoft released its patch.
6192			[...]
6193			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
6194			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
6195			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
6196			turned on by default.
6197			[...]
6198			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
6199			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
6200			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
6201			[...]
6202			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
6203			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
6204			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
6205			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
6206			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
6207			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
6208			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
6209			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
6210			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
6211	root	1.387	%
6212	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
6213	root	1.387	%
6214	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
6215	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
6216	root	1.49
6217			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
6218
6219			Monday, 06. November 2000
6220	root	1.387	%
6221	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
6222			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
6223	root	1.387	%
6224	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
6225	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
6226			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
6227			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
6228	root	1.387	%
6229	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
6230			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
6231			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
6232			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
6233	root	1.387	%
6234	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
6235			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
6236
6237			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
6238			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
6239			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
6240	root	1.387	%
6241	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
6242			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
6243
6244			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
6245			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
6246			> dropped patches.
6247
6248			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
6249	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
6250	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
6251			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
6252			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
6253			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
6254	root	1.387	%
6255	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
6256			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
6257			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
6258	root	1.387	%
6259	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
6260
6261			From: Bill Huey
6262			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
6263
6264			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
6265
6266			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
6267	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
6268	root	1.45	themselves.
6269
6270			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
6271			certain.
6272	root	1.387	%
6273	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
6274			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
6275			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
6276
6277			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
6278			appropriate approach to a problem.
6279	root	1.387	%
6280	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
6281	root	1.44	^^^^
6282			[...]
6283			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
6284			[...]
6285			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
6286			-15 Nice winter day
6287			-10 Slightly warm winter day
6288			-5 Nice warm winter day
6289			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
6290	root	1.387	%
6291	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
6292			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
6293			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
6294			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
6295	root	1.387	%
6296	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6297			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
6298
6299			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
6300
6301			-ben
6302	root	1.387	%
6303	root	1.43	[...]
6304	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
6305			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
6306			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
6307			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
6308			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
6309			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
6310			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
6311			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
6312			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
6313			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
6314			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
6315	root	1.387	%
6316	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
6317			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
6318	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
6319	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
6320			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
6321			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
6322			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
6323			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
6324			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
6325	root	1.43	statt...
6326	root	1.387	%
6327	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
6328	root	1.387	%
6329	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
6330			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
6331			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
6332			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
6333			values." Who writes this stuff?
6334	root	1.387	%
6335	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
6336	root	1.387	%
6337	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
6338			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
6339			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
6340			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
6341			> "Macao".
6342			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
6343			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
6344	root	1.387	%
6345	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
6346	root	1.387	%
6347	root	1.40	Beitrag
6348	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
6349	root	1.40
6350			fucklinux
6351
6352			IP: 217.83.123.198
6353
6354			1. FUCK LINUX
6355
6356	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6357	root	1.40
6358			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6359	root	1.387	%
6360	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6361	root	1.40
6362			[...]
6363			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6364			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6365			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6366			read...
6367	root	1.387	%
6368	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6369			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6370			depends on the unreasonable man.
6371
6372			-George Bernard Shaw
6373	root	1.387	%
6374	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6375
6376			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6377	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6378	root	1.387	%
6379	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:
6380	root	1.387	%
6381	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
6382			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6383			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6384			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6385			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6386	root	1.387	%
6387	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6388			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6389	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6390	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6391			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6392	root	1.387	%
6393	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6394			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6395			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6396			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6397			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6398			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6399			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6400			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).
6401			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6402			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6403	root	1.387	%
6404	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6405			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6406			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6407			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6408			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6409			removed in Windows XP.
6410
6411			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6412			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6413			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6414			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6415	root	1.387	%
6416	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6417			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6418			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6419			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6420			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6421			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6422			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6423			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6424			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6425			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6426
6427			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6428			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6429			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6430			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6431			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6432			you have no details?
6433			[...]
6434			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6435			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6436			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6437			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6438			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6439			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6440			the industrial terrorists want."
6441	root	1.387	%
6442	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6443			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6444	root	1.387	%
6445	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6446	root	1.387	%
6447	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6448			of each 50 days
6449	root	1.387	%
6450	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6451
6452			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6453			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6454			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6455	root	1.387	%
6456	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6457			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6458			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6459	root	1.387	%
6460	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6461			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6462	root	1.247	>
6463	root	1.35	> <...>
6464			>
6465			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6466			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6467			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6468	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6469	root	1.387	%
6470	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6471			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6472			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6473	root	1.387	%
6474	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6475			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6476			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6477
6478	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6479			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6480			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6481			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6482			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6483			changing run level, interactive boot.
6484	root	1.35
6485			Alan
6486	root	1.387	%
6487	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6488
6489			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6490			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6491
6492			First they came for the Communists,
6493			and I didn't speak up,
6494			because I wasn't a Communist.
6495			Then they came for the Jews,
6496			and I didn't speak up,
6497			because I wasn't a Jew.
6498			Then they came for the Catholics,
6499			and I didn't speak up,
6500			because I was a Protestant.
6501			Then they came for me,
6502			and by that time there was no one
6503			left to speak up for me.
6504
6505			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6506	root	1.387	%
6507	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6508	root	1.387	%
6509	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6510			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6511	root	1.387	%
6512	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6513			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6514			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6515			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6516
6517			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6518	root	1.387	%
6519	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6520
6521			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6522			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6523			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6524			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6525			used databases!"
6526	root	1.387	%
6527	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6528
6529			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6530
6531			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6532			change that was not?
6533			[...]
6534	root	1.387	%
6535	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6536
6537			[...]
6538
6539	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6540	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6541			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6542
6543	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6544	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6545			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6546			them anywhere else").
6547
6548			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6549			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6550	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6551	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6552			order..
6553
6554	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6555	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6556	root	1.387	%
6557	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6558			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6559			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6560
6561			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6562	root	1.387	%
6563	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6564	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6565			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6566			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6567			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6568	root	1.387	%
6569	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6570			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6571
6572			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6573			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6574			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6575			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6576			series.
6577
6578			[...]
6579	root	1.387	%
6580	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6581	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6582	root	1.387	%
6583	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6584			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6585			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6586
6587			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6588			then save." g
6589
6590			/* Steinar */
6591	root	1.387	%
6592	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6593			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6594
6595			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6596			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6597			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6598			a bill...
6599	root	1.387	%
6600	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6601			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6602			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6603
6604			Sorry. Mea culpa
6605
6606			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6607			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6608			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6609			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6610			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6611			*/
6612			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6613			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6614			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6615			int fpu_exception;
6616	root	1.387	%
6617	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6618
6619			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6620
6621			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6622			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6623			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6624			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6625			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6626	root	1.387	%
6627	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6628
6629			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6630			people.
6631	root	1.387	%
6632	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6633			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6634
6635			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6636			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6637			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6638			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6639			the question.
6640			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6641	root	1.387	%
6642	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6643			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6644			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6645			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6646			(September)
6647	root	1.387	%
6648	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6649	root	1.387	%
6650	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6651			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6652			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6653			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6654			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6655	root	1.387	%
6656	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6657			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6658	root	1.387	%
6659	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6660			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6661			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6662			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6663			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6664	root	1.387	%
6665	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6666	root	1.387	%
6667	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6668	root	1.387	%
6669	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6670			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6671			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6672			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6673			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6674			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6675			you tell them.
6676	root	1.387	%
6677	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6678			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6679			alcohol.
6680
6681			Regards
6682			Henning
6683	root	1.387	%
6684	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6685			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6686			> on a desktop system.
6687
6688			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6689			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6690
6691			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6692			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6693
6694			Alan
6695	root	1.387	%
6696	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6697			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6698
6699			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6700			>
6701			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6702			> Use Welsh
6703
6704			Don't forget
6705
6706			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6707			Use Finnish
6708
6709			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6710
6711			And while we're at it,
6712
6713			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6714			Use German
6715
6716			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6717			Use English
6718
6719			MfG Kai
6720	root	1.387	%
6721	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6722
6723			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6724			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6725			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6726			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6727			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6728			there's no one thinking there.
6729			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6730	root	1.387	%
6731	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6732			scores the rules:
6733
6734			[*]
6735			Score:: =-9999
6736	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6737	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6738			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6739			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6740			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6741
6742			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6743			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6744			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6745			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6746			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6747
6748			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6749			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6750			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6751			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6752	root	1.387	%
6753	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6754			98 IIS servers online...
6755	root	1.387	%
6756	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6757			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6758			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6759			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6760
6761			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6762			it to be otherwise.
6763
6764			Abigail
6765	root	1.387	%
6766	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6767	root	1.387	%
6768	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6769	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6770	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6771	root	1.387	%
6772	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6773	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6774	root	1.387	%
6775	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6776			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6777			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6778			software people doing the same)
6779
6780			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6781			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6782			irrelevant
6783
6784			Alan
6785	root	1.387	%
6786	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6787			Comments may nest.
6788	root	1.387	%
6789	root	1.22	[from findas]
6790			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6791			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6792			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6793			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6794			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6795			# address distributino is... arin.
6796	root	1.387	%
6797	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6798			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6799	root	1.387	%
6800	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6801			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6802			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6803			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6804			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6805	root	1.247	>
6806	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6807
6808			$foot->insert($mouth);
6809
6810			# or is that
6811
6812			$mouth->insert($foot);
6813
6814			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6815			How utterly optimistic :-)
6816	root	1.387	%
6817	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6818			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6819			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6820			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6821			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6822			>can see why it happens)
6823			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6824
6825			Well, there's perl... :)
6826	root	1.387	%
6827	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6828			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6829			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6830			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6831			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6832	root	1.247	* boxes.
6833	root	1.387	%
6834	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6835			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6836			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6837	root	1.387	%
6838	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6839			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6840	root	1.387	%
6841	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6842			From: Juergen Christoffel
6843			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6844			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6845
6846			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6847
6848			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6849			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6850			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6851			schon;
6852
6853			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6854			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6855			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6856
6857			Danke, JC
6858	root	1.387	%
6859	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6860			#undef REASONABLE
6861	root	1.387	%
6862	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6863			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6864
6865			Alan
6866	root	1.387	%
6867	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6868			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6869			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6870			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6871	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6872	root	1.18	> anything.
6873
6874			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6875			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6876	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6877			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6878	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6879			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6880
6881			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6882			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6883			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6884			always a good idea.
6885	root	1.387	%
6886	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6887			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6888
6889	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6890	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6891	root	1.387	%
6892	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6893			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6894			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6895			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6896	root	1.387	%
6897	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6898	root	1.387	%
6899	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6900	root	1.18
6901			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6902			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6903	root	1.387	%
6904	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6905			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6906			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6907			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6908	root	1.387	%
6909	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6910	root	1.387	%
6911	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6912			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6913			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6914			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6915			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6916			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6917	root	1.387	%
6918	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6919
6920			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6921			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6922			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6923			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6924			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6925			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6926			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6927	root	1.387	%
6928	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6929			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6930			future. Bleeeh]
6931
6932			From: Larry McVoy
6933
6934	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6935	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6936			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6937			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6938			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6939			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6940			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6941			not for the exceptional case.
6942	root	1.387	%
6943	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6944			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6945			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6946			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6947			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6948			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6949			stack.
6950
6951			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6952			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6953			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6954
6955			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6956			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6957	root	1.387	%
6958	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6959
6960	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6961			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6962			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6963			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6964	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6965	root	1.247	>
6966	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6967			> on the CPU?
6968
6969			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6970	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6971	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6972			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6973
6974			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6975			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6976			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6977			the point again".
6978	root	1.387	%
6979	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6980
6981	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6982			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6983	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6984	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6985	root	1.247	>
6986	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6987			> scenario.
6988
6989			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6990	root	1.387	%
6991	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6992	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6993			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6994			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6995	root	1.387	%
6996	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6997			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6998			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6999			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
7000			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
7001			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
7002			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
7003			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
7004			anything.
7005	root	1.387	%
7006	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
7007	root	1.387	%
7008	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
7009			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
7010	root	1.387	%
7011	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
7012			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
7013			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
7014			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
7015			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
7016
7017			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
7018	root	1.387	%
7019	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
7020
7021			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
7022
7023			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
7024			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
7025			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
7026			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
7027			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
7028
7029			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
7030			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
7031			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
7032			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
7033			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
7034			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
7035			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
7036			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
7037			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
7038			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
7039			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
7040			to work through the learning curve.
7041	root	1.387	%
7042	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
7043	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
7044	root	1.387	%
7045	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
7046			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
7047	root	1.387	%
7048	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
7049			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
7050	root	1.387	%
7051	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
7052			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
7053	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
7054			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
7055	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
7056	root	1.387	%
7057	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
7058	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
7059	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
7060	root	1.387	%
7061	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
7062			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
7063	root	1.387	%
7064	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
7065			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
7066			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
7067			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
7068			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
7069			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
7070			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
7071			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
7072
7073	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
7074	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
7075	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
7076	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
7077			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
7078
7079			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
7080			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
7081			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
7082			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
7083			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
7084			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
7085			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
7086	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
7087	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
7088			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
7089			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
7090	root	1.387	%
7091	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
7092			/*---.
7093			\| ? \|
7094			`---*/
7095	root	1.387	%
7096	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
7097	root	1.387	%
7098	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
7099			From: Joe Buck
7100			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
7101			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
7102	root	1.387	%
7103	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
7104			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
7105	root	1.387	%
7106	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
7107	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
7108	root	1.387	%
7109	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
7110	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
7111	root	1.387	%
7112	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
7113	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
7114	root	1.4	...
7115			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
7116	root	1.387	%
7117	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
7118	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
7119			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
7120			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
7121
7122			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
7123
7124			Alan
7125	root	1.387	%
7126	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
7127	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
7128			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
7129			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
7130			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
7131	root	1.387	%
7132	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
7133	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
7134			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
7135			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
7136			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
7137			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
7138			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
7139	root	1.387	%
7140	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
7141			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
7142			will find an easier way to do it.
7143	root	1.387	%
7144	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
7145	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
7146			Paul wrote:
7147			>Marc wrote:
7148	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
7149			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
7150			> den richtigen.
7151	root	1.387	%
7152	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
7153			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
7154	root	1.387	%
7155	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
7156			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
7157	root	1.387	%
7158	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
7159			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
7160	root	1.387	%
7161	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
7162			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
7163			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7164			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7165			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7166	root	1.387	%
7167	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7168			[...]
7169
7170			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
7171
7172			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
7173	root	1.387	%
7174	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
7175			> constants.
7176
7177			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
7178	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
7179	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
7180	root	1.387	%
7181	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
7182	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
7183
7184			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
7185			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
7186			much to do with IRC.
7187	root	1.387	%
7188	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
7189			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
7190
7191			[...]
7192			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
7193
7194			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
7195			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
7196	root	1.387	%
7197	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
7198	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
7199	root	1.387	%
7200	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
7201
7202			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
7203			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
7204			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
7205
7206			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
7207			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
7208			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
7209			shows how much you know, pal.
7210
7211			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
7212	root	1.387	%
7213	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
7214			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7215			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7216	root	1.387	%
7217	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
7218			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
7219			y yzzyyccss;;##s
7220			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
7221	root	1.387	%
7222	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
7223			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
7224			Your version of perl sucks.
7225	root	1.387	%
7226	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
7227			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
7228			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
7229			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
7230			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
7231			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
7232			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
7233			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
7234	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
7235	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
7236			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
7237	root	1.387	%
7238	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
7239			before you can understand it :)
7240	root	1.387	%
7241	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
7242			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
7243			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
7244	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
7245	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
7246			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
7247			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
7248
7249			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
7250			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
7251			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
7252			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
7253			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
7254			be worth attempting).
7255
7256			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
7257			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
7258			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
7259
7260			Nick.
7261	root	1.387	%
7262	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
7263			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
7264			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
7265
7266	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
7267	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
7268			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
7269			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
7270			magic_bone@hotmail.com
7271	root	1.387	%
7272	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
7273			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
7274			> > > to work :-)
7275	root	1.247	> >
7276	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
7277	root	1.247	>
7278	root	1.1	> Eh?
7279	root	1.247	>
7280	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
7281			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
7282
7283			He didn't say it worked. :)
7284	root	1.387	%
7285	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7286
7287			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
7288			> I find it irksome that
7289	root	1.247	>
7290	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
7291
7292			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
7293	root	1.387	%
7294	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
7295			From: Simon Cozens
7296
7297			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
7298			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
7299			> Produces SIGSEGV.
7300
7301			Looks like a feature to me.
7302	root	1.387	%
7303	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
7304	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
7305	root	1.387	%
7306	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
7307			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
7308
7309			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
7310			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
7311			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
7312			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
7313
7314			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
7315			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
7316			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
7317			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
7318			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
7319			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
7320	root	1.387	%
7321	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
7322			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
7323			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
7324			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
7325			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
7326			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
7327			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
7328			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
7329			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
7330			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
7331			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
7332			accurate and not subject to tampering."
7333
7334			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
7335			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
7336			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
7337
7338			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
7339	root	1.387	%
7340	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
7341			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
7342			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
7343			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
7344			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
7345			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
7346			replication."
7347			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
7348	root	1.387	%
7349	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
7350			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7351
7352			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7353			shows.
7354
7355			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7356			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7357			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7358
7359			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7360			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7361			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7362			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7363			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7364
7365			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7366			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7367			up with a saner protocol.
7368	root	1.387	%
7369	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7370			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7371			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7372
7373			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7374			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7375			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7376	root	1.387	%
7377	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7378			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7379			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7380			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7381			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7382			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7383	root	1.387	%
7384	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7385			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7386	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7387			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7388			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7389			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7390	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7391	root	1.387	%
7392	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7393	root	1.387	%
7394	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7395			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7396	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7397	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7398	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7399	root	1.387	%
7400	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7401			"ist mir egal"
7402	root	1.387	%
7403	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7404			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7405
7406			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7407	root	1.387	%
7408	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7409			hallole
7410	root	1.387	%
7411	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7412			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7413			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7414	root	1.387	%
7415	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7416			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7417			1929 The pause that refreshes
7418			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7419			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7420			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7421			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7422			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7423			1939 Thirst stops here
7424			1942 It's the real thing
7425			1947 Have a Coke
7426			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7427			1963 Things go better with Coke
7428			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7429			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7430			1982 Coke is it!
7431			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7432	root	1.387	%
7433	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7434			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7435	root	1.387	%
7436	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7437			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7438	root	1.387	%
7439	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7440	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7441			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7442			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7443			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7444			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7445			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7446			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7447			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7448			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7449			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7450			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7451			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7452			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7453			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7454
7455			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7456			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7457	root	1.387	%
7458	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7459			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7460
7461			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7462			uncool thing to do. [...]
7463	root	1.387	%
7464	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7465			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7466			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7467	root	1.387	%
7468	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7469	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7470	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7471	root	1.1
7472	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7473			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7474			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7475			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7476	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7477			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7478	root	1.387	%
7479	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7480			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7481			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7482			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7483			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7484			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7485			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7486
7487			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7488			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7489			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7490	root	1.387	%
7491	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7492
7493			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7494	root	1.387	%
7495	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7496			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7497			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7498			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7499			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7500	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7501	root	1.387	%
7502	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7503			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7504			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7505
7506			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7507			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7508
7509			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7510	root	1.387	%
7511	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7512	root	1.387	%
7513	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7514			From: Alan Cox
7515			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7516			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7517	root	1.247	>
7518			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7519	root	1.1
7520	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7521	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7522	root	1.387	%
7523	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7524			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7525			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7526
7527			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7528			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7529			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7530			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7531
7532			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7533
7534			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7535	root	1.387	%
7536	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7537	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7538			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7539	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7540	root	1.387	%
7541	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7542	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7543			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7544	root	1.387	%
7545	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7546			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7547	root	1.387	%
7548	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7549	root	1.387	%
7550	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7551			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7552			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7553	root	1.387	%
7554	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7555			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7556			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7557			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7558			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7559	root	1.387	%
7560	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7561	root	1.387	%
7562	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7563			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7564			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7565			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7566			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7567			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7568			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7569	root	1.387	%
7570	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7571			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7572	root	1.387	%
7573	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7574			perl:]
7575
7576			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7577
7578			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7579			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7580			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7581			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7582			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7583			disable the message and pray it works"]
7584	root	1.387	%
7585	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7586			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7587			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7588			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7589
7590			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7591			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7592			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7593			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7594			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7595	root	1.387	%
7596	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7597			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7598			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7599	root	1.387	%
7600	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7601			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7602			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7603			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7604			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7605	root	1.387	%
7606	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7607			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7608			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7609	root	1.387	%
7610	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7611			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7612	root	1.387	%
7613	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7614			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7615	root	1.387	%
7616	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7617			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7618			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7619			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7620			> it's a hard requirement.
7621
7622			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7623			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7624			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7625			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7626			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7627			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7628			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7629			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7630	root	1.387	%
7631	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7632			> Netscape?"
7633	root	1.247
7634	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7635			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7636	root	1.387	%
7637	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7638			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7639			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7640			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7641			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7642			the specified task step-by-step.
7643	root	1.387	%
7644	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7645
7646			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7647			be damned hard to understand."
7648	root	1.387	%
7649	root	1.1	[Linus]
7650			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7651			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7652			wrong. It's that simple.
7653	root	1.387	%
7654	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7655	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7656	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7657			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7658			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7659	root	1.247	Undernet>
7660	root	1.387	%
7661	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7662			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7663			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7664			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7665
7666			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7667			document that contains an element or attribute named
7668	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7669	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7670			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7671			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7672			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7673			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7674			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7675	root	1.387	%
7676	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7677			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7678			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7679			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7680			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7681			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7682	root	1.387	%
7683	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7684			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7685			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7686			[... snip ...]
7687			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7688			tragedy...
7689	root	1.387	%
7690	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7691	root	1.247
7692	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7693			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7694			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7695			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7696			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7697			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7698			>message plus attorney's fees.
7699			[SNIP long sig]
7700	root	1.247
7701	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7702			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7703			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7704	root	1.247
7705	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7706			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7707			procmailable address.
7708	root	1.247
7709	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7710			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7711			just a waste of bandwidth.
7712	root	1.387	%
7713	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7714	root	1.387	%
7715	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7716			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7717	root	1.387	%
7718	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7719	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7720	root	1.387	%
7721	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7722	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7723			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7724			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7725	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7726	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7727			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7728			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7729			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7730	root	1.387	%
7731	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7732	root	1.387	%
7733	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7734	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7735	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7736	root	1.387	%
7737	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7738			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7739			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7740			immediately and not block the calling process.
7741
7742			the man pages are wrong
7743
7744			--cw
7745	root	1.387	%
7746	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7747			...
7748			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7749	root	1.387	%
7750	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7751			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7752	root	1.387	%
7753	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7754			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7755			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7756
7757			How fast does it oops?
7758	root	1.387	%
7759	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7760
7761			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7762			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7763			> touch is 2Gig.
7764
7765			In theory, yes.
7766			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7767			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7768	root	1.387	%
7769	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7770			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7771			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7772			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7773			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7774			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7775			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7776			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7777			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7778			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7779			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7780			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7781			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7782			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7783			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7784			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7785	root	1.387	%
7786	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7787	root	1.387	%
7788	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7789			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7790			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7791			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7792			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7793	root	1.387	%
7794	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7795			[Lukas Grunwald]
7796	root	1.387	%
7797	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7798			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7799			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7800			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7801
7802			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7803			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7804			> > prompt.
7805			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7806			> /proc/info/authors?
7807	root	1.247
7808	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7809			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7810			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7811			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7812			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7813			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7814	root	1.247
7815	root	1.1	NOT.
7816			[...]
7817	root	1.387	%
7818	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7819			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7820			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7821	root	1.247
7822	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7823			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7824			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7825			> an interesting experiment.
7826	root	1.247
7827	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7828			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7829			to disagree...
7830	root	1.387	%
7831	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7832			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7833			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7834			[und Lukas sagt:]
7835			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7836	root	1.387	%
7837	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7838			report:]
7839			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7840			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7841			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7842			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7843	root	1.387	%
7844	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7845			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7846	root	1.387	%
7847	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7848			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7849			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7850
7851			Alexander Viro wrote:
7852			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7853			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7854			>
7855			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7856			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7857			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7858			> UNIX.
7859
7860			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7861			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7862			docs... ew!
7863	root	1.387	%
7864	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7865			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7866			> protected mode?
7867
7868			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7869			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7870			registers loaded ;)
7871	root	1.387	%
7872	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7873			[...]
7874			> backports hurt forward progress.
7875
7876			beware of content free dogma
7877	root	1.387	%
7878	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7879			> wondering.
7880
7881			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7882			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7883			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7884			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7885			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7886			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7887			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7888
7889			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7890	root	1.387	%
7891	root	1.1	>Keith,
7892	root	1.247	>
7893	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7894			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7895			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7896
7897			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7898			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7899			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7900			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7901			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7902			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7903			do the right thing.
7904
7905			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7906			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7907			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7908			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7909			and they have to fix it.
7910	root	1.387	%
7911	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7912			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7913			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7914			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7915	root	1.387	%
7916	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7917			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7918	root	1.387	%
7919	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7920			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7921			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7922			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7923
7924			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7925			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7926	root	1.387	%
7927	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7928			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7929	root	1.387	%
7930	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7931			glibc-2.2 was released]
7932			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7933	root	1.387	%
7934	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7935	root	1.387	%
7936	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7937			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7938			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7939	root	1.387	%
7940	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7941			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7942			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7943	root	1.387	%
7944	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7945
7946			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7947			standards-compliant.
7948			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7949			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7950			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7951			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7952			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7953			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7954	root	1.387	%
7955	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7956			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7957			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7958
7959			That's your problem.
7960
7961			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7962
7963			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7964			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7965	root	1.387	%
7966	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7967			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7968			> > out there) in the foot?
7969
7970			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7971
7972			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7973			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7974			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7975	root	1.387	%
7976	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7977			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7978			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7979
7980			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7981			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7982			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7983			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7984			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7985			--
7986			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7987	root	1.387	%
7988	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7989
7990			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7991			>
7992			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7993			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7994			>
7995			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7996
7997			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7998	root	1.387	%
7999	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
8000			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
8001			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
8002	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
8003	root	1.387	%
8004	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
8005			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
8006			Bullschildt below ;)]
8007
8008			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
8009			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
8010	root	1.387	%
8011	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
8012			>
8013			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
8014			>
8015			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
8016			>
8017			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
8018	root	1.387	%
8019	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
8020
8021			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
8022			it did the same thing.
8023
8024			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
8025			a week ago. :(
8026
8027			--Jack
8028	root	1.387	%
8029	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
8030	root	1.387	%
8031	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
8032			-- K&R
8033	root	1.387	%
8034	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
8035	root	1.387	%
8036	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
8037			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
8038	root	1.387	%
8039	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
8040	root	1.387	%
8041	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
8042			$modules => { "" => "" };
8043	root	1.387	%
8044	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
8045	root	1.387	%
8046	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
8047	root	1.387	%
8048	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
8049			> --
8050			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
8051			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
8052	root	1.387	%
8053	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
8054			From: "David Schwartz"
8055
8056			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
8057			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
8058			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
8059			> pretty spiffy.
8060
8061			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
8062			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
8063			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
8064			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
8065	root	1.387	%
8066	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
8067	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
8068	root	1.387	%
8069	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
8070			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
8071			> of having bough one.
8072
8073			Not an uncommon thought :)
8074	root	1.387	%
8075	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
8076
8077			Hi Marc !
8078
8079			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
8080			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
8081			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
8082
8083			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
8084	root	1.387	%
8085	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
8086			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
8087			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
8088			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
8089
8090			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
8091			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
8092			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
8093
8094			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
8095			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
8096			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
8097			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
8098			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
8099			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
8100
8101			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
8102			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
8103
8104			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
8105			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
8106			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
8107			right to left.
8108
8109			>But no culture
8110			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
8111			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
8112			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
8113			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
8114			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
8115
8116			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
8117
8118			--Alex
8119	root	1.387	%
8120	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
8121			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
8122			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
8123
8124			[most of the reply snipped...]
8125
8126			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
8127			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
8128			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
8129
8130			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
8131
8132			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
8133			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
8134			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
8135			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
8136			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
8137
8138			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
8139			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
8140			try to claim that they do?)
8141	root	1.387	%
8142	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
8143
8144			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
8145			> {
8146			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
8147			> flush(load);
8148			> else
8149			> wear(load);
8150			> }
8151
8152			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
8153			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
8154
8155			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
8156			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
8157
8158			--
8159			dwmw2
8160	root	1.387	%
8161	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
8162			are are overturned.
8163	root	1.387	%
8164	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
8165	root	1.387	%
8166	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
8167			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
8168	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
8169			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
8170	root	1.387	%
8171	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
8172			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
8173			Marc gives some dumb comments.
8174			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
8175			Marc: Yeah.. and?
8176			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
8177			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
8178	root	1.387	%
8179	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
8180			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
8181			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
8182
8183			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
8184			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
8185			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
8186	root	1.387	%
8187	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
8188			Deadlock, n.:
8189			Deceased Rasterman.
8190	root	1.387	%
8191	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
8192			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
8193			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
8194			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
8195	root	1.387	%
8196	root	1.1	[some .signature]
8197			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
8198	root	1.387	%
8199	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
8200			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
8201	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
8202			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
8203			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
8204			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
8205	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
8206			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
8207	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
8208			Positionen für unwählbar.
8209	root	1.1
8210			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
8211	root	1.387	%
8212	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
8213			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
8214			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
8215
8216			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
8217
8218			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
8219			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
8220			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
8221			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
8222			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
8223
8224			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
8225			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
8226			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
8227			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
8228			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
8229			results simply because I make a mistake!
8230
8231			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
8232			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
8233			errors.
8234
8235			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
8236			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
8237			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
8238			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
8239	root	1.387	%
8240	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
8241			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
8242			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
8243			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
8244			>
8245			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
8246	root	1.387	%
8247	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
8248			of nothing."
8249	root	1.387	%
8250	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
8251			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
8252			>
8253			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
8254			> CPU?
8255
8256			Root password? :)
8257
8258			John.Fulmer
8259	root	1.387	%
8260	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
8261
8262			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
8263	root	1.387	%
8264	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
8265			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
8266			> which I prefer...
8267
8268			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
8269			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
8270			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
8271			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
8272			updater for the new SCSI controller.
8273			--
8274			Horst von Brand
8275	root	1.387	%
8276	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
8277
8278			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
8279
8280			[...]
8281
8282			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
8283	root	1.387	%
8284	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
8285			at your problem:]
8286
8287			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
8288			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
8289			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
8290	root	1.387	%
8291	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
8292			cp is inherently inefficient.
8293	root	1.387	%
8294	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
8295			>breaking seals on them.
8296
8297			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
8298			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
8299			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
8300
8301			...
8302
8303			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
8304			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
8305			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
8306			could be just an urban myth though.
8307
8308			Russell Coker
8309	root	1.387	%
8310	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
8311			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
8312
8313			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
8314	root	1.387	%
8315	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
8316			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
8317			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
8318			> > deleting.
8319			>
8320			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
8321
8322			Wrong. Yury does.
8323			:(
8324
8325			--
8326			Stefan
8327	root	1.387	%
8328	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
8329			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
8330			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
8331			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
8332			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
8333			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
8334			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
8335
8336			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
8337
8338			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
8339	root	1.387	%
8340	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
8341	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
8342	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
8343	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
8344			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
8345	root	1.387	%
8346	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
8347			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
8348			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
8349			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
8350			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8351			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8352			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8353			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8354			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8355			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8356	root	1.387	%
8357	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8358			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8359			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8360	root	1.1	aus!
8361	root	1.387	%
8362	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8363			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8364	root	1.387	%
8365	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8366			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8367			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8368			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8369	root	1.387	%
8370	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8371			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8372	root	1.387	%
8373	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8374			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8375			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8376			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8377
8378			--tom
8379	root	1.387	%
8380	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8381			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8382
8383			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8384			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8385			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8386			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8387			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8388	root	1.387	%
8389	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8390			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8391			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8392			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8393			solutions.
8394
8395			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8396
8397			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8398			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8399			the background]
8400	root	1.387	%
8401	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8402			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8403			Security Response Center:
8404
8405			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8406			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8407
8408			[and later]
8409			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8410
8411			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8412
8413			[Phil closes]
8414			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8415
8416			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8417			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8418	root	1.387	%
8419	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8420			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8421			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8422			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8423			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8424			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8425			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8426	root	1.387	%
8427	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8428			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8429			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8430			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8431
8432			[Trashey / Quasars]
8433	root	1.387	%
8434	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8435			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8436			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8437
8438			Irony potential in
8439
8440			man perlrtfm
8441
8442			is left to the reader.
8443
8444			Nat
8445	root	1.387	%
8446	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8447			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8448
8449			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8450			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8451	root	1.387	%
8452	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8453			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8454			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8455	root	1.387	%
8456	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8457			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8458			Paul Tomblin
8459	root	1.387	%
8460	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8461			>I am morally
8462			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8463
8464			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8465			possibility...
8466
8467			Dan
8468	root	1.387	%
8469	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8470	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8471	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 :)
8472			<Mr> zugabe
8473	root	1.387	%
8474	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8475			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8476	root	1.387	%
8477	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8478			[cobol, sigh]
8479	root	1.387	%
8480	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8481			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8482			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8483			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8484			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8485			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8486			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8487			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8488
8489			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8490	root	1.387	%
8491	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8492
8493			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8494			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8495			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8496			after they regain their composure."
8497
8498			-- Paul Rinaldo
8499			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8500	root	1.387	%
8501	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8502			>
8503			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8504			>
8505			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8506
8507			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8508
8509			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8510
8511			;-}
8512
8513			--
8514
8515			ciao -
8516			Stefan
8517
8518	root	1.387	%
8519	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8520			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8521
8522			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8523			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8524			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8525			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8526			one' type remarks.
8527			[Alan Cox]
8528	root	1.387	%
8529	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8530
8531			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8532			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8533
8534			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8535	root	1.387	%
8536	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8537
8538			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8539			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8540			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8541	root	1.387	%
8542	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8543			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8544			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8545			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8546	root	1.387	%
8547	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8548			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8549
8550			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8551			is to me ok.
8552	root	1.387	%
8553	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8554
8555			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8556	root	1.387	%
8557	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8558			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8559	root	1.387	%
8560	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8561			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8562	root	1.387	%
8563	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8564			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8565			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8566
8567			Ralf
8568	root	1.387	%
8569	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8570			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8571			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8572
8573			david parsons
8574	root	1.387	%
8575	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8576			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8577
8578			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8579			>so that trick is not portable.
8580
8581			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8582			127.0.0.1 localhost
8583
8584			--tom
8585	root	1.387	%
8586	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8587			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8588			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8589			> >the question is moot.
8590			>
8591			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8592
8593			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8594
8595			Ilya
8596	root	1.387	%
8597	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8598			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8599			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8600			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8601			> trying.
8602
8603			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8604			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8605	root	1.387	%
8606	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8607			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8608			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8609			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8610	root	1.387	%
8611	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8612			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8613			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8614	root	1.387	%
8615	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8616			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8617			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8618			> blocking :-)
8619
8620			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8621			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8622			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8623			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8624			reasons.
8625
8626			DS
8627	root	1.387	%
8628	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8629	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8630	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8631	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8632	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8633
8634			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8635	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8636	root	1.387	%
8637	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8638			[...]
8639			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8640			[...]
8641
8642			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8643			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8644			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8645			with each other on the same channel.
8646
8647			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8648			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8649
8650			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8651	root	1.387	%
8652	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8653			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8654	root	1.387	%
8655	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8656	root	1.387	%
8657	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8658			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8659			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8660			ok
8661	root	1.387	%
8662	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8663			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8664	root	1.387	%
8665	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8666			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8667			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8668			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8669			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8670			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8671			<Xach> burrito, focus
8672			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8673	root	1.387	%
8674	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8675			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8676			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8677			tested it." ...
8678	root	1.387	%
8679	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8680	root	1.387	%
8681	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8682
8683			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8684			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8685			>
8686			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8687			>
8688			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8689			>
8690			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8691			>
8692			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8693			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8694			>systems.
8695
8696
8697			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8698			had.
8699
8700			--
8701			Neal Bridges
8702	root	1.387	%
8703	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8704
8705			> Hi folks,
8706			> 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?
8707			> please reply to
8708			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8709			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8710
8711			Parse error.
8712
8713			---
8714			Alex
8715	root	1.387	%
8716	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8717
8718			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8719			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8720
8721			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8722			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8723			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8724
8725			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8726	root	1.387	%
8727	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8728	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8729	root	1.387	%
8730	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8731			ii = 44;
8732			p = &ii;
8733			p = ii/p;
8734			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8735			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8736	root	1.387	%
8737	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8738			> Linux time then.
8739
8740			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8741
8742			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8743			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8744
8745			Roger.
8746	root	1.387	%
8747	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8748	root	1.387	%
8749	root	1.1	auto accident;
8750			register voters;
8751			static electricity;
8752			struct by_lightning;
8753			void *where_prohibited;
8754			char broiled;
8755			short circuit;
8756			short changed;
8757			long johns;
8758			unsigned long letter;
8759			double entendre;
8760			double trouble;
8761			union organizer;
8762			float valve;
8763			short pants;
8764			union station;
8765			void check; unsigned check;
8766			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8767	root	1.387	%
8768	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8769			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8770			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8771	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8772	root	1.387	%
8773	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8774
8775			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8776			worstation.
8777	root	1.387	%
8778	root	1.1	I wrote
8779			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8780			$/
8781
8782			Damn shift key.
8783
8784
8785			Mike Guy
8786	root	1.387	%
8787	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8788			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8789			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8790			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8791			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8792			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8793			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8794			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8795			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8796	root	1.387	%
8797	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8798
8799			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8800
8801			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8802			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8803			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8804			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8805
8806			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8807	root	1.387	%
8808	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8809			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8810
8811			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8812			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8813			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8814			easy to bother.
8815
8816			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8817			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8818			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8819			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8820
8821			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8822
8823			Larry
8824	root	1.387	%
8825	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8826			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8827			Yeah. :-)
8828	root	1.387	%
8829	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8830			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8831			[...]
8832			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8833
8834			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8835			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8836			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8837			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8838
8839			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8840			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8841			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8842			receipts aren't used anymore.
8843	root	1.387	%
8844	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8845			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8846			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8847	root	1.387	%
8848	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8849			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8850			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8851			> versteht?"
8852	root	1.387	%
8853	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8854			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8855			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8856			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8857	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8858	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8859	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8860	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8861			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8862			ji!
8863	root	1.387	%
8864	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8865			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8866			[Larry Wall]
8867	root	1.387	%
8868	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8869			Altpreussen.
8870			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8871			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8872	root	1.387	%
8873	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8874			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8875			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8876			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8877			>
8878	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8879			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8880	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8881
8882	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8883	root	1.1	Norbert?
8884	root	1.387	%
8885	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8886	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8887			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8888	root	1.387	%
8889	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8890	root	1.387	%
8891	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8892	root	1.387	%
8893	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8894			From: "Steve"
8895			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8896			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8897			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8898
8899			[the following was a single line, of course]
8900			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8901			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8902			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8903			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8904			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8905
8906			Thanks,
8907
8908			Steve
8909	root	1.387	%
8910	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8911			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8912			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8913			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8914	root	1.387	%
8915	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8916			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8917			<tigert> ahem
8918	root	1.387	%
8919	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8920			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8921			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8922	root	1.387	%
8923	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8924			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8925			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8926			Subject: It's soup.
8927
8928			Okay, it's there.
8929
8930			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8931
8932			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8933
8934			Larry
8935	root	1.387	%
8936	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8937	root	1.387	%
8938	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8939			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8940			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8941			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8942			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8943	root	1.387	%
8944	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8945			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8946			>
8947			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8948			> And there's no mouse.
8949			>
8950			> Abigail
8951
8952			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8953
8954			Matt.
8955	root	1.387	%
8956	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8957			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8958
8959			- --tom
8960	root	1.387	%
8961	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8962			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8963
8964			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8965			>
8966			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8967			> 2.2.11 release?
8968
8969			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8970
8971			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8972
8973			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8974	root	1.387	%
8975	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8976	root	1.387	%
8977	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8978			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8979			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8980			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8981			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8982			> that much ;-)
8983
8984			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8985	root	1.387	%
8986	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8987			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8988	root	1.387	%
8989	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8990			<QUOTE>
8991			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8992
8993			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8994			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8995			</QUOTE>
8996	root	1.387	%
8997	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8998			and routes around it.
8999
9000			Roger Larsson
9001	root	1.388	Skellefteå
9002	root	1.387	%
9003	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
9004			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
9005	root	1.387	%
9006	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
9007			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
9008	root	1.387	%
9009	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
9010
9011			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
9012			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
9013			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
9014			on different JVMs.
9015
9016			[and later]
9017
9018			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
9019			adventure gaming:
9020
9021			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
9022			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
9023	root	1.387	%
9024	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
9025			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
9026
9027			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
9028
9029			NK> ?? -> huh?
9030
9031			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
9032
9033			<chaim>
9034	root	1.387	%
9035	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
9036			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
9037			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
9038			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
9039			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
9040			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
9041	root	1.387	%
9042	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
9043	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
9044	root	1.387	%
9045	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
9046			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
9047			page]
9048			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
9049			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
9050			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
9051			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
9052			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
9053			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
9054			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
9055			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
9056			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
9057			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
9058	root	1.387	%
9059	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
9060			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
9061			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
9062			don't actually get anything DONE.
9063	root	1.387	%
9064	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
9065			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
9066			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
9067			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
9068	root	1.387	%
9069	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
9070			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
9071			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
9072			> get the serial number from the OS)?
9073
9074			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
9075	root	1.387	%
9076	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
9077			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
9078			they have continued that legacy to this day."
9079	root	1.387	%
9080	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
9081			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
9082			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
9083	root	1.387	%
9084	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
9085
9086			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
9087			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
9088			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
9089			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
9090			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
9091			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
9092			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
9093			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
9094			got the T-shirt.
9095	root	1.387	%
9096	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9097			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9098			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
9099			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
9100			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
9101			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9102			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
9103
9104			Linus writes, to Craig:
9105
9106			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
9107			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
9108			> thus choices than gcc.
9109
9110			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
9111			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
9112			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
9113			far more complex than the kernel.
9114
9115			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
9116			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
9117
9118			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
9119	root	1.387	%
9120	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9121			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
9122			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
9123
9124			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
9125			[...]
9126			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
9127			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
9128			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
9129			>let the user be in control.
9130
9131			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
9132			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
9133			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
9134			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
9135			compilers?
9136	root	1.387	%
9137	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9138			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9139
9140			Linus writes:
9141			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
9142			> gcc could do better?
9143
9144			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
9145			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
9146			before you had so many worshippers.
9147	root	1.387	%
9148	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9149			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
9150			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
9151			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9152			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
9153
9154			Linus Torvalds wrote:
9155
9156			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
9157			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
9158			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
9159			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
9160
9161			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
9162
9163			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
9164
9165			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
9166			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
9167
9168			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
9169
9170			>:->
9171
9172			Brane
9173
9174
9175			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
9176			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
9177			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
9178			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
9179			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
9180
9181
9182			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
9183	root	1.387	%
9184	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
9185	root	1.387	%
9186	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
9187			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
9188			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
9189	root	1.387	%
9190	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
9191			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
9192			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
9193	root	1.387	%
9194	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
9195
9196			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
9197
9198			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
9199	root	1.387	%
9200	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
9201			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
9202			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
9203			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
9204
9205			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
9206
9207			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
9208			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
9209			:
9210			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
9211			:
9212			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
9213			:
9214			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
9215	root	1.387	%
9216	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
9217	root	1.387	%
9218	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
9219			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
9220			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
9221			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
9222			>
9223			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
9224			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
9225
9226			The classic example:
9227
9228			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
9229			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
9230	root	1.387	%
9231	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
9232			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
9233
9234			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
9235			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
9236			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
9237
9238			What's next, a String class for Perl?
9239
9240			--tom
9241	root	1.387	%
9242	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
9243			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
9244			working on something for me
9245			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
9246			to me nutting concerning y ok
9247			piece
9248			russ
9249	root	1.387	%
9250	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
9251
9252			pico (text editor for beginners)
9253			vi (text editor for advanced users)
9254			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
9255			ed (text editor for beginners)
9256	root	1.387	%
9257	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
9258
9259			use Python;
9260
9261			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
9262			Except maybe faster. :-)
9263
9264			Larry
9265	root	1.387	%
9266	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
9267
9268			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
9269			2010.
9270
9271			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
9272	root	1.387	%
9273	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
9274			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
9275			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
9276			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
9277			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
9278			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
9279			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
9280			been created.
9281	root	1.387	%
9282	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
9283			>
9284			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
9285			> $3.99.
9286			>
9287			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
9288			>
9289			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
9290			>
9291			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
9292			>
9293			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
9294			>
9295			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
9296			>
9297			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
9298			> got integrated Coke!
9299			>
9300			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
9301			> to drink the Coke.
9302			>
9303			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
9304			>
9305			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
9306			>
9307			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
9308			> inseparable.
9309			>
9310			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
9311			>
9312			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
9313			>
9314			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
9315			>
9316			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
9317			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
9318			> continuous taste across all your foods.
9319	root	1.387	%
9320	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
9321			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
9322	root	1.40	Rob Pike
9323	root	1.387	%
9324	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
9325
9326			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
9327			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
9328			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
9329			for you to digest this book.
9330			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
9331			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
9332			Join The Trickle
9333			Python: more popular than Dylan!
9334			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
9335			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
9336	root	1.387	%
9337	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
9338			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
9339			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
9340			complete and utter vapourware.
9341
9342			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
9343	root	1.387	%
9344	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
9345
9346			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
9347			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
9348	root	1.387	%
9349	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
9350
9351			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9352			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9353			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9354			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9355			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9356			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9357			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9358			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9359			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9360			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9361			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9362			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9363			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9364			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9365			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9366			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9367			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9368			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9369			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9370			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9371			work.
9372			[...]
9373			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9374			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9375			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9376			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9377			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9378			search generically - then it has some potential.
9379			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9380			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9381			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9382			intellectual value whatsoever.
9383
9384			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9385			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9386			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9387	root	1.387	%
9388	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9389	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9390	root	1.387	%
9391	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9392			#!/usr/bin/sh
9393			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9394			# All Rights Reserved
9395
9396			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9397			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9398			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9399
9400			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9401			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9402	root	1.387	%
9403	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.
9404	root	1.387	%
9405	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9406			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9407			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9408	root	1.387	%
9409	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9410
9411			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9412			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9413
9414			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9415			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9416			machine]
9417
9418			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9419			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9420			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9421
9422			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9423	root	1.387	%
9424	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9425			spamming:]
9426
9427			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9428			>>
9429			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9430			>>------------------------------------------------------
9431			>>
9432			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9433			>>
9434			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9435
9436			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9437			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9438	root	1.387	%
9439	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9440			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9441	root	1.387	%
9442	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9443			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9444	root	1.387	%
9445	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9446			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9447
9448			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9449	root	1.387	%
9450	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9451
9452			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9453			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9454			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9455			he's full of.
9456
9457			Support BSD/Linux.
9458
9459			--tom
9460	root	1.387	%
9461	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9462	root	1.387	%
9463	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9464	root	1.387	%
9465	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9466			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9467
9468			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9469			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9470			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9471			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9472	root	1.387	%
9473	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9474
9475			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9476			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9477	root	1.387	%
9478	root	1.1	[the creation]
9479			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9480	root	1.387	%
9481	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9482
9483			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9484			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9485			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9486	root	1.387	%
9487	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9488			selbst schliesse.
9489			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9490			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9491	root	1.387	%
9492	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9493			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9494
9495			No:
9496
9497			use Borg;
9498			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9499
9500			--
9501			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9502	root	1.387	%
9503	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9504			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9505			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9506			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9507			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9508			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9509			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9510			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9511			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9512			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9513			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9514			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9515			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9516			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9517			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9518			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9519			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9520			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9521			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9522			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9523			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9524			dispensers."
9525
9526			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9527	root	1.387	%
9528	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9529			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9530			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9531			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9532	root	1.387	%
9533	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9534			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9535			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9536	root	1.387	%
9537	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9538	root	1.1
9539			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9540	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9541	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9542	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9543	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9544			Student: "..."
9545			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9546			Student: "..."
9547			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9548	root	1.387	%
9549	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9550
9551			> Just morbid curiosity,
9552			>
9553			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9554
9555			Yes. Broken ones.
9556
9557			dgris
9558	root	1.387	%
9559	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9560			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9561	root	1.387	%
9562	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9563			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9564	root	1.387	%
9565	root	1.1	...
9566
9567			<AOL>
9568
9569			Me too!
9570
9571			</AOL>
9572
9573			Tig
9574	root	1.387	%
9575	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9576	root	1.387	%
9577	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9578	root	1.387	%
9579	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9580
9581			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9582			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9583			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9584			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9585			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9586			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9587			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9588
9589			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9590
9591			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9592			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9593			get really really pissed.
9594
9595			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9596			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9597	root	1.387	%
9598	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9599			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9600			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9601			> period.
9602			>
9603			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9604			> Nic
9605			>
9606
9607			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9608
9609			-hpa
9610	root	1.387	%
9611	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9612	root	1.387	%
9613	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9614			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9615			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9616			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9617			happy."
9618			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9619	root	1.387	%
9620	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9621			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9622			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9623
9624			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9625			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9626			I also forwarded the offending code.
9627
9628			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9629			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9630			service.
9631
9632			Daniel
9633	root	1.387	%
9634	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9635			...
9636			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9637	root	1.387	%
9638	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9639			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9640			[RJL]
9641	root	1.387	%
9642	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9643			right.''
9644	root	1.387	%
9645	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9646
9647			Amazing--they actually listened.
9648	root	1.387	%
9649	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9650			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9651			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9652
9653			# less foo
9654			sh: command not found
9655			# more foo
9656			sh: command not found
9657			# emacs foo
9658			sh: command not found
9659			# ed foo
9660			0
9661			help
9662			?
9663			quit
9664			?
9665			exit
9666			?
9667			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9668			?
9669
9670			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9671	root	1.387	%
9672	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9673			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9674			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9675
9676			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9677
9678			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9679
9680			tim> would be most correct in style.
9681
9682			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9683			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9684	root	1.387	%
9685	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9686			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9687			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9688			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9689			too bad --- ]
9690	root	1.387	%
9691	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9692	root	1.387	%
9693	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9694
9695			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9696			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9697
9698			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9699			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9700	root	1.387	%
9701	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9702			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9703			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9704			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9705			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9706	root	1.387	%
9707	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9708
9709			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9710			include wrong #include files in their source.
9711	root	1.387	%
9712	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9713
9714			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9715			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9716			Consider it a rite of passage.
9717	root	1.387	%
9718	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9719			"Oops."
9720			-- MST3K
9721	root	1.387	%
9722	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9723			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9724			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9725
9726			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9727			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9728			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9729			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9730			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9731			it. ;)
9732	root	1.387	%
9733	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9734			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9735			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9736			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9737			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9738
9739			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9740			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9741			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9742			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9743
9744			--tom
9745	root	1.387	%
9746	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9747
9748			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9749
9750			>Why does it end ?
9751
9752			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9753
9754			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9755			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9756
9757			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9758	root	1.387	%
9759	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9760			-- Tom Christiansen
9761	root	1.387	%
9762	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9763
9764			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9765			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9766			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9767			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9768			of Sputnik.
9769	root	1.387	%
9770	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9771			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9772			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9773			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9774			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9775	root	1.387	%
9776	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9777			- Hanlons razor -
9778	root	1.387	%
9779	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9780			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9781	root	1.387	%
9782	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9783			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9784			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9785			> offered no significant advantages.
9786
9787			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9788	root	1.387	%
9789	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9790			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9791			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9792			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9793			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9794			in front of me says so."
9795
9796			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9797	root	1.387	%
9798	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9799			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9800			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9801			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9802			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9803			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9804			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9805			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9806			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9807			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9808			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9809	root	1.387	%
9810	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9811			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9812			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9813			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9814			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9815	root	1.387	%
9816	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9817	root	1.387	%
9818	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9819	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9820			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9821			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9822			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9823	root	1.387	%
9824	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9825			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9826			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9827			>
9828			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9829			> and/or screen.
9830
9831			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9832	root	1.387	%
9833	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9834			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9835
9836			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9837			> use pedantic;
9838			> use strict 'code';
9839			>
9840			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9841
9842			use syntax 'python';
9843
9844			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9845
9846	root	1.387	%
9847	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9848			>
9849			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9850			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9851			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9852			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9853			>
9854			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9855	root	1.387	%
9856	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9857			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9858	root	1.387	%
9859	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9860			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9861			> be time-consuming.
9862
9863			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9864	root	1.387	%
9865	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9866			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9867			however, they do not handle C++...
9868			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9869	root	1.387	%
9870	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9871			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9872
9873			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9874
9875			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9876
9877			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9878
9879			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9880			already of old time, which was before us.
9881			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9882			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9883
9884			Regards,
9885			Tigran.
9886	root	1.387	%
9887	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9888	root	1.387	%
9889	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9890			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9891			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9892			main(){
9893			extrn hw;
9894			putchar(0[hw]);
9895			hw=+1;
9896			putchar(0[hw]);
9897			}
9898	root	1.387	%
9899	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9900
9901			The egg. Always. By definition.
9902	root	1.387	%
9903	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9904			>
9905			> Better check your scsi cables.
9906	root	1.387	%
9907	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9908			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9909	root	1.387	%
9910	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9911			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9912			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9913			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9914
9915	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9916	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9917			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9918
9919	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9920	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9921	root	1.387	%
9922	root	1.1	>James :\
9923			>
9924			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9925
9926			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9927	root	1.387	%
9928	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9929			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9930			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9931	root	1.387	%
9932	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9933			> is just asking for a black eye.
9934
9935			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9936
9937			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9938			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9939			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9940
9941			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9942			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9943			area.
9944	root	1.387	%
9945	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9946			[Lukas Grunwald]
9947	root	1.387	%
9948	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9949
9950			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9951			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9952			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9953			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9954			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9955	root	1.387	%
9956	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9957			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9958
9959			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9962			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9963			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9964
9965			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9966
9967			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9968
9969			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9970
9971			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9972			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9973	root	1.387	%
9974	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9975	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9976	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9977	root	1.387	%
9978	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9979			longer...
9980	root	1.387	%
9981	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9982			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9983			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9984	root	1.387	%
9985	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9986			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9987			> > world :) I just love it...
9988			>
9989			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9990			>
9991			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9992			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9993			practical...
9994			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9995			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9996			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9997			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9998			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9999
10000			Jan Hubicka
10001	root	1.387	%
10002	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
10003			[...]
10004			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
10005
10006			No, it is not. What you meant is
10007
10008			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
10009	root	1.387	%
10010	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
10011			> A) perl-5.00553
10012			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
10013			> cc = cl.exe
10014			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
10015
10016			[...]
10017
10018			Ilya
10019	root	1.387	%
10020	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
10021
10022			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
10023
10024			p.
10025	root	1.387	%
10026	root	1.1	[tomc]
10027			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
10028			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
10029
10030			+------------------------------------------+
10031			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
10032			+------------------------------------------+
10033
10034			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
10035			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
10036
10037			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
10038			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
10039			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
10040			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
10041			interesting way.
10042			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
10043			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
10044			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
10045			interesting things.
10046			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
10047			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
10048			things.
10049	root	1.387	%
10050	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
10051			--Dennis Ritchie
10052	root	1.387	%
10053	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
10054	root	1.387	%
10055	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
10056
10057			switch (x)
10058			default:
10059			if (prime(x))
10060			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
10061			process_prime(x);
10062			else
10063			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
10064			process_composite(x);
10065	root	1.387	%
10066	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
10067			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
10068			in megabytes, required for execution?
10069
10070			Craig Milo Rogers
10071	root	1.387	%
10072	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
10073			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
10074			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
10075
10076			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
10077			US (apparently in Canada too?).
10078
10079			Ilya
10080	root	1.387	%
10081	root	1.1	[from p5p]
10082			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
10083
10084			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
10085			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
10086			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
10087
10088			Nat
10089	root	1.387	%
10090	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
10091			much steroids for a while. =)
10092
10093			--Albert Dvornik
10094			<bert@genscan.com>
10095	root	1.387	%
10096	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
10097			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
10098			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
10099
10100			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
10101
10102			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
10103			or tcl crowd instead of here.
10104
10105			--tom
10106	root	1.387	%
10107	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
10108
10109			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
10110
10111			Linus
10112	root	1.387	%
10113	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
10114			devil added HTML mail...
10115	root	1.387	%
10116	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
10117			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
10118			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
10119	root	1.387	%
10120	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
10121			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
10122
10123			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
10124			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
10125			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
10126
10127			Arm the gnus!
10128	root	1.387	%
10129	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
10130
10131			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
10132			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
10133			gcc, so go away.
10134	root	1.387	%
10135	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
10136			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
10137
10138			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
10139
10140			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
10141			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
10142	root	1.387	%
10143	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10144			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
10145			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
10146			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
10147
10148			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
10149			was released today" madness.
10150	root	1.387	%
10151	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10152			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
10153			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
10154			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
10155			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
10156			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
10157			>
10158			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
10159			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
10160			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
10161			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
10162			> marketing name, anyway.
10163
10164			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
10165			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
10166			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
10167
10168			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
10169			violence..." :-)
10170	root	1.387	%
10171	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
10172			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
10173	root	1.387	%
10174	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
10175			> >poor drivers
10176			>
10177			> No it doesn't.
10178
10179			Indeed. Its down to
10180
10181			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
10182
10183			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
10184			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
10185			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
10186			or binaries.
10187	root	1.387	%
10188	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
10189	root	1.387	%
10190	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
10191	root	1.387	%
10192	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
10193
10194			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
10195			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
10196			\|>
10197			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
10198
10199			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
10200
10201			Andreas.
10202	root	1.387	%
10203	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10204			...
10205			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
10206
10207			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
10208			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
10209			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
10210			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
10211			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
10212			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
10213	root	1.387	%
10214	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10215
10216			Paul Eggert writes:
10217			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
10218
10219			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
10220			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
10221	root	1.387	%
10222	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
10223			however.
10224
10225			"We don't have the tools"
10226			"We can't support a non intel build"
10227			"We don't have that sort of machine"
10228			"Its not worth the time cost"
10229			"Whats an Alpha ?"
10230	root	1.387	%
10231	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
10232
10233			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
10234			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
10235			>
10236			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
10237			> <mailproc@fred>
10238			>
10239			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
10240			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10241			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10242			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
10243			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
10244	root	1.387	%
10245	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
10246			> No documented problem
10247			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
10248			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
10249			>
10250			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
10251	root	1.387	%
10252	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
10253			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
10254	root	1.387	%
10255	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
10256			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
10257
10258			dave
10259	root	1.387	%
10260	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10261			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
10262
10263			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
10264	root	1.387	%
10265	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10266
10267			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
10268			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
10269
10270			Paul Eggert writes:
10271			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
10272
10273			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
10274			1 month before 29 March?
10275
10276			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
10277
10278			1 month before 28 March?
10279
10280			28 February.
10281
10282			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
10283			_before_ 27 February?
10284
10285			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
10286	root	1.387	%
10287	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10288
10289			>Nils Goesche wrote:
10290			>> So make a security check first:
10291			>>
10292			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
10293			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
10294			>
10295			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
10296			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
10297			>
10298			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
10299			> = instead of == error*/
10300			> launch_full_counterstrike();
10301			>
10302			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
10303			>
10304			>--
10305			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
10306
10307			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
10308
10309			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
10310			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
10311	root	1.387	%
10312	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
10313			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
10314
10315			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
10316			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
10317			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
10318			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
10319			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
10320			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
10321			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
10322			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
10323
10324			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
10325			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
10326			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
10327			available for that hardware from any source.
10328			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
10329			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
10330			sniffing!
10331	root	1.387	%
10332	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
10333			technical support line that isn't"
10334	root	1.387	%
10335	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
10336			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
10337	root	1.387	%
10338	root	1.1	[...]
10339			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
10340			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
10341
10342			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
10343			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
10344			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
10345			"Nothing else"
10346			"Sorry"
10347			[Click]
10348
10349			Alan
10350	root	1.387	%
10351	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10352			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10353	root	1.387	%
10354	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10355			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10356			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10357			> users excepted, of course!).
10358
10359			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10360			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10361			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10362			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10363			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10364			is installed"
10365
10366			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10367	root	1.387	%
10368	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10369
10370			L. Harris wrote:
10371			>
10372			> Testing
10373
10374			you failed.
10375	root	1.387	%
10376	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10377			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10378	root	1.387	%
10379	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10380			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10381			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10382			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10383	root	1.387	%
10384	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10385			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10386			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10387
10388			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10389	root	1.387	%
10390	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10391			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10392			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10393			where else...
10394	root	1.387	%
10395	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10396			[...]
10397			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10398			: about a certain topic.
10399	root	1.387	%
10400	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10401			>
10402			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10403			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10404
10405			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10406			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10407
10408			void main (void)
10409			{
10410			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10411			printf ("\n");
10412			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10413			printf ("You have died.\n");
10414			printf ("\n");
10415			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10416			}
10417
10418			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10419
10420			--
10421			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10422	root	1.387	%
10423	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10424			mistake I ever made]
10425
10426			From: "Tom Miller"
10427			Subject: Can
10428			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10429
10430			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10431			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10432			my name is Tom Miller
10433
10434			From: "Tom Miller"
10435			Subject: Wait
10436			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10437
10438			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10439			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10440	root	1.387	%
10441	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10442
10443			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10444			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10445			so why bother? [...]
10446	root	1.387	%
10447	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10448	root	1.1
10449			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10450
10451			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10452			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10453			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10454			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10455			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10456			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10457			sich dann.
10458	root	1.387	%
10459	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10460			no fs
10461			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10462			Definitely hardware or software error.
10463
10464			Unix Version 7 Manual
10465	root	1.387	%
10466	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10467			>
10468			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10469			>
10470			> =for C
10471			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10472			> =end
10473			> =for C++
10474			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10475			> =end
10476			> =for Java
10477			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10478			> =end
10479			>
10480			> :-)
10481	root	1.387	%
10482	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10483	root	1.387	%
10484	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10485
10486			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10487			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10488			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10489			turn it on.
10490	root	1.387	%
10491	root	1.1	[...]
10492			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10493			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10494			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10495			[...]
10496	root	1.387	%
10497	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10498
10499			Chad C Giffin
10500	root	1.387	%
10501	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10502			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10503			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10504			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10505			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10506			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10507
10508			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10509			through the door.
10510			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10511			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10512			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10513			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10514			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10515			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10516			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10517			usually.)
10518
10519			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10520			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10521			your tire pressure..."
10522			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10523			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10524			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10525			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10526			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10527			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10528			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10529			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10530	root	1.387	%
10531	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10532
10533			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10534	root	1.387	%
10535	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10536
10537			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10538			:-(
10539	root	1.387	%
10540	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10541			>dies alles geschieht.
10542			>Und es verging nicht.
10543
10544			So what?
10545
10546			Ich dachte eher an:
10547
10548			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10549			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10550			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10551			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10552			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10553			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10554			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10555			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10556			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10557			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10558			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10559			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10560
10561			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10562
10563			Antje
10564	root	1.387	%
10565	root	1.1	[....]
10566
10567			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10568			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10569			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10570			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10571			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10572			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10573
10574			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10575
10576			Antje
10577	root	1.387	%
10578	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10579			lalala, I love you baby..."
10580			--
10581			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10582	root	1.387	%
10583	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10584			>
10585			> Kubys
10586
10587			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10588
10589			Linus
10590	root	1.387	%
10591	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10592
10593			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10594			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10595			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10596	root	1.387	%
10597	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10598
10599			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10600			out what it means.
10601			--
10602			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10603	root	1.387	%
10604	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10605			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10606	root	1.387	%
10607	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10608			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10609
10610			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10611
10612			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10613			> is being discussed.
10614
10615			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10616	root	1.387	%
10617	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10618
10619			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10620
10621			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10622
10623			[and the button reads]
10624
10625			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10626	root	1.387	%
10627	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10628
10629			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10630
10631			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10632			certain amount of redundancy.
10633	root	1.387	%
10634	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10635			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10636
10637			...
10638
10639			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10640	root	1.387	%
10641	root	1.1	>Hello,
10642			>
10643			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10644			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10645			>
10646
10647			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10648			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10649			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10650			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10651	root	1.387	%
10652	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10653			on the country as a whole.
10654			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10655			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10656			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10657	root	1.387	%
10658	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10659			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10660	root	1.387	%
10661	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10662	root	1.387	%
10663	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10664			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10665			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10666
10667			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10668
10669			--tom
10670			--
10671			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10672			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10673	root	1.387	%
10674	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10675			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10676	root	1.387	%
10677	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10678
10679			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10680			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10681			> NO CARRIER
10682			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10683	root	1.387	%
10684	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10685			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10686			> better.
10687
10688			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10689			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10690	root	1.387	%
10691	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10692			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10693	root	1.387	%
10694	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10695			\|>
10696			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10697			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10698			\|>
10699			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10700			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10701
10702			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10703			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10704			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10705			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10706			build Bison, and then cook it.
10707
10708			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10709	root	1.387	%
10710	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10711			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10712			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10713			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10714			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10715	root	1.387	%
10716	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10717			-- lbxproxy(1)
10718	root	1.387	%
10719	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10720
10721			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10722
10723			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10724			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10725	root	1.387	%
10726	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10727
10728			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10729	root	1.387	%
10730	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10731			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10732			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10733			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10734			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10735
10736			\|> What does this mean.
10737
10738			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10739			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10740	root	1.387	%
10741	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10742
10743			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10744			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10745
10746			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10747	root	1.387	%
10748	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10749			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10750			streams)."
10751			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10752	root	1.387	%
10753	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10754			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10755	root	1.387	%
10756	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10757
10758			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10759
10760			Klaro.
10761
10762			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10763			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10764			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10765			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10766
10767	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10768	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10769
10770			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10771			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10772			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10773			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10774			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10775			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10776			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10777
10778			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10779			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10780			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10781	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10782			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10783			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10784			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10785	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10786
10787			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10788	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10789			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10790			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10791			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10792			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10793			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10794			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10795	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10796			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10797
10798			cu in hell 2002
10799	root	1.387	%
10800	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10801	root	1.387	%
10802	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10803
10804			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10805			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10806			the man page for crypt(1).
10807
10808			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10809			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10810			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10811
10812			man -s3 crypt
10813
10814			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10815			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10816
10817			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10818			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10819			he can figure out to use the command
10820
10821			man -s3 Intro.3
10822
10823			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10824			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10825
10826			man -s3c crypt
10827
10828			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10829			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10830			any trouble.
10831			--
10832			Michael M Rubenstein
10833	root	1.387	%
10834	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10835
10836			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10837
10838			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10839
10840			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10841
10842			Regards,
10843			Tim Bunce.
10844
10845			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10846			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10847			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10848	root	1.387	%
10849	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10850
10851			...
10852
10853			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10854			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10855			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10856
10857			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10858			its unusable, believe me I do.
10859	root	1.387	%
10860	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10861
10862			Semour Cray
10863	root	1.387	%
10864	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10865
10866			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10867	root	1.387	%
10868	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10869			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10870
10871			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10872			it only supports parts of it
10873	root	1.387	%
10874	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10875			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10876	root	1.387	%
10877	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10878			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10879			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10880			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10881			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10882			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10883			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10884
10885			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10886			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10887			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10888			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10889			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10890			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10891			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10892			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10893			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10894			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10895
10896			tq vm, (burley)
10897	root	1.387	%
10898	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10899			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10900			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10901			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10902			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10903			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10904			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10905	root	1.387	%
10906	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10907			/*
10908			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10909			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10910			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10911			* files won't compile.
10912			*/
10913	root	1.387	%
10914	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10915			> great.
10916
10917			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10918
10919			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10920
10921			This rock is below water half of the time!
10922			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10923			on a regular basis! ;-)
10924	root	1.387	%
10925	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10926			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10927			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10928	root	1.387	%
10929	root	1.1	>
10930			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10931			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10932			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10933
10934			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10935	root	1.387	%
10936	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10937
10938			>Hello!
10939
10940			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10941			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10942			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10943
10944
10945			Perl.
10946
10947			regards
10948			jobst
10949	root	1.387	%
10950	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10951			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10952			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10953
10954			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10955			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10956
10957			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10958			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10959			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10960			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10961			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10962			the absolute pits.
10963	root	1.387	%
10964	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10965	root	1.387	%
10966	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10967			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10968
10969			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10970	root	1.387	%
10971	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10972			ketchup and mustard
10973	root	1.387	%
10974	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10975
10976			vimal gajjar wrote:
10977			>
10978			> Hi there,
10979			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10980			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10981			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10982			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10983			> 5% of cpu
10984			> 2 Mb of RAM
10985			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10986			>
10987			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10988
10989			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10990			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10991			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10992	root	1.387	%
10993	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10994			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10995			>
10996			> >s/usually/never/
10997			>
10998			> s/sometimes/never/
10999
11000			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
11001	root	1.387	%
11002	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
11003			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
11004			:Perl, IMO.
11005
11006			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
11007
11008			TC
11009	root	1.387	%
11010	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
11011	root	1.387	%
11012	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
11013
11014			Hi guys!
11015
11016			How check socket, alive it or die ?
11017	root	1.387	%
11018	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
11019
11020			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
11021			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
11022			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
11023			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
11024			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
11025			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
11026	root	1.387	%
11027	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
11028			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
11029			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
11030
11031			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
11032			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
11033			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
11034			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
11035
11036			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
11037			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
11038			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
11039			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
11040
11041			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
11042
11043			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
11044
11045			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
11046			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
11047			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
11048
11049			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
11050			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
11051
11052			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
11053			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
11054
11055			Did I miss any? ;-)
11056
11057			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
11058			Laugh. Please.
11059
11060			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
11061			--Scott
11062	root	1.387	%
11063	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
11064
11065			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
11066			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
11067			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
11068			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
11069	root	1.387	%
11070	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
11071			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
11072
11073			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
11074
11075			This is not mail.
11076
11077			This is Usenet.
11078
11079			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
11080	root	1.387	%
11081	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
11082			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
11083			--- ide1: reset: success
11084			-----------> I like Linux !
11085	root	1.387	%
11086	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
11087			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
11088
11089			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
11090			do.
11091	root	1.387	%
11092	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
11093			++ PLONK.
11094	root	1.387	%
11095	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
11096			Re: Subraumfunk
11097
11098			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
11099			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
11100
11101			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
11102			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
11103			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
11104			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
11105			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
11106	root	1.387	%
11107	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
11108			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
11109			>
11110			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
11111
11112			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
11113	root	1.387	%
11114	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
11115			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
11116	root	1.387	%
11117	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
11118			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
11119
11120			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
11121			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
11122
11123			Bill Jones
11124	root	1.387	%
11125	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
11126
11127			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
11128			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
11129			#include <windows.h>
11130			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
11131			#endif
11132	root	1.387	%
11133	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
11134
11135			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
11136			is, invoking the URL
11137
11138			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
11139
11140			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
11141	root	1.387	%
11142	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
11143			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
11144			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
11145			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
11146			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
11147			"I am using CGI!"
11148
11149			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
11150	root	1.387	%
11151	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
11152			> > kennenlernen koennen?
11153			>
11154	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
11155	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
11156
11157			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
11158	root	1.387	%
11159	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
11160			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
11161	root	1.387	%
11162	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
11163			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
11164			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
11165			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
11166	root	1.387	%
11167	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
11168
11169			pcg@goof.com said:
11170			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
11171
11172			Hehe - I know the feeling.
11173
11174			"It's broken."
11175			"What's wrong with it?."
11176			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
11177			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
11178			"It just doesn't work."
11179			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
11180			"It gives an error message."
11181			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
11182			"It says.... something about there being an error."
11183			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
11184			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
11185			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
11186			letter for letter this time."
11187	root	1.387	%
11188	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
11189
11190			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
11191			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
11192			2.6, the mode was 04555.
11193
11194			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
11195			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
11196			perms.
11197
11198			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
11199	root	1.387	%
11200	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
11201			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
11202
11203			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
11204
11205			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
11206			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
11207			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
11208
11209			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
11210			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
11211	root	1.387	%
11212	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
11213			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
11214	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
11215
11216			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
11217			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
11218			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
11219			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
11220			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
11221			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
11222			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
11223			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
11224			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
11225			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
11226			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
11227
11228			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
11229
11230			normarz@aol.com
11231	root	1.387	%
11232	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
11233	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
11234	root	1.1	>Legion
11235			>schlagen?
11236
11237			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
11238
11239			Bye
11240			Andreas
11241	root	1.387	%
11242	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
11243
11244			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
11245			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
11246
11247			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
11248			companies.
11249
11250			Kind regards
11251			Henning
11252	root	1.387	%
11253	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
11254			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
11255			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
11256
11257			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
11258			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
11259			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
11260
11261			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
11262			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
11263			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
11264			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
11265			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
11266			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
11267			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
11268			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
11269			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
11270			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
11271	root	1.387	%
11272	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
11273			We might support that sometime next year.
11274			-=- Microsoft
11275			(But I doubt it.)
11276			-=- Me
11277			-=- James Mastros
11278	root	1.387	%
11279	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
11280			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
11281			> following methods, but the output was split into two
11282			>lines.
11283
11284			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
11285			put newlines in the middle of your string.
11286	root	1.387	%
11287	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
11288	root	1.387	%
11289	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
11290			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
11291			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
11292			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
11293	root	1.387	%
11294	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
11295
11296			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
11297			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
11298			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
11299			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
11300			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
11301			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
11302			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
11303			it's not all his fault.
11304
11305			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
11306			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
11307			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
11308			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
11309			content.
11310
11311			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
11312			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
11313			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
11314			learn (or pay for it;)
11315
11316			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
11317			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
11318			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
11319			just for fun or to get the op.
11320
11321			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
11322			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
11323			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
11324			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
11325
11326			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
11327
11328			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
11329			course, Linux and Linux people.
11330	root	1.387	%
11331	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
11332			then he rewrote it as WNT.
11333
11334			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
11335			--
11336			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
11337	root	1.387	%
11338	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
11339
11340			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
11341			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
11342			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
11343
11344			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
11345			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
11346			tradition.
11347	root	1.387	%
11348	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
11349			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
11350	root	1.387	%
11351	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11352			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11353	root	1.387	%
11354	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11355			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11356			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11357			Or GIRLS for short.
11358	root	1.387	%
11359	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11360	root	1.387	%
11361	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11362			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11363			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11364			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11365			5_004_03 to build!"
11366
11367			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11368			have no patience."
11369
11370			xoxo,
11371			Andy
11372	root	1.387	%
11373	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11374			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11375			We all have our cross to bear.
11376	root	1.387	%
11377	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11378
11379			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11380			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11381			Subject: Re: system() question
11382
11383			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11384			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11385			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11386			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11387			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11388			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11389			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11390			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11391			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11392			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11393			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11394			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11395			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11396			humiliating for me!)
11397
11398			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11399			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11400			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11401			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11402			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11403			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11404			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11405			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11406			really knows the answer.
11407
11408			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11409			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11410			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11411			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11412
11413			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11414			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11415			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11416			for that.
11417
11418			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11419			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11420			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11421			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11422			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11423			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11424			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11425
11426			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11427
11428			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11429			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11430			something for free.''
11431
11432			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11433
11434			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11435			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11436
11437			(Good question.)
11438
11439			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11440			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11441			once I have run it.''
11442			(Good question.)
11443
11444			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11445
11446			(Good question.)
11447
11448			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11449			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11450			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11451			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11452			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11453
11454			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11455			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11456			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11457			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11458			comp.lang.perl?
11459			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11460			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11461			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11462			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11463			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11464			in comp.lang.perl?
11465
11466			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11467			you my rate card.
11468
11469			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11470			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11471			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11472			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11473			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11474			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11475			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11476			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11477			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11478			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11479
11480			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11481			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11482			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11483			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11484			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11485			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11486			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11487			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11488			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11489			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11490			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11491			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11492			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11493			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11494			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11495			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11496
11497			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11498			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11499			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11500			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11501			someone will. Maybe I will.
11502
11503			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11504			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11505			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11506			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11507			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11508			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11509			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11510			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11511
11512			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11513			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11514			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11515			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11516			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11517			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11518			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11519			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11520			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11521			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11522			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11523			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11524			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11525			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11526
11527			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11528			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11529			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11530			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11531
11532			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11533
11534			`I want to accomplish X.
11535
11536			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11537
11538			...
11539
11540			But instead it does Y.
11541
11542			Why is that?''
11543
11544			This one is also pretty good:
11545
11546			`I want to accomplish X.
11547			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11548
11549			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11550			because of Z.
11551
11552			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11553
11554			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11555			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11556
11557
11558			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11559			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11560
11561			--
11562			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11563			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11564	root	1.387	%
11565	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11566			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11567
11568			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11569			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11570			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11571
11572			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11573
11574			bye, Georg
11575	root	1.387	%
11576	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11577			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11578			convince me.
11579
11580			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11581
11582			Linus
11583	root	1.387	%
11584	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11585			++
11586
11587			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11588			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11589
11590	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11591	root	1.1
11592			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11593			understanding the above line.
11594
11595			Abigail
11596	root	1.387	%
11597	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11598			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11599	root	1.387	%
11600	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11601			++ button?
11602			Yes.
11603
11604			++ 100 pictures or so?
11605			Yes.
11606
11607			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11608			Yes.
11609
11610			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11611			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11612
11613			Abigail
11614	root	1.387	%
11615	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11616
11617			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11618
11619			Martien
11620	root	1.387	%
11621	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11622			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11623			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11624			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11625	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11626	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11627			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11628			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11629			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11630	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11631	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11632			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11633	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11634			nicht. ;)
11635
11636	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11637			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11638			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11639	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11640			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11641	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11642	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11643
11644	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11645			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11646	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11647	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11648	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11649
11650	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11651	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11652	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11653			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11654	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11655	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11656	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11657			"unvorstellbar".
11658
11659			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11660	root	1.387	%
11661	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11662			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11663			^^^
11664			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11665	root	1.387	%
11666	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11667			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11668	root	1.387	%
11669	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11670			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11671	root	1.387	%
11672	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11673			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11674			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11675
11676			An artificial pile of rocks.
11677	root	1.387	%
11678	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11679			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11680			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11681			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11682			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11683			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11684
11685			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11686			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11687			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11688			grosser Flipperautomat.
11689
11690			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11691	root	1.387	%
11692	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11693			>
11694			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11695			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11696			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11697			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11698			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11699	root	1.387	%
11700	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11701			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11702	root	1.1
11703			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11704	root	1.387	%
11705	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11706
11707			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11708
11709			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11710			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11711			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11712			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11713			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11714			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11715			Unix environment.
11716	root	1.387	%
11717	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11718			between these:
11719
11720			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11721			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11722
11723			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11724			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11725			;#", and the print gets executed!
11726
11727			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11728			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11729			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11730			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11731
11732			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11733			'perl'".
11734
11735			--
11736			Randal L. Schwartz
11737	root	1.387	%
11738	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11739
11740			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11741			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11742			>
11743			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11744
11745			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11746
11747			--
11748			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11751	root	1.387	%
11752	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11753			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11754	root	1.387	%
11755	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11756			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11757	root	1.387	%
11758	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11759			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11760			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11761			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11762			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11763			example.
11764	root	1.387	%
11765	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11766			resemble a nail.
11767	root	1.387	%
11768	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11769			> I did wrong.
11770
11771			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11772			newsgroup.
11773	root	1.387	%
11774	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11775	root	1.387	%
11776	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11777			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11778	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11779
11780			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11781	root	1.387	%
11782	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11783	root	1.1
11784	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11785	root	1.387	%
11786	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11787			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11788			expired instantly!!!
11789	root	1.387	%
11790	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11791			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11792
11793			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11794			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11795			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11796
11797			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11798			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11799			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11800			than double Linus's programming experience?
11801
11802			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11803			> pretty straight forward.
11804
11805			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11806			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11807	root	1.387	%
11808	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11809			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11810			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11811			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11812			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11813			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11814	root	1.387	%
11815	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11816	root	1.387	%
11817	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11818			Example:
11819			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11820	root	1.387	%
11821	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11822			Randal gets his hands on it
11823	root	1.387	%
11824	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11825	root	1.387	%
11826	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11827
11828			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11829			first if you get it working.
11830	root	1.387	%
11831	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11832			> Think different.
11833
11834			Think Again.
11835	root	1.387	%
11836	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11837	root	1.387	%
11838	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11839			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11840			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11841
11842			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11843	root	1.387	%
11844	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11845			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11846	root	1.387	%
11847	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11848			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11849			\| top.
11850	root	1.387	%
11851	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11852			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11853	root	1.387	%
11854	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11855			^^^^^^^^^
11856			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11857
11858			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11859	root	1.387	%
11860	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11861			>gehen soll?
11862
11863	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11864	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11865			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11866	root	1.387	%
11867	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11868	root	1.387	%
11869	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11870			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11871	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11872			>
11873			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11874
11875			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11876			Schuh aus!
11877	root	1.387	%
11878	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11879
11880	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11881	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11882	root	1.387	%
11883	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11884
11885
11886			First opportunity
11887			Approximate
11888			Orbit Internet
11889			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11890
11891			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11892			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11893			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11894			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11895
11896			Second opportunity
11897			Approximate
11898			Orbit Internet
11899			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11900
11901			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11902			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11903			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11904			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11905
11906			Third opportunity
11907			Approximate
11908			Orbit Internet
11909			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11910
11911			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11912			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11913			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11914			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11915
11916	root	1.387	%
11917	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11918	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11919			> >würden.
11920	root	1.1	>
11921			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11922			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11923			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11924			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11925			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11926			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11927			implizierst.
11928	root	1.387	%
11929	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11930			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11931	root	1.387	%
11932	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11933			Big improvement.
11934	root	1.387	%
11935	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11936			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11937			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11938			-- "Why that one?"
11939			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11940			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11941	root	1.387	%
11942	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11943			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11944			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11945	root	1.387	%
11946	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11947			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11948			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11949
11950			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11951
11952			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11953			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11954			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11955
11956			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11957
11958			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11959			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11960			> er eigentlich ist?
11961
11962	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11963	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11964	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11965	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11966	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11967	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11968	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11969	root	1.1	Ciao
11970			Stefan
11971	root	1.387	%
11972	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11973			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11974			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11975			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11976	root	1.387	%
11977	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11978			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11979			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11980			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11981			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11982			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11983			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11984			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11985			off.
11986	root	1.387	%
11987	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11988			Meet interesting people,
11989			Kill them.
11990	root	1.387	%
11991	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11992			> umwandelbar ist.
11993
11994			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11995	root	1.387	%
11996	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11997	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11998	root	1.387	%
11999	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
12000			>
12001			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
12002			> >> ruckartig.
12003			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
12004			>
12005	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
12006	root	1.1
12007			:-)
12008	root	1.387	%
12009	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
12010	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
12011			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
12012	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
12013			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
12014			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
12015			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
12016
12017			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
12018			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
12019	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
12020			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
12021	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
12022	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
12023			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
12024			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
12025	root	1.1	Union.
12026
12027	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
12028			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
12029	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
12030	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
12031			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
12032			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
12033	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
12034	root	1.387	%
12035	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
12036			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
12037	root	1.387	%
12038	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
12039	root	1.388	>>Realität?
12040	root	1.1	>>
12041			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
12042	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
12043			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
12044	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
12045			>
12046			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
12047			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
12048	root	1.387	%
12049	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
12050	root	1.387	%
12051	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
12052			> into a random order???
12053			>
12054
12055			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
12056			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
12057
12058			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
12059			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
12060			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
12061			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
12062			number less than 42.
12063	root	1.387	%
12064	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
12065			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
12066			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
12067			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
12068			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
12069			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
12070			eventually invent Unix.
12071	root	1.387	%
12072	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
12073			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
12074			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
12075			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
12076			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
12077			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
12078			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
12079			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
12080			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
12081			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
12082			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
12083			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
12084			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
12085			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
12086			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
12087			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
12088	root	1.387	%
12089	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
12090			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
12091			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
12092	root	1.387	%
12093	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
12094			using a Perl CGI script?
12095	root	1.387	%
12096	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
12097
12098			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
12099			week.
12100	root	1.387	%
12101	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
12102			Brieweb> of PERL.
12103			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
12104			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
12105			[Randal Schwartz]
12106	root	1.387	%
12107	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
12108			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
12109			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
12110			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
12111	root	1.387	%
12112	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
12113			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
12114			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
12115			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
12116			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
12117			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
12118			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
12119			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
12120			system and restricting their options.
12121			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
12122	root	1.387	%
12123	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
12124			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
12125			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
12126	root	1.387	%
12127	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
12128			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
12129			Ernie Hai
12130			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
12131	root	1.387	%
12132	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
12133			: results" report from the users.
12134
12135			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
12136			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
12137			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
12138			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
12139	root	1.387	%
12140	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
12141			They are all owned by cats.
12142	root	1.387	%
12143	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
12144			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
12145			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
12146	root	1.387	%
12147	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
12148			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
12149
12150			Yesterday it worked
12151			Today it is not working
12152			Windows is like that
12153			- - -
12154			wind catches lily
12155			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
12156			segmentation fault
12157			- - -
12158			Three things are certain:
12159			Death, taxes, and lost data.
12160			Guess which has occurred.
12161			- - -
12162			A file that big?
12163			It might be very useful.
12164			But now it is gone.
12165			- - -
12166			Windows NT crashed.
12167			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
12168			No one hears your screams.
12169			- - -
12170			Errors have occurred.
12171			We won't tell you where or why.
12172			Lazy programmers.
12173			- - -
12174			Seeing my great fault
12175			Through darkening blue windows
12176			I begin again
12177			- - -
12178			The code was willing,
12179			It considered your request,
12180			But the chips were weak.
12181			- - -
12182			Printer not ready.
12183			Could be a fatal error.
12184			Have a pen handy?
12185			- - -
12186			Server's poor response
12187			Not quick enough for browser.
12188			Timed out, plum blossom.
12189			- - -
12190			Chaos reigns within.
12191			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
12192			Order shall return.
12193			- - -
12194			Login incorrect.
12195			Only perfect spellers may
12196			enter this system.
12197			- - -
12198			This site has been moved.
12199			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
12200			have to delete you.
12201			- - -
12202			ABORTED effort:
12203			Close all that you have.
12204			You ask way too much.
12205			- - -
12206			First snow, then silence.
12207			This thousand dollar screen dies
12208			so beautifully.
12209			- - -
12210			With searching comes loss
12211			and the presence of absence:
12212			"My Novel" not found.
12213			- - -
12214			The Tao that is seen
12215			Is not the true Tao, until
12216			You bring fresh toner.
12217			- - -
12218			The Web site you seek
12219			cannot be located but
12220			endless others exist
12221			- - -
12222			Stay the patient course
12223			Of little worth is your ire
12224			The network is down
12225			- - -
12226			A crash reduces
12227			your expensive computer
12228			to a simple stone.
12229			- - -
12230			There is a chasm
12231			of carbon and silicon
12232			the software can't bridge
12233			- - -
12234			To have no errors
12235			Would be life without meaning
12236			No struggle, no joy
12237			- - -
12238			You step in the stream,
12239			but the water has moved on.
12240			This page is not here.
12241			- - -
12242			No keyboard present
12243			Hit F1 to continue
12244			Zen engineering?
12245			- - -
12246			Hal, open the file
12247			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
12248			open it, please Hal
12249			- - -
12250			Out of memory.
12251			We wish to hold the whole sky,
12252			But we never will.
12253			- - -
12254			Having been erased,
12255			The document you're seeking
12256			Must now be retyped.
12257			- - -
12258			The ten thousand things
12259			How long do any persist?
12260			Netscape, too, has gone.
12261			- - -
12262			Rather than a beep
12263			Or a rude error message,
12264			These words: "File not found."
12265			- - -
12266			Serious error.
12267			All shortcuts have disappeared
12268			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
12269	root	1.387	%
12270	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
12271			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
12272	root	1.387	%
12273	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
12274			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
12275
12276			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
12277			early 1980s.
12278	root	1.387	%
12279	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
12280			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
12281			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
12282			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
12283
12284			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
12285			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
12286			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
12287			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
12288			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
12289			many new features that it just stops working.
12290
12291			This also applies to Microsoft products.
12292
12293			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
12294			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
12295
12296			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
12297			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
12298			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
12299
12300			Hope this explains what's going on
12301			Martien Verbruggen
12302	root	1.387	%
12303	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
12304	root	1.387	%
12305	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
12306	root	1.387	%
12307	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
12308	root	1.387	%
12309	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
12310			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
12311			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
12312	root	1.387	%
12313	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
12314			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
12315			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
12316			>
12317			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
12318
12319			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
12320			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
12321	root	1.387	%
12322	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
12323			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
12324			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
12325			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
12326	root	1.387	%
12327	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
12328			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
12329			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
12330			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
12331			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
12332			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
12333			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
12334			convienience store.")
12335	root	1.387	%
12336	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
12337			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
12338	root	1.387	%
12339	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
12340	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
12341	root	1.1
12342			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
12343			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
12344	root	1.387	%
12345	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
12346			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
12347			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
12348			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
12349	root	1.387	%
12350	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12351			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12352			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12353	root	1.387	%
12354	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12355			(A => B) => (B => A)
12356			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12357			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12358	root	1.387	%
12359	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12360	root	1.387	%
12361	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12362			-Barry Shein
12363	root	1.387	%
12364	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12365			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12366			read the manual.
12367	root	1.387	%
12368	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12369	root	1.387	%
12370	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12371			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12372			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12373			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12374			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12375			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12376			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12377			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12378			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12379	root	1.387	%
12380	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12381	root	1.387	%
12382	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12383			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12384			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12385	root	1.387	%
12386	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12387
12388			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12389			need.
12390	root	1.387	%
12391	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12392			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12393			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12394	root	1.387	%
12395	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12396			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12397			newsreaders. You know,
12398			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12399			back
12400			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12401			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12402			out what they're saying.
12403	root	1.387	%
12404	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12405			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12406	root	1.387	%
12407	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12408			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12409			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12410
12411			But the combination.... sutters
12412	root	1.387	%
12413	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12414			Darn it.
12415	root	1.387	%
12416	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12417	root	1.387	%
12418	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12419	root	1.387	%
12420	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12421			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12422			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12423			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12424			trying to use it.
12425	root	1.387	%
12426	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12427	root	1.387	%
12428	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12429			>
12430			> Is this group active?
12431			No.
12432
12433			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12434			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12435
12436			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12437			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12438	root	1.387	%
12439	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12440			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12441	root	1.387	%
12442	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12443			Press any key to continue..."
12444	root	1.387	%
12445	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12446			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12447			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12448	root	1.387	%
12449	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12450			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12451			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12452			adjust your travel plans.
12453	root	1.387	%
12454	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12455			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12456	root	1.387	%
12457	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12458			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12459
12460			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12461			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12462
12463			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12464
12465			tak 18 12 6
12466	root	1.387	%
12467	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12468			-- Bill Gates
12469			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12470			-- Bill Gates
12471			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12472			-- logical conclusion
12473	root	1.387	%
12474	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12475			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12476			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12477			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12478			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12479			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12480			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12481			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12482			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12483			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12484			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12485			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12486			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12487			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12488			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12489			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12490			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12491			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12492			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12493			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12494			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12495	root	1.387	%
12496	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12497			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12498			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12499			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12500	root	1.387	%
12501	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.