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1	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
2			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
3			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
4			%
5			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
6			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
7			%
8			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
9			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
10			me - lately?".
11			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
12			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
13
14			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
15			%
16			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
17			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
18			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
19			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
20
21			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
22			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
23			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
24			your lives be a living hell.
25
26			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
27			%
28	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
29			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
30			%
31			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
32			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
33			out with a problem I'm having?
34
35			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
36
37			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
38
39			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
40			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
41			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
42			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
43
44			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
45
46			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
47
48			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
49
50			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
51			[http://c2.com/]
52			%
53			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
54			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
55			right-parenthesis.
56			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
57			%
58			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
59			yourself?
60			Software development is the career for you!
61
62			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
63			%
64	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
65			-- Richard Dawkins
66			%
67			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
68			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
69			and security.
70
71			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
72			%
73			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
74
75			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
76			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
77			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
78			%
79			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
80			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
81			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
82			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
83			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
84			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
85
86			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
87			%
88			tiny hsv2rgb
89			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;}
90
91			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
92			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
93			}
94			%
95			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
96			Only Java makes it possible!
97
98			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
99			%
100			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
101			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
102			extremely poettering''
103			%
104			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
105			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
106			%
107			"I drank what?!"
108			-- Socrates
109			%
110			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
111			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
112			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
113
114			Jon Callas in
115			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
116			%
117			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
118			-- Conway's Law
119			%
120			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
121			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
122			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
123			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
124			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
125			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
126			untangling this mess right now so).
127
128			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
129			%
130			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
131			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
132			enabled on platforms that support it.
133			[xorg.conf(5)]
134			%
135			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
136			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
137			> would work on code.
138
139			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
140			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
141			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
142			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
143			%
144	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
145			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
146			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
147			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
148			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
149			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
150			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
151			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
152			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
153			%
154			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
155			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
156			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
157			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
158			very beginning.
159			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
160			%
161			systemd creates user session information in
162			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
163			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
164			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
165			allowed one session per user.
166			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
167			%
168	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
169			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
170			> about anything else.
171			>
172			> Why is it like that?
173
174			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
175
176			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
177			%
178			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
179
180			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
181			>>
182			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
183			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
184			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
185			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
186			>
187			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
188
189			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
190			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
191			%
192			(partial) Beaufort Table
193			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
194			Calm 0 0 0
195			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
196			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
197			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
198			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
199			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
200			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
201			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
202			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
203			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
204			%
205			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
206			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
207			%
208			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
209			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
210			%
211			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
212			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
213			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
214			on the cards.
215			%
216			[random comment from amule sources]
217			// trust noone ;-)
218			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
219			// wtf you guys are weird.
220			%
221	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
222			- Kin Hubbard
223			%
224			[random .sig]
225			I'm a muslim.
226
227			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
228			%
229			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
230			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
231			before.
232
233			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
234			%
235			<imho>
236
237			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
238			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
239			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
240			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
241
242			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
243			Java - public static void not fun.
244			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
245			C - usually not fun.
246
247			What about modern scripting languages?
248
249			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
250			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
251			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
252
253			</imho>
254
255			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
256			%
257			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
258			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
259			%
260
261			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
262			*
263			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
264
265			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
266			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
267			%
268			# The user is always right.
269			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
270			[autoconf]
271			%
272			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
273
274			/*
275			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
276			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
277			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
278			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
279			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
280			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
281			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
282			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
283			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
284			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
285			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
286			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
287			*/
288			%
289			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
290			was new to me:
291
292			switch(c)
293			{
294			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
295			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
296			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
297			case 'd': base=-10; }
298			switch(type)
299			{
300			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
301			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
302			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
303			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
304			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
305			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
306			default:val=0; break;
307			}
308			cp = __numout(val,base);
309			if(0) {
310			case 's':
311			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
312			}
313			%
314			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
315			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
316			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
317			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
318			extra second and see how far you get :-)
319			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
320			%
321			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
322			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
323			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
324			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
325			>
326			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
327			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
328
329			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
330			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
331
332			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
333			%
334			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
335			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
336			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
337
338			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
339
340			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
341			%
342			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
343			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
344			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
345			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
346			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
347			settings)
348
349			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
350			%
351			How do I deal with memory leaks?
352
353			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
354
355			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
356			%
357			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
358			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
359
360			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
361			%
362			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
363			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
364			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
365			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
366
367			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
368			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
369			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
370			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
371			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
372			rewarded for their creativity.
373
374			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
375			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
376			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
377			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
378			would never have made it in the first place.
379
380			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
381			%
382			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
383			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
384			%
385			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
386			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
387			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
388			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
389			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
390
391			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
392			%
393			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
394			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
395			- Mohandas Gandhi
396			%
397			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
398			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
399			handiwork of the Lord."
400			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
401			%
402			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
403
404			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
405			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
406			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
407
408			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
409			Scientist A publishes results.
410
411			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
412			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
413			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
414
415			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
416			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
417			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
418			A: ...
419			B: You fraud!
420
421			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
422
423			A publishes results.
424
425			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
426			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
427			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
428			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
429			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
430			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
431
432			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
433			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
434			%
435			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
436			them because they need the money to operate]
437
438			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
439			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
440			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
441			site or its bottom line."
442			%
443			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
444			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
445			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
446			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
447			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
448			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
449			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
450			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
451			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
452			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
453			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
454			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
455			%
456			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
457
458			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
459
460			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
461			%
462			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
463
464			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
465			>>>> and the beating of children?
466			>>>
467			>>> Subjugation of women...
468			>>
469			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
470			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
471			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
472			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
473			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
474			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
475			>> shake partner.
476			>
477			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
478			>
479			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
480			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
481			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
482			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
483			>
484
485			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
486			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
487			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
488			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
489			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
490			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
491			and your wife.
492			%
493			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
494			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
495			still kill you. - arestheblue
496			%
497			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
498			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
499			specifications for GSS-API.
500
501			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
502			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
503
504			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
505			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
506
507			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
508			%
509			[from the minix 3 users guide]
510
511			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
512			%
513			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
514
515			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
516			[...]
517			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
518			complaintant to guess this is true.
519			%
520			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
521			- Ken Thompson.
522			%
523			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
524
525			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
526
527			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
528			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
529			source code excerpt:
530
531			int sn()
532			{
533			char pwr;
534
535			int input1 = 0;
536			double output1 = 0;
537
538			system("clear");
539			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
540			cin>>input1;
541			output1 = (sin(input1));
542			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
543			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
544			cin>>pwr;
545			if(pwr == 'a')
546			sq();
547			if(pwr == 'm')
548			system("pause");
549
550			}
551			%
552			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
553			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
554
555			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
556
557			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
558			%
559			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
560			app for me" department:
561
562			From: Evan LeCompte
563
564			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
565			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
566			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
567			%
568			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
569			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
570			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
571
572			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
573			%
574			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
575			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
576			– Steve Jobs[47]
577
578			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
579			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
580			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
581			%
582			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
583			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
584			%
585			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
586			From: Patrick Horgan
587			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
588			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
589
590			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
591			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
592			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
593			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
594			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
595			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
596
597			[...]
598			%
599	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
600			— Peter Abelard
601			%
602			A man said to the universe:
603			"Sir I exist!"
604			"However," replied the universe,
605			"The fact has not created in me
606	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
607			- Steven Crane
608	root	1.431	%
609			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
610
611			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
612
613			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
614
615			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
616
617			– Sanskrit Saying
618			%
619			[anonymised discussion]
620			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
621			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
622			%
623			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
624
625	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
626	root	1.431
627			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
628			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
629			appear.
630			%
631			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
632			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
633			- Douglas Adams
634			%
635			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
636			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
637			%
638			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
639			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
640			%
641			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
642			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
643			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
644			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
645			%
646			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
647			%
648			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
649			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
650			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
651			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
652			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
653			%
654			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
655			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
656			or her career.
657			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
658			%
659			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
660			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
661			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
662			%
663			I LOVE YOU
664			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
665			%
666			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
667			the air impeller.
668
669			Alan Cox
670			%
671			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
672			with a minimum computer science background."
673			%
674			From: Eric Sosman
675			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
676			Subject: Re: about graphics
677
678			prince wrote:
679			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
680
681			#include <stdio.h>
682			int main(void) {
683			puts("graphics\rcommand");
684			return 0;
685			}
686			%
687			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
688			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
689			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
690			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
691			%
692			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
693
694			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
695			it still is a constant-time attack.
696			%
697			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
698			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
699			%
700			From: David Damerell
701
702			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
703			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
704			>caps to make it different.
705
706			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
707			painful but will take less typing.
708			%
709			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
710			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
711			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
712
713			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
714			%
715			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
716
717			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
718			> free than the BSD.
719			>
720			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
721
722			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
723			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
724			%
725			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
726
727			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
728			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
729			from incompatible pointer type
730			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
731			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
732			makes pointer from integer without a cast
733			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
734			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
735			%
736			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
737			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
738			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
739			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
740			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
741			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
742
743			[Chandon Seldon]
744			%
745			[Wikipedia]
746			Differences between vi and Emacs
747
748			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
749			%
750			[lost the reference]
751			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
752			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
753			%
754			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
755			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
756			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
757			%
758			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
759
760			Subject: Re: fcrack help
761			From: puezalb024@aol.com
762			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
763			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
764			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
765
766			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
767			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
768			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
769			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
770			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
771			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
772			piss on your leg.
773
774			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
775			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
776			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
777
778			[then, a day later]
779
780			Subject: Re: fcrack help
781			From: puezalb024@aol.com
782			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
783			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
784			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
785
786			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
787			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
788			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
789			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
790			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
791			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
792			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
793			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
794			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
795
796
797			-----Original Message-----
798			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
799			To: puezalb024@aol.com
800			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
801			Subject: Re: fcrack help
802
803
804
805			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
806	root	1.432	>
807	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
808
809			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
810
811			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
812			I hope you don't object :)
813			%
814			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
815			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
816
817			You made my day
818			%
819			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
820
821			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
822			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
823			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
824
825			Linus
826			%
827			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
828
829			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
830
831			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 ...
832
833			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
834
835			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
836			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
837			when sending emails to other people:
838			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
839
840			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
841
842			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
843			%
844			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
845			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
846			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
847			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
848			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
849			%
850			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
851			be used if run as administrator in windows.
852
853			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
854			%
855			[on italy]
856
857			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
858
859			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
860			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
861			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
862			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
863
864			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
865			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
866			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
867			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
868			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
869			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
870
871			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
872
873			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
874			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
875			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
876			from fascism period.
877
878			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
879			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
880			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
881			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
882			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
883			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
884			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
885			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
886			SIAE.
887
888			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
889			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
890			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
891			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
892			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
893			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
894			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
895			electronic ones
896
897			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
898
899			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
900			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
901			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
902			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
903			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
904			western country.
905
906			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
907			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
908			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
909			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
910			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
911			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
912			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
913			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
914			also the governments of "center-left".
915
916			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
917
918			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
919			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
920			without any restriction.
921
922			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
923			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
924			world.
925
926			Long life to the Bay, forever.
927			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
928			Thank you for reading.
929			%
930			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
931			>
932			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
933
934			How very ironic.
935			%
936			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
937			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
938			takes religion."
939
940			--Steve Weinberg
941			%
942			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
943			%
944			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
945			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
946			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
947
948			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
949			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
950			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
951			%
952			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
953			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
954			the right tool for me.
955			%
956			[deliantra]
957			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
958			%
959			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
960			%
961			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
962			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
963			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
964			%
965			From the CFA633 datasheet:
966
967			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
968			%
969			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
970			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
971
972			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
973			actually tells you it's American.
974			%
975			[better do not hire this programmer]
976			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
977			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
978			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
979
980			Hi
981
982			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
983			someone here can advise me.
984
985			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
986			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
987			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
988			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
989			happens with the customer looking on!!).
990
991			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
992			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
993			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
994			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
995			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
996			corresponding thing in C?
997
998			Thanks!
999			%
1000			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1001
1002			// See bug 53763.
1003			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1004			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1005			if (shell) {
1006			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1007			%
1008			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1009			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1010
1011			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1012			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1013			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1014			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1015			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1016			%
1017			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1018			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1019			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1020			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1021			“display quality too high”).
1022
1023			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1024			%
1025			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1026
1027	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1028	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1029
1030			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1031
1032			x / y * z
1033
1034			and
1035
1036			x / y * z
1037
1038			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1039
1040			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1041			design decisions.)
1042			%
1043			endergt:
1044			> snoofle:
1045			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1046			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1047			> > you understand what you are doing...
1048			>
1049	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1050	root	1.431
1051	root	1.432	debug
1052	root	1.431	%
1053			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%.
1054
1055			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1056			%
1057			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1058			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1059			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1060
1061			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1062			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1063			6 Decompilation
1064
1065			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1066			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1067			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1068			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1069			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1070			conditions are met: [...]"
1071			%
1072			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1073			%
1074			Why Linux Sux ?
1075
1076			Easy .
1077			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1078			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1079			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 .
1080			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1081			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1082			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1083			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! ) .
1084			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 .
1085			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1086
1087			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1088			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1089			working ones . Screw linux users .
1090			%
1091			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1092			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1093			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1094			%
1095			> The Dell 30"...
1096
1097			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1098			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1099			%
1100	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1101	root	1.431
1102			> > 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".
1103	root	1.432	>
1104	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!
1105	root	1.432	>
1106	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1107	root	1.432
1108	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1109
1110			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1111			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.
1112			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1113	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.
1114	root	1.431	%
1115			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1116			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1117			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1118			%
1119			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1120
1121			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1122			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1123			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1124
1125			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1126			anderen betriebssystemen.
1127
1128			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1129			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1130
1131			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1132			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1133			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1134			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1135			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1136
1137			Frage?
1138			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1139			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1140			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1141
1142			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1143			%
1144			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1145			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1146			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1147			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1148			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1149			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1150			%
1151			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1152			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1153			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1154			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1155			%
1156			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1157			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1158
1159			God bless the re-inventers
1160
1161			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1162			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1163
1164	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1165	root	1.431
1166			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1167			one.
1168			%
1169			[rfc2665]
1170			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1171			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1172			useful in theory than in practice.
1173			%
1174			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1175	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1176	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1177			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1178			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1179			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1180			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1181			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1182	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1183	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1184			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1185	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1186	root	1.431	15:30
1187			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1188			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1189			%
1190			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1191			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1192			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1193			%
1194			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1195
1196			Strictly for beginners
1197
1198			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1199			[...]
1200			%
1201			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1202			%
1203			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1204			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1205			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1206			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1207			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1208			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1209			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1210			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1211			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1212			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1213			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1214			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1215			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1216			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1217			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1218			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1219			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1220			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1221			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1222			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1223			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1224			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1225			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1226			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1227			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1228			%
1229			[A Gentoo User]
1230			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1231			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1232			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1233			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1234			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1235			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1236			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1237			%
1238			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1239			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1240			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1241			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1242			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1243	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1244			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1245	root	1.431	can do
1246			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1247			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1248			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1249			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1250			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1251			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1252			%
1253			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1254	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1255			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1256			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1257	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1258			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1259	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1260			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1261	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1262			%
1263			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1264			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1265			%
1266			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1267
1268			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1269			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1270			be slow in Windows 2000"
1271
1272			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1273			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1274			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1275			%
1276			[so much for type-safety]
1277			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1278			lst.add(null);
1279			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1280			%
1281			[just for reference]
1282			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1283			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1284			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1285			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1286			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1287			es nicht.
1288
1289			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1290			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1291			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1292			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1293			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1294			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1295
1296			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1297			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1298			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1299			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1300			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1301			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1302			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1303			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1304			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1305			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1306			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1307			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1308			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1309			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1310
1311			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1312			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1313			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1314			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1315			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1316			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1317			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1318
1319			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1320			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1321			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1322			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1323			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1324			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1325			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1326			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1327			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1328			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1329			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1330			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1331			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1332			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1333			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1334			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1335			alternativ' Idioten!
1336
1337			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1338			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1339			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1340			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1341			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1342			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1343			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1344			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1345			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1346			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1347			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1348			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1349			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1350			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1351
1352			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1353			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1354			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1355
1356			Ich will R A C H E !
1357
1358			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1359			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1360			Dinge zu sagen:
1361
1362			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1363
1364			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1365			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1366			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1367			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1368			anfange.
1369
1370			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1371			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1372			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1373			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1374			dieser verdammten schule!
1375
1376			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1377			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1378
1379			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1380
1381			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1382			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1383			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1384			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1385			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1386			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1387			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1388			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1389			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1390			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1391
1392			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1393			Einschulung.
1394
1395			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1396			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1397			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1398			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1399			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1400			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1401			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1402			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1403			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1404			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1405
1406			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1407			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1408
1409			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1410			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1411			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1412			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1413			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1414			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1415			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1416			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1417
1418			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1419			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1420			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1421			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1422			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1423			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1424			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1425			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1426
1427			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1428			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1429
1430			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1431			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1432			Hand genommen.
1433
1434			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1435			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1436
1437			Ich bin weg...
1438			%
1439			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1440			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1441			%
1442	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1443			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1444			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1445			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1446	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1447			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1448			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1449			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1450			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1451			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1452			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1453			%
1454			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1455			%
1456			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1457			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1458
1459			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1460			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1461			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1462			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1463			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1464			%
1465			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1466			%
1467			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1468			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1469			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1470			%
1471			[very funny read]
1472			Hack-a-Bike
1473			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1474			%
1475			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1476			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1477			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1478			still can.
1479
1480			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1481			%
1482	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1483			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1484	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1485			%
1486			[without words]
1487			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1488			%
1489			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1490			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1491			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1492			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1493			actual kid in an actual bath.
1494			%
1495			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1496			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1497			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1498			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1499			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1500			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1501			what happened to you.
1502			%
1503	root	1.432	--
1504	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1505
1506			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1507			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1508			%
1509			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1510	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1511			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1512	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1513
1514			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1515			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1516			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1517			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1518			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1519
1520			- Ted
1521			%
1522			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1523			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1524			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1525			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1526			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1527			me, but we have the truth!"
1528			%
1529			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1530			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1531			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1532			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1533			%
1534			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1535			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1536			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1537			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1538			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1539			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1540			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1541			genociding every monster.
1542
1543			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1544			genocide them for good measure!
1545			%%
1546			[nethack instadeath faq]
1547
1548			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1549
1550			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1551			%
1552			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1553			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1554	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1555	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1556			17:58 <Murch> lol
1557			%
1558			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1559			%
1560			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1561			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1562			%
1563			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1564			%
1565			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1566
1567			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1568			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1569			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1570			%
1571			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1572
1573			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1574			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1575			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1576			the Eastern Time Zone.
1577			[...]
1578			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1579			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1580			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1581			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1582			%
1583			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1584
1585			_dl_profile_output
1586			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1587			%
1588			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1589			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1590			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1591			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1592			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1593			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1594			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1595
1596			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1597			%
1598			[famous last words]
1599			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1600			%
1601			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1602
1603			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1604
1605			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1606
1607			--
1608			Jay Hennigan
1609			%
1610			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1611			%
1612			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1613			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1614			of homeland security]
1615			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1616			%
1617			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1618	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1619	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1620			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1621			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1622			range of spyware available to us?"
1623
1624			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1625			%
1626			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1627			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1628			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1629			%
1630	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1631	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1632			%
1633			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1634			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1635			%
1636			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1637			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1638			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1639			shooter.
1640
1641			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1642			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1643			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1644			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1645			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1646			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1647
1648			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1649			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1650			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1651			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1652			way.
1653
1654			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1655			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1656			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1657
1658			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1659			%
1660			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1661			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1662			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1663			> above comment about Hitler).
1664
1665			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1666			mention Hitler loses.
1667			%
1668			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1669			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1670			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1671			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1672			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1673			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1674			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1675			including <windows.h>.
1676			[...]
1677			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1678			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1679			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1680			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1681			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1682			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1683			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1684			environments.
1685			%
1686			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1687			%
1688			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1689			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1690			%
1691			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1692			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1693			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1694			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1695			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1696			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1697			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1698			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1699			companies want to own your computer.
1700
1701			Some examples:
1702
1703			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1704			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1705			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1706			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1707			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1708			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1709			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1710			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1711			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1712	root	1.432
1713	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1714			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1715			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1716			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1717			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1718
1719			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1720			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1721			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1722			from Microsoft? You can't.
1723
1724			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1725			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1726			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1727			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1728			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1729			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1730			adversely affect its business partners.
1731
1732			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1733			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1734			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1735			about your behavior.
1736
1737			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1738			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1739			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1740			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1741			presumed infractions.
1742
1743			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1744			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1745			Computing will only make the problem worse.
1746
1747			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1748			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1749			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1750			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1751			user's device against him.
1752			[...]
1753			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1754			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1755			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1756			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1757			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1758			back-room marketing deals.
1759			%
1760			[John Carmack on Java]
1761			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1762			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1763			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1764			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1765			performance.
1766			%
1767			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1768
1769			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1770			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1771			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1772			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1773			%
1774			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1775			%
1776			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1777			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1778			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1779			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1780			%
1781			http://funroll-loops.org/
1782			%
1783			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1784			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1785			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1786			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1787			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1788			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1789			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1790			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1791			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1792			Fahrenheit documentation.
1793			%
1794			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1795			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1796			sure its much slower than CVS]
1797			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1798			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1799			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1800	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1801	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1802			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1803	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1804	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1805			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1806	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1807	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1808			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1809			%
1810	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1811
1812			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1813			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1814	root	1.431	%
1815	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1816
1817			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1818			> systems ?
1819
1820			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1821			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1822
1823			Jesper
1824			%
1825	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1826
1827			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1828			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1829
1830	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1831	root	1.429	%
1832	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1833			%
1834	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1835
1836			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1837			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1838			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1839			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1840			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1841			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1842			but that's the truth.
1843			%
1844	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
1845
1846			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1847
1848	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1849			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1850			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1851			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1852	root	1.424
1853			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1854	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1855			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1856	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1857
1858			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1859			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1860	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1861	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1862			in Richtung Boden.
1863
1864			[...]
1865
1866	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1867	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1868	root	1.424
1869			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1870	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1871	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1872
1873			[...]
1874
1875			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
1876	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
1877	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
1878	root	1.424
1879			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
1880	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
1881			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
1882			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
1883	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
1884			sofort.
1885			%
1886	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
1887			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
1888			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
1889			software from Microsoft.)
1890	root	1.424	%
1891	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
1892	root	1.424	%
1893	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
1894
1895			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
1896			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
1897			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
1898			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
1899	root	1.424	%
1900	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
1901	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
1902	root	1.424	%
1903	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
1904			From: Rodrigo Severo
1905			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
1906			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
1907
1908			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
1909
1910			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
1911			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
1912			obviously-broken regulations like this.
1913
1914			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
1915			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
1916			brazilian ;)
1917			Rodrigo Severo
1918	root	1.424	%
1919	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
1920	root	1.417
1921			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
1922	root	1.424	%
1923	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
1924
1925			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
1926
1927			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
1928
1929			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
1930			squid (in mostly default debian config).
1931
1932			sigh
1933	root	1.424	%
1934	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
1935			By Bertrand Russell
1936
1937			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
1938			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
1939			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
1940			might be set forth as follows:
1941
1942			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
1943
1944			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
1945			evidence is sure to come to light.
1946
1947			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
1948
1949			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
1950			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
1951			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
1952
1953			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
1954			contrary authorities to be found.
1955
1956			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
1957			do the opinions will suppress you.
1958
1959			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
1960			was once eccentric.
1961
1962			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
1963			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
1964			agreement than the latter.
1965
1966			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
1967			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
1968
1969			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
1970			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
1971
1972			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
1973			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
1974	root	1.424	%
1975	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
1976	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
1977			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
1978			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
1979
1980			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
1981			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
1982			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
1983			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
1984			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
1985			United States."
1986	root	1.413	---
1987			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
1988			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
1989			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
1990	root	1.414	---
1991			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
1992			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
1993			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
1994			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
1995			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
1996
1997			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
1998			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
1999	root	1.424	%
2000	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2001			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2002	root	1.424	%
2003	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2004
2005			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2006			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2007
2008			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2009			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2010
2011			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2012
2013			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2014			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2015	root	1.424	%
2016	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2017			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2018	root	1.424	%
2019	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2020			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2021			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2022			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2023			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2024			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2025	root	1.424	%
2026	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2027
2028			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2029			they care about it?"
2030			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2031	root	1.407
2032			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2033	root	1.424	%
2034	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2035			-- Gregory Chaitin
2036	root	1.424	%
2037	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2038	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2039			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2040			[...]
2041	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2042			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2043	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2044	root	1.424	%
2045	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2046			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2047			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2048			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2049			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2050			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2051	root	1.424	%
2052	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2053
2054			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2055	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2056			return 0;
2057	root	1.424	%
2058	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2059	root	1.401
2060			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2061			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2062			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2063			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2064			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2065			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2066			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2067			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2068			> transparent.
2069
2070			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2071			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2072			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2073			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2074	root	1.424	%
2075	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2076			aber falsche Lösungen.
2077	root	1.424	%
2078	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2079			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2080			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2081			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2082	root	1.424	%
2083	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2084			>
2085			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2086			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2087			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2088			> than useful to the user.
2089
2090			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2091
2092			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2093			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2094			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2095			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2096
2097			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2098
2099			Linus
2100	root	1.424	%
2101	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2102			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2103			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2104			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2105	root	1.424	%
2106	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2107			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2108
2109	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2110	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2111			--
2112			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2113
2114			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2115	root	1.424	%
2116	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2117			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2118
2119			Person: What do you do?
2120			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2121			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2122
2123			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2124			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2125			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2126	root	1.394
2127			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2128			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2129	root	1.424	%
2130	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2131			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2132			illegal downloaders."
2133
2134			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2135
2136			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2137			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2138			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2139			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2140			have to emerge."
2141
2142			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2143	root	1.424	%
2144	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2145	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2146
2147			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2148			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2149
2150			Bye, Andy
2151	root	1.424	%
2152	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2153	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2154	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2155	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2156	root	1.390
2157			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2158			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2159			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2160			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2161			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2162			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2163			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2164			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2165			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2166			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2167			alle Benutzer.
2168			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2169			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2170			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2171			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2172			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2173			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2174			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2175			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2176			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2177			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2178			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2179	root	1.424	%
2180	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2181
2182			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2183			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2184			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2185			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2186			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2187			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2188			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2189			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2190			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2191			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2192			unfinished operations, etc.
2193			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2194
2195			Valid options:
2196			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2197			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2198
2199			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2200	root	1.424	%
2201	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2202			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2203			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2204			to provide.
2205			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2206	root	1.424	%
2207	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2208
2209			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2210			alarm people more.
2211
2212			-Nate
2213
2214			[...]
2215
2216			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2217			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2218			image of the language that is created here.
2219
2220			Juerd
2221
2222			[...]
2223
2224			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2225			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2226			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2227
2228	root	1.432	--
2229	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2230	root	1.387	%
2231	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2232	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2233	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2234			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2235	root	1.387	%
2236	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2237			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2238	root	1.387	%
2239	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2240			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2241	root	1.387	%
2242	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2243			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2244			[...]
2245			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2246			"Windows is broken."
2247	root	1.387	%
2248	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2249			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2250			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2251	root	1.387	%
2252	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2253			on being able to kill their children legally]
2254			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2255	root	1.387	%
2256	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2257			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2258			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2259	root	1.387	%
2260	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2261			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2262			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2263			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2264			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2265			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2266	root	1.378	--
2267			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2268			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2269			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2270			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2271			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2272			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2273			wasteful government spending."
2274	root	1.387	%
2275	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2276			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2277	root	1.387	%
2278	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2279			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2280	root	1.387	%
2281	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2282			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2283	root	1.387	%
2284	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2285			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2286	root	1.387	%
2287	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2288	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2289	root	1.387	%
2290	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2291			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2292	root	1.387	%
2293	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2294			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2295	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2296	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2297			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2298	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2299	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
2300			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2301	root	1.387	%
2302	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2303			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2304	root	1.387	%
2305	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2306			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2307			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2308			their weapons over our heads."
2309			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2310	root	1.387	%
2311	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2312			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2313	root	1.387	%
2314	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2315			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2316			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2317			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2318			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2319	root	1.387	%
2320	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2321	root	1.387	%
2322	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2323			several requests for clarification.
2324
2325			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2326			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2327			unter TCG definitions.
2328	root	1.387	%
2329	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2330			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2331			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2332			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2333	root	1.387	%
2334	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2335			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2336			get people on board.
2337			%
2338	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2339			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2340			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2341			DRM.
2342
2343			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2344			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2345	root	1.387	%
2346	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2347			switch ($decade) {
2348			case "the 50's":
2349			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2350			break;
2351			case "the 60's":
2352			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2353			break;
2354			case "the 70's":
2355			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2356			break;
2357			case "the 80's":
2358			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2359			break;
2360			case "the 90's":
2361			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2362			break;
2363			case "the 00's":
2364			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2365			break;
2366			}
2367	root	1.387	%
2368	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2369
2370			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2371			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2372			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2373			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2374
2375			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2376			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2377			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2378
2379			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2380			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2381			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2382			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2383			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2384			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2385			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2386			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2387			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2388			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2389	root	1.387	%
2390	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2391			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2392			married or unmarried."
2393
2394			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2395			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2396			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2397			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2398			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2399	root	1.387	%
2400	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2401
2402			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2403			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2404			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2405			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2406			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2407			conditioning.
2408
2409			[And this is religion at its best:]
2410			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2411			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2412			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2413	root	1.387	%
2414	root	1.361	[Racism]
2415			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2416	root	1.387	%
2417	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2418			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2419	root	1.387	%
2420	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2421			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2422
2423			I apologise for this.
2424
2425			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2426			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2427	root	1.387	%
2428	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2429			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2430			el says: ich kenn da wen
2431			el says: bei dem wars so
2432			[...]
2433			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2434			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2435			el says: gehirntumor auch
2436			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2437	root	1.387	%
2438	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2439	root	1.387	%
2440	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2441			no sense in the kernel]
2442			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2443
2444			[...]
2445
2446			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2447			models.
2448
2449			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2450			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2451			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2452	root	1.387	%
2453	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2454			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2455			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2456			--
2457			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2458	root	1.355	--
2459			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2460			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2461			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2462			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2463	root	1.387	%
2464	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2465			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2466			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2467			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2468			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2469			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2470			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2471			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2472	root	1.387	%
2473	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2474			which you currently do not posess]
2475			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2476	root	1.387	%
2477	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2478			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2479	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2480	root	1.387	%
2481	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2482	root	1.387	%
2483	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2484			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2485	root	1.387	%
2486	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2487			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2488			paragraphs.
2489	root	1.387	%
2490	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2491			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2492			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2493	root	1.387	%
2494	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2495			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2496
2497			Most catholics aren't American.
2498	root	1.387	%
2499	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2500
2501			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2502			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2503			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2504			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2505			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2506
2507			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2508			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2509	root	1.387	%
2510	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2511			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2512			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2513			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2514			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2515			criminals."
2516	root	1.387	%
2517	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2518			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2519	root	1.387	%
2520	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2521			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2522	root	1.387	%
2523	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2524			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2525	root	1.387	%
2526	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2527			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2528			card (They went up in flames).
2529	root	1.387	%
2530	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2531			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2532			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2533			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2534	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2535	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2536	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2537	root	1.387	%
2538	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2539			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2540			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2541
2542			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2543
2544			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2545	root	1.387	%
2546	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2547			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2548			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2549			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2550			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2551			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2552			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2553			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2554			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2555			--
2556			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2557			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2558			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2559			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2560			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2561			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2562	root	1.387	%
2563	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2564			The Obfuscated V contest
2565	root	1.387	%
2566	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2567			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2568			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2569			cigarette lighters."
2570			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2571	root	1.387	%
2572	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2573			Does it run under Windows ?
2574			- Who cares?
2575	root	1.387	%
2576	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2577	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2578	root	1.387	%
2579	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2580			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2581			[...]
2582			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2583			[...]
2584			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2585			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2586			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2587	root	1.387	%
2588	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2589	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2590			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2591			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2592	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2593	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2594	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2595	root	1.330	> mehr!
2596			> richy.
2597
2598			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2599	root	1.387	%
2600	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2601	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2602			> zugetragen hat?
2603
2604			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2605			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2606	root	1.388	[später]
2607			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2608	root	1.329
2609			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2610			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2611			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2612			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2613			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2614
2615			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2616
2617			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2618			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2619			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2620	root	1.387	%
2621	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2622	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2623			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2624	root	1.387	%
2625	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2626			/* give the hook another try */
2627			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2628			break;
2629	root	1.387	%
2630	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2631	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2632	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2633			#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))
2634	root	1.387	%
2635	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2636	root	1.387	%
2637	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2638	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2639	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2640	root	1.432	>
2641			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2642			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2643	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2644	root	1.432	>
2645			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2646			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2647	root	1.324	> as TO).
2648	root	1.432	>
2649	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2650
2651			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2652			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2653			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2654			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2655			being discourteous to.
2656
2657			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2658			--
2659			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2660	root	1.387	%
2661	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2662	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2663	root	1.387	%
2664	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2665			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2666			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2667			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2668			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2669	root	1.387	%
2670	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2671			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2672			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2673			you don't have any'."
2674	root	1.323
2675			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2676			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2677			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2678			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2679	root	1.387	%
2680	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2681			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2682			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2683			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2684	root	1.387	%
2685	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2686			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2687			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2688			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2689			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2690			reason will not win many fans.
2691
2692			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2693			documents in the algorithm section]
2694	root	1.387	%
2695	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2696			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2697			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2698			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2699			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2700
2701			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2702	root	1.387	%
2703	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2704			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2705			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2706	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2707	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2708			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2709	root	1.387	%
2710	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2711	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2712	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2713	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2714			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2715	root	1.387	%
2716	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2717			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2718			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2719			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2720			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2721			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2722	root	1.387	%
2723	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2724			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2725	root	1.387	%
2726	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2727	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2728	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2729			* at their price list.
2730	root	1.387	%
2731	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2732			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2733			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2734			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2735			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2736			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2737			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2738	root	1.387	%
2739	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2740			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2741	root	1.387	%
2742	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2743			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2744			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2745			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2746	root	1.387	%
2747	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2748	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2749	root	1.387	%
2750	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
2751			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2752	root	1.387	%
2753	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
2754	root	1.387	%
2755	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
2756			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2757			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2758			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2759			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2760			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2761			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2762			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2763	root	1.387	%
2764	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
2765			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2766	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2767	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2768	root	1.387	%
2769	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2770	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2771	root	1.387	%
2772	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
2773	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2774			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2775			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2776	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2777
2778			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2779
2780			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2781			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2782	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2783	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
2784
2785			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2786
2787			[usw.]
2788
2789			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2790	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2791	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2792
2793			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2794			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2795			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2796			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2797			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2798	root	1.387	%
2799	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2800	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2801			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2802	root	1.387	%
2803	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2804			Which fanboy are you?
2805
2806			1. Windows
2807
2808			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2809			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2810			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2811			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2812			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2813			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2814			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2815			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2816			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2817
2818			2. Apple
2819
2820			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2821			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2822			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2823			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2824			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2825			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2826			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2827			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2828
2829			3. Linspire
2830
2831			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2832			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2833			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2834			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2835			installed Linspire on your machine.
2836
2837			4. Umbongo
2838
2839			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2840			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2841			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2842			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2843			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2844			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2845			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2846			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2847			themselves.
2848
2849			5. Gentoy
2850
2851			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2852			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2853			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2854			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2855			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2856			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2857			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2858			read those complicated regulatory documents.
2859
2860			6. Linux From Scratch
2861
2862			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2863			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2864			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2865			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2866			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2867			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2868			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2869	root	1.387	%
2870	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
2871			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2872	root	1.387	%
2873	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2874
2875			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
2876			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
2877
2878			Coda 6.0.10 is out
2879	root	1.387	%
2880	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
2881
2882			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
2883	root	1.432	>
2884	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
2885	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
2886	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
2887			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
2888			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
2889	root	1.432	>
2890			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
2891	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
2892	root	1.432	>
2893	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
2894			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
2895	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
2896	root	1.387	%
2897	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
2898	root	1.387	%
2899	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
2900	root	1.387	%
2901	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
2902	root	1.387	%
2903	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
2904			show "Correspondent"]
2905	root	1.288
2906			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
2907			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
2908
2909			[so know we know who creates reality now]
2910			%
2911	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
2912			cock sucking, blowjob
2913			=> fellatio, fellation
2914			=> oral sex, head
2915			=> perversion, sexual perversion
2916			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
2917			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
2918			=> organic process, biological process
2919			=> process
2920			=> phenomenon
2921	root	1.387	%
2922	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
2923			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
2924	root	1.387	%
2925	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
2926			[slightly edited]
2927			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
2928			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
2929			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
2930			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
2931
2932			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
2933			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
2934			laws on terrorism and drugs.
2935
2936			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
2937			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
2938	root	1.387	%
2939	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
2940			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
2941	root	1.387	%
2942	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
2943	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
2944	root	1.387	%
2945	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
2946	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
2947			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
2948	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2949	root	1.387	%
2950	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
2951			- oesi
2952	root	1.387	%
2953	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
2954			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
2955	root	1.387	%
2956	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
2957	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
2958	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
2959			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
2960
2961			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
2962			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
2963			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
2964			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
2965			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
2966			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
2967			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
2968			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
2969			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
2970			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
2971			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
2972			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
2973			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
2974			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
2975			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
2976			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
2977			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
2978			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
2979			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
2980			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
2981			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
2982			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
2983			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
2984			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
2985
2986			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
2987			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
2988			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
2989			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
2990			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
2991
2992			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
2993			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
2994			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
2995			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
2996			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
2997			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
2998			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
2999			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3000			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3001			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3002			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3003
3004			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3005			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3006			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3007			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3008			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3009			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3010			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3011			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3012			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3013			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3014			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3015			sovereign nation.
3016
3017			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3018			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3019			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3020			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3021			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3022			CSPAN, don't post here.
3023
3024			-scott
3025	root	1.387	%
3026	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3027			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3028			capacity to feel pain.
3029
3030			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3031			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3032	root	1.387	%
3033	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3034			From: Sven Neumann
3035
3036			Hi,
3037
3038	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3039	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3040	root	1.273
3041			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3042			that
3043
3044			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3045
3046			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3047	root	1.387	%
3048	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3049	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3050			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3051			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3052	root	1.387	%
3053	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3054			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3055			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3056			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3057			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3058			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3059	root	1.387	%
3060	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3061	root	1.270	interesting read]
3062			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3063	root	1.387	%
3064	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3065			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3066			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3067	root	1.387	%
3068	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3069			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3070			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3071			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3072			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3073			locks can open the gate.
3074
3075			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3076			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3077			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3078	root	1.387	%
3079	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3080			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3081	root	1.387	%
3082	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3083
3084			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3085
3086			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3087			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3088			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3089			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3090			explanation of this.
3091
3092			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3093
3094			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3095			which explains why the hammer falls.
3096
3097			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3098			how a population's genome can change over time.
3099
3100	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3101			mathematical relationship between two values.
3102	root	1.265
3103			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3104			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3105
3106			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3107			acceleration.
3108
3109			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3110			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3111			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3112			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3113			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3114			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3115			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3116			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3117			false.
3118
3119			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3120	root	1.387	%
3121	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3122	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3123
3124			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3125			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3126	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3127			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3128			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3129	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3130
3131	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3132			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3133			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3134			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3135			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3136			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3137			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3138	root	1.264
3139			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3140	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3141			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3142			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3143			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3144	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3145	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3146	root	1.264	sportlich.
3147
3148	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3149			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3150			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3151			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3152			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3153	root	1.264
3154	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3155	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3156	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3157			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3158	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3159
3160			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3161			Forscher.
3162	root	1.387	%
3163	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3164			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3165			EULA-style license]
3166	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3167	root	1.387	%
3168	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3169			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3170			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3171			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3172			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3173			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3174			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3175	root	1.387	%
3176	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3177	root	1.387	%
3178	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3179			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3180			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3181			00:24 <schmorp> re
3182	root	1.387	%
3183	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3184	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3185			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3186	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3187			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3188	root	1.387	%
3189	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3190			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3191			proponents of such theories.]
3192			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3193			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3194			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3195			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3196			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3197			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3198			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3199			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3200			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3201			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3202			(below, right)."
3203	root	1.387	%
3204	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3205			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3206			[useful info...]
3207			http://www.snopes.com/
3208	root	1.387	%
3209	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3210			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3211	root	1.387	%
3212	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3213			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3214	root	1.387	%
3215	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3216	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3217			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3218	root	1.387	%
3219	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3220			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3221			#!/usr/bin/sh
3222			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3223			# All Rights Reserved
3224
3225			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3226			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3227			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3228
3229			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3230	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3231	root	1.387	%
3232	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3233			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3234			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3235	root	1.387	%
3236	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3237			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3238			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3239			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3240			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3241			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3242			#
3243			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3244	root	1.387	%
3245	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3246	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3247			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3248			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3249	root	1.387	%
3250	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3251	root	1.387	%
3252	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3253	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3254			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3255	root	1.387	%
3256	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3257			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3258			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3259	root	1.387	%
3260	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3261	root	1.387	%
3262	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3263			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3264			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3265			that you have a problem.)
3266			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3267	root	1.387	%
3268	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3269			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3270	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3271	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3272
3273			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3274			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3275	root	1.387	%
3276	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3277			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3278
3279			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3280			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3281			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3282			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3283			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3284			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3285			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3286			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3287			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3288			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3289			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3290			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3291			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3292			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3293
3294			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3295			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3296			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3297			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3298			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3299			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3300			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3301	root	1.387	%
3302	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3303	root	1.239
3304			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3305			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3306			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3307	root	1.387	%
3308	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3309			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3310			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3311	root	1.387	%
3312	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3313
3314			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3315			;)
3316	root	1.387	%
3317	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3318			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3319			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3320			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3321
3322			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3323
3324	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3325			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3326	root	1.387	%
3327	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3328			using so many abbreviations...]
3329
3330			Hi Volker -
3331
3332			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3333	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3334			spät ...
3335	root	1.234
3336			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3337
3338			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3339
3340	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3341			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3342	root	1.234
3343	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3344	root	1.234
3345			tom
3346	root	1.247
3347	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3348	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3349	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3350	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3351	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3352	root	1.387	%
3353	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3354			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3355			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3356
3357			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3358	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3359			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3360	root	1.233	> someone else?
3361
3362			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3363			===================================================================
3364			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3365			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3366			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3367			S: 79098 Freiburg
3368			S: Germany
3369
3370			+N: Hans Reiser
3371			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3372			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3373			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3374			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3375			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3376			+S: USA
3377			+
3378			N: Joerg Reuter
3379			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3380			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3381	root	1.387	%
3382	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3383			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3384	root	1.387	%
3385	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3386			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3387	root	1.387	%
3388	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3389			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3390	root	1.387	%
3391	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3392			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3393			[...]
3394			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3395			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3396			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3397			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3398			[...]
3399			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3400			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3401			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3402			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3403	root	1.387	%
3404	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3405			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3406			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3407			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3408			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3409			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3410	root	1.387	%
3411	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3412	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3413			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3414			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3415			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3416			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3417			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3418			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3419			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3420	root	1.387	%
3421	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3422			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3423	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3424	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3425	root	1.387	%
3426	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3427			[yes, the whole thing]
3428	root	1.387	%
3429	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3430	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3431			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3432			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3433	root	1.221	>
3434			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3435
3436			We'll use a larger wall.
3437	root	1.387	%
3438	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3439			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3440			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3441			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3442
3443			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3444			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3445
3446			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3447			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3448
3449			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3450			cost.
3451			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3452	root	1.387	%
3453	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3454
3455	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3456	root	1.219
3457			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3458
3459	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3460	root	1.387	%
3461	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3462			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3463	root	1.387	%
3464	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3465			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3466	root	1.387	%
3467	root	1.215	[translated]
3468			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3469			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3470			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3471			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3472			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3473			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3474			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3475			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3476	root	1.387	%
3477	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3478			-- Lord Balfour
3479	root	1.387	%
3480	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3481	root	1.387	%
3482	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3483			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3484			him to forgive me.
3485	root	1.387	%
3486	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3487			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3488
3489			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3490	root	1.387	%
3491	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3492			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3493			get bored during the sex scenes.
3494	root	1.387	%
3495	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3496			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3497			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3498	root	1.387	%
3499	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3500			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3501			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3502			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3503			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3504			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3505	root	1.387	%
3506	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3507			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3508			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3509			HP-UX customer. [...]
3510	root	1.387	%
3511	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3512			>>
3513			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3514			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3515			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3516			>>spelled it in UC.
3517	root	1.247	>
3518			>
3519	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3520
3521			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3522	root	1.387	%
3523	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3524			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3525
3526			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3527			usage.
3528
3529			Richard
3530	root	1.387	%
3531	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3532			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3533			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3534			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3535			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3536			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3537	root	1.387	%
3538	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3539			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3540	root	1.387	%
3541	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3542	root	1.387	%
3543	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3544			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3545			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3546			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3547			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3548			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3549			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3550			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3551			existence means and implies.
3552
3553			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3554	root	1.387	%
3555	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3556			>
3557			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3558			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3559			>
3560			> You're WRONG!
3561
3562	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3563			and §7.20.3.1).
3564	root	1.387	%
3565	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3566			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3567			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3568	root	1.387	%
3569	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3570			A. It should be obvious.
3571			Q. How is it hard?
3572			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3573			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3574	root	1.387	%
3575	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3576			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3577
3578			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3579			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3580
3581			- works ok on linux
3582			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3583
3584			Any clues why?
3585			I am new to the non windows world.
3586
3587			Thanks
3588	root	1.387	%
3589	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3590			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3591			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3592			> this ?
3593
3594			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3595			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3596	root	1.387	%
3597	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3598			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3599			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3600
3601			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3602	root	1.247	>
3603			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3604			>
3605	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3606	root	1.387	%
3607	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3608			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3609
3610			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3611	root	1.387	%
3612	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3613			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3614	root	1.387	%
3615	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3616	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3617	root	1.194
3618			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3619			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3620	root	1.387	%
3621	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3622			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3623	root	1.387	%
3624	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3625	root	1.387	%
3626	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3627			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3628	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3629	root	1.387	%
3630	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3631			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3632			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3633	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3634
3635	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3636	root	1.190
3637	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3638	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3639			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3640			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3641	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3642			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3643			schützen können.
3644	root	1.387	%
3645	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3646			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3647	root	1.387	%
3648	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3649			[...]
3650	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3651	root	1.188	[...]
3652	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3653			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3654			never get your message.
3655	root	1.387	%
3656	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3657			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3658			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3659	root	1.387	%
3660	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3661			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3662			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3663	root	1.387	%
3664	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3665			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3666			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3667			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3668			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3669			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3670			01:15 <schmorp> g
3671			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3672	root	1.387	%
3673	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3674			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3675			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3676			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3677			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3678			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3679			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3680			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3681	root	1.387	%
3682	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3683			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3684			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3685	root	1.387	%
3686	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3687			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3688			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3689			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3690			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3691			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3692			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3693	root	1.387	%
3694	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3695			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3696	root	1.387	%
3697	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3698			GNOME TERMINAL
3699			[...]
3700			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3701			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3702			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3703			[.. later]
3704			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3705			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3706			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3707	root	1.387	%
3708	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3709			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3710			/*
3711	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3712	root	1.179	*/
3713			void blip()
3714	root	1.247	{
3715	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3716			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3717			fflush(stderr);
3718	root	1.247	}
3719	root	1.387	%
3720	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3721			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3722
3723			Why not 666? :-).
3724	root	1.387	%
3725	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3726			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3727			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3728			users are clueless.
3729	root	1.387	%
3730	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3731			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3732	root	1.387	%
3733	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3734			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3735	root	1.387	%
3736	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3737			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3738	root	1.387	%
3739	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3740			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3741			and", and finally, ampersand.
3742	root	1.387	%
3743	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3744			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3745			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3746			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3747			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3748	root	1.387	%
3749	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3750			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3751			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3752			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3753			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3754	root	1.387	%
3755	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3756			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3757			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3758			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3759			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3760			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3761			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3762	root	1.387	%
3763	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3764	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3765			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3766	root	1.387	%
3767	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3768			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3769			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3770	root	1.387	%
3771	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3772	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3773	root	1.387	%
3774	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3775	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3776			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3777			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3778	root	1.167	%
3779	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
3780	root	1.387	%
3781	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3782			<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
3783	root	1.387	%
3784	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3785			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3786	root	1.164	einfach :)
3787			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3788	root	1.387	%
3789	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3790			/*
3791			* Function compares two strings.
3792	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3793	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3794			*/
3795			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3796			{
3797			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3798			[...]
3799	root	1.387	%
3800	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3801	root	1.387	%
3802	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3803	root	1.387	%
3804	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3805			/* grab colors before netscape does */
3806			Get_Colours ();
3807	root	1.387	%
3808	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
3809	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3810			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3811			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3812			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3813			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3814			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3815			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3816			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
3817	root	1.161	[...]
3818			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3819			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3820			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3821			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3822			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3823	root	1.387	%
3824	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3825			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3826	root	1.387	%
3827	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
3828			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3829	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3830	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3831			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3832			#endif
3833	root	1.387	%
3834	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3835			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3836			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3837	root	1.387	%
3838	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3839			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3840			>
3841			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3842
3843			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3844			--
3845			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
3846	root	1.387	%
3847	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3848			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3849			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3850			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3851			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3852			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3853			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3854	root	1.387	%
3855	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3856			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3857	root	1.387	%
3858	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3859	root	1.387	%
3860	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3861			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3862			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3863			-- Robert Fisk
3864	root	1.387	%
3865	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3866			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3867	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
3868			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3869	root	1.387	%
3870	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3871			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3872			high-violence culture"
3873			[...]
3874			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3875			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
3876			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
3877			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
3878			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
3879			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
3880			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
3881			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
3882
3883			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
3884			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
3885	root	1.387	%
3886	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
3887			Subject: Re: [...]
3888
3889			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
3890
3891			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
3892			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
3893			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
3894			> saved it :)
3895
3896			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
3897			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
3898			[...]
3899	root	1.387	%
3900	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
3901			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
3902			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
3903			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
3904			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
3905
3906			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
3907			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
3908			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
3909			[...]
3910	root	1.387	%
3911	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3912	root	1.387	%
3913	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3914	root	1.387	%
3915	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3916	root	1.387	%
3917	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
3918			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
3919			claim to have decades of java experience]
3920			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
3921			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
3922			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
3923			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
3924	root	1.387	%
3925	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
3926	root	1.387	%
3927	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
3928	root	1.387	%
3929	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
3930	root	1.387	%
3931	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
3932			[mail not to be delivered]
3933			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
3934	root	1.247	>
3935	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
3936
3937			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
3938			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
3939	root	1.387	%
3940	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
3941
3942			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
3943			>
3944			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
3945			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
3946			> >
3947			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
3948			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
3949			> > language which does support this?
3950			>
3951
3952			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
3953
3954			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
3955			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
3956			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
3957			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
3958			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
3959			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
3960	root	1.387	%
3961	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
3962			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
3963			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
3964	root	1.387	%
3965	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
3966			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
3967			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
3968
3969			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
3970			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
3971			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
3972			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
3973			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
3974
3975			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
3976			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
3977			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
3978			and thwart them that way.
3979	root	1.387	%
3980	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
3981			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
3982			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
3983			unfortunate decision.
3984	root	1.387	%
3985	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
3986	root	1.146	fest ;)
3987	root	1.387	%
3988	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
3989
3990			Last updated: - Invalid Date
3991	root	1.387	%
3992	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
3993	root	1.387	%
3994	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
3995			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
3996	root	1.387	%
3997	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
3998
3999			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4000			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4001			local object as a "he":
4002
4003			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4004			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4005			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4006			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4007			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4008			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4009			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4010			EX-PARROT!"
4011
4012			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4013	root	1.387	%
4014	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4015			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4016	root	1.387	%
4017	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4018			The police will shoot you.
4019
4020			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4021			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4022
4023	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4024	root	1.387	%
4025	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4026			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4027			reply.
4028
4029			pls. cc my email address
4030
4031			tia
4032			pd
4033
4034
4035	root	1.247	--
4036	root	1.141	^X^C
4037			q
4038			quit
4039			:q
4040			^C
4041			end
4042			x
4043			exit
4044			ZZ
4045			^D
4046			?
4047			help
4048			shit
4049			.
4050	root	1.387	%
4051	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4052	root	1.387	%
4053	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4054			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4055			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4056			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4057	root	1.387	%
4058	root	1.140	[I love it]
4059			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4060			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4061	root	1.387	%
4062	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4063			- Douglas Adams
4064	root	1.387	%
4065	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4066			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4067			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4068			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4069
4070	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4071			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4072			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4073			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4074			their software properly.
4075	root	1.138
4076			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4077			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4078			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4079			told the publication.
4080
4081	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4082			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4083			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4084			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4085			who want visibility and glory.
4086	root	1.387	%
4087	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4088
4089			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4090
4091			x Try not using it.
4092	root	1.387	%
4093	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4094			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4095			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4096			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4097			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4098			had given.
4099
4100			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4101			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4102			person as well."
4103	root	1.387	%
4104	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4105	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4106			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4107	root	1.387	%
4108	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4109	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4110	root	1.134
4111			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4112	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4113	root	1.135	[...]
4114	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4115	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4116	root	1.135	[...]
4117			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4118			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4119	root	1.387	%
4120	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4121	root	1.387	%
4122	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4123			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4124			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4125			-- Ulrich Drepper
4126	root	1.387	%
4127	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4128			-- Ulrich Drepper
4129	root	1.387	%
4130	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4131			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4132	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4133	root	1.387	%
4134	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4135			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4136			-- Ulrich Drepper
4137	root	1.387	%
4138	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4139			-- Ulrich Drepper
4140	root	1.387	%
4141	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4142	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4143			zuverlässiger
4144	root	1.387	%
4145	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4146			/*
4147			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4148			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4149			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4150			*/
4151	root	1.387	%
4152	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4153			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4154			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4155			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4156			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4157	root	1.387	%
4158	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4159			Pirating Movies
4160
4161			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4162			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4163			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4164	root	1.387	%
4165	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4166			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4167	root	1.387	%
4168	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4169			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4170	root	1.387	%
4171	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4172			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4173			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4174			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4175			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4176	root	1.387	%
4177	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4178			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4179			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4180			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4181			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4182
4183			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4184			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4185
4186			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4187			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4188			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4189			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4190			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4191			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4192			the first place!
4193	root	1.387	%
4194	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4195			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4196			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4197	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4198	root	1.387	%
4199	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4200			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4201	root	1.387	%
4202	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4203			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4204	root	1.387	%
4205	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4206			platform."
4207			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4208	root	1.387	%
4209	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4210			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4211			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4212			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4213			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4214	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4215	root	1.387	%
4216	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4217			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4218	root	1.387	%
4219	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4220			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4221			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4222			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4223			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4224			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4225			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4226			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4227			daily.
4228	root	1.387	%
4229	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4230	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4231			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4232	root	1.387	%
4233	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4234			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4235			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4236			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4237			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4238			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4239			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4240	root	1.387	%
4241	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4242	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4243	root	1.387	%
4244	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4245			[...so it must be good]
4246			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4247	root	1.387	%
4248	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4249			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4250			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4251	root	1.387	%
4252	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4253			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4254			No idea why I announce it here...
4255	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4256	root	1.387	%
4257	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4258			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4259	root	1.387	%
4260	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4261	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4262	root	1.387	%
4263	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4264			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4265			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4266			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4267			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4268
4269			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4270			Sacha.
4271	root	1.387	%
4272	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4273			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4274			desk one morning:
4275
4276			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4277
4278			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4279
4280			Employee: 123456
4281
4282			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4283			photograph of the employee.]
4284
4285			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4286			identification which has your picture on it?
4287
4288			Employee: Why would you need that?
4289
4290			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4291
4292			Employee: A picture of my face?
4293
4294			Security Guard: Yes
4295
4296			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4297
4298			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4299			compare against this one.
4300	root	1.387	%
4301	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4302			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4303			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4304	root	1.387	%
4305	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4306			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4307			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4308
4309			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4310			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4311	root	1.387	%
4312	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4313	root	1.387	%
4314	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4315			"RV K-17"
4316	root	1.387	%
4317	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4318			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4319	root	1.387	%
4320	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4321			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4322			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4323			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4324	root	1.387	%
4325	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4326			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4327	root	1.387	%
4328	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4329	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4330			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4331	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4332	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4333			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4334	root	1.387	%
4335	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4336	root	1.387	%
4337	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4338			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4339	root	1.387	%
4340	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4341			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4342			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4343			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4344	root	1.387	%
4345	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4346			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4347			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4348			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4349			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4350			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4351			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4352			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4353			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4354			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4355			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4356			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4357			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4358			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4359			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4360			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4361			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4362			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4363			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4364	root	1.387	%
4365	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4366			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4367	root	1.387	%
4368	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4369			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4370	root	1.387	%
4371	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4372			Lester Moore,
4373			Shot in the head with a .44.
4374			No Les, no more.
4375	root	1.387	%
4376	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4377			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4378
4379			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4380			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4381	root	1.387	%
4382	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4383			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4384			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4385	root	1.387	%
4386	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4387			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4388			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4389			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4390			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4391	root	1.112	[...]
4392			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4393			[...]
4394			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4395			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4396			the result with SHA.
4397	root	1.387	%
4398	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4399	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4400			> ist!
4401	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4402			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4403	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4404	root	1.387	%
4405	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4406			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4407	root	1.387	%
4408	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4409	root	1.387	%
4410	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4411			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4412			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4413			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4414			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4415			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4416	root	1.387	%
4417	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4418			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4419	root	1.387	%
4420	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4421			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4422	root	1.387	%
4423	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4424			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4425	root	1.387	%
4426	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4427
4428			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4429			* control history, is that we should at least
4430			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4431			* "initialisation"? */
4432			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4433	root	1.387	%
4434	root	1.105	[man pem]
4435			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4436	root	1.387	%
4437	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4438
4439			/* ``If you can't do it in
4440	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4441	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4442	root	1.387	%
4443	root	1.104	[subculture]
4444	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4445			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4446	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4447
4448			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4449	root	1.424	%
4450	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4451			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4452	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4453	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4454	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4455	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4456			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4457	root	1.387	%
4458	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4459	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4460			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4461			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4462	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4463	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4464			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4465			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4466	root	1.387	%
4467	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4468			aber wenig freude.
4469	root	1.387	%
4470	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4471			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4472			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4473			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4474			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4475			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4476			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4477			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4478			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4479			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4480	root	1.387	%
4481	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4482			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4483	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4484			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4485	root	1.387	%
4486	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4487			don't work well in practise.
4488			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4489	root	1.387	%
4490	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4491			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4492			"ready, fire, aim."
4493	root	1.387	%
4494	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4495			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4496			free countries like Germany [1].
4497			[...]
4498			Regards
4499			Henning
4500
4501			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4502			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4503			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4504	root	1.387	%
4505	root	1.98	[...]
4506			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4507			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4508			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4509			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4510			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4511			[...]
4512			Wolfgang Walter
4513	root	1.387	%
4514	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4515			burro: it seemed very clever
4516			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4517			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4518			burro: oops
4519			burro: accidental poetry
4520	root	1.387	%
4521	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4522			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4523			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4524	root	1.387	%
4525	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4526			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4527	root	1.387	%
4528	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4529			-- Oscar Wilde
4530	root	1.387	%
4531	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4532			"guilty until proven innocent"
4533			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4534	root	1.387	%
4535	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4536			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4537			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4538			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4539			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4540			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4541			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4542			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4543			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4544			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4545			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4546			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4547			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4548			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4549			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4550	root	1.387	%
4551	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4552			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4553			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4554			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4555			// suit particular needs.
4556			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4557	root	1.387	%
4558	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4559			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4560			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4561	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4562	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4563	root	1.387	%
4564	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4565			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4566	root	1.387	%
4567	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4568			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4569	root	1.387	%
4570	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4571			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4572			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4573	root	1.387	%
4574	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4575			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4576	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4577			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4578	root	1.387	%
4579	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4580
4581			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4582			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4583			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4584			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4585			is not [...]
4586	root	1.387	%
4587	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4588	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4589			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4590	root	1.387	%
4591	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4592			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4593
4594	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4595	root	1.94
4596			GUI
4597			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4598			Globale Variable
4599	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4600	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4601			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4602			strukturiert
4603			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4604			Multithreaded
4605	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4606	root	1.94	Windows 95
4607	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4608	root	1.94	Emacs
4609	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4610			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4611			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4612	root	1.94	IPv6
4613			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4614			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4615			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4616			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4617	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4618			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4619	root	1.247	PHP
4620	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4621	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4622	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4623			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4624	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4625	root	1.94	Bunt.
4626	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4627			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4628			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4629	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4630	root	1.387	%
4631	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4632			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4633	root	1.387	%
4634	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4635	root	1.387	%
4636	root	1.93	[nah]
4637			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4638			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4639			paint dry."
4640	root	1.387	%
4641	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4642			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4643			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4644	root	1.387	%
4645	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4646	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4647			importance.
4648	root	1.387	%
4649	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4650			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4651			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4652			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4653
4654			You have to trust Microsoft.
4655
4656			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4657			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4658			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4659			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4660			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4661			useless chrome.
4662
4663			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4664			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4665			I'd like to trust them with.
4666	root	1.93	[...]
4667	root	1.387	%
4668	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4669			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4670			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4671			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4672			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4673	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4674	root	1.91	--------------^
4675	root	1.387	%
4676	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4677			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4678			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4679			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4680			English grammar, I assure you.
4681	root	1.387	%
4682	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4683			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4684			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4685			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4686			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4687			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4688			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4689
4690			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4691			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4692			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4693			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4694			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4695			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4696			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4697			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4698			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4699			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4700
4701			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4702			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4703			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4704			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4705
4706			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4707			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4708	root	1.387	%
4709	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4710			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4711			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4712			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4713			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4714			work etc first:
4715
4716			#include <stdio.h>
4717
4718			int main (void) {
4719			while (1)
4720			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4721
4722			return 0;
4723			}
4724	root	1.387	%
4725	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4726			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4727	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4728	root	1.387	%
4729	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4730			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4731			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4732			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4733	root	1.387	%
4734	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4735			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4736			proprietary and patentend technology.
4737	root	1.387	%
4738	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4739	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
4740	root	1.387	%
4741	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4742	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4743	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4744			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4745			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4746	root	1.387	%
4747	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4748			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4749	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4750	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4751			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4752	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4753	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4754	root	1.87
4755	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4756			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4757			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4758			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4759			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4760			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4761	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4762			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4763
4764	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4765			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4766			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4767			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4768			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4769			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4770			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4771			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4772			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4773			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4774	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4775	root	1.387	%
4776	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
4777			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4778	root	1.387	%
4779	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
4780			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4781			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4782	root	1.387	%
4783	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4784			"linux" thing will fail]
4785			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4786			[...]
4787	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4788	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4789			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4790			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4791
4792			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4793			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4794			life to the public good.
4795
4796			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4797			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4798			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4799			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4800			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4801
4802			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4803			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4804			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4805			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4806			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4807			software to work on the linux kernel!
4808
4809			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4810			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4811			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4812			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4813			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4814	root	1.387	%
4815	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4816	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
4817			[...]
4818			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4819	root	1.387	%
4820	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4821			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4822			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4823			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4824	root	1.387	%
4825	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
4826	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
4827			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4828			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4829			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4830			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4831	root	1.387	%
4832	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4833			-- Leonard Brandwein
4834	root	1.387	%
4835	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4836	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4837			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4838			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
4839			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4840			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4841			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
4842			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4843			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4844			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4845			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4846			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4847	root	1.387	%
4848	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4849			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4850	root	1.387	%
4851	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4852			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4853			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4854			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4855			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4856			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4857			jurisprudence fun?
4858			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4859	root	1.387	%
4860	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4861			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4862			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4863	root	1.84	[...]
4864	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4865	root	1.387	%
4866	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
4867			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4868			- Paul Ginsparg.
4869	root	1.387	%
4870	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4871			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4872			home.":))
4873			[erm...]
4874	root	1.387	%
4875	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
4876
4877	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
4878	root	1.387	%
4879	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
4880	root	1.387	%
4881	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
4882
4883			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
4884			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
4885			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
4886			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
4887	root	1.387	%
4888	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
4889			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
4890			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
4891	root	1.387	%
4892	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
4893	root	1.83
4894			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
4895	root	1.82
4896			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
4897			to use in future emails?
4898	root	1.387	%
4899	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
4900			please?
4901
4902			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
4903			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
4904
4905	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
4906	root	1.387	%
4907	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
4908			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
4909			last until February 16th 2003.
4910
4911			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
4912			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
4913			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
4914			end.
4915
4916			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
4917
4918			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
4919			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
4920			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
4921			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
4922			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
4923			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
4924			take place on October 27th.
4925
4926			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
4927			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
4928			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
4929			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
4930			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
4931			the clock)...
4932	root	1.387	%
4933	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
4934			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
4935			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
4936			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
4937			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
4938
4939			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
4940			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
4941			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
4942			RedHat and SuSE).
4943
4944			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
4945
4946			Pavel
4947	root	1.387	%
4948	root	1.81	Rik
4949	root	1.247	--
4950	root	1.81	A: No.
4951			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
4952	root	1.387	%
4953	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
4954	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
4955			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
4956	root	1.81
4957			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
4958			no useful data.
4959
4960	root	1.247	--
4961	root	1.81	bill davidsen
4962	root	1.387	%
4963	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
4964			there was a long do..while construct,
4965			which contained a switch statement,
4966			which contained an if clause,
4967			which contained a break,
4968			which was intended for the if clause,
4969			but instead broke from the switch statement.
4970
4971			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
4972			network January 15, 1990
4973	root	1.387	%
4974	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
4975
4976	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
4977			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
4978			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
4979			violation of network policies.
4980	root	1.80
4981			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
4982
4983			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
4984			The format is as follows:
4985
4986			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
4987	root	1.387	%
4988	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
4989			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
4990			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
4991	root	1.387	%
4992	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
4993			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
4994			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
4995			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
4996			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
4997			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
4998			...
4999			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5000			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5001			the effort."
5002	root	1.387	%
5003	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5004	root	1.387	%
5005	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5006			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5007	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5008	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5009			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5010	root	1.387	%
5011	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5012	root	1.387	%
5013	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5014	root	1.387	%
5015	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5016			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5017			[Albert Cahalan]
5018	root	1.387	%
5019	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5020			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5021			least as bad, but lesser known.
5022	root	1.387	%
5023	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5024			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5025			different.
5026	root	1.387	%
5027	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.
5028	root	1.387	%
5029	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5030			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5031	root	1.387	%
5032	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5033			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5034			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5035			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5036			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5037			without a show.
5038	root	1.387	%
5039	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5040	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5041	root	1.387	%
5042	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5043	root	1.387	%
5044	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5045			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5046	root	1.387	%
5047	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5048			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5049			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5050	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5051	root	1.71	going on.
5052			[...]
5053	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5054			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5055			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5056	root	1.387	%
5057	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5058			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5059	root	1.387	%
5060	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5061	root	1.387	%
5062	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5063	root	1.387	%
5064	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5065			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5066			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5067	root	1.387	%
5068	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5069			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5070			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5071			returned data.
5072
5073	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5074			FindExInfoStandard
5075			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5076	root	1.387	%
5077	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5078	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5079			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5080	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5081	root	1.387	%
5082	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5083			it doesn't work:]
5084			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5085			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5086			this MIME type as the final determination.
5087	root	1.387	%
5088	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5089
5090			Recode 0.1.1
5091			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5092
5093			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5094			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5095
5096			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5097	root	1.387	%
5098	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5099	root	1.387	%
5100	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5101	root	1.387	%
5102	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5103
5104			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5105			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5106			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5107			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5108			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5109			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5110			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5111			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5112			century."
5113
5114			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5115			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5116			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5117			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5118			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5119			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5120			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5121			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5122			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5123			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5124			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5125			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5126			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5127			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5128
5129			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5130			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5131			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5132			hilarious in light of the above.
5133			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5134
5135			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5136			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5137			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5138			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5139			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5140			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5141			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5142
5143			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5144			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5145			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5146			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5147	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5148	root	1.387	%
5149	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5150	root	1.387	%
5151	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5152			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5153	root	1.387	%
5154	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5155			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5156			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5157
5158			Tony Hoare
5159	root	1.387	%
5160	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5161			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5162	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5163	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5164	root	1.387	%
5165	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5166
5167			[...]
5168			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5169			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5170			system. Basically its windows computer
5171	root	1.387	%
5172	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5173	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5174	root	1.387	%
5175	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5176
5177			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5178			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5179			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5180			> software developers...
5181
5182			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5183	root	1.387	%
5184	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5185			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5186			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5187			>
5188			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5189
5190			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5191			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5192
5193			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5194			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5195
5196			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5197			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5198			off by throwing away the patch.
5199
5200			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5201			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5202			patch any time soon.
5203
5204			--
5205			Daniel
5206	root	1.387	%
5207	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5208			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5209			[...]
5210			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5211			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5212			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5213	root	1.387	%
5214	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5215
5216			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5217			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5218			Is it realy needed?
5219	root	1.387	%
5220	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5221
5222			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5223
5224			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5225			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5226			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5227	root	1.387	%
5228	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5229			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5230			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5231			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5232			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5233			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5234			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5235	root	1.387	%
5236	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5237
5238			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5239			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5240			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5241			>
5242			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5243
5244			This is an ex-parrot
5245	root	1.387	%
5246	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5247
5248			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5249			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5250			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5251			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5252			>
5253			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5254			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5255
5256			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5257
5258			while (!sorted(data))
5259			;
5260	root	1.387	%
5261	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5262			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5263
5264			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5265
5266			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5267			to computing
5268	root	1.387	%
5269	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5270
5271			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5272			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5273
5274			Common sense, one would hope.
5275	root	1.387	%
5276	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5277			[...]
5278
5279			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5280			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5281			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5282
5283			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5284
5285			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5286			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5287			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5288			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5289
5290			:-)
5291	root	1.387	%
5292	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5293			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5294			their C programs."
5295	root	1.60
5296			Robert Firth
5297	root	1.387	%
5298	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5299	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5300	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5301			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5302	root	1.387	%
5303	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5304	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5305	root	1.387	%
5306	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5307			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5308	root	1.387	%
5309	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5310	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5311	root	1.387	%
5312	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5313	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5314			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5315	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5316			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5317	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5318			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5319
5320			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5321
5322			\Gisbert
5323	root	1.387	%
5324	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5325	root	1.387	%
5326	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5327			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5328			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5329	root	1.387	%
5330	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5331			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5332
5333			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5334			[...]
5335	root	1.387	%
5336	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5337			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5338			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5339
5340			ok 1
5341			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5342			not ok 2
5343			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5344	root	1.387	%
5345	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5346
5347			Cheers,
5348
5349			Andre Hedrick
5350			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5351	root	1.387	%
5352	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5353	root	1.247	>
5354	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5355
5356			Or mutabloat :-(
5357	root	1.387	%
5358	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5359			Outlook IS the solution.
5360	root	1.387	%
5361	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5362	root	1.387	%
5363	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5364
5365			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5366			never bought anything from UUNet.
5367	root	1.387	%
5368	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5369			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5370			by delving below its surface meaning)
5371	root	1.387	%
5372	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5373	root	1.387	%
5374	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5375
5376			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5377			> just go to court and say:
5378
5379			Oh glorious naivety.
5380
5381			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5382			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5383			> can do the work better than I).
5384
5385			You release the code
5386
5387			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5388
5389			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5390			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5391			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5392			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5393
5394			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5395			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5396
5397			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5398			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5399
5400			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5401
5402			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5403			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5404			or that the good guys win.
5405
5406			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5407			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5408	root	1.387	%
5409	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5410
5411			[...]
5412			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5413			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5414	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5415	root	1.51	year to kill.
5416	root	1.387	%
5417	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5418			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5419
5420			[...]
5421			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5422			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5423			of for Windows desktop systems."
5424			[...]
5425			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5426			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5427			[...]
5428			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5429			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5430			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5431			turned on by default.
5432			[...]
5433			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5434			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5435			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5436			[...]
5437			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5438			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5439			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5440			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5441			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5442			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5443			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5444			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5445			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5446	root	1.387	%
5447	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5448	root	1.387	%
5449	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5450	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5451	root	1.49
5452			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5453
5454			Monday, 06. November 2000
5455	root	1.387	%
5456	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5457			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5458	root	1.387	%
5459	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5460	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5461			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5462			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5463	root	1.387	%
5464	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5465			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5466			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5467			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5468	root	1.387	%
5469	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5470			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5471
5472			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5473			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5474			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5475	root	1.387	%
5476	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5477			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5478
5479			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5480			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5481			> dropped patches.
5482
5483			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5484	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5485	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5486			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5487			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5488			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5489	root	1.387	%
5490	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5491			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5492			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5493	root	1.387	%
5494	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5495
5496			From: Bill Huey
5497			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5498
5499			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5500
5501			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5502	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5503	root	1.45	themselves.
5504
5505			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5506			certain.
5507	root	1.387	%
5508	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5509			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5510			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5511
5512			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5513			appropriate approach to a problem.
5514	root	1.387	%
5515	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5516	root	1.44	^^^^
5517			[...]
5518			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5519			[...]
5520			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5521			-15 Nice winter day
5522			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5523			-5 Nice warm winter day
5524			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5525	root	1.387	%
5526	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5527			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5528			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5529			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5530	root	1.387	%
5531	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5532			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5533
5534			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5535
5536			-ben
5537	root	1.387	%
5538	root	1.43	[...]
5539	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5540			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5541			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5542			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5543			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5544			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5545			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5546			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5547			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5548			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5549			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5550	root	1.387	%
5551	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5552			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5553	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5554	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5555			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5556			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5557			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5558			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5559			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5560	root	1.43	statt...
5561	root	1.387	%
5562	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5563	root	1.387	%
5564	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5565			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5566			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5567			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5568			values." Who writes this stuff?
5569	root	1.387	%
5570	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5571	root	1.387	%
5572	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5573			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5574			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5575			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5576			> "Macao".
5577			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5578			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5579	root	1.387	%
5580	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5581	root	1.387	%
5582	root	1.40	Beitrag
5583	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5584	root	1.40
5585			fucklinux
5586
5587			IP: 217.83.123.198
5588
5589			1. FUCK LINUX
5590
5591	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5592	root	1.40
5593			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5594	root	1.387	%
5595	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5596	root	1.40
5597			[...]
5598			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5599			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5600			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5601			read...
5602	root	1.387	%
5603	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5604			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5605			depends on the unreasonable man.
5606
5607			-George Bernard Shaw
5608	root	1.387	%
5609	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5610
5611			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5612	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5613	root	1.387	%
5614	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:
5615	root	1.387	%
5616	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
5617			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5618			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5619			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5620			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5621	root	1.387	%
5622	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5623			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5624	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5625	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5626			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5627	root	1.387	%
5628	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5629			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5630			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5631			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5632			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5633			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5634			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5635			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).
5636			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5637			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5638	root	1.387	%
5639	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5640			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5641			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5642			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5643			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5644			removed in Windows XP.
5645
5646			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5647			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5648			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5649			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5650	root	1.387	%
5651	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5652			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5653			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5654			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5655			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5656			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5657			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5658			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5659			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5660			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5661
5662			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5663			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5664			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5665			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5666			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5667			you have no details?
5668			[...]
5669			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5670			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5671			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5672			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5673			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5674			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5675			the industrial terrorists want."
5676	root	1.387	%
5677	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5678			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5679	root	1.387	%
5680	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5681	root	1.387	%
5682	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5683			of each 50 days
5684	root	1.387	%
5685	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5686
5687			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5688			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5689			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5690	root	1.387	%
5691	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5692			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5693			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5694	root	1.387	%
5695	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5696			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5697	root	1.247	>
5698	root	1.35	> <...>
5699			>
5700			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5701			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5702			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5703	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5704	root	1.387	%
5705	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5706			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5707			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5708	root	1.387	%
5709	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5710			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5711			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5712
5713	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5714			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5715			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5716			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5717			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5718			changing run level, interactive boot.
5719	root	1.35
5720			Alan
5721	root	1.387	%
5722	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5723
5724			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5725			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5726
5727			First they came for the Communists,
5728			and I didn't speak up,
5729			because I wasn't a Communist.
5730			Then they came for the Jews,
5731			and I didn't speak up,
5732			because I wasn't a Jew.
5733			Then they came for the Catholics,
5734			and I didn't speak up,
5735			because I was a Protestant.
5736			Then they came for me,
5737			and by that time there was no one
5738			left to speak up for me.
5739
5740			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5741	root	1.387	%
5742	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5743	root	1.387	%
5744	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5745			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5746	root	1.387	%
5747	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5748			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5749			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5750			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5751
5752			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5753	root	1.387	%
5754	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5755
5756			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5757			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5758			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5759			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5760			used databases!"
5761	root	1.387	%
5762	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
5763
5764			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5765
5766			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5767			change that was not?
5768			[...]
5769	root	1.387	%
5770	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5771
5772			[...]
5773
5774	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5775	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5776			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5777
5778	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5779	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5780			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5781			them anywhere else").
5782
5783			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5784			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5785	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5786	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5787			order..
5788
5789	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5790	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5791	root	1.387	%
5792	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5793			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5794			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5795
5796			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5797	root	1.387	%
5798	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5799	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
5800			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5801			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5802			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5803	root	1.387	%
5804	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
5805			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5806
5807			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5808			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5809			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5810			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5811			series.
5812
5813			[...]
5814	root	1.387	%
5815	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5816	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5817	root	1.387	%
5818	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5819			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5820			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5821
5822			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5823			then save." g
5824
5825			/* Steinar */
5826	root	1.387	%
5827	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5828			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5829
5830			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5831			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5832			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
5833			a bill...
5834	root	1.387	%
5835	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5836			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5837			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
5838
5839			Sorry. Mea culpa
5840
5841			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5842			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5843			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5844			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5845			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5846			*/
5847			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5848			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5849			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5850			int fpu_exception;
5851	root	1.387	%
5852	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
5853
5854			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5855
5856			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5857			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5858			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5859			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5860			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5861	root	1.387	%
5862	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
5863
5864			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5865			people.
5866	root	1.387	%
5867	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5868			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5869
5870			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5871			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5872			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5873			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5874			the question.
5875			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
5876	root	1.387	%
5877	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
5878			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
5879			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
5880			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
5881			(September)
5882	root	1.387	%
5883	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
5884	root	1.387	%
5885	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
5886			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
5887			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
5888			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
5889			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
5890	root	1.387	%
5891	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
5892			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
5893	root	1.387	%
5894	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
5895			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
5896			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
5897			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
5898			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
5899	root	1.387	%
5900	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
5901	root	1.387	%
5902	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
5903	root	1.387	%
5904	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
5905			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
5906			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
5907			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
5908			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
5909			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
5910			you tell them.
5911	root	1.387	%
5912	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
5913			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
5914			alcohol.
5915
5916			Regards
5917			Henning
5918	root	1.387	%
5919	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
5920			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
5921			> on a desktop system.
5922
5923			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
5924			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
5925
5926			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
5927			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
5928
5929			Alan
5930	root	1.387	%
5931	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
5932			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
5933
5934			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
5935			>
5936			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
5937			> Use Welsh
5938
5939			Don't forget
5940
5941			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
5942			Use Finnish
5943
5944			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
5945
5946			And while we're at it,
5947
5948			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
5949			Use German
5950
5951			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
5952			Use English
5953
5954			MfG Kai
5955	root	1.387	%
5956	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
5957
5958			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
5959			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
5960			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
5961			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
5962			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
5963			there's no one thinking there.
5964			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
5965	root	1.387	%
5966	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
5967			scores the rules:
5968
5969			[*]
5970			Score:: =-9999
5971	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
5972	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
5973			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
5974			X-Mailer: Mozilla
5975			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
5976
5977			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
5978			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
5979			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
5980			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
5981			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
5982
5983			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
5984			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
5985			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
5986			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
5987	root	1.387	%
5988	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
5989			98 IIS servers online...
5990	root	1.387	%
5991	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
5992			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
5993			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
5994			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
5995
5996			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
5997			it to be otherwise.
5998
5999			Abigail
6000	root	1.387	%
6001	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6002	root	1.387	%
6003	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6004	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6005	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6006	root	1.387	%
6007	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6008	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6009	root	1.387	%
6010	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6011			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6012			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6013			software people doing the same)
6014
6015			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6016			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6017			irrelevant
6018
6019			Alan
6020	root	1.387	%
6021	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6022			Comments may nest.
6023	root	1.387	%
6024	root	1.22	[from findas]
6025			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6026			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6027			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6028			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6029			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6030			# address distributino is... arin.
6031	root	1.387	%
6032	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6033			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6034	root	1.387	%
6035	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6036			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6037			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6038			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6039			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6040	root	1.247	>
6041	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6042
6043			$foot->insert($mouth);
6044
6045			# or is that
6046
6047			$mouth->insert($foot);
6048
6049			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6050			How utterly optimistic :-)
6051	root	1.387	%
6052	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6053			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6054			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6055			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6056			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6057			>can see why it happens)
6058			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6059
6060			Well, there's perl... :)
6061	root	1.387	%
6062	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6063			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6064			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6065			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6066			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6067	root	1.247	* boxes.
6068	root	1.387	%
6069	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6070			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6071			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6072	root	1.387	%
6073	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6074			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6075	root	1.387	%
6076	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6077			From: Juergen Christoffel
6078			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6079			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6080
6081			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6082
6083			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6084			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6085			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6086			schon;
6087
6088			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6089			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6090			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6091
6092			Danke, JC
6093	root	1.387	%
6094	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6095			#undef REASONABLE
6096	root	1.387	%
6097	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6098			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6099
6100			Alan
6101	root	1.387	%
6102	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6103			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6104			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6105			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6106	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6107	root	1.18	> anything.
6108
6109			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6110			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6111	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6112			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6113	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6114			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6115
6116			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6117			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6118			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6119			always a good idea.
6120	root	1.387	%
6121	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6122			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6123
6124	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6125	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6126	root	1.387	%
6127	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6128			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6129			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6130			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6131	root	1.387	%
6132	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6133	root	1.387	%
6134	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6135	root	1.18
6136			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6137			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6138	root	1.387	%
6139	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6140			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6141			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6142			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6143	root	1.387	%
6144	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6145	root	1.387	%
6146	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6147			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6148			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6149			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6150			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6151			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6152	root	1.387	%
6153	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6154
6155			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6156			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6157			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6158			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6159			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6160			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6161			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6162	root	1.387	%
6163	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6164			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6165			future. Bleeeh]
6166
6167			From: Larry McVoy
6168
6169	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6170	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6171			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6172			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6173			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6174			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6175			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6176			not for the exceptional case.
6177	root	1.387	%
6178	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6179			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6180			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6181			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6182			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6183			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6184			stack.
6185
6186			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6187			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6188			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6189
6190			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6191			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6192	root	1.387	%
6193	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6194
6195	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6196			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6197			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6198			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6199	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6200	root	1.247	>
6201	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6202			> on the CPU?
6203
6204			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6205	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6206	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6207			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6208
6209			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6210			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6211			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6212			the point again".
6213	root	1.387	%
6214	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6215
6216	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6217			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6218	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6219	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6220	root	1.247	>
6221	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6222			> scenario.
6223
6224			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6225	root	1.387	%
6226	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6227	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6228			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6229			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6230	root	1.387	%
6231	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6232			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6233			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6234			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6235			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6236			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6237			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6238			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6239			anything.
6240	root	1.387	%
6241	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6242	root	1.387	%
6243	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6244			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6245	root	1.387	%
6246	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6247			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6248			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6249			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6250			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6251
6252			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6253	root	1.387	%
6254	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6255
6256			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6257
6258			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6259			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6260			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6261			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6262			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6263
6264			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6265			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6266			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6267			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6268			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6269			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6270			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6271			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6272			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6273			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6274			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6275			to work through the learning curve.
6276	root	1.387	%
6277	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6278	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6279	root	1.387	%
6280	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6281			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6282	root	1.387	%
6283	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6284			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6285	root	1.387	%
6286	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6287			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6288	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6289			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6290	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6291	root	1.387	%
6292	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6293	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6294	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6295	root	1.387	%
6296	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6297			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6298	root	1.387	%
6299	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6300			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6301			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6302			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6303			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6304			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6305			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6306			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6307
6308	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6309	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6310	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6311	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6312			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6313
6314			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6315			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6316			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6317			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6318			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6319			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6320			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6321	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6322	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6323			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6324			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6325	root	1.387	%
6326	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6327			/*---.
6328			\| ? \|
6329			`---*/
6330	root	1.387	%
6331	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6332	root	1.387	%
6333	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6334			From: Joe Buck
6335			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6336			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6337	root	1.387	%
6338	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6339			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6340	root	1.387	%
6341	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6342	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6343	root	1.387	%
6344	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6345	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6346	root	1.387	%
6347	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6348	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6349	root	1.4	...
6350			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6351	root	1.387	%
6352	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6353	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6354			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6355			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6356
6357			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6358
6359			Alan
6360	root	1.387	%
6361	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6362	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6363			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6364			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6365			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6366	root	1.387	%
6367	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6368	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6369			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6370			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6371			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6372			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6373			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6374	root	1.387	%
6375	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6376			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6377			will find an easier way to do it.
6378	root	1.387	%
6379	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6380	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6381			Paul wrote:
6382			>Marc wrote:
6383	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6384			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6385			> den richtigen.
6386	root	1.387	%
6387	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6388			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6389	root	1.387	%
6390	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6391			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6392	root	1.387	%
6393	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6394			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6395	root	1.387	%
6396	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6397			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6398			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6399			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6400			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6401	root	1.387	%
6402	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6403			[...]
6404
6405			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6406
6407			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6408	root	1.387	%
6409	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6410			> constants.
6411
6412			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6413	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6414	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6415	root	1.387	%
6416	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6417	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6418
6419			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6420			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6421			much to do with IRC.
6422	root	1.387	%
6423	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6424			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6425
6426			[...]
6427			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6428
6429			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6430			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6431	root	1.387	%
6432	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6433	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6434	root	1.387	%
6435	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6436
6437			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6438			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6439			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6440
6441			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6442			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6443			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6444			shows how much you know, pal.
6445
6446			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6447	root	1.387	%
6448	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6449			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6450			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6451	root	1.387	%
6452	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6453			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6454			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6455			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6456	root	1.387	%
6457	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6458			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6459			Your version of perl sucks.
6460	root	1.387	%
6461	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6462			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6463			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6464			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6465			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6466			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6467			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6468			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6469	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6470	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6471			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6472	root	1.387	%
6473	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6474			before you can understand it :)
6475	root	1.387	%
6476	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6477			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6478			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6479	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6480	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6481			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6482			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6483
6484			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6485			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6486			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6487			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6488			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6489			be worth attempting).
6490
6491			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6492			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6493			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6494
6495			Nick.
6496	root	1.387	%
6497	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6498			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6499			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6500
6501	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6502	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6503			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6504			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6505			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6506	root	1.387	%
6507	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6508			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6509			> > > to work :-)
6510	root	1.247	> >
6511	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6512	root	1.247	>
6513	root	1.1	> Eh?
6514	root	1.247	>
6515	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6516			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6517
6518			He didn't say it worked. :)
6519	root	1.387	%
6520	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6521
6522			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6523			> I find it irksome that
6524	root	1.247	>
6525	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6526
6527			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6528	root	1.387	%
6529	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6530			From: Simon Cozens
6531
6532			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6533			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6534			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6535
6536			Looks like a feature to me.
6537	root	1.387	%
6538	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6539	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6540	root	1.387	%
6541	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6542			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6543
6544			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6545			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6546			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6547			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6548
6549			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6550			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6551			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6552			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6553			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6554			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6555	root	1.387	%
6556	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6557			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6558			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6559			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6560			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6561			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6562			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6563			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6564			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6565			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6566			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6567			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6568
6569			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6570			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6571			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6572
6573			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6574	root	1.387	%
6575	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6576			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6577			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6578			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6579			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6580			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6581			replication."
6582			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6583	root	1.387	%
6584	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6585			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6586
6587			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6588			shows.
6589
6590			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6591			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6592			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6593
6594			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6595			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6596			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6597			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6598			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6599
6600			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6601			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6602			up with a saner protocol.
6603	root	1.387	%
6604	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6605			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6606			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6607
6608			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6609			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6610			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6611	root	1.387	%
6612	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6613			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6614			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6615			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6616			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6617			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6618	root	1.387	%
6619	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6620			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6621	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6622			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6623			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6624			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6625	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6626	root	1.387	%
6627	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6628	root	1.387	%
6629	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6630			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6631	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6632	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6633	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6634	root	1.387	%
6635	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6636			"ist mir egal"
6637	root	1.387	%
6638	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6639			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6640
6641			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6642	root	1.387	%
6643	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6644			hallole
6645	root	1.387	%
6646	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6647			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6648			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6649	root	1.387	%
6650	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6651			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6652			1929 The pause that refreshes
6653			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6654			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6655			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6656			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6657			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6658			1939 Thirst stops here
6659			1942 It's the real thing
6660			1947 Have a Coke
6661			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6662			1963 Things go better with Coke
6663			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6664			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6665			1982 Coke is it!
6666			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6667	root	1.387	%
6668	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6669			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6670	root	1.387	%
6671	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6672			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6673	root	1.387	%
6674	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6675	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6676			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6677			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6678			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6679			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6680			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6681			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6682			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6683			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6684			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6685			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6686			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6687			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6688			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6689
6690			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6691			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6692	root	1.387	%
6693	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6694			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6695
6696			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6697			uncool thing to do. [...]
6698	root	1.387	%
6699	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6700			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6701			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6702	root	1.387	%
6703	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6704	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6705	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6706	root	1.1
6707	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6708			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6709			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6710			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6711	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6712			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6713	root	1.387	%
6714	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6715			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6716			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6717			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6718			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6719			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6720			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6721
6722			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6723			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6724			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6725	root	1.387	%
6726	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6727
6728			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6729	root	1.387	%
6730	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6731			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6732			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6733			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6734			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6735	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6736	root	1.387	%
6737	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6738			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6739			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6740
6741			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6742			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6743
6744			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6745	root	1.387	%
6746	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6747	root	1.387	%
6748	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
6749			From: Alan Cox
6750			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6751			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6752	root	1.247	>
6753			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6754	root	1.1
6755	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6756	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6757	root	1.387	%
6758	root	1.1	From: Russell King
6759			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6760			To: Albert D. Cahalan
6761
6762			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6763			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6764			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6765			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6766
6767			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6768
6769			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6770	root	1.387	%
6771	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6772	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6773			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6774	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6775	root	1.387	%
6776	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
6777	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6778			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6779	root	1.387	%
6780	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
6781			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6782	root	1.387	%
6783	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6784	root	1.387	%
6785	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6786			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6787			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6788	root	1.387	%
6789	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6790			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6791			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6792			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6793			eloquent like `fuck'. */
6794	root	1.387	%
6795	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6796	root	1.387	%
6797	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6798			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6799			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6800			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6801			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6802			[09:41] <elmex> ?
6803			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6804	root	1.387	%
6805	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6806			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6807	root	1.387	%
6808	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6809			perl:]
6810
6811			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6812
6813			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6814			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6815			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6816			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6817			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6818			disable the message and pray it works"]
6819	root	1.387	%
6820	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6821			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6822			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6823			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6824
6825			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6826			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6827			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6828			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6829			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6830	root	1.387	%
6831	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6832			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6833			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6834	root	1.387	%
6835	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6836			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6837			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6838			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6839			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6840	root	1.387	%
6841	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
6842			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6843			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6844	root	1.387	%
6845	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
6846			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6847	root	1.387	%
6848	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
6849			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6850	root	1.387	%
6851	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
6852			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6853			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6854			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6855			> it's a hard requirement.
6856
6857			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6858			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6859			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6860			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6861			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6862			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6863			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6864			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6865	root	1.387	%
6866	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6867			> Netscape?"
6868	root	1.247
6869	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6870			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6871	root	1.387	%
6872	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6873			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6874			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6875			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
6876			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
6877			the specified task step-by-step.
6878	root	1.387	%
6879	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
6880
6881			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
6882			be damned hard to understand."
6883	root	1.387	%
6884	root	1.1	[Linus]
6885			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
6886			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
6887			wrong. It's that simple.
6888	root	1.387	%
6889	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
6890	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
6891	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
6892			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
6893			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
6894	root	1.247	Undernet>
6895	root	1.387	%
6896	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
6897			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
6898			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
6899			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
6900
6901			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
6902			document that contains an element or attribute named
6903	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
6904	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
6905			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
6906			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
6907			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
6908			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
6909			now appears to have unlimited credit!
6910	root	1.387	%
6911	root	1.1	["my spam"]
6912			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
6913			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
6914			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
6915			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
6916			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
6917	root	1.387	%
6918	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
6919			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
6920			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
6921			[... snip ...]
6922			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
6923			tragedy...
6924	root	1.387	%
6925	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
6926	root	1.247
6927	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
6928			>---- A notice to spammers ----
6929			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
6930			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
6931			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
6932			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
6933			>message plus attorney's fees.
6934			[SNIP long sig]
6935	root	1.247
6936	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
6937			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
6938			all you're doing is contributing to it.
6939	root	1.247
6940	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
6941			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
6942			procmailable address.
6943	root	1.247
6944	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
6945			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
6946			just a waste of bandwidth.
6947	root	1.387	%
6948	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
6949	root	1.387	%
6950	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
6951			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
6952	root	1.387	%
6953	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
6954	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
6955	root	1.387	%
6956	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
6957	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
6958			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
6959			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
6960	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
6961	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
6962			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
6963			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
6964			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
6965	root	1.387	%
6966	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
6967	root	1.387	%
6968	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
6969	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
6970	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
6971	root	1.387	%
6972	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
6973			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
6974			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
6975			immediately and not block the calling process.
6976
6977			the man pages are wrong
6978
6979			--cw
6980	root	1.387	%
6981	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
6982			...
6983			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
6984	root	1.387	%
6985	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
6986			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
6987	root	1.387	%
6988	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
6989			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
6990			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
6991
6992			How fast does it oops?
6993	root	1.387	%
6994	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
6995
6996			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6997			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
6998			> touch is 2Gig.
6999
7000			In theory, yes.
7001			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7002			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7003	root	1.387	%
7004	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7005			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7006			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7007			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7008			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7009			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7010			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7011			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7012			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7013			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7014			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7015			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7016			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7017			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7018			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7019			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7020	root	1.387	%
7021	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7022	root	1.387	%
7023	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7024			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7025			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7026			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7027			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7028	root	1.387	%
7029	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7030			[Lukas Grunwald]
7031	root	1.387	%
7032	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7033			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7034			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7035			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7036
7037			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7038			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7039			> > prompt.
7040			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7041			> /proc/info/authors?
7042	root	1.247
7043	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7044			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7045			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7046			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7047			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7048			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7049	root	1.247
7050	root	1.1	NOT.
7051			[...]
7052	root	1.387	%
7053	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7054			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7055			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7056	root	1.247
7057	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7058			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7059			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7060			> an interesting experiment.
7061	root	1.247
7062	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7063			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7064			to disagree...
7065	root	1.387	%
7066	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7067			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7068			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7069			[und Lukas sagt:]
7070			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7071	root	1.387	%
7072	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7073			report:]
7074			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7075			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7076			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7077			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7078	root	1.387	%
7079	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7080			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7081	root	1.387	%
7082	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7083			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7084			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7085
7086			Alexander Viro wrote:
7087			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7088			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7089			>
7090			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7091			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7092			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7093			> UNIX.
7094
7095			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7096			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7097			docs... ew!
7098	root	1.387	%
7099	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7100			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7101			> protected mode?
7102
7103			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7104			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7105			registers loaded ;)
7106	root	1.387	%
7107	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7108			[...]
7109			> backports hurt forward progress.
7110
7111			beware of content free dogma
7112	root	1.387	%
7113	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7114			> wondering.
7115
7116			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7117			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7118			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7119			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7120			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7121			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7122			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7123
7124			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7125	root	1.387	%
7126	root	1.1	>Keith,
7127	root	1.247	>
7128	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7129			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7130			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7131
7132			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7133			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7134			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7135			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7136			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7137			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7138			do the right thing.
7139
7140			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7141			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7142			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7143			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7144			and they have to fix it.
7145	root	1.387	%
7146	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7147			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7148			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7149			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7150	root	1.387	%
7151	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7152			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7153	root	1.387	%
7154	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7155			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7156			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7157			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7158
7159			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7160			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7161	root	1.387	%
7162	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7163			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7164	root	1.387	%
7165	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7166			glibc-2.2 was released]
7167			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7168	root	1.387	%
7169	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7170	root	1.387	%
7171	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7172			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7173			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7174	root	1.387	%
7175	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7176			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7177			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7178	root	1.387	%
7179	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7180
7181			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7182			standards-compliant.
7183			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7184			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7185			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7186			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7187			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7188			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7189	root	1.387	%
7190	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7191			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7192			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7193
7194			That's your problem.
7195
7196			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7197
7198			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7199			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7200	root	1.387	%
7201	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7202			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7203			> > out there) in the foot?
7204
7205			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7206
7207			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7208			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7209			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7210	root	1.387	%
7211	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7212			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7213			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7214
7215			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7216			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7217			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7218			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7219			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7220			--
7221			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7222	root	1.387	%
7223	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7224
7225			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7226			>
7227			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7228			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7229			>
7230			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7231
7232			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7233	root	1.387	%
7234	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7235			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7236			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7237	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7238	root	1.387	%
7239	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7240			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7241			Bullschildt below ;)]
7242
7243			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7244			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7245	root	1.387	%
7246	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7247			>
7248			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7249			>
7250			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7251			>
7252			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7253	root	1.387	%
7254	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7255
7256			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7257			it did the same thing.
7258
7259			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7260			a week ago. :(
7261
7262			--Jack
7263	root	1.387	%
7264	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7265	root	1.387	%
7266	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7267			-- K&R
7268	root	1.387	%
7269	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7270	root	1.387	%
7271	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7272			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7273	root	1.387	%
7274	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7275	root	1.387	%
7276	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7277			$modules => { "" => "" };
7278	root	1.387	%
7279	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7280	root	1.387	%
7281	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7282	root	1.387	%
7283	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7284			> --
7285			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7286			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7287	root	1.387	%
7288	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7289			From: "David Schwartz"
7290
7291			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7292			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7293			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7294			> pretty spiffy.
7295
7296			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7297			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7298			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7299			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7300	root	1.387	%
7301	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7302	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7303	root	1.387	%
7304	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7305			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7306			> of having bough one.
7307
7308			Not an uncommon thought :)
7309	root	1.387	%
7310	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7311
7312			Hi Marc !
7313
7314			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7315			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7316			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7317
7318			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7319	root	1.387	%
7320	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7321			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7322			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7323			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7324
7325			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7326			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7327			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7328
7329			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7330			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7331			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7332			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7333			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7334			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7335
7336			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7337			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7338
7339			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7340			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7341			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7342			right to left.
7343
7344			>But no culture
7345			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7346			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7347			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7348			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7349			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7350
7351			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7352
7353			--Alex
7354	root	1.387	%
7355	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7356			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7357			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7358
7359			[most of the reply snipped...]
7360
7361			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7362			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7363			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7364
7365			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7366
7367			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7368			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7369			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7370			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7371			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7372
7373			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7374			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7375			try to claim that they do?)
7376	root	1.387	%
7377	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7378
7379			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7380			> {
7381			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7382			> flush(load);
7383			> else
7384			> wear(load);
7385			> }
7386
7387			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7388			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7389
7390			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7391			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7392
7393			--
7394			dwmw2
7395	root	1.387	%
7396	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7397			are are overturned.
7398	root	1.387	%
7399	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7400	root	1.387	%
7401	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7402			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7403	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7404			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7405	root	1.387	%
7406	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7407			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7408			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7409			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7410			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7411			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7412			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7413	root	1.387	%
7414	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7415			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7416			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7417
7418			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7419			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7420			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7421	root	1.387	%
7422	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7423			Deadlock, n.:
7424			Deceased Rasterman.
7425	root	1.387	%
7426	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7427			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7428			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7429			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7430	root	1.387	%
7431	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7432			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7433	root	1.387	%
7434	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7435			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7436	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7437			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7438			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7439			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7440	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7441			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7442	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7443			Positionen für unwählbar.
7444	root	1.1
7445			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7446	root	1.387	%
7447	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7448			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7449			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7450
7451			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7452
7453			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7454			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7455			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7456			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7457			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7458
7459			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7460			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7461			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7462			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7463			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7464			results simply because I make a mistake!
7465
7466			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7467			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7468			errors.
7469
7470			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7471			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7472			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7473			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7474	root	1.387	%
7475	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7476			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7477			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7478			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7479			>
7480			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7481	root	1.387	%
7482	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7483			of nothing."
7484	root	1.387	%
7485	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7486			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7487			>
7488			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7489			> CPU?
7490
7491			Root password? :)
7492
7493			John.Fulmer
7494	root	1.387	%
7495	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7496
7497			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7498	root	1.387	%
7499	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7500			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7501			> which I prefer...
7502
7503			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7504			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7505			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7506			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7507			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7508			--
7509			Horst von Brand
7510	root	1.387	%
7511	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7512
7513			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7514
7515			[...]
7516
7517			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7518	root	1.387	%
7519	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7520			at your problem:]
7521
7522			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7523			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7524			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7525	root	1.387	%
7526	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7527			cp is inherently inefficient.
7528	root	1.387	%
7529	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7530			>breaking seals on them.
7531
7532			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7533			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7534			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7535
7536			...
7537
7538			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7539			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7540			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7541			could be just an urban myth though.
7542
7543			Russell Coker
7544	root	1.387	%
7545	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7546			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7547
7548			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7549	root	1.387	%
7550	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7551			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7552			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7553			> > deleting.
7554			>
7555			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7556
7557			Wrong. Yury does.
7558			:(
7559
7560			--
7561			Stefan
7562	root	1.387	%
7563	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7564			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7565			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7566			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7567			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7568			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7569			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7570
7571			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7572
7573			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7574	root	1.387	%
7575	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7576	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7577	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7578	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7579			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7580	root	1.387	%
7581	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7582			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7583			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7584			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7585			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7586			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7587			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7588			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7589			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7590			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7591	root	1.387	%
7592	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7593			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7594			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7595	root	1.1	aus!
7596	root	1.387	%
7597	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7598			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7599	root	1.387	%
7600	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7601			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7602			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7603			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7604	root	1.387	%
7605	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7606			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7607	root	1.387	%
7608	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7609			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7610			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7611			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7612
7613			--tom
7614	root	1.387	%
7615	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7616			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7617
7618			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7619			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7620			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7621			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7622			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7623	root	1.387	%
7624	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7625			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7626			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7627			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7628			solutions.
7629
7630			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7631
7632			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7633			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7634			the background]
7635	root	1.387	%
7636	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7637			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7638			Security Response Center:
7639
7640			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7641			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7642
7643			[and later]
7644			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7645
7646			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7647
7648			[Phil closes]
7649			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7650
7651			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7652			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7653	root	1.387	%
7654	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7655			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7656			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7657			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7658			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7659			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7660			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7661	root	1.387	%
7662	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7663			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7664			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7665			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7666
7667			[Trashey / Quasars]
7668	root	1.387	%
7669	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7670			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7671			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7672
7673			Irony potential in
7674
7675			man perlrtfm
7676
7677			is left to the reader.
7678
7679			Nat
7680	root	1.387	%
7681	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7682			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7683
7684			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7685			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7686	root	1.387	%
7687	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7688			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7689			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7690	root	1.387	%
7691	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7692			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7693			Paul Tomblin
7694	root	1.387	%
7695	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7696			>I am morally
7697			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7698
7699			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7700			possibility...
7701
7702			Dan
7703	root	1.387	%
7704	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7705	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7706	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 :)
7707			<Mr> zugabe
7708	root	1.387	%
7709	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7710			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7711	root	1.387	%
7712	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7713			[cobol, sigh]
7714	root	1.387	%
7715	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7716			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7717			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7718			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7719			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7720			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7721			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7722			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7723
7724			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7725	root	1.387	%
7726	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7727
7728			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7729			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7730			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7731			after they regain their composure."
7732
7733			-- Paul Rinaldo
7734			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7735	root	1.387	%
7736	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7737			>
7738			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7739			>
7740			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7741
7742			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7743
7744			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7745
7746			;-}
7747
7748			--
7749
7750			ciao -
7751			Stefan
7752
7753	root	1.387	%
7754	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7755			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7756
7757			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7758			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7759			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7760			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7761			one' type remarks.
7762			[Alan Cox]
7763	root	1.387	%
7764	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
7765
7766			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7767			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7768
7769			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7770	root	1.387	%
7771	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
7772
7773			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7774			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7775			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
7776	root	1.387	%
7777	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7778			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7779			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7780			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7781	root	1.387	%
7782	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7783			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7784
7785			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7786			is to me ok.
7787	root	1.387	%
7788	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7789
7790			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7791	root	1.387	%
7792	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7793			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7794	root	1.387	%
7795	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7796			just nod your head and back away slowly...
7797	root	1.387	%
7798	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7799			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7800			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7801
7802			Ralf
7803	root	1.387	%
7804	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7805			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7806			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7807
7808			david parsons
7809	root	1.387	%
7810	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7811			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7812
7813			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7814			>so that trick is not portable.
7815
7816			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
7817			127.0.0.1 localhost
7818
7819			--tom
7820	root	1.387	%
7821	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7822			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7823			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7824			> >the question is moot.
7825			>
7826			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
7827
7828			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7829
7830			Ilya
7831	root	1.387	%
7832	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7833			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7834			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7835			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7836			> trying.
7837
7838			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7839			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7840	root	1.387	%
7841	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7842			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7843			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7844			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7845	root	1.387	%
7846	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7847			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7848			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7849	root	1.387	%
7850	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7851			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7852			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7853			> blocking :-)
7854
7855			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7856			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7857			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7858			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7859			reasons.
7860
7861			DS
7862	root	1.387	%
7863	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7864	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7865	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7866	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7867	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7868
7869			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7870	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
7871	root	1.387	%
7872	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7873			[...]
7874			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7875			[...]
7876
7877			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
7878			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
7879			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
7880			with each other on the same channel.
7881
7882			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
7883			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
7884
7885			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
7886	root	1.387	%
7887	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
7888			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
7889	root	1.387	%
7890	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
7891	root	1.387	%
7892	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
7893			ANY word at all is a candidate.
7894			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
7895			ok
7896	root	1.387	%
7897	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
7898			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
7899	root	1.387	%
7900	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
7901			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
7902			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
7903			<schmorp> xach: ok.
7904			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
7905			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
7906			<Xach> burrito, focus
7907			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
7908	root	1.387	%
7909	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
7910			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
7911			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
7912			tested it." ...
7913	root	1.387	%
7914	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
7915	root	1.387	%
7916	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
7917
7918			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
7919			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
7920			>
7921			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
7922			>
7923			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
7924			>
7925			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
7926			>
7927			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
7928			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
7929			>systems.
7930
7931
7932			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
7933			had.
7934
7935			--
7936			Neal Bridges
7937	root	1.387	%
7938	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
7939
7940			> Hi folks,
7941			> 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?
7942			> please reply to
7943			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
7944			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
7945
7946			Parse error.
7947
7948			---
7949			Alex
7950	root	1.387	%
7951	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
7952
7953			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
7954			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
7955
7956			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
7957			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
7958			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
7959
7960			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
7961	root	1.387	%
7962	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
7963	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
7964	root	1.387	%
7965	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
7966			ii = 44;
7967			p = &ii;
7968			p = ii/p;
7969			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
7970			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
7971	root	1.387	%
7972	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
7973			> Linux time then.
7974
7975			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
7976
7977			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
7978			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
7979
7980			Roger.
7981	root	1.387	%
7982	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
7983	root	1.387	%
7984	root	1.1	auto accident;
7985			register voters;
7986			static electricity;
7987			struct by_lightning;
7988			void *where_prohibited;
7989			char broiled;
7990			short circuit;
7991			short changed;
7992			long johns;
7993			unsigned long letter;
7994			double entendre;
7995			double trouble;
7996			union organizer;
7997			float valve;
7998			short pants;
7999			union station;
8000			void check; unsigned check;
8001			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8002	root	1.387	%
8003	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8004			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8005			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8006	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8007	root	1.387	%
8008	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8009
8010			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8011			worstation.
8012	root	1.387	%
8013	root	1.1	I wrote
8014			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8015			$/
8016
8017			Damn shift key.
8018
8019
8020			Mike Guy
8021	root	1.387	%
8022	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8023			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8024			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8025			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8026			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8027			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8028			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8029			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8030			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8031	root	1.387	%
8032	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8033
8034			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8035
8036			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8037			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8038			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8039			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8040
8041			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8042	root	1.387	%
8043	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8044			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8045
8046			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8047			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8048			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8049			easy to bother.
8050
8051			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8052			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8053			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8054			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8055
8056			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8057
8058			Larry
8059	root	1.387	%
8060	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8061			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8062			Yeah. :-)
8063	root	1.387	%
8064	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8065			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8066			[...]
8067			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8068
8069			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8070			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8071			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8072			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8073
8074			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8075			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8076			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8077			receipts aren't used anymore.
8078	root	1.387	%
8079	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8080			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8081			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8082	root	1.387	%
8083	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8084			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8085			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8086			> versteht?"
8087	root	1.387	%
8088	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8089			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8090			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8091			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8092	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8093	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8094	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8095	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8096			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8097			ji!
8098	root	1.387	%
8099	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8100			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8101			[Larry Wall]
8102	root	1.387	%
8103	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8104			Altpreussen.
8105			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8106			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8107	root	1.387	%
8108	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8109			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8110			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8111			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8112			>
8113	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8114			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8115	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8116
8117	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8118	root	1.1	Norbert?
8119	root	1.387	%
8120	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8121	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8122			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8123	root	1.387	%
8124	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8125	root	1.387	%
8126	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8127	root	1.387	%
8128	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8129			From: "Steve"
8130			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8131			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8132			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8133
8134			[the following was a single line, of course]
8135			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8136			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8137			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8138			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8139			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8140
8141			Thanks,
8142
8143			Steve
8144	root	1.387	%
8145	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8146			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8147			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8148			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8149	root	1.387	%
8150	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8151			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8152			<tigert> ahem
8153	root	1.387	%
8154	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8155			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8156			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8157	root	1.387	%
8158	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8159			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8160			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8161			Subject: It's soup.
8162
8163			Okay, it's there.
8164
8165			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8166
8167			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8168
8169			Larry
8170	root	1.387	%
8171	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8172	root	1.387	%
8173	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8174			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8175			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8176			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8177			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8178	root	1.387	%
8179	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8180			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8181			>
8182			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8183			> And there's no mouse.
8184			>
8185			> Abigail
8186
8187			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8188
8189			Matt.
8190	root	1.387	%
8191	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8192			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8193
8194			- --tom
8195	root	1.387	%
8196	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8197			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8198
8199			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8200			>
8201			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8202			> 2.2.11 release?
8203
8204			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8205
8206			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8207
8208			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8209	root	1.387	%
8210	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8211	root	1.387	%
8212	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8213			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8214			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8215			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8216			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8217			> that much ;-)
8218
8219			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8220	root	1.387	%
8221	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8222			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8223	root	1.387	%
8224	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8225			<QUOTE>
8226			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8227
8228			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8229			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8230			</QUOTE>
8231	root	1.387	%
8232	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8233			and routes around it.
8234
8235			Roger Larsson
8236	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8237	root	1.387	%
8238	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8239			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8240	root	1.387	%
8241	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8242			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8243	root	1.387	%
8244	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8245
8246			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8247			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8248			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8249			on different JVMs.
8250
8251			[and later]
8252
8253			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8254			adventure gaming:
8255
8256			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8257			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8258	root	1.387	%
8259	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8260			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8261
8262			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8263
8264			NK> ?? -> huh?
8265
8266			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8267
8268			<chaim>
8269	root	1.387	%
8270	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8271			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8272			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8273			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8274			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8275			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8276	root	1.387	%
8277	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8278	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8279	root	1.387	%
8280	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8281			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8282			page]
8283			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8284			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8285			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8286			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8287			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8288			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8289			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8290			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8291			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8292			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8293	root	1.387	%
8294	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8295			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8296			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8297			don't actually get anything DONE.
8298	root	1.387	%
8299	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8300			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8301			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8302			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8303	root	1.387	%
8304	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8305			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8306			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8307			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8308
8309			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8310	root	1.387	%
8311	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8312			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8313			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8314	root	1.387	%
8315	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8316			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8317			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8318	root	1.387	%
8319	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8320
8321			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8322			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8323			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8324			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8325			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8326			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8327			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8328			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8329			got the T-shirt.
8330	root	1.387	%
8331	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8332			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8333			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8334			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8335			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8336			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8337			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8338
8339			Linus writes, to Craig:
8340
8341			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8342			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8343			> thus choices than gcc.
8344
8345			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8346			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8347			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8348			far more complex than the kernel.
8349
8350			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8351			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8352
8353			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8354	root	1.387	%
8355	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8356			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8357			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8358
8359			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8360			[...]
8361			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8362			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8363			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8364			>let the user be in control.
8365
8366			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8367			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8368			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8369			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8370			compilers?
8371	root	1.387	%
8372	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8373			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8374
8375			Linus writes:
8376			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8377			> gcc could do better?
8378
8379			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8380			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8381			before you had so many worshippers.
8382	root	1.387	%
8383	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8384			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8385			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8386			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8387			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8388
8389			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8390
8391			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8392			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8393			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8394			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8395
8396			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8397
8398			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8399
8400			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8401			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8402
8403			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8404
8405			>:->
8406
8407			Brane
8408
8409
8410			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8411			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8412			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8413			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8414			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8415
8416
8417			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8418	root	1.387	%
8419	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8420	root	1.387	%
8421	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8422			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8423			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8424	root	1.387	%
8425	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8426			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8427			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8428	root	1.387	%
8429	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8430
8431			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8432
8433			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8434	root	1.387	%
8435	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8436			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8437			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8438			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8439
8440			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8441
8442			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8443			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8444			:
8445			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8446			:
8447			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8448			:
8449			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8450	root	1.387	%
8451	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8452	root	1.387	%
8453	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8454			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8455			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8456			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8457			>
8458			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8459			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8460
8461			The classic example:
8462
8463			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8464			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8465	root	1.387	%
8466	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8467			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8468
8469			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8470			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8471			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8472
8473			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8474
8475			--tom
8476	root	1.387	%
8477	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8478			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8479			working on something for me
8480			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8481			to me nutting concerning y ok
8482			piece
8483			russ
8484	root	1.387	%
8485	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8486
8487			pico (text editor for beginners)
8488			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8489			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8490			ed (text editor for beginners)
8491	root	1.387	%
8492	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8493
8494			use Python;
8495
8496			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8497			Except maybe faster. :-)
8498
8499			Larry
8500	root	1.387	%
8501	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8502
8503			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8504			2010.
8505
8506			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8507	root	1.387	%
8508	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8509			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8510			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8511			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8512			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8513			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8514			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8515			been created.
8516	root	1.387	%
8517	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8518			>
8519			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8520			> $3.99.
8521			>
8522			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8523			>
8524			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8525			>
8526			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8527			>
8528			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8529			>
8530			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8531			>
8532			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8533			> got integrated Coke!
8534			>
8535			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8536			> to drink the Coke.
8537			>
8538			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8539			>
8540			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8541			>
8542			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8543			> inseparable.
8544			>
8545			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8546			>
8547			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8548			>
8549			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8550			>
8551			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8552			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8553			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8554	root	1.387	%
8555	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8556			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8557	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8558	root	1.387	%
8559	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8560
8561			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8562			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8563			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8564			for you to digest this book.
8565			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8566			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8567			Join The Trickle
8568			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8569			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8570			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8571	root	1.387	%
8572	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8573			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8574			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8575			complete and utter vapourware.
8576
8577			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8578	root	1.387	%
8579	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8580
8581			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8582			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8583	root	1.387	%
8584	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8585
8586			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8587			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8588			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8589			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8590			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8591			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8592			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8593			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8594			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8595			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8596			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8597			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8598			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8599			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8600			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8601			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8602			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8603			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8604			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8605			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8606			work.
8607			[...]
8608			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8609			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8610			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8611			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8612			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8613			search generically - then it has some potential.
8614			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8615			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8616			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8617			intellectual value whatsoever.
8618
8619			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8620			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8621			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8622	root	1.387	%
8623	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8624	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8625	root	1.387	%
8626	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8627			#!/usr/bin/sh
8628			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8629			# All Rights Reserved
8630
8631			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8632			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8633			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8634
8635			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8636			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8637	root	1.387	%
8638	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.
8639	root	1.387	%
8640	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8641			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8642			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8643	root	1.387	%
8644	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8645
8646			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8647			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8648
8649			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8650			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8651			machine]
8652
8653			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8654			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8655			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8656
8657			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8658	root	1.387	%
8659	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8660			spamming:]
8661
8662			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8663			>>
8664			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8665			>>------------------------------------------------------
8666			>>
8667			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8668			>>
8669			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8670
8671			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8672			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8673	root	1.387	%
8674	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8675			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8676	root	1.387	%
8677	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8678			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8679	root	1.387	%
8680	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8681			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8682
8683			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8684	root	1.387	%
8685	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8686
8687			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8688			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8689			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8690			he's full of.
8691
8692			Support BSD/Linux.
8693
8694			--tom
8695	root	1.387	%
8696	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8697	root	1.387	%
8698	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8699	root	1.387	%
8700	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8701			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8702
8703			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8704			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8705			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8706			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8707	root	1.387	%
8708	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8709
8710			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8711			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8712	root	1.387	%
8713	root	1.1	[the creation]
8714			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8715	root	1.387	%
8716	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8717
8718			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8719			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8720			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8721	root	1.387	%
8722	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8723			selbst schliesse.
8724			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8725			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8726	root	1.387	%
8727	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8728			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8729
8730			No:
8731
8732			use Borg;
8733			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8734
8735			--
8736			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8737	root	1.387	%
8738	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8739			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8740			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8741			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8742			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8743			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8744			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8745			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8746			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8747			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8748			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8749			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8750			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8751			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8752			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8753			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8754			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8755			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8756			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8757			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8758			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8759			dispensers."
8760
8761			[Kenneth Albanowski]
8762	root	1.387	%
8763	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8764			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8765			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8766			-- Kristian Koehntopp
8767	root	1.387	%
8768	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8769			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8770			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8771	root	1.387	%
8772	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8773	root	1.1
8774			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8775	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8776	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8777	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8778	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8779			Student: "..."
8780			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8781			Student: "..."
8782			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8783	root	1.387	%
8784	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8785
8786			> Just morbid curiosity,
8787			>
8788			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8789
8790			Yes. Broken ones.
8791
8792			dgris
8793	root	1.387	%
8794	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8795			-- A Borges story in ten words.
8796	root	1.387	%
8797	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
8798			with the flexibility of assembly language."
8799	root	1.387	%
8800	root	1.1	...
8801
8802			<AOL>
8803
8804			Me too!
8805
8806			</AOL>
8807
8808			Tig
8809	root	1.387	%
8810	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8811	root	1.387	%
8812	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8813	root	1.387	%
8814	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8815
8816			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8817			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8818			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8819			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8820			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8821			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8822			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8823
8824			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8825
8826			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8827			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8828			get really really pissed.
8829
8830			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
8831			to cut into M$'s server market share.
8832	root	1.387	%
8833	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8834			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8835			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8836			> period.
8837			>
8838			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
8839			> Nic
8840			>
8841
8842			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8843
8844			-hpa
8845	root	1.387	%
8846	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8847	root	1.387	%
8848	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8849			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8850			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8851			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8852			happy."
8853			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8854	root	1.387	%
8855	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8856			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8857			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8858
8859			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8860			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8861			I also forwarded the offending code.
8862
8863			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8864			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8865			service.
8866
8867			Daniel
8868	root	1.387	%
8869	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8870			...
8871			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8872	root	1.387	%
8873	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8874			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8875			[RJL]
8876	root	1.387	%
8877	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
8878			right.''
8879	root	1.387	%
8880	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
8881
8882			Amazing--they actually listened.
8883	root	1.387	%
8884	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
8885			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
8886			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
8887
8888			# less foo
8889			sh: command not found
8890			# more foo
8891			sh: command not found
8892			# emacs foo
8893			sh: command not found
8894			# ed foo
8895			0
8896			help
8897			?
8898			quit
8899			?
8900			exit
8901			?
8902			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
8903			?
8904
8905			[Albert D. Cahalan]
8906	root	1.387	%
8907	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
8908			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
8909			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
8910
8911			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
8912
8913			tim> use blib ':quiet';
8914
8915			tim> would be most correct in style.
8916
8917			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
8918			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
8919	root	1.387	%
8920	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
8921			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
8922			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
8923			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
8924			too bad --- ]
8925	root	1.387	%
8926	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
8927	root	1.387	%
8928	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
8929
8930			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
8931			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
8932
8933			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
8934			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
8935	root	1.387	%
8936	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
8937			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
8938			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
8939			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
8940			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
8941	root	1.387	%
8942	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
8943
8944			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
8945			include wrong #include files in their source.
8946	root	1.387	%
8947	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
8948
8949			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
8950			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
8951			Consider it a rite of passage.
8952	root	1.387	%
8953	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
8954			"Oops."
8955			-- MST3K
8956	root	1.387	%
8957	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
8958			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
8959			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
8960
8961			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
8962			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
8963			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
8964			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
8965			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
8966			it. ;)
8967	root	1.387	%
8968	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
8969			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
8970			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
8971			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
8972			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
8973
8974			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
8975			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
8976			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
8977			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
8978
8979			--tom
8980	root	1.387	%
8981	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
8982
8983			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
8984
8985			>Why does it end ?
8986
8987			Ask the X3J11 committee.
8988
8989			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
8990			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
8991
8992			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
8993	root	1.387	%
8994	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
8995			-- Tom Christiansen
8996	root	1.387	%
8997	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
8998
8999			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9000			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9001			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9002			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9003			of Sputnik.
9004	root	1.387	%
9005	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9006			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9007			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9008			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9009			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9010	root	1.387	%
9011	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9012			- Hanlons razor -
9013	root	1.387	%
9014	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9015			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9016	root	1.387	%
9017	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9018			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9019			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9020			> offered no significant advantages.
9021
9022			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9023	root	1.387	%
9024	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9025			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9026			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9027			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9028			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9029			in front of me says so."
9030
9031			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9032	root	1.387	%
9033	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9034			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9035			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9036			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9037			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9038			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9039			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9040			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9041			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9042			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9043			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9044	root	1.387	%
9045	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9046			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9047			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9048			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9049			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9050	root	1.387	%
9051	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9052	root	1.387	%
9053	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9054	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9055			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9056			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9057			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9058	root	1.387	%
9059	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9060			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9061			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9062			>
9063			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9064			> and/or screen.
9065
9066			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9067	root	1.387	%
9068	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9069			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9070
9071			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9072			> use pedantic;
9073			> use strict 'code';
9074			>
9075			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9076
9077			use syntax 'python';
9078
9079			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9080
9081	root	1.387	%
9082	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9083			>
9084			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9085			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9086			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9087			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9088			>
9089			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9090	root	1.387	%
9091	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9092			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9093	root	1.387	%
9094	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9095			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9096			> be time-consuming.
9097
9098			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9099	root	1.387	%
9100	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9101			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9102			however, they do not handle C++...
9103			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9104	root	1.387	%
9105	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9106			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9107
9108			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9109
9110			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9111
9112			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9113
9114			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9115			already of old time, which was before us.
9116			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9117			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9118
9119			Regards,
9120			Tigran.
9121	root	1.387	%
9122	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9123	root	1.387	%
9124	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9125			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9126			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9127			main(){
9128			extrn hw;
9129			putchar(0[hw]);
9130			hw=+1;
9131			putchar(0[hw]);
9132			}
9133	root	1.387	%
9134	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9135
9136			The egg. Always. By definition.
9137	root	1.387	%
9138	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9139			>
9140			> Better check your scsi cables.
9141	root	1.387	%
9142	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9143			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9144	root	1.387	%
9145	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9146			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9147			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9148			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9149
9150	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9151	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9152			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9153
9154	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9155	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9156	root	1.387	%
9157	root	1.1	>James :\
9158			>
9159			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9160
9161			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9162	root	1.387	%
9163	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9164			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9165			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9166	root	1.387	%
9167	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9168			> is just asking for a black eye.
9169
9170			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9171
9172			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9173			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9174			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9175
9176			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9177			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9178			area.
9179	root	1.387	%
9180	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9181			[Lukas Grunwald]
9182	root	1.387	%
9183	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9184
9185			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9186			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9187			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9188			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9189			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9190	root	1.387	%
9191	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9192			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9193
9194			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9195	root	1.387	%
9196	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9197			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9198			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9199
9200			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9201
9202			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9203
9204			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9205
9206			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9207			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9208	root	1.387	%
9209	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9210	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9211	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9212	root	1.387	%
9213	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9214			longer...
9215	root	1.387	%
9216	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9217			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9218			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9219	root	1.387	%
9220	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9221			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9222			> > world :) I just love it...
9223			>
9224			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9225			>
9226			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9227			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9228			practical...
9229			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9230			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9231			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9232			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9233			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9234
9235			Jan Hubicka
9236	root	1.387	%
9237	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9238			[...]
9239			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9240
9241			No, it is not. What you meant is
9242
9243			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9244	root	1.387	%
9245	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9246			> A) perl-5.00553
9247			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9248			> cc = cl.exe
9249			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9250
9251			[...]
9252
9253			Ilya
9254	root	1.387	%
9255	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9256
9257			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9258
9259			p.
9260	root	1.387	%
9261	root	1.1	[tomc]
9262			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9263			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9264
9265			+------------------------------------------+
9266			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9267			+------------------------------------------+
9268
9269			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9270			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9271
9272			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9273			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9274			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9275			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9276			interesting way.
9277			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9278			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9279			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9280			interesting things.
9281			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9282			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9283			things.
9284	root	1.387	%
9285	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9286			--Dennis Ritchie
9287	root	1.387	%
9288	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9289	root	1.387	%
9290	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9291
9292			switch (x)
9293			default:
9294			if (prime(x))
9295			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9296			process_prime(x);
9297			else
9298			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9299			process_composite(x);
9300	root	1.387	%
9301	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9302			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9303			in megabytes, required for execution?
9304
9305			Craig Milo Rogers
9306	root	1.387	%
9307	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9308			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9309			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9310
9311			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9312			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9313
9314			Ilya
9315	root	1.387	%
9316	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9317			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9318
9319			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9320			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9321			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9322
9323			Nat
9324	root	1.387	%
9325	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9326			much steroids for a while. =)
9327
9328			--Albert Dvornik
9329			<bert@genscan.com>
9330	root	1.387	%
9331	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9332			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9333			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9334
9335			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9336
9337			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9338			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9339
9340			--tom
9341	root	1.387	%
9342	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9343
9344			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9345
9346			Linus
9347	root	1.387	%
9348	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9349			devil added HTML mail...
9350	root	1.387	%
9351	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9352			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9353			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9354	root	1.387	%
9355	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9356			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9357
9358			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9359			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9360			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9361
9362			Arm the gnus!
9363	root	1.387	%
9364	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9365
9366			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9367			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9368			gcc, so go away.
9369	root	1.387	%
9370	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9371			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9372
9373			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9374
9375			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9376			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9377	root	1.387	%
9378	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9379			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9380			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9381			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9382
9383			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9384			was released today" madness.
9385	root	1.387	%
9386	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9387			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9388			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9389			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9390			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9391			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9392			>
9393			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9394			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9395			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9396			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9397			> marketing name, anyway.
9398
9399			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9400			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9401			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9402
9403			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9404			violence..." :-)
9405	root	1.387	%
9406	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9407			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9408	root	1.387	%
9409	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9410			> >poor drivers
9411			>
9412			> No it doesn't.
9413
9414			Indeed. Its down to
9415
9416			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9417
9418			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9419			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9420			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9421			or binaries.
9422	root	1.387	%
9423	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9424	root	1.387	%
9425	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9426	root	1.387	%
9427	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9428
9429			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9430			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9431			\|>
9432			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9433
9434			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9435
9436			Andreas.
9437	root	1.387	%
9438	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9439			...
9440			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9441
9442			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9443			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9444			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9445			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9446			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9447			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9448	root	1.387	%
9449	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9450
9451			Paul Eggert writes:
9452			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9453
9454			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9455			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9456	root	1.387	%
9457	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9458			however.
9459
9460			"We don't have the tools"
9461			"We can't support a non intel build"
9462			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9463			"Its not worth the time cost"
9464			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9465	root	1.387	%
9466	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9467
9468			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9469			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9470			>
9471			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9472			> <mailproc@fred>
9473			>
9474			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9475			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9476			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9477			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9478			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9479	root	1.387	%
9480	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9481			> No documented problem
9482			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9483			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9484			>
9485			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9486	root	1.387	%
9487	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9488			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9489	root	1.387	%
9490	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9491			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9492
9493			dave
9494	root	1.387	%
9495	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9496			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9497
9498			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9499	root	1.387	%
9500	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9501
9502			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9503			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9504
9505			Paul Eggert writes:
9506			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9507
9508			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9509			1 month before 29 March?
9510
9511			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9512
9513			1 month before 28 March?
9514
9515			28 February.
9516
9517			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9518			_before_ 27 February?
9519
9520			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9521	root	1.387	%
9522	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9523
9524			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9525			>> So make a security check first:
9526			>>
9527			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9528			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9529			>
9530			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9531			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9532			>
9533			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9534			> = instead of == error*/
9535			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9536			>
9537			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9538			>
9539			>--
9540			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9541
9542			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9543
9544			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9545			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9546	root	1.387	%
9547	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9548			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9549
9550			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9551			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9552			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9553			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9554			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9555			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9556			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9557			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9558
9559			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9560			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9561			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9562			available for that hardware from any source.
9563			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9564			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9565			sniffing!
9566	root	1.387	%
9567	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9568			technical support line that isn't"
9569	root	1.387	%
9570	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9571			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9572	root	1.387	%
9573	root	1.1	[...]
9574			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9575			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9576
9577			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9578			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9579			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9580			"Nothing else"
9581			"Sorry"
9582			[Click]
9583
9584			Alan
9585	root	1.387	%
9586	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9587			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9588	root	1.387	%
9589	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9590			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9591			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9592			> users excepted, of course!).
9593
9594			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9595			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9596			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9597			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9598			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9599			is installed"
9600
9601			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9602	root	1.387	%
9603	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9604
9605			L. Harris wrote:
9606			>
9607			> Testing
9608
9609			you failed.
9610	root	1.387	%
9611	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9612			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9613	root	1.387	%
9614	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9615			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9616			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9617			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9618	root	1.387	%
9619	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9620			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9621			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9622
9623			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9624	root	1.387	%
9625	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9626			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9627			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9628			where else...
9629	root	1.387	%
9630	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9631			[...]
9632			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9633			: about a certain topic.
9634	root	1.387	%
9635	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9636			>
9637			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9638			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9639
9640			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9641			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9642
9643			void main (void)
9644			{
9645			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9646			printf ("\n");
9647			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9648			printf ("You have died.\n");
9649			printf ("\n");
9650			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9651			}
9652
9653			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9654
9655			--
9656			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9657	root	1.387	%
9658	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9659			mistake I ever made]
9660
9661			From: "Tom Miller"
9662			Subject: Can
9663			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9664
9665			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9666			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9667			my name is Tom Miller
9668
9669			From: "Tom Miller"
9670			Subject: Wait
9671			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9672
9673			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9674			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9675	root	1.387	%
9676	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9677
9678			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9679			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9680			so why bother? [...]
9681	root	1.387	%
9682	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9683	root	1.1
9684			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9685
9686			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9687			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9688			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9689			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9690			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9691			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9692			sich dann.
9693	root	1.387	%
9694	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9695			no fs
9696			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9697			Definitely hardware or software error.
9698
9699			Unix Version 7 Manual
9700	root	1.387	%
9701	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9702			>
9703			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9704			>
9705			> =for C
9706			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9707			> =end
9708			> =for C++
9709			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9710			> =end
9711			> =for Java
9712			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9713			> =end
9714			>
9715			> :-)
9716	root	1.387	%
9717	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9718	root	1.387	%
9719	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9720
9721			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9722			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9723			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9724			turn it on.
9725	root	1.387	%
9726	root	1.1	[...]
9727			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9728			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9729			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9730			[...]
9731	root	1.387	%
9732	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9733
9734			Chad C Giffin
9735	root	1.387	%
9736	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9737			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9738			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9739			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9740			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9741			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9742
9743			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9744			through the door.
9745			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9746			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9747			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9748			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9749			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9750			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9751			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9752			usually.)
9753
9754			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9755			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9756			your tire pressure..."
9757			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9758			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9759			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9760			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9761			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9762			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9763			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9764			three days for a cost of $175.23.
9765	root	1.387	%
9766	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9767
9768			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9769	root	1.387	%
9770	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9771
9772			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9773			:-(
9774	root	1.387	%
9775	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9776			>dies alles geschieht.
9777			>Und es verging nicht.
9778
9779			So what?
9780
9781			Ich dachte eher an:
9782
9783			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9784			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9785			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9786			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9787			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9788			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9789			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9790			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9791			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9792			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9793			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9794			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9795
9796			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9797
9798			Antje
9799	root	1.387	%
9800	root	1.1	[....]
9801
9802			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9803			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9804			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9805			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9806			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9807			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9808
9809			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9810
9811			Antje
9812	root	1.387	%
9813	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9814			lalala, I love you baby..."
9815			--
9816			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9817	root	1.387	%
9818	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9819			>
9820			> Kubys
9821
9822			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9823
9824			Linus
9825	root	1.387	%
9826	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9827
9828			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9829			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9830			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9831	root	1.387	%
9832	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
9833
9834			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9835			out what it means.
9836			--
9837			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9838	root	1.387	%
9839	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9840			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9841	root	1.387	%
9842	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9843			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9844
9845			Terry L Ridder wrote:
9846
9847			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9848			> is being discussed.
9849
9850			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9851	root	1.387	%
9852	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9853
9854			Drop data of type text/plain was:
9855
9856			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9857
9858			[and the button reads]
9859
9860			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9861	root	1.387	%
9862	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9863
9864			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9865
9866			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9867			certain amount of redundancy.
9868	root	1.387	%
9869	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9870			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9871
9872			...
9873
9874			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9875	root	1.387	%
9876	root	1.1	>Hello,
9877			>
9878			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
9879			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
9880			>
9881
9882			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
9883			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
9884			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
9885			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
9886	root	1.387	%
9887	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
9888			on the country as a whole.
9889			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
9890			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
9891			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
9892	root	1.387	%
9893	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
9894			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
9895	root	1.387	%
9896	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
9897	root	1.387	%
9898	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
9899			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
9900			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
9901
9902			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
9903
9904			--tom
9905			--
9906			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
9907			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
9908	root	1.387	%
9909	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
9910			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
9911	root	1.387	%
9912	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9913
9914			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
9915			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
9916			> NO CARRIER
9917			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
9918	root	1.387	%
9919	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
9920			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
9921			> better.
9922
9923			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
9924			my finger on it. Hmmm.
9925	root	1.387	%
9926	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
9927			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
9928	root	1.387	%
9929	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
9930			\|>
9931			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
9932			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
9933			\|>
9934			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
9935			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
9936
9937			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
9938			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
9939			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
9940			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
9941			build Bison, and then cook it.
9942
9943			Viva la buffalo burgers.
9944	root	1.387	%
9945	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
9946			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
9947			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
9948			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
9949			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
9950	root	1.387	%
9951	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
9952			-- lbxproxy(1)
9953	root	1.387	%
9954	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
9955
9956			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
9957
9958			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
9959			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
9962
9963			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
9964	root	1.387	%
9965	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
9966			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
9967			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
9968			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
9969			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
9970
9971			\|> What does this mean.
9972
9973			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
9974			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
9975	root	1.387	%
9976	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9977
9978			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
9979			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
9980
9981			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
9982	root	1.387	%
9983	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
9984			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
9985			streams)."
9986			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
9987	root	1.387	%
9988	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
9989			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
9990	root	1.387	%
9991	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
9992
9993			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
9994
9995			Klaro.
9996
9997			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
9998			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
9999			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10000			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10001
10002	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10003	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10004
10005			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10006			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10007			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10008			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10009			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10010			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10011			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10012
10013			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10014			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10015			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10016	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10017			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10018			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10019			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10020	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10021
10022			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10023	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10024			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10025			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10026			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10027			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10028			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10029			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10030	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10031			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10032
10033			cu in hell 2002
10034	root	1.387	%
10035	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10036	root	1.387	%
10037	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10038
10039			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10040			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10041			the man page for crypt(1).
10042
10043			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10044			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10045			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10046
10047			man -s3 crypt
10048
10049			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10050			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10051
10052			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10053			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10054			he can figure out to use the command
10055
10056			man -s3 Intro.3
10057
10058			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10059			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10060
10061			man -s3c crypt
10062
10063			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10064			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10065			any trouble.
10066			--
10067			Michael M Rubenstein
10068	root	1.387	%
10069	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10070
10071			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10072
10073			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10074
10075			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10076
10077			Regards,
10078			Tim Bunce.
10079
10080			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10081			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10082			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10083	root	1.387	%
10084	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10085
10086			...
10087
10088			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10089			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10090			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10091
10092			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10093			its unusable, believe me I do.
10094	root	1.387	%
10095	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10096
10097			Semour Cray
10098	root	1.387	%
10099	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10100
10101			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10102	root	1.387	%
10103	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10104			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10105
10106			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10107			it only supports parts of it
10108	root	1.387	%
10109	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10110			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10111	root	1.387	%
10112	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10113			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10114			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10115			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10116			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10117			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10118			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10119
10120			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10121			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10122			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10123			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10124			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10125			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10126			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10127			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10128			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10129			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10130
10131			tq vm, (burley)
10132	root	1.387	%
10133	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10134			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10135			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10136			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10137			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10138			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10139			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10140	root	1.387	%
10141	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10142			/*
10143			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10144			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10145			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10146			* files won't compile.
10147			*/
10148	root	1.387	%
10149	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10150			> great.
10151
10152			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10153
10154			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10155
10156			This rock is below water half of the time!
10157			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10158			on a regular basis! ;-)
10159	root	1.387	%
10160	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10161			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10162			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10163	root	1.387	%
10164	root	1.1	>
10165			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10166			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10167			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10168
10169			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10170	root	1.387	%
10171	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10172
10173			>Hello!
10174
10175			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10176			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10177			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10178
10179
10180			Perl.
10181
10182			regards
10183			jobst
10184	root	1.387	%
10185	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10186			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10187			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10188
10189			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10190			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10191
10192			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10193			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10194			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10195			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10196			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10197			the absolute pits.
10198	root	1.387	%
10199	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10200	root	1.387	%
10201	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10202			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10203
10204			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10205	root	1.387	%
10206	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10207			ketchup and mustard
10208	root	1.387	%
10209	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10210
10211			vimal gajjar wrote:
10212			>
10213			> Hi there,
10214			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10215			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10216			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10217			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10218			> 5% of cpu
10219			> 2 Mb of RAM
10220			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10221			>
10222			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10223
10224			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10225			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10226			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10227	root	1.387	%
10228	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10229			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10230			>
10231			> >s/usually/never/
10232			>
10233			> s/sometimes/never/
10234
10235			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10236	root	1.387	%
10237	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10238			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10239			:Perl, IMO.
10240
10241			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10242
10243			TC
10244	root	1.387	%
10245	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10246	root	1.387	%
10247	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10248
10249			Hi guys!
10250
10251			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10252	root	1.387	%
10253	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10254
10255			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10256			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10257			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10258			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10259			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10260			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10261	root	1.387	%
10262	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10263			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10264			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10265
10266			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10267			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10268			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10269			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10270
10271			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10272			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10273			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10274			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10275
10276			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10277
10278			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10279
10280			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10281			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10282			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10283
10284			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10285			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10286
10287			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10288			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10289
10290			Did I miss any? ;-)
10291
10292			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10293			Laugh. Please.
10294
10295			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10296			--Scott
10297	root	1.387	%
10298	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10299
10300			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10301			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10302			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10303			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10304	root	1.387	%
10305	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10306			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10307
10308			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10309
10310			This is not mail.
10311
10312			This is Usenet.
10313
10314			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10315	root	1.387	%
10316	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10317			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10318			--- ide1: reset: success
10319			-----------> I like Linux !
10320	root	1.387	%
10321	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10322			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10323
10324			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10325			do.
10326	root	1.387	%
10327	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10328			++ PLONK.
10329	root	1.387	%
10330	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10331			Re: Subraumfunk
10332
10333			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10334			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10335
10336			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10337			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10338			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10339			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10340			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10341	root	1.387	%
10342	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10343			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10344			>
10345			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10346
10347			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10348	root	1.387	%
10349	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10350			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10351	root	1.387	%
10352	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10353			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10354
10355			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10356			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10357
10358			Bill Jones
10359	root	1.387	%
10360	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10361
10362			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10363			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10364			#include <windows.h>
10365			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10366			#endif
10367	root	1.387	%
10368	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10369
10370			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10371			is, invoking the URL
10372
10373			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10374
10375			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10376	root	1.387	%
10377	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10378			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10379			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10380			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10381			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10382			"I am using CGI!"
10383
10384			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10385	root	1.387	%
10386	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10387			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10388			>
10389	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10390	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10391
10392			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10393	root	1.387	%
10394	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10395			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10396	root	1.387	%
10397	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10398			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10399			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10400			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10401	root	1.387	%
10402	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10403
10404			pcg@goof.com said:
10405			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10406
10407			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10408
10409			"It's broken."
10410			"What's wrong with it?."
10411			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10412			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10413			"It just doesn't work."
10414			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10415			"It gives an error message."
10416			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10417			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10418			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10419			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10420			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10421			letter for letter this time."
10422	root	1.387	%
10423	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10424
10425			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10426			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10427			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10428
10429			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10430			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10431			perms.
10432
10433			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10434	root	1.387	%
10435	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10436			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10437
10438			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10439
10440			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10441			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10442			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10443
10444			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10445			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10446	root	1.387	%
10447	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10448			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10449	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10450
10451			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10452			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10453			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10454			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10455			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10456			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10457			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10458			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10459			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10460			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10461			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10462
10463			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10464
10465			normarz@aol.com
10466	root	1.387	%
10467	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10468	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10469	root	1.1	>Legion
10470			>schlagen?
10471
10472			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10473
10474			Bye
10475			Andreas
10476	root	1.387	%
10477	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10478
10479			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10480			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10481
10482			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10483			companies.
10484
10485			Kind regards
10486			Henning
10487	root	1.387	%
10488	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10489			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10490			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10491
10492			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10493			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10494			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10495
10496			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10497			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10498			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10499			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10500			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10501			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10502			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10503			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10504			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10505			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10506	root	1.387	%
10507	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10508			We might support that sometime next year.
10509			-=- Microsoft
10510			(But I doubt it.)
10511			-=- Me
10512			-=- James Mastros
10513	root	1.387	%
10514	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10515			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10516			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10517			>lines.
10518
10519			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10520			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10521	root	1.387	%
10522	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10523	root	1.387	%
10524	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10525			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10526			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10527			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10528	root	1.387	%
10529	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10530
10531			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10532			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10533			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10534			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10535			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10536			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10537			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10538			it's not all his fault.
10539
10540			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10541			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10542			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10543			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10544			content.
10545
10546			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10547			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10548			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10549			learn (or pay for it;)
10550
10551			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10552			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10553			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10554			just for fun or to get the op.
10555
10556			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10557			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10558			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10559			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10560
10561			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10562
10563			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10564			course, Linux and Linux people.
10565	root	1.387	%
10566	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10567			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10568
10569			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10570			--
10571			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10572	root	1.387	%
10573	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10574
10575			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10576			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10577			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10578
10579			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10580			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10581			tradition.
10582	root	1.387	%
10583	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10584			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10585	root	1.387	%
10586	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10587			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10588	root	1.387	%
10589	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10590			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10591			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10592			Or GIRLS for short.
10593	root	1.387	%
10594	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10595	root	1.387	%
10596	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10597			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10598			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10599			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10600			5_004_03 to build!"
10601
10602			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10603			have no patience."
10604
10605			xoxo,
10606			Andy
10607	root	1.387	%
10608	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10609			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10610			We all have our cross to bear.
10611	root	1.387	%
10612	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10613
10614			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10615			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10616			Subject: Re: system() question
10617
10618			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10619			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10620			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10621			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10622			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10623			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10624			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10625			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10626			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10627			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10628			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10629			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10630			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10631			humiliating for me!)
10632
10633			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10634			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10635			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10636			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10637			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10638			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10639			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10640			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10641			really knows the answer.
10642
10643			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10644			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10645			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10646			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10647
10648			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10649			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10650			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10651			for that.
10652
10653			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10654			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10655			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10656			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10657			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10658			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10659			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10660
10661			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10662
10663			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10664			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10665			something for free.''
10666
10667			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10668
10669			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10670			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10671
10672			(Good question.)
10673
10674			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10675			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10676			once I have run it.''
10677			(Good question.)
10678
10679			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10680
10681			(Good question.)
10682
10683			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10684			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10685			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10686			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10687			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10688
10689			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10690			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10691			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10692			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10693			comp.lang.perl?
10694			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10695			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10696			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10697			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10698			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10699			in comp.lang.perl?
10700
10701			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10702			you my rate card.
10703
10704			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10705			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10706			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10707			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10708			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10709			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10710			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10711			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10712			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10713			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10714
10715			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10716			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10717			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10718			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10719			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10720			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10721			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10722			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10723			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10724			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10725			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10726			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10727			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10728			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10729			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10730			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10731
10732			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10733			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10734			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10735			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10736			someone will. Maybe I will.
10737
10738			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10739			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10740			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10741			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10742			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10743			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10744			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10745			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10746
10747			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10748			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10749			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10750			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10751			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10752			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10753			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10754			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10755			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10756			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10757			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10758			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10759			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10760			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10761
10762			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10763			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10764			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10765			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10766
10767			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10768
10769			`I want to accomplish X.
10770
10771			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10772
10773			...
10774
10775			But instead it does Y.
10776
10777			Why is that?''
10778
10779			This one is also pretty good:
10780
10781			`I want to accomplish X.
10782			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10783
10784			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10785			because of Z.
10786
10787			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10788
10789			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10790			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10791
10792
10793			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10794			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10795
10796			--
10797			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10798			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10799	root	1.387	%
10800	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10801			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10802
10803			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10804			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10805			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10806
10807			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10808
10809			bye, Georg
10810	root	1.387	%
10811	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10812			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10813			convince me.
10814
10815			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10816
10817			Linus
10818	root	1.387	%
10819	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10820			++
10821
10822			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10823			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10824
10825	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10826	root	1.1
10827			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10828			understanding the above line.
10829
10830			Abigail
10831	root	1.387	%
10832	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10833			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10834	root	1.387	%
10835	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10836			++ button?
10837			Yes.
10838
10839			++ 100 pictures or so?
10840			Yes.
10841
10842			++ Can I do it in Perl?
10843			Yes.
10844
10845			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10846			newsgroup. alt.button.play
10847
10848			Abigail
10849	root	1.387	%
10850	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10851
10852			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10853
10854			Martien
10855	root	1.387	%
10856	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10857			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10858			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10859			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10860	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10861	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10862			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10863			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10864			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10865	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10866	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10867			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10868	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10869			nicht. ;)
10870
10871	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10872			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10873			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10874	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10875			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
10876	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
10877	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
10878
10879	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
10880			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
10881	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
10882	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
10883	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
10884
10885	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
10886	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
10887	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
10888			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
10889	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
10890	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
10891	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
10892			"unvorstellbar".
10893
10894			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
10895	root	1.387	%
10896	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
10897			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
10898			^^^
10899			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
10900	root	1.387	%
10901	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
10902			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
10903	root	1.387	%
10904	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
10905			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
10906	root	1.387	%
10907	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
10908			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
10909			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
10910
10911			An artificial pile of rocks.
10912	root	1.387	%
10913	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
10914			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
10915			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
10916			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
10917			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
10918			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
10919
10920			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
10921			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
10922			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
10923			grosser Flipperautomat.
10924
10925			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
10926	root	1.387	%
10927	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
10928			>
10929			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
10930			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
10931			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
10932			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
10933			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
10934	root	1.387	%
10935	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
10936			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
10937	root	1.1
10938			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
10939	root	1.387	%
10940	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
10941
10942			The Unix shell as a 4GL
10943
10944			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
10945			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
10946			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
10947			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
10948			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
10949			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
10950			Unix environment.
10951	root	1.387	%
10952	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
10953			between these:
10954
10955			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
10956			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
10957
10958			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
10959			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
10960			;#", and the print gets executed!
10961
10962			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
10963			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
10964			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
10965			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
10966
10967			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
10968			'perl'".
10969
10970			--
10971			Randal L. Schwartz
10972	root	1.387	%
10973	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
10974
10975			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
10976			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
10977			>
10978			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
10979
10980			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
10981
10982			--
10983			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
10984	root	1.387	%
10985	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
10986	root	1.387	%
10987	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
10988			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
10989	root	1.387	%
10990	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
10991			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
10992	root	1.387	%
10993	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
10994			can have the return value of a function be itself a
10995			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
10996			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
10997			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
10998			example.
10999	root	1.387	%
11000	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11001			resemble a nail.
11002	root	1.387	%
11003	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11004			> I did wrong.
11005
11006			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11007			newsgroup.
11008	root	1.387	%
11009	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11010	root	1.387	%
11011	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11012			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11013	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11014
11015			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11016	root	1.387	%
11017	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11018	root	1.1
11019	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11020	root	1.387	%
11021	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11022			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11023			expired instantly!!!
11024	root	1.387	%
11025	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11026			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11027
11028			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11029			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11030			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11031
11032			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11033			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11034			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11035			than double Linus's programming experience?
11036
11037			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11038			> pretty straight forward.
11039
11040			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11041			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11042	root	1.387	%
11043	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11044			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11045			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11046			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11047			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11048			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11049	root	1.387	%
11050	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11051	root	1.387	%
11052	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11053			Example:
11054			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11055	root	1.387	%
11056	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11057			Randal gets his hands on it
11058	root	1.387	%
11059	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11060	root	1.387	%
11061	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11062
11063			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11064			first if you get it working.
11065	root	1.387	%
11066	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11067			> Think different.
11068
11069			Think Again.
11070	root	1.387	%
11071	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11072	root	1.387	%
11073	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11074			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11075			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11076
11077			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11078	root	1.387	%
11079	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11080			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11081	root	1.387	%
11082	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11083			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11084			\| top.
11085	root	1.387	%
11086	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11087			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11088	root	1.387	%
11089	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11090			^^^^^^^^^
11091			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11092
11093			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11094	root	1.387	%
11095	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11096			>gehen soll?
11097
11098	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11099	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11100			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11101	root	1.387	%
11102	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11103	root	1.387	%
11104	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11105			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11106	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11107			>
11108			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11109
11110			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11111			Schuh aus!
11112	root	1.387	%
11113	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11114
11115	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11116	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11117	root	1.387	%
11118	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11119
11120
11121			First opportunity
11122			Approximate
11123			Orbit Internet
11124			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11125
11126			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11127			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11128			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11129			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11130
11131			Second opportunity
11132			Approximate
11133			Orbit Internet
11134			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11135
11136			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11137			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11138			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11139			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11140
11141			Third opportunity
11142			Approximate
11143			Orbit Internet
11144			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11145
11146			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11147			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11148			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11149			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11150
11151	root	1.387	%
11152	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11153	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11154			> >würden.
11155	root	1.1	>
11156			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11157			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11158			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11159			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11160			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11161			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11162			implizierst.
11163	root	1.387	%
11164	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11165			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11166	root	1.387	%
11167	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11168			Big improvement.
11169	root	1.387	%
11170	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11171			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11172			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11173			-- "Why that one?"
11174			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11175			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11176	root	1.387	%
11177	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11178			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11179			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11180	root	1.387	%
11181	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11182			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11183			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11184
11185			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11186
11187			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11188			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11189			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11190
11191			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11192
11193			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11194			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11195			> er eigentlich ist?
11196
11197	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11198	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11199	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11200	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11201	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11202	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11203	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11204	root	1.1	Ciao
11205			Stefan
11206	root	1.387	%
11207	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11208			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11209			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11210			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11211	root	1.387	%
11212	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11213			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11214			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11215			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11216			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11217			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11218			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11219			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11220			off.
11221	root	1.387	%
11222	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11223			Meet interesting people,
11224			Kill them.
11225	root	1.387	%
11226	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11227			> umwandelbar ist.
11228
11229			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11230	root	1.387	%
11231	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11232	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11233	root	1.387	%
11234	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11235			>
11236			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11237			> >> ruckartig.
11238			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11239			>
11240	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11241	root	1.1
11242			:-)
11243	root	1.387	%
11244	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11245	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11246			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11247	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11248			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11249			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11250			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11251
11252			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11253			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11254	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11255			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11256	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11257	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11258			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11259			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11260	root	1.1	Union.
11261
11262	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11263			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11264	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11265	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11266			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11267			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11268	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11269	root	1.387	%
11270	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11271			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11272	root	1.387	%
11273	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11274	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11275	root	1.1	>>
11276			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11277	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11278			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11279	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11280			>
11281			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11282			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11283	root	1.387	%
11284	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11285	root	1.387	%
11286	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11287			> into a random order???
11288			>
11289
11290			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11291			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11292
11293			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11294			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11295			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11296			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11297			number less than 42.
11298	root	1.387	%
11299	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11300			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11301			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11302			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11303			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11304			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11305			eventually invent Unix.
11306	root	1.387	%
11307	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11308			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11309			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11310			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11311			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11312			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11313			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11314			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11315			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11316			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11317			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11318			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11319			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11320			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11321			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11322			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11323	root	1.387	%
11324	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11325			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11326			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11327	root	1.387	%
11328	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11329			using a Perl CGI script?
11330	root	1.387	%
11331	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11332
11333			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11334			week.
11335	root	1.387	%
11336	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11337			Brieweb> of PERL.
11338			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11339			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11340			[Randal Schwartz]
11341	root	1.387	%
11342	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11343			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11344			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11345			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11346	root	1.387	%
11347	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11348			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11349			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11350			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11351			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11352			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11353			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11354			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11355			system and restricting their options.
11356			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11357	root	1.387	%
11358	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11359			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11360			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11361	root	1.387	%
11362	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11363			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11364			Ernie Hai
11365			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11366	root	1.387	%
11367	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11368			: results" report from the users.
11369
11370			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11371			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11372			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11373			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11374	root	1.387	%
11375	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11376			They are all owned by cats.
11377	root	1.387	%
11378	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11379			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11380			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11381	root	1.387	%
11382	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11383			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11384
11385			Yesterday it worked
11386			Today it is not working
11387			Windows is like that
11388			- - -
11389			wind catches lily
11390			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11391			segmentation fault
11392			- - -
11393			Three things are certain:
11394			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11395			Guess which has occurred.
11396			- - -
11397			A file that big?
11398			It might be very useful.
11399			But now it is gone.
11400			- - -
11401			Windows NT crashed.
11402			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11403			No one hears your screams.
11404			- - -
11405			Errors have occurred.
11406			We won't tell you where or why.
11407			Lazy programmers.
11408			- - -
11409			Seeing my great fault
11410			Through darkening blue windows
11411			I begin again
11412			- - -
11413			The code was willing,
11414			It considered your request,
11415			But the chips were weak.
11416			- - -
11417			Printer not ready.
11418			Could be a fatal error.
11419			Have a pen handy?
11420			- - -
11421			Server's poor response
11422			Not quick enough for browser.
11423			Timed out, plum blossom.
11424			- - -
11425			Chaos reigns within.
11426			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11427			Order shall return.
11428			- - -
11429			Login incorrect.
11430			Only perfect spellers may
11431			enter this system.
11432			- - -
11433			This site has been moved.
11434			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11435			have to delete you.
11436			- - -
11437			ABORTED effort:
11438			Close all that you have.
11439			You ask way too much.
11440			- - -
11441			First snow, then silence.
11442			This thousand dollar screen dies
11443			so beautifully.
11444			- - -
11445			With searching comes loss
11446			and the presence of absence:
11447			"My Novel" not found.
11448			- - -
11449			The Tao that is seen
11450			Is not the true Tao, until
11451			You bring fresh toner.
11452			- - -
11453			The Web site you seek
11454			cannot be located but
11455			endless others exist
11456			- - -
11457			Stay the patient course
11458			Of little worth is your ire
11459			The network is down
11460			- - -
11461			A crash reduces
11462			your expensive computer
11463			to a simple stone.
11464			- - -
11465			There is a chasm
11466			of carbon and silicon
11467			the software can't bridge
11468			- - -
11469			To have no errors
11470			Would be life without meaning
11471			No struggle, no joy
11472			- - -
11473			You step in the stream,
11474			but the water has moved on.
11475			This page is not here.
11476			- - -
11477			No keyboard present
11478			Hit F1 to continue
11479			Zen engineering?
11480			- - -
11481			Hal, open the file
11482			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11483			open it, please Hal
11484			- - -
11485			Out of memory.
11486			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11487			But we never will.
11488			- - -
11489			Having been erased,
11490			The document you're seeking
11491			Must now be retyped.
11492			- - -
11493			The ten thousand things
11494			How long do any persist?
11495			Netscape, too, has gone.
11496			- - -
11497			Rather than a beep
11498			Or a rude error message,
11499			These words: "File not found."
11500			- - -
11501			Serious error.
11502			All shortcuts have disappeared
11503			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11504	root	1.387	%
11505	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11506			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11507	root	1.387	%
11508	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11509			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11510
11511			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11512			early 1980s.
11513	root	1.387	%
11514	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11515			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11516			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11517			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11518
11519			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11520			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11521			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11522			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11523			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11524			many new features that it just stops working.
11525
11526			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11527
11528			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11529			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11530
11531			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11532			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11533			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11534
11535			Hope this explains what's going on
11536			Martien Verbruggen
11537	root	1.387	%
11538	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11539	root	1.387	%
11540	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11541	root	1.387	%
11542	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11543	root	1.387	%
11544	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11545			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11546			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11547	root	1.387	%
11548	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11549			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11550			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11551			>
11552			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11553
11554			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11555			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11556	root	1.387	%
11557	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11558			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11559			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11560			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11561	root	1.387	%
11562	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11563			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11564			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11565			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11566			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11567			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11568			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11569			convienience store.")
11570	root	1.387	%
11571	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11572			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11573	root	1.387	%
11574	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11575	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11576	root	1.1
11577			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11578			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11579	root	1.387	%
11580	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11581			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11582			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11583			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11584	root	1.387	%
11585	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11586			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11587			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11588	root	1.387	%
11589	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11590			(A => B) => (B => A)
11591			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11592			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11593	root	1.387	%
11594	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11595	root	1.387	%
11596	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11597			-Barry Shein
11598	root	1.387	%
11599	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11600			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11601			read the manual.
11602	root	1.387	%
11603	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11604	root	1.387	%
11605	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11606			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11607			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11608			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11609			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11610			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11611			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11612			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11613			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11614	root	1.387	%
11615	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11616	root	1.387	%
11617	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11618			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11619			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11620	root	1.387	%
11621	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11622
11623			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11624			need.
11625	root	1.387	%
11626	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11627			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11628			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11629	root	1.387	%
11630	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11631			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11632			newsreaders. You know,
11633			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11634			back
11635			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11636			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11637			out what they're saying.
11638	root	1.387	%
11639	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11640			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11641	root	1.387	%
11642	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11643			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11644			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11645
11646			But the combination.... sutters
11647	root	1.387	%
11648	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11649			Darn it.
11650	root	1.387	%
11651	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11652	root	1.387	%
11653	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11654	root	1.387	%
11655	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11656			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11657			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11658			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11659			trying to use it.
11660	root	1.387	%
11661	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11662	root	1.387	%
11663	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11664			>
11665			> Is this group active?
11666			No.
11667
11668			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11669			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11670
11671			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11672			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11673	root	1.387	%
11674	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11675			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11676	root	1.387	%
11677	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11678			Press any key to continue..."
11679	root	1.387	%
11680	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11681			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11682			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11683	root	1.387	%
11684	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11685			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11686			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11687			adjust your travel plans.
11688	root	1.387	%
11689	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11690			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11691	root	1.387	%
11692	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11693			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11694
11695			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11696			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11697
11698			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11699
11700			tak 18 12 6
11701	root	1.387	%
11702	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11703			-- Bill Gates
11704			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11705			-- Bill Gates
11706			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11707			-- logical conclusion
11708	root	1.387	%
11709	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11710			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11711			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11712			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11713			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11714			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11715			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11716			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11717			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11718			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11719			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11720			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11721			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11722			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11723			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11724			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11725			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11726			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11727			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11728			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11729			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11730	root	1.387	%
11731	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11732			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11733			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11734			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11735	root	1.387	%
11736	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.