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1	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
2			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
3			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
4			less lethal.
5
6			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
7			%
8	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
9
10			[...]
11
12			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
13
14			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
15			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
16			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
17			%
18	root	1.441	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas
19			"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte
20			"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
21			"also now legal names for the UK.
22
23			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
24			%
25			From: Russ Allbery
26			To: tz@iana.org
27			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
28
29			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
30			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
31			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
32			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
33			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
34			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
35			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
36
37			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
38			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
39
40			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
41			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
42			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
43			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
44			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
45
46			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
47			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
48			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
49			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
50			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
51			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
52			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
53			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
54			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
55
56			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
57			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
58			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
59			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
60			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
61			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
62			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
63			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
64			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
65			maintainer.
66			%
67	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
68
69			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
70			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
71			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
72			"BST", but no:
73			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
74			%
75			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
76			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
77
78			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
79			> When can we expect the updated version
80
81			About three weeks ago.
82			%
83	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
84			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
85			%
86			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
87
88			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
89			%
90	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
91			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
92			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
93
94			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
95			%
96			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
97
98			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
99
100			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
101			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
102
103			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
104			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
105			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
106
107			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
108			full day per year.
109			%
110	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
111			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
112			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
113			%
114			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
115			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
116			%
117			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
118			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
119			me - lately?".
120			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
121			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
122
123			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
124			%
125			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
126			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
127			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
128			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
129
130			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
131			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
132			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
133			your lives be a living hell.
134
135			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
136			%
137	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
138			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
139			%
140			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
141			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
142			out with a problem I'm having?
143
144			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
145
146			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
147
148			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
149			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
150			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
151			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
152
153			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
154
155			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
156
157			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
158
159			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
160			[http://c2.com/]
161			%
162			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
163			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
164			right-parenthesis.
165			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
166			%
167			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
168			yourself?
169			Software development is the career for you!
170
171			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
172			%
173	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
174			-- Richard Dawkins
175			%
176			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
177			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
178			and security.
179
180			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
181			%
182			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
183
184			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
185			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
186			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
187			%
188			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
189			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
190			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
191			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
192			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
193			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
194
195			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
196			%
197			tiny hsv2rgb
198			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;}
199
200			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
201			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
202			}
203			%
204			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
205			Only Java makes it possible!
206
207			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
208			%
209			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
210			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
211			extremely poettering''
212			%
213			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
214			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
215			%
216			"I drank what?!"
217			-- Socrates
218			%
219			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
220			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
221			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
222
223			Jon Callas in
224			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
225			%
226			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
227			-- Conway's Law
228			%
229			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
230			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
231			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
232			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
233			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
234			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
235			untangling this mess right now so).
236
237			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
238			%
239			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
240			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
241			enabled on platforms that support it.
242			[xorg.conf(5)]
243			%
244			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
245			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
246			> would work on code.
247
248			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
249			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
250			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
251			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
252			%
253	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
254			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
255			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
256			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
257			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
258			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
259			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
260			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
261			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
262			%
263			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
264			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
265			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
266			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
267			very beginning.
268			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
269			%
270			systemd creates user session information in
271			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
272			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
273			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
274			allowed one session per user.
275			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
276			%
277	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
278			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
279			> about anything else.
280			>
281			> Why is it like that?
282
283			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
284
285			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
286			%
287			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
288
289			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
290			>>
291			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
292			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
293			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
294			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
295			>
296			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
297
298			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
299			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
300			%
301			(partial) Beaufort Table
302			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
303			Calm 0 0 0
304			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
305			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
306			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
307			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
308			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
309			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
310			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
311			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
312			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
313			%
314			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
315			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
316			%
317			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
318			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
319			%
320			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
321			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
322			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
323			on the cards.
324			%
325			[random comment from amule sources]
326			// trust noone ;-)
327			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
328			// wtf you guys are weird.
329			%
330	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
331			- Kin Hubbard
332			%
333			[random .sig]
334			I'm a muslim.
335
336			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
337			%
338			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
339			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
340			before.
341
342			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
343			%
344			<imho>
345
346			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
347			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
348			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
349			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
350
351			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
352			Java - public static void not fun.
353			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
354			C - usually not fun.
355
356			What about modern scripting languages?
357
358			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
359			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
360			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
361
362			</imho>
363
364			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
365			%
366			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
367			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
368			%
369
370			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
371			*
372			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
373
374			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
375			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
376			%
377			# The user is always right.
378			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
379			[autoconf]
380			%
381			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
382
383			/*
384			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
385			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
386			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
387			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
388			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
389			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
390			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
391			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
392			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
393			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
394			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
395			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
396			*/
397			%
398			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
399			was new to me:
400
401			switch(c)
402			{
403			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
404			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
405			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
406			case 'd': base=-10; }
407			switch(type)
408			{
409			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
410			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
411			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
412			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
413			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
414			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
415			default:val=0; break;
416			}
417			cp = __numout(val,base);
418			if(0) {
419			case 's':
420			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
421			}
422			%
423			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
424			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
425			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
426			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
427			extra second and see how far you get :-)
428			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
429			%
430			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
431			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
432			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
433			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
434			>
435			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
436			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
437
438			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
439			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
440
441			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
442			%
443			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
444			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
445			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
446
447			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
448
449			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
450			%
451			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
452			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
453			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
454			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
455			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
456			settings)
457
458			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
459			%
460			How do I deal with memory leaks?
461
462			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
463
464			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
465			%
466			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
467			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
468
469			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
470			%
471			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
472			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
473			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
474			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
475
476			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
477			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
478			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
479			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
480			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
481			rewarded for their creativity.
482
483			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
484			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
485			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
486			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
487			would never have made it in the first place.
488
489			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
490			%
491			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
492			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
493			%
494			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
495			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
496			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
497			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
498			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
499
500			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
501			%
502			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
503			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
504			- Mohandas Gandhi
505			%
506			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
507			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
508			handiwork of the Lord."
509			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
510			%
511			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
512
513			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
514			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
515			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
516
517			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
518			Scientist A publishes results.
519
520			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
521			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
522			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
523
524			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
525			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
526			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
527			A: ...
528			B: You fraud!
529
530			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
531
532			A publishes results.
533
534			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
535			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
536			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
537			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
538			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
539			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
540
541			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
542			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
543			%
544			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
545			them because they need the money to operate]
546
547			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
548			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
549			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
550			site or its bottom line."
551			%
552			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
553			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
554			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
555			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
556			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
557			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
558			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
559			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
560			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
561			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
562			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
563			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
564			%
565			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
566
567			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
568
569			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
570			%
571			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
572
573			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
574			>>>> and the beating of children?
575			>>>
576			>>> Subjugation of women...
577			>>
578			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
579			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
580			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
581			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
582			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
583			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
584			>> shake partner.
585			>
586			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
587			>
588			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
589			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
590			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
591			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
592			>
593
594			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
595			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
596			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
597			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
598			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
599			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
600			and your wife.
601			%
602			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
603			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
604			still kill you. - arestheblue
605			%
606			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
607			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
608			specifications for GSS-API.
609
610			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
611			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
612
613			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
614			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
615
616			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
617			%
618			[from the minix 3 users guide]
619
620			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
621			%
622			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
623
624			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
625			[...]
626			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
627			complaintant to guess this is true.
628			%
629			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
630			- Ken Thompson.
631			%
632			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
633
634			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
635
636			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
637			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
638			source code excerpt:
639
640			int sn()
641			{
642			char pwr;
643
644			int input1 = 0;
645			double output1 = 0;
646
647			system("clear");
648			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
649			cin>>input1;
650			output1 = (sin(input1));
651			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
652			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
653			cin>>pwr;
654			if(pwr == 'a')
655			sq();
656			if(pwr == 'm')
657			system("pause");
658
659			}
660			%
661			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
662			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
663
664			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
665
666			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
667			%
668			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
669			app for me" department:
670
671			From: Evan LeCompte
672
673			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
674			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
675			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
676			%
677			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
678			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
679			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
680
681			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
682			%
683			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
684			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
685			– Steve Jobs[47]
686
687			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
688			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
689			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
690			%
691			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
692			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
693			%
694			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
695			From: Patrick Horgan
696			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
697			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
698
699			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
700			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
701			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
702			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
703			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
704			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
705
706			[...]
707			%
708	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
709			— Peter Abelard
710			%
711			A man said to the universe:
712			"Sir I exist!"
713			"However," replied the universe,
714			"The fact has not created in me
715	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
716			- Steven Crane
717	root	1.431	%
718			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
719
720			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
721
722			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
723
724			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
725
726			– Sanskrit Saying
727			%
728			[anonymised discussion]
729			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
730			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
731			%
732			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
733
734	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
735	root	1.431
736			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
737			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
738			appear.
739			%
740			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
741			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
742			- Douglas Adams
743			%
744			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
745			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
746			%
747			“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
748			lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
749			%
750			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
751			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
752			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
753			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
754			%
755			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
756			%
757			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
758			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
759			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
760			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
761			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
762			%
763			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
764			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
765			or her career.
766			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
767			%
768			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
769			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
770			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
771			%
772			I LOVE YOU
773			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
774			%
775			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
776			the air impeller.
777
778			Alan Cox
779			%
780			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
781			with a minimum computer science background."
782			%
783			From: Eric Sosman
784			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
785			Subject: Re: about graphics
786
787			prince wrote:
788			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
789
790			#include <stdio.h>
791			int main(void) {
792			puts("graphics\rcommand");
793			return 0;
794			}
795			%
796			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
797			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
798			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
799			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
800			%
801			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
802
803			While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
804			it still is a constant-time attack.
805			%
806			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
807			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
808			%
809			From: David Damerell
810
811			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
812			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
813			>caps to make it different.
814
815			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
816			painful but will take less typing.
817			%
818			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
819			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
820			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
821
822			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
823			%
824			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
825
826			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
827			> free than the BSD.
828			>
829			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
830
831			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
832			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
833			%
834			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
835
836			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
837			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
838			from incompatible pointer type
839			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
840			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
841			makes pointer from integer without a cast
842			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
843			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
844			%
845			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
846			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
847			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
848			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
849			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
850			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
851
852			[Chandon Seldon]
853			%
854			[Wikipedia]
855			Differences between vi and Emacs
856
857			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
858			%
859			[lost the reference]
860			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
861			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
862			%
863			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
864			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
865			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
866			%
867			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
868
869			Subject: Re: fcrack help
870			From: puezalb024@aol.com
871			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
872			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
873			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
874
875			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
876			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
877			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
878			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
879			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
880			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
881			piss on your leg.
882
883			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
884			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
885			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
886
887			[then, a day later]
888
889			Subject: Re: fcrack help
890			From: puezalb024@aol.com
891			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
892			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
893			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
894
895			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
896			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
897			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
898			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
899			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
900			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
901			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
902			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
903			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
904
905
906			-----Original Message-----
907			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
908			To: puezalb024@aol.com
909			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
910			Subject: Re: fcrack help
911
912
913
914			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
915	root	1.432	>
916	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
917
918			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
919
920			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
921			I hope you don't object :)
922			%
923			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
924			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
925
926			You made my day
927			%
928			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
929
930			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
931			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
932			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
933
934			Linus
935			%
936			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
937
938			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
939
940			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 ...
941
942			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
943
944			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
945			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
946			when sending emails to other people:
947			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
948
949			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
950
951			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
952			%
953			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
954			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
955			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
956			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
957			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
958			%
959			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
960			be used if run as administrator in windows.
961
962			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
963			%
964			[on italy]
965
966			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
967
968			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
969			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
970			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
971			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
972
973			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
974			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
975			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
976			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
977			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
978			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
979
980			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
981
982			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
983			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
984			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
985			from fascism period.
986
987			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
988			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
989			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
990			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
991			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
992			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
993			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
994			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
995			SIAE.
996
997			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
998			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
999			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1000			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1001			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1002			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1003			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1004			electronic ones
1005
1006			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1007
1008			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1009			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1010			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1011			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1012			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1013			western country.
1014
1015			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1016			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1017			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1018			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1019			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1020			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1021			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1022			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1023			also the governments of "center-left".
1024
1025			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1026
1027			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1028			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1029			without any restriction.
1030
1031			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1032			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1033			world.
1034
1035			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1036			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1037			Thank you for reading.
1038			%
1039			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1040			>
1041			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1042
1043			How very ironic.
1044			%
1045			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1046			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1047			takes religion."
1048
1049			--Steve Weinberg
1050			%
1051			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1052			%
1053			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1054			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1055			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1056
1057			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1058			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1059			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1060			%
1061			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1062			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1063			the right tool for me.
1064			%
1065			[deliantra]
1066			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1067			%
1068			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1069			%
1070			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1071			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1072			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1073			%
1074			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1075
1076			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1077			%
1078			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1079			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1080
1081			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1082			actually tells you it's American.
1083			%
1084			[better do not hire this programmer]
1085			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1086			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1087			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1088
1089			Hi
1090
1091			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1092			someone here can advise me.
1093
1094			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1095			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1096			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1097			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1098			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1099
1100			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1101			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1102			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1103			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1104			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1105			corresponding thing in C?
1106
1107			Thanks!
1108			%
1109			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1110
1111			// See bug 53763.
1112			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1113			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1114			if (shell) {
1115			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1116			%
1117			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1118			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1119
1120			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1121			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1122			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1123			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1124			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1125			%
1126			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1127			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1128			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1129			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1130			“display quality too high”).
1131
1132			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1133			%
1134			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1135
1136	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1137	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1138
1139			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1140
1141			x / y * z
1142
1143			and
1144
1145			x / y * z
1146
1147			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1148
1149			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1150			design decisions.)
1151			%
1152			endergt:
1153			> snoofle:
1154			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1155			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1156			> > you understand what you are doing...
1157			>
1158	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1159	root	1.431
1160	root	1.432	debug
1161	root	1.431	%
1162			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%.
1163
1164			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1165			%
1166			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1167			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1168			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1169
1170			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1171			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1172			6 Decompilation
1173
1174			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1175			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1176			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1177			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1178			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1179			conditions are met: [...]"
1180			%
1181			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1182			%
1183			Why Linux Sux ?
1184
1185			Easy .
1186			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1187			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1188			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 .
1189			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1190			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1191			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1192			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! ) .
1193			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 .
1194			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1195
1196			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1197			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1198			working ones . Screw linux users .
1199			%
1200			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1201			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1202			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1203			%
1204			> The Dell 30"...
1205
1206			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1207			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1208			%
1209	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1210	root	1.431
1211			> > 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".
1212	root	1.432	>
1213	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!
1214	root	1.432	>
1215	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1216	root	1.432
1217	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1218
1219			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1220			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.
1221			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1222	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.
1223	root	1.431	%
1224			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1225			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1226			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1227			%
1228			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1229
1230			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1231			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1232			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1233
1234			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1235			anderen betriebssystemen.
1236
1237			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1238			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1239
1240			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1241			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1242			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1243			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1244			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1245
1246			Frage?
1247			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1248			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1249			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1250
1251			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1252			%
1253			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1254			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1255			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1256			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1257			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1258			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1259			%
1260			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1261			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1262			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1263			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1264			%
1265			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1266			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1267
1268			God bless the re-inventers
1269
1270			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1271			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1272
1273	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1274	root	1.431
1275			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1276			one.
1277			%
1278			[rfc2665]
1279			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1280			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1281			useful in theory than in practice.
1282			%
1283			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1284	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1285	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1286			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1287			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1288			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1289			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1290			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1291	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1292	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1293			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1294	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1295	root	1.431	15:30
1296			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1297			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1298			%
1299			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1300			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1301			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1302			%
1303			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1304
1305			Strictly for beginners
1306
1307			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1308			[...]
1309			%
1310			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1311			%
1312			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1313			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1314			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1315			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1316			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1317			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1318			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1319			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1320			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1321			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1322			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1323			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1324			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1325			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1326			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1327			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1328			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1329			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1330			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1331			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1332			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1333			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1334			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1335			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1336			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1337			%
1338			[A Gentoo User]
1339			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1340			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1341			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1342			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1343			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1344			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1345			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1346			%
1347			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1348			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1349			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1350			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1351			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1352	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1353			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1354	root	1.431	can do
1355			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1356			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1357			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1358			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1359			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1360			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1361			%
1362			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1363	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1364			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1365			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1366	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1367			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1368	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1369			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1370	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1371			%
1372			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1373			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1374			%
1375			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1376
1377			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1378			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1379			be slow in Windows 2000"
1380
1381			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1382			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1383			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1384			%
1385			[so much for type-safety]
1386			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1387			lst.add(null);
1388			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1389			%
1390			[just for reference]
1391			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1392			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1393			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1394			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1395			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1396			es nicht.
1397
1398			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1399			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1400			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1401			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1402			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1403			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1404
1405			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1406			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1407			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1408			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1409			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1410			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1411			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1412			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1413			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1414			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1415			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1416			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1417			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
1418			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
1419
1420			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
1421			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
1422			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
1423			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
1424			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
1425			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
1426			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
1427
1428			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
1429			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
1430			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
1431			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
1432			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
1433			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
1434			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
1435			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
1436			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
1437			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
1438			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
1439			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
1440			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
1441			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
1442			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
1443			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
1444			alternativ' Idioten!
1445
1446			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
1447			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
1448			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
1449			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
1450			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
1451			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
1452			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
1453			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
1454			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
1455			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
1456			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
1457			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
1458			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
1459			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
1460
1461			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
1462			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
1463			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
1464
1465			Ich will R A C H E !
1466
1467			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
1468			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
1469			Dinge zu sagen:
1470
1471			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
1472
1473			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
1474			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
1475			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
1476			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
1477			anfange.
1478
1479			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
1480			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
1481			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
1482			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
1483			dieser verdammten schule!
1484
1485			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
1486			die Welt zu bieten hat!
1487
1488			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
1489
1490			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
1491			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
1492			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
1493			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
1494			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
1495			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
1496			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
1497			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
1498			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
1499			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
1500
1501			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
1502			Einschulung.
1503
1504			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
1505			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
1506			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
1507			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
1508			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
1509			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
1510			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
1511			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
1512			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
1513			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
1514
1515			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
1516			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
1517
1518			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
1519			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
1520			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
1521			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
1522			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
1523			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
1524			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
1525			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
1526
1527			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
1528			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
1529			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
1530			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
1531			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
1532			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
1533			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
1534			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
1535
1536			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
1537			ihr dafür bezahlen!
1538
1539			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
1540			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
1541			Hand genommen.
1542
1543			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
1544			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
1545
1546			Ich bin weg...
1547			%
1548			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
1549			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
1550			%
1551	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
1552			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
1553			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
1554			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
1555	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
1556			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
1557			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
1558			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
1559			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
1560			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
1561			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
1562			%
1563			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
1564			%
1565			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
1566			[The reason I left Perl 6]
1567
1568			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
1569			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
1570			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
1571			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
1572			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
1573			%
1574			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
1575			%
1576			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
1577			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
1578			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
1579			%
1580			[very funny read]
1581			Hack-a-Bike
1582			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
1583			%
1584			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
1585			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
1586			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
1587			still can.
1588
1589			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
1590			%
1591	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
1592			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
1593	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
1594			%
1595			[without words]
1596			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
1597			%
1598			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
1599			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
1600			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
1601			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
1602			actual kid in an actual bath.
1603			%
1604			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
1605			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
1606			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
1607			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
1608			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
1609			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
1610			what happened to you.
1611			%
1612	root	1.432	--
1613	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
1614
1615			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
1616			Q: Why is top posting bad?
1617			%
1618			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
1619	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
1620			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
1621	root	1.431	> important difference.)
1622
1623			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
1624			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
1625			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
1626			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
1627			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
1628
1629			- Ted
1630			%
1631			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
1632			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
1633			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
1634			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
1635			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
1636			me, but we have the truth!"
1637			%
1638			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
1639			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
1640			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
1641			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
1642			%
1643			[nethack extinctionist faq]
1644			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
1645			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
1646			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
1647			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
1648			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
1649			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
1650			genociding every monster.
1651
1652			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
1653			genocide them for good measure!
1654			%%
1655			[nethack instadeath faq]
1656
1657			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
1658
1659			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
1660			%
1661			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
1662			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
1663	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
1664	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
1665			17:58 <Murch> lol
1666			%
1667			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
1668			%
1669			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
1670			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
1671			%
1672			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
1673			%
1674			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
1675
1676			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
1677			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
1678			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
1679			%
1680			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
1681
1682			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
1683			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
1684			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
1685			the Eastern Time Zone.
1686			[...]
1687			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
1688			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
1689			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
1690			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
1691			%
1692			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
1693
1694			_dl_profile_output
1695			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
1696			%
1697			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
1698			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
1699			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
1700			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
1701			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
1702			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
1703			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
1704
1705			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
1706			%
1707			[famous last words]
1708			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
1709			%
1710			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
1711
1712			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
1713
1714			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
1715
1716			--
1717			Jay Hennigan
1718			%
1719			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1720			%
1721			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
1722			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
1723			of homeland security]
1724			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
1725			%
1726			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
1727	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
1728	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
1729			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
1730			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
1731			range of spyware available to us?"
1732
1733			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
1734			%
1735			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
1736			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
1737			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
1738			%
1739	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
1740	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
1741			%
1742			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
1743			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
1744			%
1745			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
1746			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
1747			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
1748			shooter.
1749
1750			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
1751			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
1752			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
1753			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
1754			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
1755			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
1756
1757			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
1758			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
1759			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
1760			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
1761			way.
1762
1763			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
1764			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
1765			key graphic good. Make me happy."
1766
1767			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
1768			%
1769			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
1770			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
1771			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
1772			> above comment about Hitler).
1773
1774			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
1775			mention Hitler loses.
1776			%
1777			[siggraph '99 course 12]
1778			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
1779			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
1780			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
1781			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
1782			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
1783			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
1784			including <windows.h>.
1785			[...]
1786			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
1787			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
1788			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
1789			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
1790			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
1791			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
1792			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
1793			environments.
1794			%
1795			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
1796			%
1797			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
1798			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
1799			%
1800			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
1801			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
1802			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
1803			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
1804			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
1805			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
1806			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
1807			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
1808			companies want to own your computer.
1809
1810			Some examples:
1811
1812			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
1813			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
1814			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
1815			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
1816			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
1817			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
1818			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
1819			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
1820			wanting to own its customers' machines.
1821	root	1.432
1822	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
1823			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
1824			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
1825			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
1826			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
1827
1828			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
1829			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
1830			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
1831			from Microsoft? You can't.
1832
1833			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
1834			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
1835			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
1836			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
1837			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
1838			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
1839			adversely affect its business partners.
1840
1841			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
1842			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
1843			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
1844			about your behavior.
1845
1846			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
1847			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
1848			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
1849			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
1850			presumed infractions.
1851
1852			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
1853			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
1854			Computing will only make the problem worse.
1855
1856			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
1857			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
1858			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
1859			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
1860			user's device against him.
1861			[...]
1862			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
1863			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
1864			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
1865			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
1866			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
1867			back-room marketing deals.
1868			%
1869			[John Carmack on Java]
1870			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
1871			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
1872			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
1873			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
1874			performance.
1875			%
1876			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
1877
1878			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
1879			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
1880			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
1881			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
1882			%
1883			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
1884			%
1885			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
1886			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
1887			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
1888			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
1889			%
1890			http://funroll-loops.org/
1891			%
1892			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
1893			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
1894			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
1895			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
1896			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
1897			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
1898			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
1899			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
1900			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
1901			Fahrenheit documentation.
1902			%
1903			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
1904			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
1905			sure its much slower than CVS]
1906			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1907			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
1908			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
1909	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1910	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
1911			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1912	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1913	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
1914			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
1915	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
1916	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
1917			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
1918			%
1919	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
1920
1921			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
1922			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
1923	root	1.431	%
1924	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
1925
1926			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
1927			> systems ?
1928
1929			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
1930			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
1931
1932			Jesper
1933			%
1934	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
1935
1936			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
1937			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
1938
1939	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
1940	root	1.429	%
1941	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
1942			%
1943	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
1944
1945			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
1946			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
1947			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
1948			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
1949			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
1950			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
1951			but that's the truth.
1952			%
1953	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
1954
1955			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
1956
1957	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
1958			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
1959			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
1960			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
1961	root	1.424
1962			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
1963	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
1964			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
1965	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
1966
1967			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
1968			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
1969	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
1970	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
1971			in Richtung Boden.
1972
1973			[...]
1974
1975	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
1976	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
1977	root	1.424
1978			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
1979	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
1980	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
1981
1982			[...]
1983
1984			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
1985	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
1986	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
1987	root	1.424
1988			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
1989	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
1990			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
1991			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
1992	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
1993			sofort.
1994			%
1995	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
1996			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
1997			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
1998			software from Microsoft.)
1999	root	1.424	%
2000	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2001	root	1.424	%
2002	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2003
2004			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2005			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2006			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2007			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2008	root	1.424	%
2009	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2010	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2011	root	1.424	%
2012	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2013			From: Rodrigo Severo
2014			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2015			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2016
2017			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2018
2019			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2020			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2021			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2022
2023			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2024			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2025			brazilian ;)
2026			Rodrigo Severo
2027	root	1.424	%
2028	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2029	root	1.417
2030			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2031	root	1.424	%
2032	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2033
2034			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2035
2036			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2037
2038			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2039			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2040
2041			sigh
2042	root	1.424	%
2043	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2044			By Bertrand Russell
2045
2046			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2047			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2048			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2049			might be set forth as follows:
2050
2051			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2052
2053			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2054			evidence is sure to come to light.
2055
2056			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2057
2058			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2059			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2060			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2061
2062			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2063			contrary authorities to be found.
2064
2065			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2066			do the opinions will suppress you.
2067
2068			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2069			was once eccentric.
2070
2071			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2072			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2073			agreement than the latter.
2074
2075			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2076			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2077
2078			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2079			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2080
2081			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2082			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2083	root	1.424	%
2084	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2085	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2086			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2087			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2088
2089			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2090			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2091			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2092			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2093			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2094			United States."
2095	root	1.413	---
2096			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2097			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2098			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2099	root	1.414	---
2100			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2101			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2102			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2103			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2104			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2105
2106			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2107			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2108	root	1.424	%
2109	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2110			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2111	root	1.424	%
2112	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2113
2114			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2115			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2116
2117			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2118			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2119
2120			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2121
2122			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2123			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2124	root	1.424	%
2125	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2126			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2127	root	1.424	%
2128	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2129			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2130			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2131			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2132			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2133			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2134	root	1.424	%
2135	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2136
2137			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2138			they care about it?"
2139			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2140	root	1.407
2141			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2142	root	1.424	%
2143	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2144			-- Gregory Chaitin
2145	root	1.424	%
2146	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2147	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2148			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2149			[...]
2150	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2151			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2152	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2153	root	1.424	%
2154	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2155			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2156			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2157			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2158			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2159			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2160	root	1.424	%
2161	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2162
2163			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2164	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2165			return 0;
2166	root	1.424	%
2167	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2168	root	1.401
2169			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2170			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2171			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2172			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2173			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2174			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2175			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2176			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2177			> transparent.
2178
2179			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2180			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2181			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2182			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2183	root	1.424	%
2184	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2185			aber falsche Lösungen.
2186	root	1.424	%
2187	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2188			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2189			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2190			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2191	root	1.424	%
2192	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2193			>
2194			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2195			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2196			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2197			> than useful to the user.
2198
2199			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2200
2201			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2202			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2203			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2204			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2205
2206			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2207
2208			Linus
2209	root	1.424	%
2210	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2211			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2212			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2213			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2214	root	1.424	%
2215	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2216			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2217
2218	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2219	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2220			--
2221			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2222
2223			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2224	root	1.424	%
2225	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2226			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2227
2228			Person: What do you do?
2229			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2230			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2231
2232			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2233			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2234			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2235	root	1.394
2236			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2237			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2238	root	1.424	%
2239	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2240			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2241			illegal downloaders."
2242
2243			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2244
2245			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2246			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2247			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2248			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2249			have to emerge."
2250
2251			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2252	root	1.424	%
2253	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2254	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2255
2256			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2257			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2258
2259			Bye, Andy
2260	root	1.424	%
2261	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2262	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2263	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2264	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2265	root	1.390
2266			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2267			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2268			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2269			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2270			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2271			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2272			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2273			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2274			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2275			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2276			alle Benutzer.
2277			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2278			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2279			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2280			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2281			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2282			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2283			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2284			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2285			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2286			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2287			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2288	root	1.424	%
2289	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2290
2291			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2292			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2293			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2294			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2295			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2296			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2297			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2298			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2299			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2300			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2301			unfinished operations, etc.
2302			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2303
2304			Valid options:
2305			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2306			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2307
2308			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2309	root	1.424	%
2310	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2311			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2312			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2313			to provide.
2314			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2315	root	1.424	%
2316	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2317
2318			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2319			alarm people more.
2320
2321			-Nate
2322
2323			[...]
2324
2325			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2326			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2327			image of the language that is created here.
2328
2329			Juerd
2330
2331			[...]
2332
2333			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2334			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2335			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2336
2337	root	1.432	--
2338	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2339	root	1.387	%
2340	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2341	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2342	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2343			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2344	root	1.387	%
2345	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2346			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2347	root	1.387	%
2348	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2349			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2350	root	1.387	%
2351	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2352			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2353			[...]
2354			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2355			"Windows is broken."
2356	root	1.387	%
2357	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2358			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2359			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2360	root	1.387	%
2361	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2362			on being able to kill their children legally]
2363			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2364	root	1.387	%
2365	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2366			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2367			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2368	root	1.387	%
2369	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2370			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2371			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2372			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2373			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2374			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2375	root	1.378	--
2376			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2377			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2378			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2379			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2380			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2381			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2382			wasteful government spending."
2383	root	1.387	%
2384	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2385			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2386	root	1.387	%
2387	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2388			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2389	root	1.387	%
2390	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2391			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2392	root	1.387	%
2393	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2394			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2395	root	1.387	%
2396	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2397	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2398	root	1.387	%
2399	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2400			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2401	root	1.387	%
2402	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2403			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2404	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2405	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2406			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2407	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2408	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
2409			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2410	root	1.387	%
2411	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2412			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2413	root	1.387	%
2414	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2415			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2416			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2417			their weapons over our heads."
2418			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
2419	root	1.387	%
2420	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
2421			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
2422	root	1.387	%
2423	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
2424			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
2425			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
2426			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
2427			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
2428	root	1.387	%
2429	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
2430	root	1.387	%
2431	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
2432			several requests for clarification.
2433
2434			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
2435			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
2436			unter TCG definitions.
2437	root	1.387	%
2438	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
2439			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
2440			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
2441			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
2442	root	1.387	%
2443	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
2444			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
2445			get people on board.
2446			%
2447	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
2448			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
2449			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
2450			DRM.
2451
2452			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
2453			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
2454	root	1.387	%
2455	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
2456			switch ($decade) {
2457			case "the 50's":
2458			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
2459			break;
2460			case "the 60's":
2461			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
2462			break;
2463			case "the 70's":
2464			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
2465			break;
2466			case "the 80's":
2467			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
2468			break;
2469			case "the 90's":
2470			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
2471			break;
2472			case "the 00's":
2473			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
2474			break;
2475			}
2476	root	1.387	%
2477	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
2478
2479			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
2480			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
2481			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
2482			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
2483
2484			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
2485			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
2486			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
2487
2488			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
2489			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
2490			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
2491			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
2492			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
2493			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
2494			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
2495			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
2496			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
2497			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
2498	root	1.387	%
2499	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
2500			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
2501			married or unmarried."
2502
2503			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
2504			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
2505			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
2506			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
2507			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
2508	root	1.387	%
2509	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
2510
2511			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
2512			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
2513			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
2514			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
2515			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
2516			conditioning.
2517
2518			[And this is religion at its best:]
2519			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
2520			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
2521			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
2522	root	1.387	%
2523	root	1.361	[Racism]
2524			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
2525	root	1.387	%
2526	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
2527			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
2528	root	1.387	%
2529	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
2530			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
2531
2532			I apologise for this.
2533
2534			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
2535			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
2536	root	1.387	%
2537	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
2538			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
2539			el says: ich kenn da wen
2540			el says: bei dem wars so
2541			[...]
2542			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
2543			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
2544			el says: gehirntumor auch
2545			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
2546	root	1.387	%
2547	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
2548	root	1.387	%
2549	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
2550			no sense in the kernel]
2551			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
2552
2553			[...]
2554
2555			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
2556			models.
2557
2558			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
2559			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
2560			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
2561	root	1.387	%
2562	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
2563			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
2564			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
2565			--
2566			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
2567	root	1.355	--
2568			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
2569			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
2570			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
2571			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
2572	root	1.387	%
2573	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
2574			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
2575			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
2576			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
2577			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
2578			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
2579			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
2580			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
2581	root	1.387	%
2582	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
2583			which you currently do not posess]
2584			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
2585	root	1.387	%
2586	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
2587			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
2588	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
2589	root	1.387	%
2590	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
2591	root	1.387	%
2592	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
2593			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
2594	root	1.387	%
2595	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
2596			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
2597			paragraphs.
2598	root	1.387	%
2599	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
2600			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
2601			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
2602	root	1.387	%
2603	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
2604			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
2605
2606			Most catholics aren't American.
2607	root	1.387	%
2608	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
2609
2610			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
2611			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
2612			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
2613			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
2614			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
2615
2616			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
2617			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
2618	root	1.387	%
2619	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
2620			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
2621			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
2622			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
2623			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
2624			criminals."
2625	root	1.387	%
2626	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
2627			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
2628	root	1.387	%
2629	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
2630			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
2631	root	1.387	%
2632	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
2633			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
2634	root	1.387	%
2635	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
2636			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
2637			card (They went up in flames).
2638	root	1.387	%
2639	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
2640			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
2641			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
2642			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
2643	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
2644	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
2645	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
2646	root	1.387	%
2647	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
2648			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
2649			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
2650
2651			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
2652
2653			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
2654	root	1.387	%
2655	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
2656			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
2657			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
2658			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
2659			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
2660			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
2661			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
2662			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
2663			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
2664			--
2665			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
2666			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
2667			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
2668			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
2669			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
2670			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
2671	root	1.387	%
2672	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
2673			The Obfuscated V contest
2674	root	1.387	%
2675	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
2676			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
2677			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
2678			cigarette lighters."
2679			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
2680	root	1.387	%
2681	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
2682			Does it run under Windows ?
2683			- Who cares?
2684	root	1.387	%
2685	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
2686	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
2687	root	1.387	%
2688	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
2689			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
2690			[...]
2691			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
2692			[...]
2693			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
2694			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
2695			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
2696	root	1.387	%
2697	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
2698	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
2699			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
2700			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
2701	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
2702	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
2703	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
2704	root	1.330	> mehr!
2705			> richy.
2706
2707			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
2708	root	1.387	%
2709	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
2710	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
2711			> zugetragen hat?
2712
2713			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
2714			warum behauptest Du es dann?
2715	root	1.388	[später]
2716			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
2717	root	1.329
2718			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
2719			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
2720			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
2721			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
2722			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
2723
2724			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
2725
2726			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
2727			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
2728			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
2729	root	1.387	%
2730	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
2731	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
2732			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
2733	root	1.387	%
2734	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
2735			/* give the hook another try */
2736			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
2737			break;
2738	root	1.387	%
2739	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
2740	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
2741	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
2742			#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))
2743	root	1.387	%
2744	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
2745	root	1.387	%
2746	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
2747	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
2748	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
2749	root	1.432	>
2750			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
2751			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
2752	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
2753	root	1.432	>
2754			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
2755			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
2756	root	1.324	> as TO).
2757	root	1.432	>
2758	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
2759
2760			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
2761			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
2762			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
2763			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
2764			being discourteous to.
2765
2766			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
2767			--
2768			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
2769	root	1.387	%
2770	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
2771	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
2772	root	1.387	%
2773	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
2774			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
2775			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
2776			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
2777			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
2778	root	1.387	%
2779	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
2780			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
2781			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
2782			you don't have any'."
2783	root	1.323
2784			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
2785			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
2786			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
2787			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
2788	root	1.387	%
2789	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
2790			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
2791			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
2792			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
2793	root	1.387	%
2794	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
2795			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
2796			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
2797			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
2798			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
2799			reason will not win many fans.
2800
2801			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
2802			documents in the algorithm section]
2803	root	1.387	%
2804	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
2805			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
2806			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
2807			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
2808			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
2809
2810			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
2811	root	1.387	%
2812	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
2813			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
2814			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
2815	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
2816	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
2817			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
2818	root	1.387	%
2819	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
2820	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
2821	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
2822	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
2823			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
2824	root	1.387	%
2825	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
2826			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
2827			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
2828			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
2829			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
2830			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
2831	root	1.387	%
2832	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
2833			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
2834	root	1.387	%
2835	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
2836	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
2837	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
2838			* at their price list.
2839	root	1.387	%
2840	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
2841			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
2842			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
2843			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
2844			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
2845			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
2846			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
2847	root	1.387	%
2848	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
2849			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
2850	root	1.387	%
2851	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
2852			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
2853			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
2854			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
2855	root	1.387	%
2856	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
2857	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
2858	root	1.387	%
2859	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
2860			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
2861	root	1.387	%
2862	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
2863	root	1.387	%
2864	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
2865			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2866			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
2867			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
2868			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
2869			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
2870			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
2871			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
2872	root	1.387	%
2873	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
2874			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
2875	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
2876	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
2877	root	1.387	%
2878	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
2879	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
2880	root	1.387	%
2881	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
2882	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
2883			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
2884			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
2885	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
2886
2887			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
2888
2889			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
2890			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
2891	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
2892	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
2893
2894			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
2895
2896			[usw.]
2897
2898			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
2899	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
2900	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
2901
2902			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
2903			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
2904			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
2905			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
2906			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
2907	root	1.387	%
2908	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
2909	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
2910			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
2911	root	1.387	%
2912	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
2913			Which fanboy are you?
2914
2915			1. Windows
2916
2917			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
2918			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
2919			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
2920			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
2921			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
2922			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
2923			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
2924			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
2925			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2926
2927			2. Apple
2928
2929			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
2930			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
2931			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
2932			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
2933			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
2934			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
2935			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
2936			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
2937
2938			3. Linspire
2939
2940			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
2941			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
2942			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
2943			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
2944			installed Linspire on your machine.
2945
2946			4. Umbongo
2947
2948			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
2949			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
2950			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
2951			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
2952			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
2953			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
2954			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
2955			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
2956			themselves.
2957
2958			5. Gentoy
2959
2960			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
2961			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
2962			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
2963			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
2964			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
2965			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
2966			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
2967			read those complicated regulatory documents.
2968
2969			6. Linux From Scratch
2970
2971			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
2972			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
2973			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
2974			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
2975			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
2976			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
2977			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
2978	root	1.387	%
2979	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
2980			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
2981	root	1.387	%
2982	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
2983
2984			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
2985			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
2986
2987			Coda 6.0.10 is out
2988	root	1.387	%
2989	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
2990
2991			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
2992	root	1.432	>
2993	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
2994	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
2995	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
2996			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
2997			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
2998	root	1.432	>
2999			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3000	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3001	root	1.432	>
3002	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3003			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3004	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3005	root	1.387	%
3006	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3007	root	1.387	%
3008	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3009	root	1.387	%
3010	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3011	root	1.387	%
3012	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3013			show "Correspondent"]
3014	root	1.288
3015			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3016			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3017
3018			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3019			%
3020	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3021			cock sucking, blowjob
3022			=> fellatio, fellation
3023			=> oral sex, head
3024			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3025			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3026			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3027			=> organic process, biological process
3028			=> process
3029			=> phenomenon
3030	root	1.387	%
3031	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3032			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3033	root	1.387	%
3034	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3035			[slightly edited]
3036			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3037			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3038			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3039			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3040
3041			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3042			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3043			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3044
3045			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3046			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3047	root	1.387	%
3048	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3049			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3050	root	1.387	%
3051	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3052	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3053	root	1.387	%
3054	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3055	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3056			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3057	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3058	root	1.387	%
3059	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3060			- oesi
3061	root	1.387	%
3062	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3063			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3064	root	1.387	%
3065	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3066	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3067	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3068			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3069
3070			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3071			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3072			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3073			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3074			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3075			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3076			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3077			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3078			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3079			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3080			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3081			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3082			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3083			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3084			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3085			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3086			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3087			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3088			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3089			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3090			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3091			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3092			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3093			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3094
3095			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3096			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3097			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3098			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3099			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3100
3101			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3102			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3103			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3104			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3105			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3106			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3107			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3108			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3109			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3110			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3111			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3112
3113			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3114			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3115			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3116			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3117			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3118			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3119			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3120			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3121			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3122			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3123			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3124			sovereign nation.
3125
3126			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3127			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3128			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3129			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3130			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3131			CSPAN, don't post here.
3132
3133			-scott
3134	root	1.387	%
3135	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3136			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3137			capacity to feel pain.
3138
3139			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3140			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3141	root	1.387	%
3142	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3143			From: Sven Neumann
3144
3145			Hi,
3146
3147	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3148	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3149	root	1.273
3150			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3151			that
3152
3153			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3154
3155			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3156	root	1.387	%
3157	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3158	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3159			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3160			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3161	root	1.387	%
3162	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3163			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3164			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3165			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3166			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3167			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3168	root	1.387	%
3169	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3170	root	1.270	interesting read]
3171			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3172	root	1.387	%
3173	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3174			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3175			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3176	root	1.387	%
3177	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3178			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3179			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3180			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3181			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3182			locks can open the gate.
3183
3184			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3185			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3186			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3187	root	1.387	%
3188	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3189			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3190	root	1.387	%
3191	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3192
3193			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3194
3195			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3196			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3197			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3198			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3199			explanation of this.
3200
3201			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3202
3203			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3204			which explains why the hammer falls.
3205
3206			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3207			how a population's genome can change over time.
3208
3209	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3210			mathematical relationship between two values.
3211	root	1.265
3212			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3213			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3214
3215			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3216			acceleration.
3217
3218			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3219			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3220			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3221			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3222			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3223			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3224			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3225			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3226			false.
3227
3228			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3229	root	1.387	%
3230	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3231	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3232
3233			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3234			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3235	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3236			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3237			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3238	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3239
3240	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3241			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3242			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3243			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3244			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3245			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3246			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3247	root	1.264
3248			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3249	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3250			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3251			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3252			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3253	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3254	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3255	root	1.264	sportlich.
3256
3257	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3258			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3259			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3260			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3261			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3262	root	1.264
3263	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3264	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3265	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3266			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3267	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3268
3269			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3270			Forscher.
3271	root	1.387	%
3272	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3273			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3274			EULA-style license]
3275	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3276	root	1.387	%
3277	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3278			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3279			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3280			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3281			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3282			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3283			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3284	root	1.387	%
3285	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3286	root	1.387	%
3287	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3288			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3289			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3290			00:24 <schmorp> re
3291	root	1.387	%
3292	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3293	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3294			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3295	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3296			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3297	root	1.387	%
3298	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3299			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3300			proponents of such theories.]
3301			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3302			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3303			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3304			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3305			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3306			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3307			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3308			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3309			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3310			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3311			(below, right)."
3312	root	1.387	%
3313	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3314			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3315			[useful info...]
3316			http://www.snopes.com/
3317	root	1.387	%
3318	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3319			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3320	root	1.387	%
3321	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3322			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3323	root	1.387	%
3324	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3325	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3326			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3327	root	1.387	%
3328	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3329			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3330			#!/usr/bin/sh
3331			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3332			# All Rights Reserved
3333
3334			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3335			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3336			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3337
3338			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3339	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3340	root	1.387	%
3341	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3342			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3343			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3344	root	1.387	%
3345	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3346			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3347			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3348			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3349			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3350			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3351			#
3352			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3353	root	1.387	%
3354	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3355	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3356			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3357			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3358	root	1.387	%
3359	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3360	root	1.387	%
3361	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3362	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3363			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3364	root	1.387	%
3365	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3366			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3367			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3368	root	1.387	%
3369	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3370	root	1.387	%
3371	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3372			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3373			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3374			that you have a problem.)
3375			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3376	root	1.387	%
3377	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3378			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3379	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3380	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3381
3382			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3383			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3384	root	1.387	%
3385	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3386			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3387
3388			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3389			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3390			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3391			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3392			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3393			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3394			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3395			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3396			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3397			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3398			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3399			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3400			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3401			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3402
3403			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3404			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3405			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3406			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3407			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3408			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3409			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3410	root	1.387	%
3411	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3412	root	1.239
3413			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3414			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3415			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3416	root	1.387	%
3417	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
3418			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
3419			knows this, and it's true for software too.
3420	root	1.387	%
3421	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
3422
3423			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
3424			;)
3425	root	1.387	%
3426	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
3427			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
3428			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
3429			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
3430
3431			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
3432
3433	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
3434			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
3435	root	1.387	%
3436	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
3437			using so many abbreviations...]
3438
3439			Hi Volker -
3440
3441			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
3442	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
3443			spät ...
3444	root	1.234
3445			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
3446
3447			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
3448
3449	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
3450			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
3451	root	1.234
3452	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
3453	root	1.234
3454			tom
3455	root	1.247
3456	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
3457	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
3458	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
3459	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
3460	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
3461	root	1.387	%
3462	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
3463			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
3464			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
3465
3466			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
3467	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
3468			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
3469	root	1.233	> someone else?
3470
3471			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
3472			===================================================================
3473			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
3474			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
3475			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
3476			S: 79098 Freiburg
3477			S: Germany
3478
3479			+N: Hans Reiser
3480			+E: reiser@namesys.com
3481			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
3482			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
3483			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
3484			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
3485			+S: USA
3486			+
3487			N: Joerg Reuter
3488			E: jreuter@yaina.de
3489			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
3490	root	1.387	%
3491	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
3492			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
3493	root	1.387	%
3494	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
3495			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
3496	root	1.387	%
3497	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
3498			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
3499	root	1.387	%
3500	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
3501			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
3502			[...]
3503			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
3504			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
3505			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
3506			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
3507			[...]
3508			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
3509			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
3510			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
3511			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
3512	root	1.387	%
3513	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
3514			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
3515			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
3516			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
3517			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
3518			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
3519	root	1.387	%
3520	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
3521	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
3522			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
3523			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
3524			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
3525			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
3526			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
3527			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
3528			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
3529	root	1.387	%
3530	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
3531			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
3532	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
3533	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
3534	root	1.387	%
3535	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
3536			[yes, the whole thing]
3537	root	1.387	%
3538	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
3539	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
3540			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
3541			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
3542	root	1.221	>
3543			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
3544
3545			We'll use a larger wall.
3546	root	1.387	%
3547	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
3548			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
3549			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
3550			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
3551
3552			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
3553			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
3554
3555			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
3556			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
3557
3558			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
3559			cost.
3560			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
3561	root	1.387	%
3562	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
3563
3564	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
3565	root	1.219
3566			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
3567
3568	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
3569	root	1.387	%
3570	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
3571			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
3572	root	1.387	%
3573	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
3574			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
3575	root	1.387	%
3576	root	1.215	[translated]
3577			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
3578			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
3579			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
3580			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
3581			23:07 <schmorp> ...
3582			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
3583			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
3584			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
3585	root	1.387	%
3586	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
3587			-- Lord Balfour
3588	root	1.387	%
3589	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
3590	root	1.387	%
3591	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
3592			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
3593			him to forgive me.
3594	root	1.387	%
3595	root	1.211	[slashdot]
3596			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
3597
3598			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
3599	root	1.387	%
3600	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
3601			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
3602			get bored during the sex scenes.
3603	root	1.387	%
3604	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
3605			strangler is to the woman home alone.
3606			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
3607	root	1.387	%
3608	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
3609			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
3610			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
3611			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
3612			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
3613			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
3614	root	1.387	%
3615	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
3616			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
3617			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
3618			HP-UX customer. [...]
3619	root	1.387	%
3620	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
3621			>>
3622			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
3623			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
3624			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
3625			>>spelled it in UC.
3626	root	1.247	>
3627			>
3628	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
3629
3630			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
3631	root	1.387	%
3632	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
3633			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
3634
3635			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
3636			usage.
3637
3638			Richard
3639	root	1.387	%
3640	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
3641			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
3642			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
3643			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
3644			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
3645			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
3646	root	1.387	%
3647	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
3648			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
3649	root	1.387	%
3650	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
3651	root	1.387	%
3652	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
3653			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
3654			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
3655			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
3656			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
3657			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
3658			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
3659			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
3660			existence means and implies.
3661
3662			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
3663	root	1.387	%
3664	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
3665			>
3666			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
3667			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
3668			>
3669			> You're WRONG!
3670
3671	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
3672			and §7.20.3.1).
3673	root	1.387	%
3674	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
3675			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
3676			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
3677	root	1.387	%
3678	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
3679			A. It should be obvious.
3680			Q. How is it hard?
3681			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
3682			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
3683	root	1.387	%
3684	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
3685			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
3686
3687			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
3688			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
3689
3690			- works ok on linux
3691			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
3692
3693			Any clues why?
3694			I am new to the non windows world.
3695
3696			Thanks
3697	root	1.387	%
3698	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
3699			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
3700			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
3701			> this ?
3702
3703			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
3704			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
3705	root	1.387	%
3706	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
3707			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
3708			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
3709
3710			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
3711	root	1.247	>
3712			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
3713			>
3714	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
3715	root	1.387	%
3716	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
3717			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
3718
3719			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
3720	root	1.387	%
3721	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
3722			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
3723	root	1.387	%
3724	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3725	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
3726	root	1.194
3727			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
3728			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
3729	root	1.387	%
3730	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
3731			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
3732	root	1.387	%
3733	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
3734	root	1.387	%
3735	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
3736			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
3737	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
3738	root	1.387	%
3739	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
3740			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
3741			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
3742	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
3743
3744	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
3745	root	1.190
3746	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
3747	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
3748			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
3749			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
3750	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
3751			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
3752			schützen können.
3753	root	1.387	%
3754	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
3755			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
3756	root	1.387	%
3757	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
3758			[...]
3759	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
3760	root	1.188	[...]
3761	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
3762			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
3763			never get your message.
3764	root	1.387	%
3765	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
3766			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
3767			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
3768	root	1.387	%
3769	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
3770			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
3771			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
3772	root	1.387	%
3773	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
3774			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
3775			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
3776			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
3777			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
3778			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
3779			01:15 <schmorp> g
3780			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
3781	root	1.387	%
3782	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
3783			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
3784			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
3785			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
3786			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
3787			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
3788			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
3789			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
3790	root	1.387	%
3791	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
3792			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
3793			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
3794	root	1.387	%
3795	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
3796			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
3797			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
3798			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
3799			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
3800			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
3801			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
3802	root	1.387	%
3803	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
3804			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
3805	root	1.387	%
3806	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
3807			GNOME TERMINAL
3808			[...]
3809			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
3810			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
3811			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
3812			[.. later]
3813			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
3814			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
3815			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
3816	root	1.387	%
3817	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
3818			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
3819			/*
3820	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
3821	root	1.179	*/
3822			void blip()
3823	root	1.247	{
3824	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
3825			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
3826			fflush(stderr);
3827	root	1.247	}
3828	root	1.387	%
3829	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
3830			+ int alternative_order = 999;
3831
3832			Why not 666? :-).
3833	root	1.387	%
3834	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
3835			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
3836			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
3837			users are clueless.
3838	root	1.387	%
3839	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
3840			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
3841	root	1.387	%
3842	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
3843			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
3844	root	1.387	%
3845	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
3846			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
3847	root	1.387	%
3848	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
3849			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
3850			and", and finally, ampersand.
3851	root	1.387	%
3852	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
3853			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
3854			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
3855			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
3856			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
3857	root	1.387	%
3858	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
3859			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
3860			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
3861			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
3862			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
3863	root	1.387	%
3864	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
3865			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
3866			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
3867			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
3868			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
3869			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
3870			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
3871	root	1.387	%
3872	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
3873	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
3874			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
3875	root	1.387	%
3876	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
3877			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
3878			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
3879	root	1.387	%
3880	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
3881	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
3882	root	1.387	%
3883	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
3884	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
3885			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
3886			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
3887	root	1.167	%
3888	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
3889	root	1.387	%
3890	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
3891			<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
3892	root	1.387	%
3893	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
3894			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
3895	root	1.164	einfach :)
3896			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
3897	root	1.387	%
3898	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
3899			/*
3900			* Function compares two strings.
3901	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
3902	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
3903			*/
3904			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
3905			{
3906			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
3907			[...]
3908	root	1.387	%
3909	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
3910	root	1.387	%
3911	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
3912	root	1.387	%
3913	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
3914			/* grab colors before netscape does */
3915			Get_Colours ();
3916	root	1.387	%
3917	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
3918	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
3919			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
3920			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
3921			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
3922			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3923			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3924			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
3925			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
3926	root	1.161	[...]
3927			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
3928			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
3929			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
3930			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
3931			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
3932	root	1.387	%
3933	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
3934			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
3935	root	1.387	%
3936	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
3937			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
3938	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
3939	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
3940			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
3941			#endif
3942	root	1.387	%
3943	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
3944			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
3945			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
3946	root	1.387	%
3947	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
3948			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
3949			>
3950			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
3951
3952			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
3953			--
3954			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
3955	root	1.387	%
3956	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
3957			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
3958			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
3959			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
3960			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
3961			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
3962			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
3963	root	1.387	%
3964	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
3965			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
3966	root	1.387	%
3967	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
3968	root	1.387	%
3969	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
3970			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
3971			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
3972			-- Robert Fisk
3973	root	1.387	%
3974	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
3975			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
3976	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
3977			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
3978	root	1.387	%
3979	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
3980			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
3981			high-violence culture"
3982			[...]
3983			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
3984			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
3985			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
3986			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
3987			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
3988			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
3989			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
3990			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
3991
3992			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
3993			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
3994	root	1.387	%
3995	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
3996			Subject: Re: [...]
3997
3998			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
3999
4000			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4001			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4002			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4003			> saved it :)
4004
4005			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4006			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4007			[...]
4008	root	1.387	%
4009	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4010			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4011			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4012			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4013			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4014
4015			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4016			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4017			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4018			[...]
4019	root	1.387	%
4020	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4021	root	1.387	%
4022	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4023	root	1.387	%
4024	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4025	root	1.387	%
4026	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4027			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4028			claim to have decades of java experience]
4029			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4030			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4031			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4032			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4033	root	1.387	%
4034	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4035	root	1.387	%
4036	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4037	root	1.387	%
4038	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4039	root	1.387	%
4040	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4041			[mail not to be delivered]
4042			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4043	root	1.247	>
4044	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4045
4046			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4047			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4048	root	1.387	%
4049	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4050
4051			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4052			>
4053			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4054			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4055			> >
4056			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4057			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4058			> > language which does support this?
4059			>
4060
4061			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4062
4063			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4064			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4065			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4066			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4067			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4068			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4069	root	1.387	%
4070	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4071			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4072			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4073	root	1.387	%
4074	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4075			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4076			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4077
4078			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4079			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4080			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4081			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4082			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4083
4084			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4085			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4086			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4087			and thwart them that way.
4088	root	1.387	%
4089	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4090			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4091			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4092			unfortunate decision.
4093	root	1.387	%
4094	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4095	root	1.146	fest ;)
4096	root	1.387	%
4097	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4098
4099			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4100	root	1.387	%
4101	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4102	root	1.387	%
4103	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4104			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4105	root	1.387	%
4106	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4107
4108			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4109			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4110			local object as a "he":
4111
4112			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4113			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4114			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4115			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4116			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4117			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4118			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4119			EX-PARROT!"
4120
4121			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4122	root	1.387	%
4123	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4124			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4125	root	1.387	%
4126	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4127			The police will shoot you.
4128
4129			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4130			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4131
4132	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4133	root	1.387	%
4134	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4135			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4136			reply.
4137
4138			pls. cc my email address
4139
4140			tia
4141			pd
4142
4143
4144	root	1.247	--
4145	root	1.141	^X^C
4146			q
4147			quit
4148			:q
4149			^C
4150			end
4151			x
4152			exit
4153			ZZ
4154			^D
4155			?
4156			help
4157			shit
4158			.
4159	root	1.387	%
4160	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4161	root	1.387	%
4162	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4163			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4164			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4165			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4166	root	1.387	%
4167	root	1.140	[I love it]
4168			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4169			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4170	root	1.387	%
4171	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4172			- Douglas Adams
4173	root	1.387	%
4174	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4175			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4176			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4177			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4178
4179	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4180			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4181			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4182			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4183			their software properly.
4184	root	1.138
4185			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4186			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4187			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4188			told the publication.
4189
4190	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4191			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4192			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4193			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4194			who want visibility and glory.
4195	root	1.387	%
4196	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4197
4198			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4199
4200			x Try not using it.
4201	root	1.387	%
4202	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4203			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4204			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4205			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4206			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4207			had given.
4208
4209			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4210			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4211			person as well."
4212	root	1.387	%
4213	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4214	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4215			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4216	root	1.387	%
4217	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4218	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4219	root	1.134
4220			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4221	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4222	root	1.135	[...]
4223	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4224	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4225	root	1.135	[...]
4226			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4227			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4228	root	1.387	%
4229	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4230	root	1.387	%
4231	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4232			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4233			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4234			-- Ulrich Drepper
4235	root	1.387	%
4236	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4237			-- Ulrich Drepper
4238	root	1.387	%
4239	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4240			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4241	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4242	root	1.387	%
4243	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4244			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4245			-- Ulrich Drepper
4246	root	1.387	%
4247	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4248			-- Ulrich Drepper
4249	root	1.387	%
4250	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4251	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4252			zuverlässiger
4253	root	1.387	%
4254	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4255			/*
4256			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4257			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4258			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4259			*/
4260	root	1.387	%
4261	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4262			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4263			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4264			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4265			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4266	root	1.387	%
4267	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4268			Pirating Movies
4269
4270			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4271			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4272			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4273	root	1.387	%
4274	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4275			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4276	root	1.387	%
4277	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4278			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4279	root	1.387	%
4280	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4281			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4282			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4283			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4284			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4285	root	1.387	%
4286	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4287			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4288			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4289			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4290			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4291
4292			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4293			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4294
4295			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4296			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4297			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4298			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4299			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4300			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4301			the first place!
4302	root	1.387	%
4303	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4304			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4305			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4306	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4307	root	1.387	%
4308	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4309			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4310	root	1.387	%
4311	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4312			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4313	root	1.387	%
4314	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4315			platform."
4316			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4317	root	1.387	%
4318	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4319			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4320			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4321			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4322			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4323	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4324	root	1.387	%
4325	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4326			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4327	root	1.387	%
4328	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4329			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4330			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4331			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4332			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4333			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4334			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4335			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4336			daily.
4337	root	1.387	%
4338	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4339	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4340			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4341	root	1.387	%
4342	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4343			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4344			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4345			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4346			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4347			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4348			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4349	root	1.387	%
4350	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4351	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4352	root	1.387	%
4353	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4354			[...so it must be good]
4355			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4356	root	1.387	%
4357	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4358			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4359			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4360	root	1.387	%
4361	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4362			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4363			No idea why I announce it here...
4364	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4365	root	1.387	%
4366	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4367			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4368	root	1.387	%
4369	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4370	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4371	root	1.387	%
4372	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4373			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4374			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4375			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4376			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4377
4378			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4379			Sacha.
4380	root	1.387	%
4381	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4382			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4383			desk one morning:
4384
4385			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4386
4387			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4388
4389			Employee: 123456
4390
4391			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4392			photograph of the employee.]
4393
4394			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4395			identification which has your picture on it?
4396
4397			Employee: Why would you need that?
4398
4399			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4400
4401			Employee: A picture of my face?
4402
4403			Security Guard: Yes
4404
4405			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4406
4407			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4408			compare against this one.
4409	root	1.387	%
4410	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4411			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4412			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4413	root	1.387	%
4414	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4415			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4416			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4417
4418			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
4419			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
4420	root	1.387	%
4421	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
4422	root	1.387	%
4423	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
4424			"RV K-17"
4425	root	1.387	%
4426	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
4427			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
4428	root	1.387	%
4429	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
4430			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
4431			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
4432			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
4433	root	1.387	%
4434	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
4435			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
4436	root	1.387	%
4437	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
4438	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
4439			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
4440	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
4441	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
4442			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
4443	root	1.387	%
4444	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
4445	root	1.387	%
4446	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
4447			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
4448	root	1.387	%
4449	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
4450			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
4451			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4452			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
4453	root	1.387	%
4454	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
4455			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
4456			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
4457			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
4458			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
4459			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
4460			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
4461			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
4462			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
4463			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
4464			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
4465			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
4466			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
4467			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
4468			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
4469			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
4470			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
4471			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
4472			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
4473	root	1.387	%
4474	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
4475			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
4476	root	1.387	%
4477	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
4478			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
4479	root	1.387	%
4480	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
4481			Lester Moore,
4482			Shot in the head with a .44.
4483			No Les, no more.
4484	root	1.387	%
4485	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
4486			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
4487
4488			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
4489			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
4490	root	1.387	%
4491	root	1.113	[Fallout]
4492			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
4493			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
4494	root	1.387	%
4495	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
4496			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
4497			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
4498			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
4499			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
4500	root	1.112	[...]
4501			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
4502			[...]
4503			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
4504			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
4505			the result with SHA.
4506	root	1.387	%
4507	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
4508	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
4509			> ist!
4510	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
4511			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
4512	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
4513	root	1.387	%
4514	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
4515			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
4516	root	1.387	%
4517	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
4518	root	1.387	%
4519	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
4520			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
4521			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
4522			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
4523			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
4524			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
4525	root	1.387	%
4526	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
4527			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
4528	root	1.387	%
4529	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
4530			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
4531	root	1.387	%
4532	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
4533			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
4534	root	1.387	%
4535	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
4536
4537			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
4538			* control history, is that we should at least
4539			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
4540			* "initialisation"? */
4541			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
4542	root	1.387	%
4543	root	1.105	[man pem]
4544			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
4545	root	1.387	%
4546	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
4547
4548			/* ``If you can't do it in
4549	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
4550	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
4551	root	1.387	%
4552	root	1.104	[subculture]
4553	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
4554			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
4555	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
4556
4557			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
4558	root	1.424	%
4559	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
4560			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
4561	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
4562	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
4563	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
4564	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
4565			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
4566	root	1.387	%
4567	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
4568	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
4569			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
4570			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
4571	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
4572	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
4573			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
4574			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
4575	root	1.387	%
4576	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
4577			aber wenig freude.
4578	root	1.387	%
4579	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
4580			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
4581			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
4582			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
4583			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
4584			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
4585			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
4586			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
4587			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
4588			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
4589	root	1.387	%
4590	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
4591			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
4592	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
4593			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
4594	root	1.387	%
4595	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
4596			don't work well in practise.
4597			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
4598	root	1.387	%
4599	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
4600			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
4601			"ready, fire, aim."
4602	root	1.387	%
4603	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
4604			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
4605			free countries like Germany [1].
4606			[...]
4607			Regards
4608			Henning
4609
4610			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
4611			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
4612			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
4613	root	1.387	%
4614	root	1.98	[...]
4615			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
4616			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
4617			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
4618			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
4619			itself give you none of these rights at all.
4620			[...]
4621			Wolfgang Walter
4622	root	1.387	%
4623	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
4624			burro: it seemed very clever
4625			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
4626			burro: it forgot to defend later..
4627			burro: oops
4628			burro: accidental poetry
4629	root	1.387	%
4630	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
4631			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
4632			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
4633	root	1.387	%
4634	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
4635			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
4636	root	1.387	%
4637	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
4638			-- Oscar Wilde
4639	root	1.387	%
4640	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
4641			"guilty until proven innocent"
4642			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
4643	root	1.387	%
4644	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
4645			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
4646			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
4647			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
4648			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
4649			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
4650			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
4651			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
4652			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
4653			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
4654			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
4655			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
4656			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
4657			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
4658			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
4659	root	1.387	%
4660	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
4661			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
4662			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
4663			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
4664			// suit particular needs.
4665			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
4666	root	1.387	%
4667	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
4668			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
4669			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
4670	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
4671	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
4672	root	1.387	%
4673	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
4674			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
4675	root	1.387	%
4676	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
4677			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
4678	root	1.387	%
4679	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
4680			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
4681			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
4682	root	1.387	%
4683	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
4684			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
4685	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
4686			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
4687	root	1.387	%
4688	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
4689
4690			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
4691			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
4692			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
4693			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
4694			is not [...]
4695	root	1.387	%
4696	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
4697	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
4698			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
4699	root	1.387	%
4700	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
4701			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
4702
4703	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
4704	root	1.94
4705			GUI
4706			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
4707			Globale Variable
4708	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
4709	root	1.94	objektorientiert
4710			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
4711			strukturiert
4712			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
4713			Multithreaded
4714	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
4715	root	1.94	Windows 95
4716	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
4717	root	1.94	Emacs
4718	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
4719			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
4720			ein vernünftiger Editor.
4721	root	1.94	IPv6
4722			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
4723			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
4724			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
4725			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
4726	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
4727			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
4728	root	1.247	PHP
4729	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
4730	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
4731	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
4732			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
4733	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
4734	root	1.94	Bunt.
4735	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
4736			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
4737			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
4738	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
4739	root	1.387	%
4740	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
4741			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
4742	root	1.387	%
4743	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
4744	root	1.387	%
4745	root	1.93	[nah]
4746			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
4747			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
4748			paint dry."
4749	root	1.387	%
4750	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
4751			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
4752			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
4753	root	1.387	%
4754	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
4755	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
4756			importance.
4757	root	1.387	%
4758	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
4759			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
4760			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
4761			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
4762
4763			You have to trust Microsoft.
4764
4765			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
4766			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
4767			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
4768			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
4769			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
4770			useless chrome.
4771
4772			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
4773			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
4774			I'd like to trust them with.
4775	root	1.93	[...]
4776	root	1.387	%
4777	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
4778			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
4779			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
4780			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
4781			Line Number 90, Column 15:
4782	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
4783	root	1.91	--------------^
4784	root	1.387	%
4785	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
4786			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
4787			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
4788			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
4789			English grammar, I assure you.
4790	root	1.387	%
4791	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
4792			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
4793			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
4794			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
4795			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
4796			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
4797			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
4798
4799			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
4800			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
4801			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
4802			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
4803			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
4804			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
4805			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
4806			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
4807			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
4808			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
4809
4810			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
4811			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
4812			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
4813			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
4814
4815			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
4816			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
4817	root	1.387	%
4818	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
4819			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
4820			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
4821			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
4822			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
4823			work etc first:
4824
4825			#include <stdio.h>
4826
4827			int main (void) {
4828			while (1)
4829			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
4830
4831			return 0;
4832			}
4833	root	1.387	%
4834	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
4835			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
4836	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
4837	root	1.387	%
4838	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
4839			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
4840			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
4841			rigorous government certification confirming this.
4842	root	1.387	%
4843	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
4844			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
4845			proprietary and patentend technology.
4846	root	1.387	%
4847	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
4848	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
4849	root	1.387	%
4850	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
4851	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
4852	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
4853			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
4854			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
4855	root	1.387	%
4856	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
4857			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
4858	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
4859	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
4860			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
4861	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
4862	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
4863	root	1.87
4864	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
4865			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
4866			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
4867			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
4868			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
4869			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
4870	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
4871			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
4872
4873	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
4874			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
4875			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
4876			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
4877			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
4878			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
4879			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
4880			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
4881			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
4882			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
4883	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
4884	root	1.387	%
4885	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
4886			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
4887	root	1.387	%
4888	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
4889			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
4890			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
4891	root	1.387	%
4892	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
4893			"linux" thing will fail]
4894			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
4895			[...]
4896	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
4897	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
4898			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
4899			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
4900
4901			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
4902			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
4903			life to the public good.
4904
4905			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
4906			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
4907			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
4908			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
4909			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
4910
4911			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
4912			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
4913			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
4914			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
4915			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
4916			software to work on the linux kernel!
4917
4918			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
4919			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
4920			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
4921			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
4922			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
4923	root	1.387	%
4924	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4925	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
4926			[...]
4927			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
4928	root	1.387	%
4929	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
4930			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
4931			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
4932			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
4933	root	1.387	%
4934	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
4935	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
4936			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
4937			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
4938			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
4939			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
4940	root	1.387	%
4941	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
4942			-- Leonard Brandwein
4943	root	1.387	%
4944	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
4945	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
4946			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
4947			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
4948			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
4949			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
4950			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
4951			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
4952			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
4953			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
4954			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
4955			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
4956	root	1.387	%
4957	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
4958			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
4959	root	1.387	%
4960	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
4961			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
4962			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
4963			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
4964			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
4965			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
4966			jurisprudence fun?
4967			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
4968	root	1.387	%
4969	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
4970			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
4971			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
4972	root	1.84	[...]
4973	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
4974	root	1.387	%
4975	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
4976			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
4977			- Paul Ginsparg.
4978	root	1.387	%
4979	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
4980			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
4981			home.":))
4982			[erm...]
4983	root	1.387	%
4984	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
4985
4986	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
4987	root	1.387	%
4988	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
4989	root	1.387	%
4990	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
4991
4992			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
4993			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
4994			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
4995			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
4996	root	1.387	%
4997	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
4998			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
4999			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5000	root	1.387	%
5001	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5002	root	1.83
5003			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5004	root	1.82
5005			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5006			to use in future emails?
5007	root	1.387	%
5008	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5009			please?
5010
5011			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5012			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5013
5014	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5015	root	1.387	%
5016	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5017			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5018			last until February 16th 2003.
5019
5020			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5021			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5022			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5023			end.
5024
5025			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5026
5027			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5028			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5029			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5030			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5031			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5032			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5033			take place on October 27th.
5034
5035			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5036			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5037			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5038			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5039			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5040			the clock)...
5041	root	1.387	%
5042	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5043			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5044			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5045			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5046			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5047
5048			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5049			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5050			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5051			RedHat and SuSE).
5052
5053			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5054
5055			Pavel
5056	root	1.387	%
5057	root	1.81	Rik
5058	root	1.247	--
5059	root	1.81	A: No.
5060			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5061	root	1.387	%
5062	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5063	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5064			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5065	root	1.81
5066			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5067			no useful data.
5068
5069	root	1.247	--
5070	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5071	root	1.387	%
5072	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5073			there was a long do..while construct,
5074			which contained a switch statement,
5075			which contained an if clause,
5076			which contained a break,
5077			which was intended for the if clause,
5078			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5079
5080			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5081			network January 15, 1990
5082	root	1.387	%
5083	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5084
5085	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5086			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5087			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5088			violation of network policies.
5089	root	1.80
5090			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5091
5092			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5093			The format is as follows:
5094
5095			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5096	root	1.387	%
5097	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5098			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5099			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5100	root	1.387	%
5101	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5102			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5103			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5104			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5105			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5106			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5107			...
5108			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5109			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5110			the effort."
5111	root	1.387	%
5112	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5113	root	1.387	%
5114	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5115			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5116	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5117	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5118			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5119	root	1.387	%
5120	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5121	root	1.387	%
5122	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5123	root	1.387	%
5124	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5125			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5126			[Albert Cahalan]
5127	root	1.387	%
5128	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5129			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5130			least as bad, but lesser known.
5131	root	1.387	%
5132	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5133			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5134			different.
5135	root	1.387	%
5136	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.
5137	root	1.387	%
5138	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5139			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5140	root	1.387	%
5141	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5142			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5143			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5144			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5145			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5146			without a show.
5147	root	1.387	%
5148	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5149	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5150	root	1.387	%
5151	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5152	root	1.387	%
5153	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5154			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5155	root	1.387	%
5156	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5157			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5158			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5159	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5160	root	1.71	going on.
5161			[...]
5162	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5163			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5164			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5165	root	1.387	%
5166	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5167			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5168	root	1.387	%
5169	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5170	root	1.387	%
5171	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5172	root	1.387	%
5173	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5174			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5175			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5176	root	1.387	%
5177	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5178			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5179			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5180			returned data.
5181
5182	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5183			FindExInfoStandard
5184			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5185	root	1.387	%
5186	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5187	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5188			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5189	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5190	root	1.387	%
5191	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5192			it doesn't work:]
5193			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5194			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5195			this MIME type as the final determination.
5196	root	1.387	%
5197	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5198
5199			Recode 0.1.1
5200			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5201
5202			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5203			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5204
5205			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5206	root	1.387	%
5207	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5208	root	1.387	%
5209	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5210	root	1.387	%
5211	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5212
5213			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5214			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5215			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5216			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5217			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5218			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5219			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5220			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5221			century."
5222
5223			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5224			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5225			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5226			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5227			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5228			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5229			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5230			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5231			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5232			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5233			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5234			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5235			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5236			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5237
5238			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5239			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5240			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5241			hilarious in light of the above.
5242			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5243
5244			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5245			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5246			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5247			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5248			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5249			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5250			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5251
5252			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5253			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5254			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5255			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5256	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5257	root	1.387	%
5258	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5259	root	1.387	%
5260	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5261			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5262	root	1.387	%
5263	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5264			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5265			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5266
5267			Tony Hoare
5268	root	1.387	%
5269	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5270			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5271	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5272	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5273	root	1.387	%
5274	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5275
5276			[...]
5277			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5278			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5279			system. Basically its windows computer
5280	root	1.387	%
5281	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5282	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5283	root	1.387	%
5284	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5285
5286			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5287			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5288			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5289			> software developers...
5290
5291			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5292	root	1.387	%
5293	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5294			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5295			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5296			>
5297			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5298
5299			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5300			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5301
5302			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5303			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5304
5305			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5306			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5307			off by throwing away the patch.
5308
5309			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5310			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5311			patch any time soon.
5312
5313			--
5314			Daniel
5315	root	1.387	%
5316	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5317			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5318			[...]
5319			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5320			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5321			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5322	root	1.387	%
5323	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5324
5325			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5326			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5327			Is it realy needed?
5328	root	1.387	%
5329	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5330
5331			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5332
5333			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5334			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5335			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5336	root	1.387	%
5337	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5338			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5339			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5340			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5341			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5342			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5343			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5344	root	1.387	%
5345	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5346
5347			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5348			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5349			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5350			>
5351			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5352
5353			This is an ex-parrot
5354	root	1.387	%
5355	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5356
5357			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5358			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5359			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5360			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5361			>
5362			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5363			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5364
5365			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5366
5367			while (!sorted(data))
5368			;
5369	root	1.387	%
5370	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5371			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5372
5373			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5374
5375			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5376			to computing
5377	root	1.387	%
5378	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5379
5380			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5381			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5382
5383			Common sense, one would hope.
5384	root	1.387	%
5385	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5386			[...]
5387
5388			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5389			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5390			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5391
5392			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5393
5394			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5395			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5396			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5397			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5398
5399			:-)
5400	root	1.387	%
5401	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5402			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5403			their C programs."
5404	root	1.60
5405			Robert Firth
5406	root	1.387	%
5407	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5408	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5409	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5410			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5411	root	1.387	%
5412	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5413	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5414	root	1.387	%
5415	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5416			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5417	root	1.387	%
5418	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
5419	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
5420	root	1.387	%
5421	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
5422	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
5423			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
5424	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
5425			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
5426	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
5427			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
5428
5429			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
5430
5431			\Gisbert
5432	root	1.387	%
5433	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
5434	root	1.387	%
5435	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
5436			world like English did. Er, as English did...
5437			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
5438	root	1.387	%
5439	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
5440			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
5441
5442			I don't have python. Any version of python.
5443			[...]
5444	root	1.387	%
5445	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
5446			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
5447			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
5448
5449			ok 1
5450			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
5451			not ok 2
5452			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
5453	root	1.387	%
5454	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
5455
5456			Cheers,
5457
5458			Andre Hedrick
5459			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
5460	root	1.387	%
5461	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
5462	root	1.247	>
5463	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
5464
5465			Or mutabloat :-(
5466	root	1.387	%
5467	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
5468			Outlook IS the solution.
5469	root	1.387	%
5470	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
5471	root	1.387	%
5472	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
5473
5474			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
5475			never bought anything from UUNet.
5476	root	1.387	%
5477	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
5478			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
5479			by delving below its surface meaning)
5480	root	1.387	%
5481	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
5482	root	1.387	%
5483	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
5484
5485			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
5486			> just go to court and say:
5487
5488			Oh glorious naivety.
5489
5490			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
5491			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
5492			> can do the work better than I).
5493
5494			You release the code
5495
5496			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
5497
5498			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
5499			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
5500			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
5501			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
5502
5503			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
5504			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
5505
5506			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
5507			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
5508
5509			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
5510
5511			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
5512			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
5513			or that the good guys win.
5514
5515			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
5516			US, and outside of most of the EU.
5517	root	1.387	%
5518	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
5519
5520			[...]
5521			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
5522			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
5523	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
5524	root	1.51	year to kill.
5525	root	1.387	%
5526	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
5527			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
5528
5529			[...]
5530			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
5531			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
5532			of for Windows desktop systems."
5533			[...]
5534			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
5535			months before Microsoft released its patch.
5536			[...]
5537			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
5538			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
5539			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
5540			turned on by default.
5541			[...]
5542			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
5543			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
5544			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
5545			[...]
5546			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
5547			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
5548			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
5549			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
5550			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
5551			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
5552			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
5553			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
5554			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
5555	root	1.387	%
5556	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
5557	root	1.387	%
5558	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
5559	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
5560	root	1.49
5561			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
5562
5563			Monday, 06. November 2000
5564	root	1.387	%
5565	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
5566			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
5567	root	1.387	%
5568	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
5569	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
5570			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
5571			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
5572	root	1.387	%
5573	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
5574			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
5575			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
5576			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
5577	root	1.387	%
5578	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
5579			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
5580
5581			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
5582			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
5583			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
5584	root	1.387	%
5585	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5586			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
5587
5588			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
5589			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
5590			> dropped patches.
5591
5592			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
5593	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
5594	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
5595			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
5596			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
5597			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
5598	root	1.387	%
5599	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
5600			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
5601			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
5602	root	1.387	%
5603	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
5604
5605			From: Bill Huey
5606			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
5607
5608			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
5609
5610			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
5611	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
5612	root	1.45	themselves.
5613
5614			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
5615			certain.
5616	root	1.387	%
5617	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
5618			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
5619			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
5620
5621			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
5622			appropriate approach to a problem.
5623	root	1.387	%
5624	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
5625	root	1.44	^^^^
5626			[...]
5627			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
5628			[...]
5629			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
5630			-15 Nice winter day
5631			-10 Slightly warm winter day
5632			-5 Nice warm winter day
5633			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
5634	root	1.387	%
5635	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
5636			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
5637			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
5638			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
5639	root	1.387	%
5640	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
5641			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
5642
5643			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
5644
5645			-ben
5646	root	1.387	%
5647	root	1.43	[...]
5648	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
5649			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
5650			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
5651			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
5652			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
5653			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
5654			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
5655			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
5656			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
5657			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
5658			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
5659	root	1.387	%
5660	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
5661			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
5662	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
5663	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
5664			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
5665			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
5666			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
5667			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
5668			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
5669	root	1.43	statt...
5670	root	1.387	%
5671	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
5672	root	1.387	%
5673	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
5674			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
5675			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
5676			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
5677			values." Who writes this stuff?
5678	root	1.387	%
5679	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
5680	root	1.387	%
5681	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
5682			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
5683			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
5684			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
5685			> "Macao".
5686			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
5687			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
5688	root	1.387	%
5689	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
5690	root	1.387	%
5691	root	1.40	Beitrag
5692	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
5693	root	1.40
5694			fucklinux
5695
5696			IP: 217.83.123.198
5697
5698			1. FUCK LINUX
5699
5700	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
5701	root	1.40
5702			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
5703	root	1.387	%
5704	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
5705	root	1.40
5706			[...]
5707			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
5708			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
5709			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
5710			read...
5711	root	1.387	%
5712	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
5713			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
5714			depends on the unreasonable man.
5715
5716			-George Bernard Shaw
5717	root	1.387	%
5718	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
5719
5720			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
5721	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
5722	root	1.387	%
5723	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:
5724	root	1.387	%
5725	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
5726			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
5727			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
5728			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
5729			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
5730	root	1.387	%
5731	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
5732			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
5733	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
5734	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
5735			> Thanks for clearing this up.
5736	root	1.387	%
5737	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
5738			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
5739			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
5740			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
5741			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
5742			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
5743			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
5744			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).
5745			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
5746			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
5747	root	1.387	%
5748	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
5749			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
5750			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
5751			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
5752			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
5753			removed in Windows XP.
5754
5755			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
5756			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
5757			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
5758			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
5759	root	1.387	%
5760	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
5761			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
5762			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
5763			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
5764			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
5765			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
5766			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
5767			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
5768			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
5769			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
5770
5771			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
5772			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
5773			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
5774			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
5775			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
5776			you have no details?
5777			[...]
5778			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
5779			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
5780			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
5781			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
5782			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
5783			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
5784			the industrial terrorists want."
5785	root	1.387	%
5786	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
5787			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
5788	root	1.387	%
5789	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
5790	root	1.387	%
5791	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
5792			of each 50 days
5793	root	1.387	%
5794	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
5795
5796			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
5797			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
5798			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
5799	root	1.387	%
5800	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
5801			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
5802			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
5803	root	1.387	%
5804	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
5805			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
5806	root	1.247	>
5807	root	1.35	> <...>
5808			>
5809			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
5810			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
5811			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
5812	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
5813	root	1.387	%
5814	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
5815			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
5816			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
5817	root	1.387	%
5818	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
5819			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
5820			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
5821
5822	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
5823			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
5824			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
5825			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
5826			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
5827			changing run level, interactive boot.
5828	root	1.35
5829			Alan
5830	root	1.387	%
5831	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
5832
5833			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
5834			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
5835
5836			First they came for the Communists,
5837			and I didn't speak up,
5838			because I wasn't a Communist.
5839			Then they came for the Jews,
5840			and I didn't speak up,
5841			because I wasn't a Jew.
5842			Then they came for the Catholics,
5843			and I didn't speak up,
5844			because I was a Protestant.
5845			Then they came for me,
5846			and by that time there was no one
5847			left to speak up for me.
5848
5849			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
5850	root	1.387	%
5851	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
5852	root	1.387	%
5853	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
5854			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
5855	root	1.387	%
5856	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
5857			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
5858			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
5859			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
5860
5861			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
5862	root	1.387	%
5863	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
5864
5865			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
5866			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
5867			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
5868			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
5869			used databases!"
5870	root	1.387	%
5871	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
5872
5873			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
5874
5875			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
5876			change that was not?
5877			[...]
5878	root	1.387	%
5879	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
5880
5881			[...]
5882
5883	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
5884	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
5885			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
5886
5887	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
5888	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
5889			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
5890			them anywhere else").
5891
5892			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
5893			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
5894	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
5895	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
5896			order..
5897
5898	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
5899	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
5900	root	1.387	%
5901	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
5902			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
5903			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
5904
5905			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
5906	root	1.387	%
5907	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
5908	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
5909			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
5910			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
5911			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
5912	root	1.387	%
5913	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
5914			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
5915
5916			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
5917			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
5918			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
5919			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
5920			series.
5921
5922			[...]
5923	root	1.387	%
5924	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
5925	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
5926	root	1.387	%
5927	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
5928			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
5929			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
5930
5931			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
5932			then save." g
5933
5934			/* Steinar */
5935	root	1.387	%
5936	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
5937			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
5938
5939			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
5940			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
5941			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
5942			a bill...
5943	root	1.387	%
5944	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
5945			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
5946			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
5947
5948			Sorry. Mea culpa
5949
5950			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
5951			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
5952			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
5953			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
5954			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
5955			*/
5956			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
5957			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
5958			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
5959			int fpu_exception;
5960	root	1.387	%
5961	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
5962
5963			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
5964
5965			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
5966			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
5967			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
5968			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
5969			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
5970	root	1.387	%
5971	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
5972
5973			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
5974			people.
5975	root	1.387	%
5976	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
5977			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
5978
5979			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
5980			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
5981			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
5982			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
5983			the question.
5984			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
5985	root	1.387	%
5986	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
5987			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
5988			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
5989			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
5990			(September)
5991	root	1.387	%
5992	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
5993	root	1.387	%
5994	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
5995			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
5996			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
5997			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
5998			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
5999	root	1.387	%
6000	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6001			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6002	root	1.387	%
6003	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6004			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6005			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6006			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6007			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6008	root	1.387	%
6009	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6010	root	1.387	%
6011	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6012	root	1.387	%
6013	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6014			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6015			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6016			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6017			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6018			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6019			you tell them.
6020	root	1.387	%
6021	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6022			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6023			alcohol.
6024
6025			Regards
6026			Henning
6027	root	1.387	%
6028	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6029			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6030			> on a desktop system.
6031
6032			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6033			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6034
6035			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6036			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6037
6038			Alan
6039	root	1.387	%
6040	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6041			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6042
6043			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6044			>
6045			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6046			> Use Welsh
6047
6048			Don't forget
6049
6050			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6051			Use Finnish
6052
6053			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6054
6055			And while we're at it,
6056
6057			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6058			Use German
6059
6060			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6061			Use English
6062
6063			MfG Kai
6064	root	1.387	%
6065	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6066
6067			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6068			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6069			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6070			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6071			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6072			there's no one thinking there.
6073			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6074	root	1.387	%
6075	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6076			scores the rules:
6077
6078			[*]
6079			Score:: =-9999
6080	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6081	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6082			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6083			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6084			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6085
6086			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6087			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6088			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6089			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6090			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6091
6092			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6093			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6094			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6095			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6096	root	1.387	%
6097	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6098			98 IIS servers online...
6099	root	1.387	%
6100	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6101			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6102			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6103			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6104
6105			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6106			it to be otherwise.
6107
6108			Abigail
6109	root	1.387	%
6110	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6111	root	1.387	%
6112	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6113	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6114	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6115	root	1.387	%
6116	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6117	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6118	root	1.387	%
6119	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6120			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6121			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6122			software people doing the same)
6123
6124			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6125			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6126			irrelevant
6127
6128			Alan
6129	root	1.387	%
6130	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6131			Comments may nest.
6132	root	1.387	%
6133	root	1.22	[from findas]
6134			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6135			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6136			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6137			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6138			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6139			# address distributino is... arin.
6140	root	1.387	%
6141	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6142			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6143	root	1.387	%
6144	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6145			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6146			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6147			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6148			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6149	root	1.247	>
6150	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6151
6152			$foot->insert($mouth);
6153
6154			# or is that
6155
6156			$mouth->insert($foot);
6157
6158			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6159			How utterly optimistic :-)
6160	root	1.387	%
6161	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6162			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6163			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6164			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6165			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6166			>can see why it happens)
6167			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6168
6169			Well, there's perl... :)
6170	root	1.387	%
6171	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6172			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6173			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6174			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6175			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6176	root	1.247	* boxes.
6177	root	1.387	%
6178	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6179			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6180			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6181	root	1.387	%
6182	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6183			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6184	root	1.387	%
6185	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6186			From: Juergen Christoffel
6187			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6188			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6189
6190			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6191
6192			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6193			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6194			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6195			schon;
6196
6197			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6198			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6199			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6200
6201			Danke, JC
6202	root	1.387	%
6203	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6204			#undef REASONABLE
6205	root	1.387	%
6206	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6207			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6208
6209			Alan
6210	root	1.387	%
6211	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6212			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6213			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6214			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6215	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6216	root	1.18	> anything.
6217
6218			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6219			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6220	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6221			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6222	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6223			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6224
6225			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6226			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6227			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6228			always a good idea.
6229	root	1.387	%
6230	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6231			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6232
6233	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6234	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6235	root	1.387	%
6236	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6237			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6238			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6239			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6240	root	1.387	%
6241	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6242	root	1.387	%
6243	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6244	root	1.18
6245			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6246			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6247	root	1.387	%
6248	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6249			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6250			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6251			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6252	root	1.387	%
6253	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6254	root	1.387	%
6255	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6256			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6257			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6258			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6259			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6260			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6261	root	1.387	%
6262	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6263
6264			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6265			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6266			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6267			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6268			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6269			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6270			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6271	root	1.387	%
6272	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6273			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6274			future. Bleeeh]
6275
6276			From: Larry McVoy
6277
6278	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6279	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6280			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6281			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6282			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6283			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6284			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6285			not for the exceptional case.
6286	root	1.387	%
6287	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6288			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6289			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6290			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6291			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6292			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6293			stack.
6294
6295			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6296			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6297			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6298
6299			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6300			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6301	root	1.387	%
6302	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6303
6304	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6305			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6306			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6307			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6308	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6309	root	1.247	>
6310	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6311			> on the CPU?
6312
6313			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6314	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6315	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6316			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6317
6318			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6319			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6320			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6321			the point again".
6322	root	1.387	%
6323	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6324
6325	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6326			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6327	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6328	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6329	root	1.247	>
6330	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6331			> scenario.
6332
6333			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6334	root	1.387	%
6335	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6336	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6337			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6338			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6339	root	1.387	%
6340	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6341			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6342			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6343			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6344			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6345			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6346			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6347			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6348			anything.
6349	root	1.387	%
6350	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6351	root	1.387	%
6352	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6353			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6354	root	1.387	%
6355	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6356			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6357			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6358			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6359			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6360
6361			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6362	root	1.387	%
6363	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6364
6365			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6366
6367			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6368			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6369			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6370			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6371			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6372
6373			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6374			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6375			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6376			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6377			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6378			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6379			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6380			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6381			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6382			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6383			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6384			to work through the learning curve.
6385	root	1.387	%
6386	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6387	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6388	root	1.387	%
6389	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6390			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6391	root	1.387	%
6392	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6393			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6394	root	1.387	%
6395	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6396			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6397	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6398			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6399	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6400	root	1.387	%
6401	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6402	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6403	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6404	root	1.387	%
6405	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6406			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6407	root	1.387	%
6408	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6409			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6410			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6411			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6412			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6413			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6414			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6415			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6416
6417	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
6418	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
6419	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
6420	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
6421			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
6422
6423			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
6424			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
6425			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
6426			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
6427			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
6428			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
6429			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
6430	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
6431	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
6432			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
6433			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
6434	root	1.387	%
6435	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
6436			/*---.
6437			\| ? \|
6438			`---*/
6439	root	1.387	%
6440	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
6441	root	1.387	%
6442	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
6443			From: Joe Buck
6444			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
6445			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
6446	root	1.387	%
6447	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
6448			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
6449	root	1.387	%
6450	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
6451	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
6452	root	1.387	%
6453	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
6454	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
6455	root	1.387	%
6456	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
6457	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
6458	root	1.4	...
6459			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
6460	root	1.387	%
6461	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
6462	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
6463			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
6464			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
6465
6466			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
6467
6468			Alan
6469	root	1.387	%
6470	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
6471	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
6472			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
6473			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
6474			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
6475	root	1.387	%
6476	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
6477	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
6478			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
6479			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
6480			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
6481			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
6482			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
6483	root	1.387	%
6484	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
6485			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
6486			will find an easier way to do it.
6487	root	1.387	%
6488	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
6489	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
6490			Paul wrote:
6491			>Marc wrote:
6492	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
6493			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
6494			> den richtigen.
6495	root	1.387	%
6496	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
6497			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
6498	root	1.387	%
6499	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
6500			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
6501	root	1.387	%
6502	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
6503			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
6504	root	1.387	%
6505	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
6506			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
6507			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6508			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6509			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
6510	root	1.387	%
6511	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6512			[...]
6513
6514			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
6515
6516			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
6517	root	1.387	%
6518	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
6519			> constants.
6520
6521			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
6522	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
6523	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
6524	root	1.387	%
6525	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
6526	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
6527
6528			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
6529			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
6530			much to do with IRC.
6531	root	1.387	%
6532	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6533			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
6534
6535			[...]
6536			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
6537
6538			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
6539			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
6540	root	1.387	%
6541	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
6542	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
6543	root	1.387	%
6544	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
6545
6546			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
6547			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
6548			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
6549
6550			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
6551			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
6552			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
6553			shows how much you know, pal.
6554
6555			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
6556	root	1.387	%
6557	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
6558			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6559			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
6560	root	1.387	%
6561	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
6562			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
6563			y yzzyyccss;;##s
6564			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
6565	root	1.387	%
6566	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
6567			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
6568			Your version of perl sucks.
6569	root	1.387	%
6570	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
6571			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
6572			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
6573			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
6574			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
6575			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
6576			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
6577			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
6578	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
6579	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
6580			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
6581	root	1.387	%
6582	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
6583			before you can understand it :)
6584	root	1.387	%
6585	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
6586			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
6587			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
6588	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
6589	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
6590			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
6591			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
6592
6593			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
6594			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
6595			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
6596			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
6597			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
6598			be worth attempting).
6599
6600			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
6601			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
6602			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
6603
6604			Nick.
6605	root	1.387	%
6606	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
6607			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
6608			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
6609
6610	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
6611	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
6612			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
6613			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
6614			magic_bone@hotmail.com
6615	root	1.387	%
6616	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
6617			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
6618			> > > to work :-)
6619	root	1.247	> >
6620	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
6621	root	1.247	>
6622	root	1.1	> Eh?
6623	root	1.247	>
6624	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
6625			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
6626
6627			He didn't say it worked. :)
6628	root	1.387	%
6629	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6630
6631			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6632			> I find it irksome that
6633	root	1.247	>
6634	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
6635
6636			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
6637	root	1.387	%
6638	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
6639			From: Simon Cozens
6640
6641			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
6642			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
6643			> Produces SIGSEGV.
6644
6645			Looks like a feature to me.
6646	root	1.387	%
6647	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
6648	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
6649	root	1.387	%
6650	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
6651			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
6652
6653			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
6654			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
6655			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
6656			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
6657
6658			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
6659			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
6660			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
6661			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
6662			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
6663			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
6664	root	1.387	%
6665	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
6666			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
6667			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
6668			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
6669			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
6670			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
6671			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
6672			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
6673			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
6674			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
6675			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
6676			accurate and not subject to tampering."
6677
6678			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
6679			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
6680			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
6681
6682			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
6683	root	1.387	%
6684	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
6685			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
6686			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
6687			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
6688			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
6689			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
6690			replication."
6691			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
6692	root	1.387	%
6693	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
6694			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
6695
6696			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
6697			shows.
6698
6699			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
6700			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
6701			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
6702
6703			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
6704			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
6705			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
6706			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
6707			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
6708
6709			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
6710			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
6711			up with a saner protocol.
6712	root	1.387	%
6713	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
6714			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
6715			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
6716
6717			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
6718			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
6719			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
6720	root	1.387	%
6721	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
6722			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
6723			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
6724			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
6725			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
6726			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
6727	root	1.387	%
6728	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
6729			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
6730	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
6731			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
6732			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
6733			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
6734	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
6735	root	1.387	%
6736	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
6737	root	1.387	%
6738	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
6739			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
6740	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
6741	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
6742	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
6743	root	1.387	%
6744	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
6745			"ist mir egal"
6746	root	1.387	%
6747	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
6748			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
6749
6750			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
6751	root	1.387	%
6752	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
6753			hallole
6754	root	1.387	%
6755	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
6756			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
6757			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
6758	root	1.387	%
6759	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
6760			1929 The high sign of refreshment
6761			1929 The pause that refreshes
6762			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
6763			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
6764			1935 The pause that brings friends together
6765			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
6766			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
6767			1939 Thirst stops here
6768			1942 It's the real thing
6769			1947 Have a Coke
6770			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
6771			1963 Things go better with Coke
6772			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
6773			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
6774			1982 Coke is it!
6775			-- Coca-Cola slogans
6776	root	1.387	%
6777	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
6778			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
6779	root	1.387	%
6780	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
6781			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
6782	root	1.387	%
6783	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
6784	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
6785			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
6786			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
6787			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
6788			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
6789			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
6790			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
6791			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
6792			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
6793			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
6794			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
6795			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
6796			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
6797			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
6798
6799			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
6800			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
6801	root	1.387	%
6802	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
6803			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
6804
6805			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
6806			uncool thing to do. [...]
6807	root	1.387	%
6808	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
6809			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
6810			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
6811	root	1.387	%
6812	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
6813	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
6814	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
6815	root	1.1
6816	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
6817			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
6818			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
6819			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
6820	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
6821			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
6822	root	1.387	%
6823	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
6824			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
6825			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
6826			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
6827			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
6828			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
6829			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
6830
6831			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
6832			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
6833			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
6834	root	1.387	%
6835	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
6836
6837			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
6838	root	1.387	%
6839	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
6840			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
6841			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
6842			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
6843			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
6844	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
6845	root	1.387	%
6846	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
6847			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
6848			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
6849
6850			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
6851			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
6852
6853			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
6854	root	1.387	%
6855	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
6856	root	1.387	%
6857	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
6858			From: Alan Cox
6859			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
6860			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
6861	root	1.247	>
6862			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
6863	root	1.1
6864	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
6865	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
6866	root	1.387	%
6867	root	1.1	From: Russell King
6868			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
6869			To: Albert D. Cahalan
6870
6871			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
6872			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
6873			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
6874			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
6875
6876			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
6877
6878			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
6879	root	1.387	%
6880	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
6881	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
6882			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
6883	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
6884	root	1.387	%
6885	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
6886	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
6887			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
6888	root	1.387	%
6889	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
6890			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
6891	root	1.387	%
6892	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
6893	root	1.387	%
6894	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
6895			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
6896			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
6897	root	1.387	%
6898	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
6899			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
6900			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
6901			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
6902			eloquent like `fuck'. */
6903	root	1.387	%
6904	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
6905	root	1.387	%
6906	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
6907			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
6908			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
6909			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
6910			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
6911			[09:41] <elmex> ?
6912			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
6913	root	1.387	%
6914	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
6915			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
6916	root	1.387	%
6917	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
6918			perl:]
6919
6920			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
6921
6922			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
6923			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
6924			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
6925			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
6926			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
6927			disable the message and pray it works"]
6928	root	1.387	%
6929	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
6930			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
6931			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
6932			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
6933
6934			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
6935			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
6936			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
6937			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
6938			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
6939	root	1.387	%
6940	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
6941			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
6942			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
6943	root	1.387	%
6944	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
6945			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
6946			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
6947			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
6948			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
6949	root	1.387	%
6950	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
6951			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
6952			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
6953	root	1.387	%
6954	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
6955			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
6956	root	1.387	%
6957	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
6958			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
6959	root	1.387	%
6960	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
6961			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
6962			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
6963			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
6964			> it's a hard requirement.
6965
6966			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
6967			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
6968			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
6969			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
6970			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
6971			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
6972			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
6973			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
6974	root	1.387	%
6975	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
6976			> Netscape?"
6977	root	1.247
6978	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
6979			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
6980	root	1.387	%
6981	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
6982			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
6983			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
6984			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
6985			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
6986			the specified task step-by-step.
6987	root	1.387	%
6988	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
6989
6990			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
6991			be damned hard to understand."
6992	root	1.387	%
6993	root	1.1	[Linus]
6994			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
6995			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
6996			wrong. It's that simple.
6997	root	1.387	%
6998	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
6999	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7000	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7001			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7002			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7003	root	1.247	Undernet>
7004	root	1.387	%
7005	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7006			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7007			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7008			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7009
7010			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7011			document that contains an element or attribute named
7012	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7013	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7014			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7015			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7016			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7017			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7018			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7019	root	1.387	%
7020	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7021			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7022			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7023			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7024			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7025			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7026	root	1.387	%
7027	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7028			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7029			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7030			[... snip ...]
7031			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7032			tragedy...
7033	root	1.387	%
7034	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7035	root	1.247
7036	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7037			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7038			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7039			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7040			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7041			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7042			>message plus attorney's fees.
7043			[SNIP long sig]
7044	root	1.247
7045	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7046			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7047			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7048	root	1.247
7049	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7050			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7051			procmailable address.
7052	root	1.247
7053	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7054			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7055			just a waste of bandwidth.
7056	root	1.387	%
7057	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7058	root	1.387	%
7059	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7060			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7061	root	1.387	%
7062	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7063	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7064	root	1.387	%
7065	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7066	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7067			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7068			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7069	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7070	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7071			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7072			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7073			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7074	root	1.387	%
7075	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7076	root	1.387	%
7077	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7078	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7079	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7080	root	1.387	%
7081	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7082			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7083			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7084			immediately and not block the calling process.
7085
7086			the man pages are wrong
7087
7088			--cw
7089	root	1.387	%
7090	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7091			...
7092			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7093	root	1.387	%
7094	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7095			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7096	root	1.387	%
7097	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7098			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7099			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7100
7101			How fast does it oops?
7102	root	1.387	%
7103	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7104
7105			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7106			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7107			> touch is 2Gig.
7108
7109			In theory, yes.
7110			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7111			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7112	root	1.387	%
7113	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7114			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7115			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7116			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7117			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7118			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7119			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7120			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7121			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7122			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7123			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7124			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7125			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7126			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7127			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7128			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7129	root	1.387	%
7130	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7131	root	1.387	%
7132	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7133			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7134			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7135			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7136			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7137	root	1.387	%
7138	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7139			[Lukas Grunwald]
7140	root	1.387	%
7141	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7142			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7143			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7144			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7145
7146			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7147			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7148			> > prompt.
7149			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7150			> /proc/info/authors?
7151	root	1.247
7152	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7153			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7154			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7155			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7156			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7157			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7158	root	1.247
7159	root	1.1	NOT.
7160			[...]
7161	root	1.387	%
7162	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7163			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7164			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7165	root	1.247
7166	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7167			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7168			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7169			> an interesting experiment.
7170	root	1.247
7171	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7172			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7173			to disagree...
7174	root	1.387	%
7175	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7176			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7177			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7178			[und Lukas sagt:]
7179			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7180	root	1.387	%
7181	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7182			report:]
7183			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7184			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7185			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7186			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7187	root	1.387	%
7188	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7189			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7190	root	1.387	%
7191	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7192			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7193			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7194
7195			Alexander Viro wrote:
7196			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7197			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7198			>
7199			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7200			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7201			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7202			> UNIX.
7203
7204			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7205			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7206			docs... ew!
7207	root	1.387	%
7208	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7209			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7210			> protected mode?
7211
7212			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7213			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7214			registers loaded ;)
7215	root	1.387	%
7216	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7217			[...]
7218			> backports hurt forward progress.
7219
7220			beware of content free dogma
7221	root	1.387	%
7222	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7223			> wondering.
7224
7225			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7226			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7227			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7228			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7229			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7230			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7231			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7232
7233			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7234	root	1.387	%
7235	root	1.1	>Keith,
7236	root	1.247	>
7237	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7238			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7239			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7240
7241			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7242			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7243			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7244			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7245			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7246			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7247			do the right thing.
7248
7249			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7250			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7251			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7252			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7253			and they have to fix it.
7254	root	1.387	%
7255	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7256			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7257			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7258			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7259	root	1.387	%
7260	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7261			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7262	root	1.387	%
7263	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7264			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7265			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7266			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7267
7268			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7269			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7270	root	1.387	%
7271	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7272			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7273	root	1.387	%
7274	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7275			glibc-2.2 was released]
7276			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7277	root	1.387	%
7278	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7279	root	1.387	%
7280	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7281			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7282			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7283	root	1.387	%
7284	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7285			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7286			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7287	root	1.387	%
7288	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7289
7290			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7291			standards-compliant.
7292			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7293			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7294			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7295			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7296			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7297			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7298	root	1.387	%
7299	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7300			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7301			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7302
7303			That's your problem.
7304
7305			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7306
7307			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7308			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7309	root	1.387	%
7310	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7311			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7312			> > out there) in the foot?
7313
7314			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7315
7316			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7317			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7318			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7319	root	1.387	%
7320	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7321			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7322			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7323
7324			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7325			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7326			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7327			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7328			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7329			--
7330			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7331	root	1.387	%
7332	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7333
7334			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7335			>
7336			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7337			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7338			>
7339			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7340
7341			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7342	root	1.387	%
7343	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7344			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7345			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7346	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7347	root	1.387	%
7348	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7349			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7350			Bullschildt below ;)]
7351
7352			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7353			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7354	root	1.387	%
7355	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7356			>
7357			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7358			>
7359			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7360			>
7361			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7362	root	1.387	%
7363	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7364
7365			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7366			it did the same thing.
7367
7368			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7369			a week ago. :(
7370
7371			--Jack
7372	root	1.387	%
7373	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7374	root	1.387	%
7375	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7376			-- K&R
7377	root	1.387	%
7378	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7379	root	1.387	%
7380	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7381			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7382	root	1.387	%
7383	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7384	root	1.387	%
7385	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7386			$modules => { "" => "" };
7387	root	1.387	%
7388	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7389	root	1.387	%
7390	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7391	root	1.387	%
7392	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7393			> --
7394			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7395			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7396	root	1.387	%
7397	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7398			From: "David Schwartz"
7399
7400			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7401			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7402			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7403			> pretty spiffy.
7404
7405			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7406			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7407			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7408			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7409	root	1.387	%
7410	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7411	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7412	root	1.387	%
7413	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7414			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7415			> of having bough one.
7416
7417			Not an uncommon thought :)
7418	root	1.387	%
7419	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
7420
7421			Hi Marc !
7422
7423			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
7424			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
7425			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
7426
7427			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
7428	root	1.387	%
7429	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
7430			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
7431			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
7432			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
7433
7434			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
7435			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
7436			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
7437
7438			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
7439			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
7440			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
7441			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
7442			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
7443			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
7444
7445			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
7446			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
7447
7448			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
7449			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
7450			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
7451			right to left.
7452
7453			>But no culture
7454			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
7455			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
7456			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
7457			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
7458			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
7459
7460			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
7461
7462			--Alex
7463	root	1.387	%
7464	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
7465			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
7466			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
7467
7468			[most of the reply snipped...]
7469
7470			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
7471			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
7472			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
7473
7474			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
7475
7476			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
7477			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
7478			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
7479			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
7480			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
7481
7482			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
7483			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
7484			try to claim that they do?)
7485	root	1.387	%
7486	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
7487
7488			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
7489			> {
7490			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
7491			> flush(load);
7492			> else
7493			> wear(load);
7494			> }
7495
7496			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
7497			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
7498
7499			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
7500			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
7501
7502			--
7503			dwmw2
7504	root	1.387	%
7505	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
7506			are are overturned.
7507	root	1.387	%
7508	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
7509	root	1.387	%
7510	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
7511			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
7512	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
7513			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
7514	root	1.387	%
7515	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
7516			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
7517			Marc gives some dumb comments.
7518			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
7519			Marc: Yeah.. and?
7520			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
7521			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
7522	root	1.387	%
7523	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
7524			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
7525			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
7526
7527			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
7528			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
7529			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
7530	root	1.387	%
7531	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
7532			Deadlock, n.:
7533			Deceased Rasterman.
7534	root	1.387	%
7535	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
7536			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
7537			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
7538			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
7539	root	1.387	%
7540	root	1.1	[some .signature]
7541			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
7542	root	1.387	%
7543	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
7544			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
7545	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
7546			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
7547			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
7548			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
7549	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
7550			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
7551	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
7552			Positionen für unwählbar.
7553	root	1.1
7554			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
7555	root	1.387	%
7556	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
7557			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
7558			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
7559
7560			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
7561
7562			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
7563			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
7564			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
7565			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
7566			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
7567
7568			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
7569			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
7570			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
7571			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
7572			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
7573			results simply because I make a mistake!
7574
7575			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
7576			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
7577			errors.
7578
7579			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
7580			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
7581			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
7582			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
7583	root	1.387	%
7584	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
7585			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
7586			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
7587			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
7588			>
7589			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
7590	root	1.387	%
7591	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
7592			of nothing."
7593	root	1.387	%
7594	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
7595			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
7596			>
7597			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
7598			> CPU?
7599
7600			Root password? :)
7601
7602			John.Fulmer
7603	root	1.387	%
7604	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
7605
7606			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
7607	root	1.387	%
7608	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
7609			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
7610			> which I prefer...
7611
7612			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
7613			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
7614			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
7615			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
7616			updater for the new SCSI controller.
7617			--
7618			Horst von Brand
7619	root	1.387	%
7620	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
7621
7622			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
7623
7624			[...]
7625
7626			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
7627	root	1.387	%
7628	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
7629			at your problem:]
7630
7631			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
7632			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
7633			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
7634	root	1.387	%
7635	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
7636			cp is inherently inefficient.
7637	root	1.387	%
7638	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
7639			>breaking seals on them.
7640
7641			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
7642			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
7643			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
7644
7645			...
7646
7647			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
7648			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
7649			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
7650			could be just an urban myth though.
7651
7652			Russell Coker
7653	root	1.387	%
7654	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
7655			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
7656
7657			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
7658	root	1.387	%
7659	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7660			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
7661			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
7662			> > deleting.
7663			>
7664			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
7665
7666			Wrong. Yury does.
7667			:(
7668
7669			--
7670			Stefan
7671	root	1.387	%
7672	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
7673			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
7674			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
7675			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
7676			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
7677			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
7678			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
7679
7680			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
7681
7682			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
7683	root	1.387	%
7684	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
7685	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
7686	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
7687	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
7688			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
7689	root	1.387	%
7690	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
7691			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
7692			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
7693			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
7694			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
7695			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
7696			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
7697			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
7698			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
7699			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
7700	root	1.387	%
7701	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
7702			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
7703			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
7704	root	1.1	aus!
7705	root	1.387	%
7706	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
7707			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
7708	root	1.387	%
7709	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
7710			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
7711			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
7712			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
7713	root	1.387	%
7714	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
7715			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
7716	root	1.387	%
7717	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
7718			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
7719			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
7720			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
7721
7722			--tom
7723	root	1.387	%
7724	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
7725			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
7726
7727			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
7728			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
7729			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
7730			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
7731			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
7732	root	1.387	%
7733	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
7734			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
7735			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
7736			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
7737			solutions.
7738
7739			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
7740
7741			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
7742			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
7743			the background]
7744	root	1.387	%
7745	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
7746			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
7747			Security Response Center:
7748
7749			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
7750			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
7751
7752			[and later]
7753			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
7754
7755			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
7756
7757			[Phil closes]
7758			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
7759
7760			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
7761			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
7762	root	1.387	%
7763	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
7764			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
7765			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
7766			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
7767			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
7768			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
7769			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
7770	root	1.387	%
7771	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
7772			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
7773			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
7774			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
7775
7776			[Trashey / Quasars]
7777	root	1.387	%
7778	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
7779			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
7780			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
7781
7782			Irony potential in
7783
7784			man perlrtfm
7785
7786			is left to the reader.
7787
7788			Nat
7789	root	1.387	%
7790	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
7791			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
7792
7793			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
7794			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
7795	root	1.387	%
7796	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
7797			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
7798			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
7799	root	1.387	%
7800	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
7801			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
7802			Paul Tomblin
7803	root	1.387	%
7804	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
7805			>I am morally
7806			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
7807
7808			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
7809			possibility...
7810
7811			Dan
7812	root	1.387	%
7813	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
7814	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
7815	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 :)
7816			<Mr> zugabe
7817	root	1.387	%
7818	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
7819			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
7820	root	1.387	%
7821	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
7822			[cobol, sigh]
7823	root	1.387	%
7824	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
7825			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
7826			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
7827			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
7828			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
7829			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
7830			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
7831			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
7832
7833			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
7834	root	1.387	%
7835	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
7836
7837			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
7838			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
7839			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
7840			after they regain their composure."
7841
7842			-- Paul Rinaldo
7843			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
7844	root	1.387	%
7845	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
7846			>
7847			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
7848			>
7849			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
7850
7851			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
7852
7853			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
7854
7855			;-}
7856
7857			--
7858
7859			ciao -
7860			Stefan
7861
7862	root	1.387	%
7863	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
7864			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
7865
7866			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
7867			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
7868			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
7869			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
7870			one' type remarks.
7871			[Alan Cox]
7872	root	1.387	%
7873	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
7874
7875			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
7876			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
7877
7878			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
7879	root	1.387	%
7880	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
7881
7882			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
7883			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
7884			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
7885	root	1.387	%
7886	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
7887			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
7888			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
7889			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
7890	root	1.387	%
7891	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
7892			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
7893
7894			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
7895			is to me ok.
7896	root	1.387	%
7897	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
7898
7899			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
7900	root	1.387	%
7901	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
7902			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
7903	root	1.387	%
7904	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
7905			just nod your head and back away slowly...
7906	root	1.387	%
7907	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
7908			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
7909			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
7910
7911			Ralf
7912	root	1.387	%
7913	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
7914			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
7915			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
7916
7917			david parsons
7918	root	1.387	%
7919	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7920			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
7921
7922			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
7923			>so that trick is not portable.
7924
7925			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
7926			127.0.0.1 localhost
7927
7928			--tom
7929	root	1.387	%
7930	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
7931			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
7932			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
7933			> >the question is moot.
7934			>
7935			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
7936
7937			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
7938
7939			Ilya
7940	root	1.387	%
7941	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
7942			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
7943			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
7944			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
7945			> trying.
7946
7947			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
7948			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
7949	root	1.387	%
7950	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
7951			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
7952			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
7953			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
7954	root	1.387	%
7955	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
7956			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
7957			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
7958	root	1.387	%
7959	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
7960			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
7961			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
7962			> blocking :-)
7963
7964			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
7965			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
7966			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
7967			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
7968			reasons.
7969
7970			DS
7971	root	1.387	%
7972	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
7973	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
7974	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
7975	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
7976	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
7977
7978			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
7979	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
7980	root	1.387	%
7981	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
7982			[...]
7983			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
7984			[...]
7985
7986			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
7987			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
7988			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
7989			with each other on the same channel.
7990
7991			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
7992			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
7993
7994			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
7995	root	1.387	%
7996	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
7997			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
7998	root	1.387	%
7999	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8000	root	1.387	%
8001	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8002			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8003			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8004			ok
8005	root	1.387	%
8006	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8007			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8008	root	1.387	%
8009	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8010			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8011			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8012			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8013			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8014			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8015			<Xach> burrito, focus
8016			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8017	root	1.387	%
8018	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8019			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8020			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8021			tested it." ...
8022	root	1.387	%
8023	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8024	root	1.387	%
8025	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8026
8027			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8028			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8029			>
8030			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8031			>
8032			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8033			>
8034			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8035			>
8036			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8037			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8038			>systems.
8039
8040
8041			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8042			had.
8043
8044			--
8045			Neal Bridges
8046	root	1.387	%
8047	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8048
8049			> Hi folks,
8050			> 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?
8051			> please reply to
8052			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8053			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8054
8055			Parse error.
8056
8057			---
8058			Alex
8059	root	1.387	%
8060	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8061
8062			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8063			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8064
8065			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8066			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8067			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8068
8069			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8070	root	1.387	%
8071	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8072	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8073	root	1.387	%
8074	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8075			ii = 44;
8076			p = &ii;
8077			p = ii/p;
8078			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8079			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8080	root	1.387	%
8081	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8082			> Linux time then.
8083
8084			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8085
8086			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8087			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8088
8089			Roger.
8090	root	1.387	%
8091	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8092	root	1.387	%
8093	root	1.1	auto accident;
8094			register voters;
8095			static electricity;
8096			struct by_lightning;
8097			void *where_prohibited;
8098			char broiled;
8099			short circuit;
8100			short changed;
8101			long johns;
8102			unsigned long letter;
8103			double entendre;
8104			double trouble;
8105			union organizer;
8106			float valve;
8107			short pants;
8108			union station;
8109			void check; unsigned check;
8110			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8111	root	1.387	%
8112	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8113			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8114			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8115	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8116	root	1.387	%
8117	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8118
8119			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8120			worstation.
8121	root	1.387	%
8122	root	1.1	I wrote
8123			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8124			$/
8125
8126			Damn shift key.
8127
8128
8129			Mike Guy
8130	root	1.387	%
8131	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8132			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8133			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8134			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8135			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8136			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8137			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8138			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8139			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8140	root	1.387	%
8141	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8142
8143			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8144
8145			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8146			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8147			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8148			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8149
8150			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8151	root	1.387	%
8152	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8153			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8154
8155			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8156			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8157			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8158			easy to bother.
8159
8160			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8161			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8162			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8163			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8164
8165			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8166
8167			Larry
8168	root	1.387	%
8169	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8170			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8171			Yeah. :-)
8172	root	1.387	%
8173	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8174			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8175			[...]
8176			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8177
8178			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8179			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8180			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8181			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8182
8183			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8184			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8185			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8186			receipts aren't used anymore.
8187	root	1.387	%
8188	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8189			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8190			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8191	root	1.387	%
8192	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8193			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8194			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8195			> versteht?"
8196	root	1.387	%
8197	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8198			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8199			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8200			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8201	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8202	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8203	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8204	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8205			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8206			ji!
8207	root	1.387	%
8208	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8209			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8210			[Larry Wall]
8211	root	1.387	%
8212	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8213			Altpreussen.
8214			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8215			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8216	root	1.387	%
8217	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8218			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8219			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8220			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8221			>
8222	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8223			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8224	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8225
8226	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8227	root	1.1	Norbert?
8228	root	1.387	%
8229	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8230	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8231			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8232	root	1.387	%
8233	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8234	root	1.387	%
8235	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8236	root	1.387	%
8237	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8238			From: "Steve"
8239			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8240			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8241			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8242
8243			[the following was a single line, of course]
8244			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8245			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8246			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8247			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8248			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8249
8250			Thanks,
8251
8252			Steve
8253	root	1.387	%
8254	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8255			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8256			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8257			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8258	root	1.387	%
8259	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8260			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8261			<tigert> ahem
8262	root	1.387	%
8263	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8264			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8265			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8266	root	1.387	%
8267	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8268			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8269			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8270			Subject: It's soup.
8271
8272			Okay, it's there.
8273
8274			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8275
8276			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8277
8278			Larry
8279	root	1.387	%
8280	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8281	root	1.387	%
8282	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8283			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8284			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8285			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8286			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8287	root	1.387	%
8288	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8289			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8290			>
8291			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8292			> And there's no mouse.
8293			>
8294			> Abigail
8295
8296			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8297
8298			Matt.
8299	root	1.387	%
8300	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8301			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8302
8303			- --tom
8304	root	1.387	%
8305	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8306			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8307
8308			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8309			>
8310			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8311			> 2.2.11 release?
8312
8313			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8314
8315			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8316
8317			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8318	root	1.387	%
8319	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8320	root	1.387	%
8321	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8322			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8323			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8324			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8325			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8326			> that much ;-)
8327
8328			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8329	root	1.387	%
8330	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8331			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8332	root	1.387	%
8333	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8334			<QUOTE>
8335			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8336
8337			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8338			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8339			</QUOTE>
8340	root	1.387	%
8341	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8342			and routes around it.
8343
8344			Roger Larsson
8345	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8346	root	1.387	%
8347	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8348			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8349	root	1.387	%
8350	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8351			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8352	root	1.387	%
8353	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8354
8355			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8356			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8357			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8358			on different JVMs.
8359
8360			[and later]
8361
8362			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8363			adventure gaming:
8364
8365			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8366			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8367	root	1.387	%
8368	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8369			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8370
8371			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8372
8373			NK> ?? -> huh?
8374
8375			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8376
8377			<chaim>
8378	root	1.387	%
8379	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8380			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8381			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8382			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8383			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8384			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8385	root	1.387	%
8386	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8387	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8388	root	1.387	%
8389	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8390			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8391			page]
8392			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8393			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8394			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8395			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8396			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8397			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8398			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8399			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8400			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8401			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8402	root	1.387	%
8403	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8404			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8405			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8406			don't actually get anything DONE.
8407	root	1.387	%
8408	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8409			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8410			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8411			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8412	root	1.387	%
8413	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8414			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8415			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8416			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8417
8418			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
8419	root	1.387	%
8420	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
8421			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
8422			they have continued that legacy to this day."
8423	root	1.387	%
8424	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
8425			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
8426			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
8427	root	1.387	%
8428	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
8429
8430			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
8431			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
8432			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
8433			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
8434			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
8435			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
8436			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
8437			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
8438			got the T-shirt.
8439	root	1.387	%
8440	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8441			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8442			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
8443			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
8444			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
8445			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8446			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
8447
8448			Linus writes, to Craig:
8449
8450			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
8451			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
8452			> thus choices than gcc.
8453
8454			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
8455			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
8456			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
8457			far more complex than the kernel.
8458
8459			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
8460			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
8461
8462			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
8463	root	1.387	%
8464	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8465			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
8466			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
8467
8468			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
8469			[...]
8470			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
8471			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
8472			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
8473			>let the user be in control.
8474
8475			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
8476			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
8477			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
8478			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
8479			compilers?
8480	root	1.387	%
8481	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8482			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
8483
8484			Linus writes:
8485			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
8486			> gcc could do better?
8487
8488			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
8489			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
8490			before you had so many worshippers.
8491	root	1.387	%
8492	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
8493			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
8494			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
8495			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
8496			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
8497
8498			Linus Torvalds wrote:
8499
8500			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
8501			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
8502			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
8503			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
8504
8505			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
8506
8507			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
8508
8509			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
8510			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
8511
8512			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
8513
8514			>:->
8515
8516			Brane
8517
8518
8519			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
8520			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
8521			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
8522			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
8523			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
8524
8525
8526			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
8527	root	1.387	%
8528	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
8529	root	1.387	%
8530	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
8531			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
8532			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
8533	root	1.387	%
8534	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
8535			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
8536			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
8537	root	1.387	%
8538	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
8539
8540			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
8541
8542			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
8543	root	1.387	%
8544	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
8545			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
8546			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
8547			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
8548
8549			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
8550
8551			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
8552			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
8553			:
8554			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
8555			:
8556			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
8557			:
8558			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
8559	root	1.387	%
8560	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
8561	root	1.387	%
8562	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
8563			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
8564			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
8565			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
8566			>
8567			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
8568			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
8569
8570			The classic example:
8571
8572			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
8573			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
8574	root	1.387	%
8575	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
8576			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
8577
8578			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
8579			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
8580			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
8581
8582			What's next, a String class for Perl?
8583
8584			--tom
8585	root	1.387	%
8586	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
8587			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
8588			working on something for me
8589			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
8590			to me nutting concerning y ok
8591			piece
8592			russ
8593	root	1.387	%
8594	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
8595
8596			pico (text editor for beginners)
8597			vi (text editor for advanced users)
8598			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
8599			ed (text editor for beginners)
8600	root	1.387	%
8601	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
8602
8603			use Python;
8604
8605			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
8606			Except maybe faster. :-)
8607
8608			Larry
8609	root	1.387	%
8610	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
8611
8612			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
8613			2010.
8614
8615			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
8616	root	1.387	%
8617	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
8618			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
8619			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
8620			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
8621			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
8622			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
8623			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
8624			been created.
8625	root	1.387	%
8626	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
8627			>
8628			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
8629			> $3.99.
8630			>
8631			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
8632			>
8633			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
8634			>
8635			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
8636			>
8637			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
8638			>
8639			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
8640			>
8641			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
8642			> got integrated Coke!
8643			>
8644			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
8645			> to drink the Coke.
8646			>
8647			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
8648			>
8649			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
8650			>
8651			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
8652			> inseparable.
8653			>
8654			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
8655			>
8656			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
8657			>
8658			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
8659			>
8660			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
8661			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
8662			> continuous taste across all your foods.
8663	root	1.387	%
8664	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
8665			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
8666	root	1.40	Rob Pike
8667	root	1.387	%
8668	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
8669
8670			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
8671			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
8672			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
8673			for you to digest this book.
8674			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
8675			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
8676			Join The Trickle
8677			Python: more popular than Dylan!
8678			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
8679			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
8680	root	1.387	%
8681	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
8682			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
8683			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
8684			complete and utter vapourware.
8685
8686			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
8687	root	1.387	%
8688	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
8689
8690			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
8691			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
8692	root	1.387	%
8693	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
8694
8695			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
8696			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
8697			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
8698			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
8699			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
8700			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
8701			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
8702			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
8703			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
8704			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
8705			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
8706			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
8707			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
8708			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
8709			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
8710			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
8711			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
8712			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
8713			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
8714			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
8715			work.
8716			[...]
8717			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
8718			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
8719			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
8720			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
8721			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
8722			search generically - then it has some potential.
8723			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
8724			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
8725			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
8726			intellectual value whatsoever.
8727
8728			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
8729			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
8730			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
8731	root	1.387	%
8732	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
8733	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
8734	root	1.387	%
8735	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
8736			#!/usr/bin/sh
8737			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
8738			# All Rights Reserved
8739
8740			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
8741			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
8742			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
8743
8744			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
8745			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
8746	root	1.387	%
8747	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.
8748	root	1.387	%
8749	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
8750			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
8751			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
8752	root	1.387	%
8753	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
8754
8755			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
8756			rather than fixing the actual problem."
8757
8758			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
8759			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
8760			machine]
8761
8762			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
8763			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
8764			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
8765
8766			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
8767	root	1.387	%
8768	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
8769			spamming:]
8770
8771			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
8772			>>
8773			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
8774			>>------------------------------------------------------
8775			>>
8776			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
8777			>>
8778			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
8779
8780			[and later, misquoting my name:]
8781			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
8782	root	1.387	%
8783	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
8784			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
8785	root	1.387	%
8786	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
8787			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
8788	root	1.387	%
8789	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
8790			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
8791
8792			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
8793	root	1.387	%
8794	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
8795
8796			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
8797			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
8798			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
8799			he's full of.
8800
8801			Support BSD/Linux.
8802
8803			--tom
8804	root	1.387	%
8805	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
8806	root	1.387	%
8807	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
8808	root	1.387	%
8809	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
8810			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
8811
8812			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
8813			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
8814			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
8815			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
8816	root	1.387	%
8817	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
8818
8819			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
8820			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
8821	root	1.387	%
8822	root	1.1	[the creation]
8823			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
8824	root	1.387	%
8825	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
8826
8827			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
8828			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
8829			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
8830	root	1.387	%
8831	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
8832			selbst schliesse.
8833			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
8834			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
8835	root	1.387	%
8836	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
8837			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
8838
8839			No:
8840
8841			use Borg;
8842			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
8843
8844			--
8845			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
8846	root	1.387	%
8847	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
8848			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
8849			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
8850			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
8851			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
8852			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
8853			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
8854			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
8855			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
8856			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
8857			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
8858			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
8859			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
8860			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
8861			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
8862			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
8863			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
8864			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
8865			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
8866			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
8867			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
8868			dispensers."
8869
8870			[Kenneth Albanowski]
8871	root	1.387	%
8872	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
8873			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
8874			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
8875			-- Kristian Koehntopp
8876	root	1.387	%
8877	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
8878			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
8879			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
8880	root	1.387	%
8881	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
8882	root	1.1
8883			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
8884	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
8885	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
8886	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
8887	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
8888			Student: "..."
8889			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
8890			Student: "..."
8891			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
8892	root	1.387	%
8893	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
8894
8895			> Just morbid curiosity,
8896			>
8897			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
8898
8899			Yes. Broken ones.
8900
8901			dgris
8902	root	1.387	%
8903	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
8904			-- A Borges story in ten words.
8905	root	1.387	%
8906	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
8907			with the flexibility of assembly language."
8908	root	1.387	%
8909	root	1.1	...
8910
8911			<AOL>
8912
8913			Me too!
8914
8915			</AOL>
8916
8917			Tig
8918	root	1.387	%
8919	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
8920	root	1.387	%
8921	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
8922	root	1.387	%
8923	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
8924
8925			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
8926			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
8927			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
8928			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
8929			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
8930			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
8931			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
8932
8933			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
8934
8935			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
8936			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
8937			get really really pissed.
8938
8939			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
8940			to cut into M$'s server market share.
8941	root	1.387	%
8942	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
8943			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
8944			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
8945			> period.
8946			>
8947			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
8948			> Nic
8949			>
8950
8951			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
8952
8953			-hpa
8954	root	1.387	%
8955	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
8956	root	1.387	%
8957	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
8958			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
8959			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
8960			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
8961			happy."
8962			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
8963	root	1.387	%
8964	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
8965			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
8966			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
8967
8968			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
8969			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
8970			I also forwarded the offending code.
8971
8972			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
8973			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
8974			service.
8975
8976			Daniel
8977	root	1.387	%
8978	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
8979			...
8980			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
8981	root	1.387	%
8982	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
8983			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
8984			[RJL]
8985	root	1.387	%
8986	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
8987			right.''
8988	root	1.387	%
8989	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
8990
8991			Amazing--they actually listened.
8992	root	1.387	%
8993	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
8994			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
8995			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
8996
8997			# less foo
8998			sh: command not found
8999			# more foo
9000			sh: command not found
9001			# emacs foo
9002			sh: command not found
9003			# ed foo
9004			0
9005			help
9006			?
9007			quit
9008			?
9009			exit
9010			?
9011			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9012			?
9013
9014			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9015	root	1.387	%
9016	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9017			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9018			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9019
9020			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9021
9022			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9023
9024			tim> would be most correct in style.
9025
9026			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9027			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9028	root	1.387	%
9029	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9030			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9031			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9032			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9033			too bad --- ]
9034	root	1.387	%
9035	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9036	root	1.387	%
9037	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9038
9039			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9040			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9041
9042			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9043			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9044	root	1.387	%
9045	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9046			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9047			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9048			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9049			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9050	root	1.387	%
9051	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9052
9053			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9054			include wrong #include files in their source.
9055	root	1.387	%
9056	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9057
9058			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9059			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9060			Consider it a rite of passage.
9061	root	1.387	%
9062	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9063			"Oops."
9064			-- MST3K
9065	root	1.387	%
9066	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9067			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9068			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9069
9070			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9071			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9072			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9073			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9074			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9075			it. ;)
9076	root	1.387	%
9077	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9078			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9079			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9080			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9081			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9082
9083			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9084			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9085			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9086			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9087
9088			--tom
9089	root	1.387	%
9090	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9091
9092			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9093
9094			>Why does it end ?
9095
9096			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9097
9098			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9099			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9100
9101			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9102	root	1.387	%
9103	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9104			-- Tom Christiansen
9105	root	1.387	%
9106	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9107
9108			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9109			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9110			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9111			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9112			of Sputnik.
9113	root	1.387	%
9114	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9115			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9116			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9117			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9118			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9119	root	1.387	%
9120	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9121			- Hanlons razor -
9122	root	1.387	%
9123	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9124			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9125	root	1.387	%
9126	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9127			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9128			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9129			> offered no significant advantages.
9130
9131			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9132	root	1.387	%
9133	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9134			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9135			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9136			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9137			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9138			in front of me says so."
9139
9140			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9141	root	1.387	%
9142	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9143			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9144			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9145			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9146			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9147			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9148			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9149			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9150			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9151			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9152			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9153	root	1.387	%
9154	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9155			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9156			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9157			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9158			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9159	root	1.387	%
9160	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9161	root	1.387	%
9162	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9163	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9164			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9165			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9166			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9167	root	1.387	%
9168	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9169			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9170			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9171			>
9172			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9173			> and/or screen.
9174
9175			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9176	root	1.387	%
9177	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9178			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9179
9180			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9181			> use pedantic;
9182			> use strict 'code';
9183			>
9184			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9185
9186			use syntax 'python';
9187
9188			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9189
9190	root	1.387	%
9191	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9192			>
9193			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9194			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9195			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9196			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9197			>
9198			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9199	root	1.387	%
9200	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9201			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9202	root	1.387	%
9203	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9204			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9205			> be time-consuming.
9206
9207			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9208	root	1.387	%
9209	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9210			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9211			however, they do not handle C++...
9212			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9213	root	1.387	%
9214	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9215			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9216
9217			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9218
9219			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9220
9221			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9222
9223			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9224			already of old time, which was before us.
9225			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9226			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9227
9228			Regards,
9229			Tigran.
9230	root	1.387	%
9231	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9232	root	1.387	%
9233	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9234			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9235			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9236			main(){
9237			extrn hw;
9238			putchar(0[hw]);
9239			hw=+1;
9240			putchar(0[hw]);
9241			}
9242	root	1.387	%
9243	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9244
9245			The egg. Always. By definition.
9246	root	1.387	%
9247	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9248			>
9249			> Better check your scsi cables.
9250	root	1.387	%
9251	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9252			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9253	root	1.387	%
9254	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9255			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9256			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9257			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9258
9259	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9260	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9261			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9262
9263	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9264	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9265	root	1.387	%
9266	root	1.1	>James :\
9267			>
9268			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9269
9270			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9271	root	1.387	%
9272	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9273			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9274			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9275	root	1.387	%
9276	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9277			> is just asking for a black eye.
9278
9279			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9280
9281			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9282			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9283			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9284
9285			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9286			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9287			area.
9288	root	1.387	%
9289	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9290			[Lukas Grunwald]
9291	root	1.387	%
9292	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9293
9294			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9295			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9296			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9297			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9298			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9299	root	1.387	%
9300	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9301			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9302
9303			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9304	root	1.387	%
9305	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9306			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9307			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9308
9309			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9310
9311			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9312
9313			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9314
9315			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9316			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9317	root	1.387	%
9318	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9319	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9320	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9321	root	1.387	%
9322	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9323			longer...
9324	root	1.387	%
9325	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9326			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9327			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9328	root	1.387	%
9329	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9330			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9331			> > world :) I just love it...
9332			>
9333			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9334			>
9335			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9336			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9337			practical...
9338			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9339			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9340			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9341			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9342			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9343
9344			Jan Hubicka
9345	root	1.387	%
9346	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9347			[...]
9348			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9349
9350			No, it is not. What you meant is
9351
9352			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9353	root	1.387	%
9354	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9355			> A) perl-5.00553
9356			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9357			> cc = cl.exe
9358			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9359
9360			[...]
9361
9362			Ilya
9363	root	1.387	%
9364	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9365
9366			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9367
9368			p.
9369	root	1.387	%
9370	root	1.1	[tomc]
9371			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9372			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9373
9374			+------------------------------------------+
9375			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9376			+------------------------------------------+
9377
9378			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9379			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9380
9381			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9382			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9383			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9384			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9385			interesting way.
9386			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9387			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9388			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9389			interesting things.
9390			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9391			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9392			things.
9393	root	1.387	%
9394	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9395			--Dennis Ritchie
9396	root	1.387	%
9397	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9398	root	1.387	%
9399	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9400
9401			switch (x)
9402			default:
9403			if (prime(x))
9404			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9405			process_prime(x);
9406			else
9407			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9408			process_composite(x);
9409	root	1.387	%
9410	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9411			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9412			in megabytes, required for execution?
9413
9414			Craig Milo Rogers
9415	root	1.387	%
9416	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9417			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
9418			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
9419
9420			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
9421			US (apparently in Canada too?).
9422
9423			Ilya
9424	root	1.387	%
9425	root	1.1	[from p5p]
9426			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
9427
9428			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
9429			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
9430			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
9431
9432			Nat
9433	root	1.387	%
9434	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
9435			much steroids for a while. =)
9436
9437			--Albert Dvornik
9438			<bert@genscan.com>
9439	root	1.387	%
9440	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
9441			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
9442			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
9443
9444			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
9445
9446			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
9447			or tcl crowd instead of here.
9448
9449			--tom
9450	root	1.387	%
9451	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
9452
9453			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
9454
9455			Linus
9456	root	1.387	%
9457	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
9458			devil added HTML mail...
9459	root	1.387	%
9460	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
9461			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
9462			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
9463	root	1.387	%
9464	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
9465			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
9466
9467			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
9468			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
9469			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
9470
9471			Arm the gnus!
9472	root	1.387	%
9473	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
9474
9475			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
9476			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
9477			gcc, so go away.
9478	root	1.387	%
9479	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
9480			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
9481
9482			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
9483
9484			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
9485			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
9486	root	1.387	%
9487	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9488			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
9489			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
9490			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
9491
9492			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
9493			was released today" madness.
9494	root	1.387	%
9495	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
9496			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
9497			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
9498			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
9499			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
9500			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
9501			>
9502			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
9503			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
9504			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
9505			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
9506			> marketing name, anyway.
9507
9508			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
9509			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
9510			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
9511
9512			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
9513			violence..." :-)
9514	root	1.387	%
9515	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
9516			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
9517	root	1.387	%
9518	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
9519			> >poor drivers
9520			>
9521			> No it doesn't.
9522
9523			Indeed. Its down to
9524
9525			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
9526
9527			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
9528			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
9529			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
9530			or binaries.
9531	root	1.387	%
9532	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
9533	root	1.387	%
9534	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
9535	root	1.387	%
9536	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
9537
9538			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
9539			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
9540			\|>
9541			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
9542
9543			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
9544
9545			Andreas.
9546	root	1.387	%
9547	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9548			...
9549			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
9550
9551			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
9552			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
9553			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
9554			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
9555			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
9556			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
9557	root	1.387	%
9558	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9559
9560			Paul Eggert writes:
9561			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
9562
9563			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
9564			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
9565	root	1.387	%
9566	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
9567			however.
9568
9569			"We don't have the tools"
9570			"We can't support a non intel build"
9571			"We don't have that sort of machine"
9572			"Its not worth the time cost"
9573			"Whats an Alpha ?"
9574	root	1.387	%
9575	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
9576
9577			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
9578			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
9579			>
9580			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
9581			> <mailproc@fred>
9582			>
9583			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
9584			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9585			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
9586			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
9587			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
9588	root	1.387	%
9589	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
9590			> No documented problem
9591			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
9592			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
9593			>
9594			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
9595	root	1.387	%
9596	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
9597			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
9598	root	1.387	%
9599	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
9600			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
9601
9602			dave
9603	root	1.387	%
9604	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
9605			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
9606
9607			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
9608	root	1.387	%
9609	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
9610
9611			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
9612			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
9613
9614			Paul Eggert writes:
9615			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
9616
9617			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
9618			1 month before 29 March?
9619
9620			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
9621
9622			1 month before 28 March?
9623
9624			28 February.
9625
9626			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
9627			_before_ 27 February?
9628
9629			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
9630	root	1.387	%
9631	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
9632
9633			>Nils Goesche wrote:
9634			>> So make a security check first:
9635			>>
9636			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
9637			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
9638			>
9639			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
9640			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
9641			>
9642			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
9643			> = instead of == error*/
9644			> launch_full_counterstrike();
9645			>
9646			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
9647			>
9648			>--
9649			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
9650
9651			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
9652
9653			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
9654			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
9655	root	1.387	%
9656	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
9657			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
9658
9659			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
9660			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
9661			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
9662			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
9663			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
9664			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
9665			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
9666			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
9667
9668			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
9669			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
9670			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
9671			available for that hardware from any source.
9672			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
9673			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
9674			sniffing!
9675	root	1.387	%
9676	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
9677			technical support line that isn't"
9678	root	1.387	%
9679	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
9680			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
9681	root	1.387	%
9682	root	1.1	[...]
9683			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
9684			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
9685
9686			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
9687			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
9688			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
9689			"Nothing else"
9690			"Sorry"
9691			[Click]
9692
9693			Alan
9694	root	1.387	%
9695	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
9696			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
9697	root	1.387	%
9698	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
9699			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
9700			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
9701			> users excepted, of course!).
9702
9703			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
9704			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
9705			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
9706			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
9707			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
9708			is installed"
9709
9710			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
9711	root	1.387	%
9712	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
9713
9714			L. Harris wrote:
9715			>
9716			> Testing
9717
9718			you failed.
9719	root	1.387	%
9720	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
9721			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
9722	root	1.387	%
9723	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
9724			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
9725			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
9726			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
9727	root	1.387	%
9728	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
9729			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
9730			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
9731
9732			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
9733	root	1.387	%
9734	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
9735			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
9736			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
9737			where else...
9738	root	1.387	%
9739	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
9740			[...]
9741			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
9742			: about a certain topic.
9743	root	1.387	%
9744	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
9745			>
9746			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
9747			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
9748
9749			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
9750			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
9751
9752			void main (void)
9753			{
9754			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
9755			printf ("\n");
9756			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
9757			printf ("You have died.\n");
9758			printf ("\n");
9759			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
9760			}
9761
9762			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
9763
9764			--
9765			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
9766	root	1.387	%
9767	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
9768			mistake I ever made]
9769
9770			From: "Tom Miller"
9771			Subject: Can
9772			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9773
9774			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
9775			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
9776			my name is Tom Miller
9777
9778			From: "Tom Miller"
9779			Subject: Wait
9780			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
9781
9782			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
9783			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
9784	root	1.387	%
9785	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
9786
9787			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
9788			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
9789			so why bother? [...]
9790	root	1.387	%
9791	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
9792	root	1.1
9793			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
9794
9795			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
9796			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
9797			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
9798			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
9799			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
9800			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
9801			sich dann.
9802	root	1.387	%
9803	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
9804			no fs
9805			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
9806			Definitely hardware or software error.
9807
9808			Unix Version 7 Manual
9809	root	1.387	%
9810	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
9811			>
9812			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
9813			>
9814			> =for C
9815			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
9816			> =end
9817			> =for C++
9818			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
9819			> =end
9820			> =for Java
9821			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
9822			> =end
9823			>
9824			> :-)
9825	root	1.387	%
9826	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
9827	root	1.387	%
9828	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
9829
9830			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
9831			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
9832			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
9833			turn it on.
9834	root	1.387	%
9835	root	1.1	[...]
9836			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
9837			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
9838			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
9839			[...]
9840	root	1.387	%
9841	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
9842
9843			Chad C Giffin
9844	root	1.387	%
9845	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
9846			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
9847			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
9848			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
9849			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
9850			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
9851
9852			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
9853			through the door.
9854			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
9855			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
9856			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
9857			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
9858			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
9859			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
9860			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
9861			usually.)
9862
9863			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
9864			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
9865			your tire pressure..."
9866			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
9867			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
9868			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
9869			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
9870			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
9871			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
9872			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
9873			three days for a cost of $175.23.
9874	root	1.387	%
9875	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9876
9877			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
9878	root	1.387	%
9879	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
9880
9881			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
9882			:-(
9883	root	1.387	%
9884	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
9885			>dies alles geschieht.
9886			>Und es verging nicht.
9887
9888			So what?
9889
9890			Ich dachte eher an:
9891
9892			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
9893			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
9894			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
9895			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
9896			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
9897			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
9898			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
9899			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
9900			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
9901			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
9902			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
9903			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
9904
9905			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
9906
9907			Antje
9908	root	1.387	%
9909	root	1.1	[....]
9910
9911			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
9912			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
9913			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
9914			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
9915			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
9916			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
9917
9918			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
9919
9920			Antje
9921	root	1.387	%
9922	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
9923			lalala, I love you baby..."
9924			--
9925			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
9926	root	1.387	%
9927	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
9928			>
9929			> Kubys
9930
9931			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
9932
9933			Linus
9934	root	1.387	%
9935	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
9936
9937			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
9938			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
9939			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
9940	root	1.387	%
9941	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
9942
9943			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
9944			out what it means.
9945			--
9946			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9947	root	1.387	%
9948	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
9949			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
9950	root	1.387	%
9951	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
9952			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
9953
9954			Terry L Ridder wrote:
9955
9956			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
9957			> is being discussed.
9958
9959			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
9962
9963			Drop data of type text/plain was:
9964
9965			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
9966
9967			[and the button reads]
9968
9969			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
9970	root	1.387	%
9971	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
9972
9973			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
9974
9975			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
9976			certain amount of redundancy.
9977	root	1.387	%
9978	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
9979			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
9980
9981			...
9982
9983			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
9984	root	1.387	%
9985	root	1.1	>Hello,
9986			>
9987			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
9988			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
9989			>
9990
9991			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
9992			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
9993			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
9994			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
9995	root	1.387	%
9996	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
9997			on the country as a whole.
9998			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
9999			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10000			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10001	root	1.387	%
10002	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10003			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10004	root	1.387	%
10005	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10006	root	1.387	%
10007	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10008			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10009			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10010
10011			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10012
10013			--tom
10014			--
10015			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10016			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10017	root	1.387	%
10018	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10019			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10020	root	1.387	%
10021	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10022
10023			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10024			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10025			> NO CARRIER
10026			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10027	root	1.387	%
10028	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10029			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10030			> better.
10031
10032			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10033			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10034	root	1.387	%
10035	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10036			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10037	root	1.387	%
10038	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10039			\|>
10040			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10041			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10042			\|>
10043			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10044			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10045
10046			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10047			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10048			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10049			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10050			build Bison, and then cook it.
10051
10052			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10053	root	1.387	%
10054	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10055			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10056			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10057			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10058			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10059	root	1.387	%
10060	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10061			-- lbxproxy(1)
10062	root	1.387	%
10063	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10064
10065			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10066
10067			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10068			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10069	root	1.387	%
10070	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10071
10072			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10073	root	1.387	%
10074	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10075			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10076			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10077			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10078			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10079
10080			\|> What does this mean.
10081
10082			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10083			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10084	root	1.387	%
10085	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10086
10087			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10088			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10089
10090			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10091	root	1.387	%
10092	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10093			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10094			streams)."
10095			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10096	root	1.387	%
10097	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10098			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10099	root	1.387	%
10100	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10101
10102			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10103
10104			Klaro.
10105
10106			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10107			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10108			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10109			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10110
10111	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10112	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10113
10114			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10115			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10116			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10117			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10118			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10119			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10120			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10121
10122			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10123			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10124			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10125	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10126			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10127			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10128			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10129	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10130
10131			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10132	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10133			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10134			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10135			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10136			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10137			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10138			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10139	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10140			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10141
10142			cu in hell 2002
10143	root	1.387	%
10144	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10145	root	1.387	%
10146	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10147
10148			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10149			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10150			the man page for crypt(1).
10151
10152			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10153			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10154			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10155
10156			man -s3 crypt
10157
10158			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10159			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10160
10161			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10162			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10163			he can figure out to use the command
10164
10165			man -s3 Intro.3
10166
10167			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10168			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10169
10170			man -s3c crypt
10171
10172			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10173			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10174			any trouble.
10175			--
10176			Michael M Rubenstein
10177	root	1.387	%
10178	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10179
10180			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10181
10182			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10183
10184			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10185
10186			Regards,
10187			Tim Bunce.
10188
10189			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10190			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10191			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10192	root	1.387	%
10193	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10194
10195			...
10196
10197			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10198			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10199			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10200
10201			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10202			its unusable, believe me I do.
10203	root	1.387	%
10204	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10205
10206			Semour Cray
10207	root	1.387	%
10208	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10209
10210			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10211	root	1.387	%
10212	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10213			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10214
10215			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10216			it only supports parts of it
10217	root	1.387	%
10218	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10219			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10220	root	1.387	%
10221	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10222			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10223			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10224			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10225			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10226			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10227			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10228
10229			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10230			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10231			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10232			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10233			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10234			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10235			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10236			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10237			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10238			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10239
10240			tq vm, (burley)
10241	root	1.387	%
10242	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10243			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10244			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10245			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10246			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10247			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10248			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10249	root	1.387	%
10250	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10251			/*
10252			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10253			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10254			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10255			* files won't compile.
10256			*/
10257	root	1.387	%
10258	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10259			> great.
10260
10261			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10262
10263			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10264
10265			This rock is below water half of the time!
10266			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10267			on a regular basis! ;-)
10268	root	1.387	%
10269	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10270			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10271			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10272	root	1.387	%
10273	root	1.1	>
10274			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10275			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10276			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10277
10278			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10279	root	1.387	%
10280	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10281
10282			>Hello!
10283
10284			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10285			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10286			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10287
10288
10289			Perl.
10290
10291			regards
10292			jobst
10293	root	1.387	%
10294	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10295			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10296			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10297
10298			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10299			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10300
10301			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10302			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10303			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10304			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10305			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10306			the absolute pits.
10307	root	1.387	%
10308	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10309	root	1.387	%
10310	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10311			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10312
10313			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10314	root	1.387	%
10315	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10316			ketchup and mustard
10317	root	1.387	%
10318	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10319
10320			vimal gajjar wrote:
10321			>
10322			> Hi there,
10323			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10324			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10325			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10326			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10327			> 5% of cpu
10328			> 2 Mb of RAM
10329			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10330			>
10331			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10332
10333			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10334			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10335			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10336	root	1.387	%
10337	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10338			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10339			>
10340			> >s/usually/never/
10341			>
10342			> s/sometimes/never/
10343
10344			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10345	root	1.387	%
10346	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10347			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10348			:Perl, IMO.
10349
10350			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10351
10352			TC
10353	root	1.387	%
10354	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10355	root	1.387	%
10356	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10357
10358			Hi guys!
10359
10360			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10361	root	1.387	%
10362	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10363
10364			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10365			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10366			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10367			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10368			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10369			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10370	root	1.387	%
10371	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10372			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10373			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10374
10375			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10376			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10377			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10378			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10379
10380			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10381			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10382			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10383			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10384
10385			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10386
10387			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10388
10389			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10390			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10391			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10392
10393			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10394			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10395
10396			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10397			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10398
10399			Did I miss any? ;-)
10400
10401			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10402			Laugh. Please.
10403
10404			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10405			--Scott
10406	root	1.387	%
10407	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10408
10409			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10410			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10411			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10412			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10413	root	1.387	%
10414	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10415			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10416
10417			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
10418
10419			This is not mail.
10420
10421			This is Usenet.
10422
10423			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
10424	root	1.387	%
10425	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
10426			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
10427			--- ide1: reset: success
10428			-----------> I like Linux !
10429	root	1.387	%
10430	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
10431			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
10432
10433			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
10434			do.
10435	root	1.387	%
10436	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
10437			++ PLONK.
10438	root	1.387	%
10439	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
10440			Re: Subraumfunk
10441
10442			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
10443			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
10444
10445			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
10446			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
10447			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
10448			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
10449			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
10450	root	1.387	%
10451	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
10452			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
10453			>
10454			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
10455
10456			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
10457	root	1.387	%
10458	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
10459			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
10460	root	1.387	%
10461	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
10462			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
10463
10464			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
10465			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
10466
10467			Bill Jones
10468	root	1.387	%
10469	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
10470
10471			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
10472			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
10473			#include <windows.h>
10474			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
10475			#endif
10476	root	1.387	%
10477	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
10478
10479			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
10480			is, invoking the URL
10481
10482			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
10483
10484			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
10485	root	1.387	%
10486	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
10487			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
10488			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
10489			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
10490			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
10491			"I am using CGI!"
10492
10493			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
10494	root	1.387	%
10495	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
10496			> > kennenlernen koennen?
10497			>
10498	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
10499	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
10500
10501			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
10502	root	1.387	%
10503	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
10504			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
10505	root	1.387	%
10506	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
10507			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
10508			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
10509			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
10510	root	1.387	%
10511	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
10512
10513			pcg@goof.com said:
10514			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
10515
10516			Hehe - I know the feeling.
10517
10518			"It's broken."
10519			"What's wrong with it?."
10520			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
10521			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
10522			"It just doesn't work."
10523			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
10524			"It gives an error message."
10525			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
10526			"It says.... something about there being an error."
10527			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
10528			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
10529			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
10530			letter for letter this time."
10531	root	1.387	%
10532	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
10533
10534			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
10535			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
10536			2.6, the mode was 04555.
10537
10538			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
10539			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
10540			perms.
10541
10542			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
10543	root	1.387	%
10544	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
10545			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
10546
10547			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
10548
10549			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
10550			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
10551			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
10552
10553			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
10554			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
10555	root	1.387	%
10556	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
10557			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
10558	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
10559
10560			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
10561			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
10562			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
10563			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
10564			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
10565			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
10566			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
10567			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
10568			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
10569			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
10570			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
10571
10572			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
10573
10574			normarz@aol.com
10575	root	1.387	%
10576	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
10577	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
10578	root	1.1	>Legion
10579			>schlagen?
10580
10581			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
10582
10583			Bye
10584			Andreas
10585	root	1.387	%
10586	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
10587
10588			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
10589			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
10590
10591			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
10592			companies.
10593
10594			Kind regards
10595			Henning
10596	root	1.387	%
10597	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
10598			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
10599			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
10600
10601			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
10602			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
10603			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
10604
10605			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
10606			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
10607			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
10608			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
10609			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
10610			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
10611			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
10612			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
10613			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
10614			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
10615	root	1.387	%
10616	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
10617			We might support that sometime next year.
10618			-=- Microsoft
10619			(But I doubt it.)
10620			-=- Me
10621			-=- James Mastros
10622	root	1.387	%
10623	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
10624			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
10625			> following methods, but the output was split into two
10626			>lines.
10627
10628			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
10629			put newlines in the middle of your string.
10630	root	1.387	%
10631	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
10632	root	1.387	%
10633	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
10634			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
10635			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
10636			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
10637	root	1.387	%
10638	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
10639
10640			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
10641			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
10642			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
10643			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
10644			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
10645			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
10646			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
10647			it's not all his fault.
10648
10649			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
10650			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
10651			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
10652			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
10653			content.
10654
10655			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
10656			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
10657			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
10658			learn (or pay for it;)
10659
10660			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
10661			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
10662			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
10663			just for fun or to get the op.
10664
10665			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
10666			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
10667			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
10668			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
10669
10670			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
10671
10672			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
10673			course, Linux and Linux people.
10674	root	1.387	%
10675	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
10676			then he rewrote it as WNT.
10677
10678			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
10679			--
10680			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
10681	root	1.387	%
10682	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
10683
10684			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
10685			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
10686			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
10687
10688			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
10689			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
10690			tradition.
10691	root	1.387	%
10692	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
10693			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
10694	root	1.387	%
10695	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
10696			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
10697	root	1.387	%
10698	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
10699			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
10700			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
10701			Or GIRLS for short.
10702	root	1.387	%
10703	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
10704	root	1.387	%
10705	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
10706			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
10707			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
10708			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
10709			5_004_03 to build!"
10710
10711			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
10712			have no patience."
10713
10714			xoxo,
10715			Andy
10716	root	1.387	%
10717	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
10718			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
10719			We all have our cross to bear.
10720	root	1.387	%
10721	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
10722
10723			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
10724			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
10725			Subject: Re: system() question
10726
10727			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
10728			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
10729			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
10730			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
10731			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
10732			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
10733			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
10734			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
10735			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
10736			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
10737			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
10738			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
10739			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
10740			humiliating for me!)
10741
10742			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
10743			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
10744			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
10745			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
10746			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
10747			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
10748			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
10749			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
10750			really knows the answer.
10751
10752			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
10753			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
10754			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
10755			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
10756
10757			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
10758			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
10759			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
10760			for that.
10761
10762			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
10763			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
10764			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
10765			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
10766			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
10767			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
10768			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
10769
10770			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
10771
10772			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
10773			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
10774			something for free.''
10775
10776			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
10777
10778			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
10779			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
10780
10781			(Good question.)
10782
10783			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
10784			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
10785			once I have run it.''
10786			(Good question.)
10787
10788			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
10789
10790			(Good question.)
10791
10792			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
10793			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
10794			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
10795			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
10796			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
10797
10798			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
10799			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
10800			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
10801			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
10802			comp.lang.perl?
10803			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
10804			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
10805			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
10806			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
10807			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
10808			in comp.lang.perl?
10809
10810			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
10811			you my rate card.
10812
10813			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
10814			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
10815			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
10816			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
10817			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
10818			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
10819			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
10820			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
10821			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
10822			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
10823
10824			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
10825			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
10826			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
10827			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
10828			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
10829			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
10830			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
10831			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
10832			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
10833			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
10834			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
10835			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
10836			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
10837			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
10838			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
10839			off his finger or something. I dunno.
10840
10841			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
10842			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
10843			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
10844			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
10845			someone will. Maybe I will.
10846
10847			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
10848			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
10849			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
10850			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
10851			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
10852			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
10853			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
10854			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
10855
10856			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
10857			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
10858			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
10859			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
10860			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
10861			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
10862			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
10863			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
10864			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
10865			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
10866			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
10867			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
10868			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
10869			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
10870
10871			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
10872			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
10873			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
10874			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
10875
10876			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
10877
10878			`I want to accomplish X.
10879
10880			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
10881
10882			...
10883
10884			But instead it does Y.
10885
10886			Why is that?''
10887
10888			This one is also pretty good:
10889
10890			`I want to accomplish X.
10891			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
10892
10893			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
10894			because of Z.
10895
10896			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
10897
10898			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
10899			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
10900
10901
10902			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
10903			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
10904
10905			--
10906			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
10907			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
10908	root	1.387	%
10909	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
10910			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
10911
10912			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
10913			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
10914			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
10915
10916			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
10917
10918			bye, Georg
10919	root	1.387	%
10920	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
10921			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
10922			convince me.
10923
10924			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
10925
10926			Linus
10927	root	1.387	%
10928	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
10929			++
10930
10931			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
10932			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
10933
10934	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
10935	root	1.1
10936			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
10937			understanding the above line.
10938
10939			Abigail
10940	root	1.387	%
10941	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
10942			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
10943	root	1.387	%
10944	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
10945			++ button?
10946			Yes.
10947
10948			++ 100 pictures or so?
10949			Yes.
10950
10951			++ Can I do it in Perl?
10952			Yes.
10953
10954			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
10955			newsgroup. alt.button.play
10956
10957			Abigail
10958	root	1.387	%
10959	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
10960
10961			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
10962
10963			Martien
10964	root	1.387	%
10965	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
10966			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
10967			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
10968			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
10969	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
10970	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
10971			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
10972			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
10973			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
10974	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
10975	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
10976			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
10977	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
10978			nicht. ;)
10979
10980	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
10981			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
10982			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
10983	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
10984			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
10985	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
10986	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
10987
10988	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
10989			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
10990	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
10991	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
10992	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
10993
10994	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
10995	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
10996	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
10997			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
10998	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
10999	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11000	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11001			"unvorstellbar".
11002
11003			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11004	root	1.387	%
11005	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11006			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11007			^^^
11008			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11009	root	1.387	%
11010	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11011			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11012	root	1.387	%
11013	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11014			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11015	root	1.387	%
11016	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11017			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11018			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11019
11020			An artificial pile of rocks.
11021	root	1.387	%
11022	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11023			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11024			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11025			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11026			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11027			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11028
11029			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11030			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11031			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11032			grosser Flipperautomat.
11033
11034			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11035	root	1.387	%
11036	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11037			>
11038			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11039			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11040			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11041			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11042			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11043	root	1.387	%
11044	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11045			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11046	root	1.1
11047			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11048	root	1.387	%
11049	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11050
11051			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11052
11053			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11054			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11055			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11056			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11057			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11058			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11059			Unix environment.
11060	root	1.387	%
11061	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11062			between these:
11063
11064			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11065			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11066
11067			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11068			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11069			;#", and the print gets executed!
11070
11071			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11072			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11073			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11074			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11075
11076			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11077			'perl'".
11078
11079			--
11080			Randal L. Schwartz
11081	root	1.387	%
11082	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11083
11084			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11085			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11086			>
11087			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11088
11089			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11090
11091			--
11092			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11093	root	1.387	%
11094	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11095	root	1.387	%
11096	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11097			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11098	root	1.387	%
11099	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11100			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11101	root	1.387	%
11102	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11103			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11104			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11105			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11106			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11107			example.
11108	root	1.387	%
11109	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11110			resemble a nail.
11111	root	1.387	%
11112	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11113			> I did wrong.
11114
11115			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11116			newsgroup.
11117	root	1.387	%
11118	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11119	root	1.387	%
11120	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11121			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11122	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11123
11124			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11125	root	1.387	%
11126	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11127	root	1.1
11128	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11129	root	1.387	%
11130	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11131			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11132			expired instantly!!!
11133	root	1.387	%
11134	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11135			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11136
11137			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11138			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11139			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11140
11141			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11142			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11143			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11144			than double Linus's programming experience?
11145
11146			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11147			> pretty straight forward.
11148
11149			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11150			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11151	root	1.387	%
11152	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11153			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11154			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11155			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11156			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11157			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11158	root	1.387	%
11159	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11160	root	1.387	%
11161	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11162			Example:
11163			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11164	root	1.387	%
11165	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11166			Randal gets his hands on it
11167	root	1.387	%
11168	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11169	root	1.387	%
11170	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11171
11172			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11173			first if you get it working.
11174	root	1.387	%
11175	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11176			> Think different.
11177
11178			Think Again.
11179	root	1.387	%
11180	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11181	root	1.387	%
11182	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11183			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11184			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11185
11186			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11187	root	1.387	%
11188	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11189			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11190	root	1.387	%
11191	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11192			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11193			\| top.
11194	root	1.387	%
11195	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11196			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11197	root	1.387	%
11198	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11199			^^^^^^^^^
11200			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11201
11202			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11203	root	1.387	%
11204	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11205			>gehen soll?
11206
11207	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11208	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11209			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11210	root	1.387	%
11211	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11212	root	1.387	%
11213	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11214			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11215	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11216			>
11217			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11218
11219			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11220			Schuh aus!
11221	root	1.387	%
11222	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11223
11224	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11225	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11226	root	1.387	%
11227	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11228
11229
11230			First opportunity
11231			Approximate
11232			Orbit Internet
11233			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11234
11235			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11236			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11237			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11238			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11239
11240			Second opportunity
11241			Approximate
11242			Orbit Internet
11243			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11244
11245			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11246			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11247			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11248			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11249
11250			Third opportunity
11251			Approximate
11252			Orbit Internet
11253			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11254
11255			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11256			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11257			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11258			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11259
11260	root	1.387	%
11261	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11262	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11263			> >würden.
11264	root	1.1	>
11265			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11266			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11267			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11268			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11269			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11270			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11271			implizierst.
11272	root	1.387	%
11273	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11274			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11275	root	1.387	%
11276	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11277			Big improvement.
11278	root	1.387	%
11279	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11280			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11281			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11282			-- "Why that one?"
11283			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11284			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11285	root	1.387	%
11286	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11287			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11288			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11289	root	1.387	%
11290	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11291			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11292			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11293
11294			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11295
11296			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11297			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11298			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11299
11300			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11301
11302			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11303			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11304			> er eigentlich ist?
11305
11306	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11307	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11308	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11309	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11310	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11311	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11312	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11313	root	1.1	Ciao
11314			Stefan
11315	root	1.387	%
11316	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11317			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11318			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11319			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11320	root	1.387	%
11321	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11322			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11323			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11324			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11325			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11326			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11327			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11328			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11329			off.
11330	root	1.387	%
11331	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11332			Meet interesting people,
11333			Kill them.
11334	root	1.387	%
11335	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11336			> umwandelbar ist.
11337
11338			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11339	root	1.387	%
11340	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11341	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11342	root	1.387	%
11343	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11344			>
11345			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11346			> >> ruckartig.
11347			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11348			>
11349	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11350	root	1.1
11351			:-)
11352	root	1.387	%
11353	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11354	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11355			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11356	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11357			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11358			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11359			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11360
11361			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11362			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11363	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11364			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11365	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11366	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11367			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11368			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11369	root	1.1	Union.
11370
11371	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11372			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11373	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11374	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11375			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11376			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11377	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11378	root	1.387	%
11379	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11380			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11381	root	1.387	%
11382	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11383	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11384	root	1.1	>>
11385			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11386	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11387			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11388	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11389			>
11390			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11391			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11392	root	1.387	%
11393	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11394	root	1.387	%
11395	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11396			> into a random order???
11397			>
11398
11399			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11400			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11401
11402			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11403			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11404			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11405			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11406			number less than 42.
11407	root	1.387	%
11408	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11409			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11410			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11411			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11412			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11413			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11414			eventually invent Unix.
11415	root	1.387	%
11416	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11417			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
11418			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
11419			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
11420			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
11421			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
11422			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
11423			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
11424			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
11425			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
11426			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
11427			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
11428			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
11429			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
11430			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
11431			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
11432	root	1.387	%
11433	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
11434			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
11435			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
11436	root	1.387	%
11437	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
11438			using a Perl CGI script?
11439	root	1.387	%
11440	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
11441
11442			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
11443			week.
11444	root	1.387	%
11445	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
11446			Brieweb> of PERL.
11447			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
11448			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
11449			[Randal Schwartz]
11450	root	1.387	%
11451	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
11452			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
11453			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
11454			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
11455	root	1.387	%
11456	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
11457			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
11458			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
11459			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
11460			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
11461			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
11462			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
11463			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
11464			system and restricting their options.
11465			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
11466	root	1.387	%
11467	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
11468			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
11469			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
11470	root	1.387	%
11471	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
11472			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
11473			Ernie Hai
11474			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
11475	root	1.387	%
11476	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
11477			: results" report from the users.
11478
11479			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
11480			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
11481			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
11482			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
11483	root	1.387	%
11484	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
11485			They are all owned by cats.
11486	root	1.387	%
11487	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
11488			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
11489			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
11490	root	1.387	%
11491	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
11492			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
11493
11494			Yesterday it worked
11495			Today it is not working
11496			Windows is like that
11497			- - -
11498			wind catches lily
11499			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
11500			segmentation fault
11501			- - -
11502			Three things are certain:
11503			Death, taxes, and lost data.
11504			Guess which has occurred.
11505			- - -
11506			A file that big?
11507			It might be very useful.
11508			But now it is gone.
11509			- - -
11510			Windows NT crashed.
11511			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
11512			No one hears your screams.
11513			- - -
11514			Errors have occurred.
11515			We won't tell you where or why.
11516			Lazy programmers.
11517			- - -
11518			Seeing my great fault
11519			Through darkening blue windows
11520			I begin again
11521			- - -
11522			The code was willing,
11523			It considered your request,
11524			But the chips were weak.
11525			- - -
11526			Printer not ready.
11527			Could be a fatal error.
11528			Have a pen handy?
11529			- - -
11530			Server's poor response
11531			Not quick enough for browser.
11532			Timed out, plum blossom.
11533			- - -
11534			Chaos reigns within.
11535			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
11536			Order shall return.
11537			- - -
11538			Login incorrect.
11539			Only perfect spellers may
11540			enter this system.
11541			- - -
11542			This site has been moved.
11543			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
11544			have to delete you.
11545			- - -
11546			ABORTED effort:
11547			Close all that you have.
11548			You ask way too much.
11549			- - -
11550			First snow, then silence.
11551			This thousand dollar screen dies
11552			so beautifully.
11553			- - -
11554			With searching comes loss
11555			and the presence of absence:
11556			"My Novel" not found.
11557			- - -
11558			The Tao that is seen
11559			Is not the true Tao, until
11560			You bring fresh toner.
11561			- - -
11562			The Web site you seek
11563			cannot be located but
11564			endless others exist
11565			- - -
11566			Stay the patient course
11567			Of little worth is your ire
11568			The network is down
11569			- - -
11570			A crash reduces
11571			your expensive computer
11572			to a simple stone.
11573			- - -
11574			There is a chasm
11575			of carbon and silicon
11576			the software can't bridge
11577			- - -
11578			To have no errors
11579			Would be life without meaning
11580			No struggle, no joy
11581			- - -
11582			You step in the stream,
11583			but the water has moved on.
11584			This page is not here.
11585			- - -
11586			No keyboard present
11587			Hit F1 to continue
11588			Zen engineering?
11589			- - -
11590			Hal, open the file
11591			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
11592			open it, please Hal
11593			- - -
11594			Out of memory.
11595			We wish to hold the whole sky,
11596			But we never will.
11597			- - -
11598			Having been erased,
11599			The document you're seeking
11600			Must now be retyped.
11601			- - -
11602			The ten thousand things
11603			How long do any persist?
11604			Netscape, too, has gone.
11605			- - -
11606			Rather than a beep
11607			Or a rude error message,
11608			These words: "File not found."
11609			- - -
11610			Serious error.
11611			All shortcuts have disappeared
11612			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
11613	root	1.387	%
11614	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
11615			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
11616	root	1.387	%
11617	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
11618			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
11619
11620			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
11621			early 1980s.
11622	root	1.387	%
11623	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
11624			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
11625			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
11626			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
11627
11628			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
11629			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
11630			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
11631			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
11632			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
11633			many new features that it just stops working.
11634
11635			This also applies to Microsoft products.
11636
11637			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
11638			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
11639
11640			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
11641			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
11642			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
11643
11644			Hope this explains what's going on
11645			Martien Verbruggen
11646	root	1.387	%
11647	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
11648	root	1.387	%
11649	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
11650	root	1.387	%
11651	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
11652	root	1.387	%
11653	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
11654			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
11655			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
11656	root	1.387	%
11657	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
11658			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
11659			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
11660			>
11661			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
11662
11663			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
11664			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
11665	root	1.387	%
11666	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
11667			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
11668			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
11669			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
11670	root	1.387	%
11671	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
11672			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
11673			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
11674			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
11675			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
11676			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
11677			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
11678			convienience store.")
11679	root	1.387	%
11680	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
11681			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
11682	root	1.387	%
11683	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
11684	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
11685	root	1.1
11686			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
11687			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
11688	root	1.387	%
11689	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
11690			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
11691			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
11692			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
11693	root	1.387	%
11694	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
11695			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
11696			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
11697	root	1.387	%
11698	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
11699			(A => B) => (B => A)
11700			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
11701			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
11702	root	1.387	%
11703	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
11704	root	1.387	%
11705	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
11706			-Barry Shein
11707	root	1.387	%
11708	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
11709			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
11710			read the manual.
11711	root	1.387	%
11712	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
11713	root	1.387	%
11714	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
11715			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
11716			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
11717			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
11718			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
11719			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
11720			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
11721			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
11722			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
11723	root	1.387	%
11724	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
11725	root	1.387	%
11726	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
11727			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
11728			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
11729	root	1.387	%
11730	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
11731
11732			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
11733			need.
11734	root	1.387	%
11735	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
11736			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
11737			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
11738	root	1.387	%
11739	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
11740			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
11741			newsreaders. You know,
11742			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
11743			back
11744			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
11745			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
11746			out what they're saying.
11747	root	1.387	%
11748	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
11749			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
11750	root	1.387	%
11751	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
11752			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
11753			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
11754
11755			But the combination.... sutters
11756	root	1.387	%
11757	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
11758			Darn it.
11759	root	1.387	%
11760	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
11761	root	1.387	%
11762	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
11763	root	1.387	%
11764	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
11765			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
11766			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
11767			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
11768			trying to use it.
11769	root	1.387	%
11770	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
11771	root	1.387	%
11772	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
11773			>
11774			> Is this group active?
11775			No.
11776
11777			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
11778			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
11779
11780			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
11781			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
11782	root	1.387	%
11783	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
11784			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
11785	root	1.387	%
11786	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
11787			Press any key to continue..."
11788	root	1.387	%
11789	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
11790			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
11791			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
11792	root	1.387	%
11793	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
11794			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
11795			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
11796			adjust your travel plans.
11797	root	1.387	%
11798	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
11799			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
11800	root	1.387	%
11801	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
11802			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
11803
11804			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
11805			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
11806
11807			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
11808
11809			tak 18 12 6
11810	root	1.387	%
11811	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
11812			-- Bill Gates
11813			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
11814			-- Bill Gates
11815			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
11816			-- logical conclusion
11817	root	1.387	%
11818	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
11819			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
11820			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
11821			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
11822			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
11823			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
11824			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
11825			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
11826			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
11827			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
11828			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
11829			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
11830			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
11831			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
11832			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
11833			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11834			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
11835			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
11836			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
11837			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
11838			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
11839	root	1.387	%
11840	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
11841			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
11842			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
11843			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
11844	root	1.387	%
11845	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.