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1	root	1.476	In 1729, how could they know where the north pole was when it was only
2			discovered in 1909?
3			-- Ebon Kim, Flat-Earth Youtuber
4			%
5	root	1.475	Fun with the north korean Red Star OS:
6
7			It does have some components that prevent the normal user from
8			editing/deleting various protected files (securityd, scnprc and opprc). We
9			call it “oppression” if we’re speaking of DPRK and “defending your
10			privacy and security” if we’re speaking of Apple. Two sides of the
11			same coin, I guess, depends on which side you’re on.
12
13			[https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/]
14			%
15	root	1.474	Minister for Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam clarified in Parliament
16			during the Committee of Supply debate on Mar. 3 that inmates in Singapore
17			do not need to thank prison staff after being caned.
18
19			[https://mothership.sg/2022/03/no-requirement-thank-guard-after-caning/]
20			%
21			The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered" that the
22			HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and tasked a working group with
23			preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule. This ruled out any
24			basis for the new HTTP/2.0 other than the SPDY protocol. With only
25			the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at
26			improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus," the
27			IETF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every
28			principle ever held dear in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping
29			Google's initiative.
30
31			Poul-Henning Kamp, in https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=27162
32			%
33			[HGST engineer, taking about drive reliability]
34
35			we don't want to test it, because that costs time, we just wait for the
36			market feedback and put that into our calculations.
37			%
38	root	1.473	[wdleng.c in unix V6 iolib]
39
40			wdleng ()
41			/* returns number of bits in a machine integer */
42			/* written so kernighan can tell where he is running */
43			{
44			int k, leng;
45			k = leng = 1;
46			while (k =<< 1)
47	root	1.476	leng++;
48	root	1.473	return (leng);
49			}
50			%
51	root	1.470	Dana Angluin's List of Proof Techniques
52
53			Proof by example:
54			The author gives only the case n=2 and suggests that it contains most
55			of the ideas of the general proof.
56
57			Proof by intimidation:
58			'Trivial.'
59
60			Proof by vigorous handwaving:
61			Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.
62
63			Proof by cumbersome notation:
64			Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.
65
66			Proof by exhaustion:
67			An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful.
68
69			Proof by omission:
70			'The reader may easily supply the details.'
71			'The other 253 cases are analogous.'
72			'...'
73
74			Proof by obfuscation:
75			A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically
76			related statements.
77
78			Proof by wishful citation:
79			The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem
80			from the literature to support his claims.
81
82			Proof by funding:
83			How could three different government agencies be wrong?
84
85			Proof by eminent authority:
86			'I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP-complete.'
87
88			Proof by personal communication:
89			'Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete' [Karp,
90			personal commmunication].
91
92			Proof by reduction to the wrong problem:
93			'To see that infinite-dimensional colored cycle stripping is decidable,
94			we reduce it to the halting problem.'
95
96			Proof by reference to inaccessible literature:
97			The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a
98			privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society,
99			1883.
100
101			Proof by importance:
102			A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.
103
104			Proof by accumulated evidence:
105			Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.
106
107			Proof by cosmology:
108			The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular
109			for proofs of the existence of God.
110
111			Proof by mutual reference:
112			In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference
113			B, which is shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is
114			an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A.
115
116			Proof by meta-proof:
117			A method is given to construct the desired proof. The correctness of
118			the method is proved by any of these techniques.
119
120			Proof by picture:
121			A more convincing form of proof by example. Combines well with proof by omission.
122
123			Proof by vehement assertion:
124			It is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience.
125
126			Proof by ghost reference:
127			Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given.
128
129			Proof by forward reference:
130			Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is
131			often not as forthcoming as at first.
132
133			Proof by semantic shift:
134			Some standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the
135			statement of the result.
136
137			Proof by appeal to intuition:
138			Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.
139
140			Proof by elimination of the counterexample:
141			'Assume for the moment that the hypothesis is true. Now, let's
142			suppose we find a counterexample. So what? QED.' (from Don Woods
143			<DON@SU-AI.ARPA>)
144
145			[https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~riesbeck/proofs.html]
146			%
147	root	1.469	polkit: Similar to sudo but much more complicated
148
149			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
150			%
151			D-Bus: IPC, but complicated. Why do we need XML schema files, why is there
152			sometimes / notation and sometimes ., and so on. IPC is a good thing, but
153			this implementation is too complicated!
154
155			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
156			%
157			Pipewire: Solution in search of a problem you don't have without Wayland?
158
159			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
160			%
161			In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server.
162
163			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
164			%
165			The Wayland "reference implementation" is a small set of libraries that
166			can be used to build a compositor or a client application. These libraries
167			currently have hard dependencies on Linux kernel APIs like epoll. In
168			pkgsrc we've patched the libraries to add kqueue(2) support, but the
169			patches haven't been accepted upstream. Wayland is written with the
170			assumption of Linux to the extent that every client application tends to
171			#include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's designers didn't see the need
172			to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse button IDs.
173
174			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
175			%
176	root	1.468	As best I can tell (from the long and unsatisfactory thread I pursed on
177			the Wayland Developers list some little time ago), the core issue with
178			Wayland and Color is social, not technical:
179
180			1. none of the key developers have the faintest idea what Color or Color
181			Management is, and (worse):
182
183			2. they have no idea why it would be at all important.
184
185			[https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804/4]
186			%
187			> (isn't it the case with ifconfig vs. ip already?)
188
189			Wayland is more like they created ip but named the command ifconfig, then
190			told you to go fix your scripts.
191
192			If the Wayland developers had sense, they would have carefully considered
193			how to make it a seemless transition for developers. Instead, they decided
194			they were the ultimate authority on software engineering and screw
195			developers, they are all doing it wrong anyways.
196
197			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3862027]
198			%
199			Wayland is written with the assumption of Linux to the extent that every
200			client application tends to #include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's
201			designers didn't see the need to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse
202			button IDs.
203
204			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
205			%
206			... a basic barebones TWM for X11 works better and offers more features
207			than Weston which contains ~20 times more code
208
209			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3526530]
210			%
211			"It is true that Wayland somewhat sucks ass" -- The Lutris founder
212			[The Lutris founder quoting himself]
213			%
214			Eine solche Regulierung schafft man in Deutschland nur für wirklich
215			wichtige Themen wie zur Durchsetzung der Bereitstellung von Schnittstellen
216			für die Telekommunikationsüberwachung. Bei so irrelevanten Themen wie
217			dem Katastrophenschutz und der Alarmierung der Bevölkerung braucht man
218			den Markt nicht zu regulieren.
219
220			[https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20210719-smscb/]
221			From: Stephen Searle
222			Date: 18 Mar 1998, 09:00:00
223			Subject: A Clockwork Nethacker
224
225			What if the next version of Nethack has a new class based on the Droogs
226			of Anthony Burgess' novel (and later Stanley Kubrick film) "A Clockwork
227			Orange"?
228
229			I imagine the language would be radically different, like the
230			Samurai-speak only much, much more so...
231
232			Your rookers glow red -more-
233			You tolchock the floating glazzy real horrorshow! -more-
234			The floating glazzy appears bezoomny.
235			You brosay your britva at the floating glazzy -more-
236			The floating glazzy is oobivatted!
237
238			Ugh - that Pishcha was rotten! -more-
239			You feel a malenky bit bolnoy.
240
241			You govoreet with the charlie of Bog -more-
242			The charlie asks you for some cutter for the temple.
243
244			The devotchka flashes her groodies at you -more-
245			"Take off your platties, they're in the way" -more-
246			Raz stands still while you and the devotchka lie in each other's rookers...
247			(or:)
248			"You're such a bolshy chelloveck, I wish..."
249
250			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you!
251			Your shlem blocks the attack to your gulliver.
252			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you real horrorshow!
253			Your brain is eaten! You feel gloopy!
254
255			An enormous dook appears next to you!
256			You are poogly to snuffit and unable to itty!
257
258			You slooshy someone cursing prestoopnicks.
259
260			You ittied from the shop without pretty pollying! -more-
261			You crasted 100 gollies worth of veshches! -more-
262			A millicent's whistle zvooks -more-
263			The Keystone rozzes are after you!
264
265
266			Heh... I think I will have to write a little text filter for Nethack :-)
267
268			-SJS
269
270			[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/c/3P5KdEPru6o/m/UxXyLvAsJUwJ]
271			%
272			"Validity of journal" is not an argument from authority fallacy, it is an
273			assessment of the prior on source quality.
274			%
275	root	1.467	You know what they say though, if the punishment for a crime is a fee
276			then it’s only a crime for the poor.
277			%
278	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
279
280			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
281			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
282			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
283			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
284			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
285			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
286			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
287			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
288			time. There is no other significance to these files.
289			%
290	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
291			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
292			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
293			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
294			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
295			- John Rogers
296			%
297	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
298			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
299			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
300			become witches.
301
302			– Bret Weinstein
303			%
304	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
305			- Rumsfeld 2003
306			%
307	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
308
309			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
310
311			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
312
313			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
314
315			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
316
317			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
318			%
319	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
320			- a rust tutorial
321			%
322	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
323			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
324			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
325
326			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
327			%
328			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
329			that has been problematic for a long time.
330
331			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
332			%
333	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
334			GPL Protected it
335			GOD Blessed it
336
337			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
338			%
339	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
340			kinship term she'd ever heard.
341
342			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
343			%
344			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
345			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
346			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
347
348			I don't agree.
349
350			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
351			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
352			> is not as clear as it could be.
353
354			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
355			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
356			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
357			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
358			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
359
360			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
361			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
362			%
363			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
364
365			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
366			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
367			other conventions exist for a very long time.
368
369			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
370			%
371			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
372
373			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
374			%
375	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
376			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
377			and government agency portal.
378
379			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
380			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
381
382			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
383			%
384			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
385
386			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
387			%
388			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
389			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
390			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
391
392			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
393			%
394			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
395			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
396			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
397			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
398			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
399			%
400	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
401			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
402			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
403			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
404			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
405			penalty. This makes really a difference.
406
407			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
408			%
409			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
410			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
411
412			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
413			%
414	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
415
416			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
417			%
418	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
419
420			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
421			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
422
423			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
424			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
425			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
426
427			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
428			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
429
430			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
431			%
432	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
433
434			Vim 15.2%
435			Emacs 3.8%
436
437			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
438
439			Vim 26.1%
440			Emacs 5.2%
441			%
442	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
443
444			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
445
446			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
447
448			Poettering: "I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?"
449
450			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
451
452			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
453
454			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
455
456			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
457
458			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
459
460			Poettering: "Yupp, journal corruptions result in rotation, and when reading we try to make the best of it. they are nothing we really need to fix hence."
461
462			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
463
464			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
465			%
466			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
467
468			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
469			>>> their own servers.
470			>>
471			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
472			>
473			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
474
475			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
476			%
477	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
478
479			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
480			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
481			%
482	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
483			================================
484
485	root	1.449	November 2002
486
487			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
488			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
489			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
490
491			---
492
493			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
494			dehydration and fatigue.
495
496			---
497
498			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
499			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
500
501			---
502
503			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
504
505			November 19 2200 hrs
506			guard check - Rahman is alive.
507
508			2300 hrs
509			guard check - Rahman is alive.
510
511			November 20 0400 hrs
512			guard check - Rahman is alive.
513
514			0800 hrs
515			guard check - Rahman is alive.
516
517			1000 hrs
518			guard check - Rahman is dead.
519
520			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
521			%
522	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
523			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
524			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
525			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
526			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
527			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
528			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
529			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
530			be a better place.
531
532			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
533			%
534	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
535			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
536			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
537			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
538			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
539			> in technology.
540
541			-P
542			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
543
544			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
545			%
546			> Simon Cooke wrote:
547			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
548
549			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
550
551			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
552			%
553	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
554			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
555			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
556			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
557			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
558
559			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
560			%
561	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
562			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
563			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
564			hashtag #sexualassault.
565
566			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
567			%
568	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
569
570			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
571			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
572
573			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
574			%
575			> How is the old way a problem?
576
577			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
578			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
579			it's smarter than you.
580
581			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
582			%
583	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
584			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
585			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
586			less lethal.
587
588			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
589			%
590	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
591
592			[...]
593
594			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
595
596			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
597			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
598			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
599			%
600	root	1.470	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to "Teyrnas
601			Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or "Rìoghachd Aonaichte
602			Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to "Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
603			also now legal names for the UK.
604	root	1.441
605			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
606			%
607			From: Russ Allbery
608			To: tz@iana.org
609			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
610
611			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
612			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
613			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
614			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
615			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
616			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
617			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
618
619			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
620			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
621
622			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
623			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
624			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
625			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
626			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
627
628			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
629			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
630			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
631			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
632			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
633			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
634			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
635			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
636			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
637
638			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
639			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
640			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
641			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
642			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
643			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
644			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
645			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
646			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
647			maintainer.
648			%
649	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
650
651			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
652			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
653			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
654			"BST", but no:
655			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
656			%
657			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
658			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
659
660			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
661			> When can we expect the updated version
662
663			About three weeks ago.
664			%
665	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
666			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
667			%
668			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
669
670			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
671			%
672	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
673			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
674			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
675
676			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
677			%
678			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
679
680			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
681
682			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
683			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
684
685			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
686			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
687			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
688
689			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
690			full day per year.
691			%
692	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
693			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
694			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
695			%
696			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
697			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
698			%
699			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
700			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
701			me - lately?".
702			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
703			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
704
705			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
706			%
707			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
708			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
709			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
710			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
711
712			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
713			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
714			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
715			your lives be a living hell.
716
717			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
718			%
719	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
720			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
721			%
722			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
723			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
724			out with a problem I'm having?
725
726			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
727
728			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
729
730			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
731			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
732			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
733			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
734
735			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
736
737			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
738
739			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
740
741			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
742			[http://c2.com/]
743			%
744			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
745			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
746			right-parenthesis.
747			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
748			%
749			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
750			yourself?
751			Software development is the career for you!
752
753			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
754			%
755	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
756			-- Richard Dawkins
757			%
758			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
759			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
760			and security.
761
762			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
763			%
764			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
765
766			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
767			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
768			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
769			%
770			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
771			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
772			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
773			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
774			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
775			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
776
777			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
778			%
779			tiny hsv2rgb
780			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;}
781
782			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
783			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
784			}
785			%
786			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
787			Only Java makes it possible!
788
789			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
790			%
791			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
792			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
793			extremely poettering''
794			%
795			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
796			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
797			%
798			"I drank what?!"
799			-- Socrates
800			%
801			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
802			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
803			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
804
805			Jon Callas in
806			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
807			%
808			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
809			-- Conway's Law
810			%
811			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
812			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
813			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
814			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
815			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
816			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
817			untangling this mess right now so).
818
819			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
820			%
821			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
822			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
823			enabled on platforms that support it.
824			[xorg.conf(5)]
825			%
826			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
827			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
828			> would work on code.
829
830			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
831			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
832			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
833			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
834			%
835	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
836			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
837			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
838			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
839			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
840			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
841			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
842			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
843			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
844			%
845			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
846			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
847			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
848			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
849			very beginning.
850			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
851			%
852			systemd creates user session information in
853			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
854			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
855			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
856			allowed one session per user.
857			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
858			%
859	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
860			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
861			> about anything else.
862			>
863			> Why is it like that?
864
865			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
866
867			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
868			%
869			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
870
871			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
872			>>
873			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
874			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
875			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
876			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
877			>
878			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
879
880			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
881			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
882			%
883			(partial) Beaufort Table
884			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
885			Calm 0 0 0
886			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
887			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
888			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
889			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
890			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
891			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
892			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
893			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
894			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
895			%
896			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
897			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
898			%
899			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
900			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
901			%
902			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
903			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
904			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
905			on the cards.
906			%
907			[random comment from amule sources]
908			// trust noone ;-)
909			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
910			// wtf you guys are weird.
911			%
912	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
913			- Kin Hubbard
914			%
915			[random .sig]
916			I'm a muslim.
917
918			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
919			%
920			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
921			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
922			before.
923
924			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
925			%
926			<imho>
927
928			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
929			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
930			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
931			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
932
933			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
934			Java - public static void not fun.
935			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
936			C - usually not fun.
937
938			What about modern scripting languages?
939
940			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
941			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
942			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
943
944			</imho>
945
946			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
947			%
948			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
949			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
950			%
951
952			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
953			*
954			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
955
956			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
957			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
958			%
959			# The user is always right.
960			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
961			[autoconf]
962			%
963			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
964
965			/*
966			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
967			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
968			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
969			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
970			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
971			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
972			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
973			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
974			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
975			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
976			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
977			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
978			*/
979			%
980			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
981			was new to me:
982
983			switch(c)
984			{
985			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
986			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
987			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
988			case 'd': base=-10; }
989			switch(type)
990			{
991			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
992			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
993			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
994			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
995			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
996			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
997			default:val=0; break;
998			}
999			cp = __numout(val,base);
1000			if(0) {
1001			case 's':
1002			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
1003			}
1004			%
1005			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
1006			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
1007			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
1008			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
1009			extra second and see how far you get :-)
1010			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
1011			%
1012			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
1013			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
1014			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
1015			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
1016			>
1017			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
1018			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
1019
1020			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
1021			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
1022
1023			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
1024			%
1025			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
1026			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
1027			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
1028
1029			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
1030
1031			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
1032			%
1033			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
1034			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
1035			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
1036			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
1037			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
1038			settings)
1039
1040			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
1041			%
1042			How do I deal with memory leaks?
1043
1044			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
1045
1046			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
1047			%
1048			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
1049			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
1050
1051			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
1052			%
1053			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
1054			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
1055			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
1056			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
1057
1058			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
1059			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
1060			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
1061			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
1062			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
1063			rewarded for their creativity.
1064
1065			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
1066			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
1067			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
1068			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
1069			would never have made it in the first place.
1070
1071			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
1072			%
1073			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
1074			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
1075			%
1076			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
1077			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
1078			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
1079			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
1080			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
1081
1082			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
1083			%
1084			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
1085			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
1086			- Mohandas Gandhi
1087			%
1088			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
1089			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
1090			handiwork of the Lord."
1091			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
1092			%
1093			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
1094
1095			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
1096			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
1097			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
1098
1099			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
1100			Scientist A publishes results.
1101
1102			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
1103			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
1104			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
1105
1106			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
1107			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
1108			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
1109			A: ...
1110			B: You fraud!
1111
1112			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
1113
1114			A publishes results.
1115
1116			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
1117			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
1118			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
1119			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
1120			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
1121			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
1122
1123			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
1124			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
1125			%
1126			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
1127			them because they need the money to operate]
1128
1129			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
1130			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
1131			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
1132			site or its bottom line."
1133			%
1134			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
1135			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
1136			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
1137			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
1138			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
1139			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
1140			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
1141			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
1142			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
1143			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
1144			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
1145			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
1146			%
1147			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
1148
1149			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
1150
1151			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
1152			%
1153			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
1154
1155			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
1156			>>>> and the beating of children?
1157			>>>
1158			>>> Subjugation of women...
1159			>>
1160			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
1161			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
1162			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
1163			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
1164			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
1165			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
1166			>> shake partner.
1167			>
1168			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
1169			>
1170			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
1171			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
1172			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
1173			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
1174			>
1175
1176			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
1177			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
1178			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
1179			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
1180			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
1181			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
1182			and your wife.
1183			%
1184			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
1185			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
1186			still kill you. - arestheblue
1187			%
1188			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
1189			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
1190			specifications for GSS-API.
1191
1192			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
1193			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
1194
1195			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
1196			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
1197
1198			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
1199			%
1200			[from the minix 3 users guide]
1201
1202			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
1203			%
1204			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
1205
1206			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
1207			[...]
1208			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
1209			complaintant to guess this is true.
1210			%
1211			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
1212			- Ken Thompson.
1213			%
1214			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
1215
1216			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
1217
1218			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
1219			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
1220			source code excerpt:
1221
1222			int sn()
1223			{
1224			char pwr;
1225
1226			int input1 = 0;
1227			double output1 = 0;
1228
1229			system("clear");
1230			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
1231			cin>>input1;
1232			output1 = (sin(input1));
1233			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
1234			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
1235			cin>>pwr;
1236			if(pwr == 'a')
1237			sq();
1238			if(pwr == 'm')
1239			system("pause");
1240
1241			}
1242			%
1243			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
1244			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
1245
1246			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
1247
1248			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
1249			%
1250			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
1251			app for me" department:
1252
1253			From: Evan LeCompte
1254
1255			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
1256			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
1257			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
1258			%
1259			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
1260			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
1261			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
1262
1263			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
1264			%
1265			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
1266			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
1267			– Steve Jobs[47]
1268
1269			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
1270			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
1271			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
1272			%
1273			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
1274			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
1275			%
1276			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1277			From: Patrick Horgan
1278			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1279			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1280
1281			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1282			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1283			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1284			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1285			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1286			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1287
1288			[...]
1289			%
1290	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1291			— Peter Abelard
1292			%
1293			A man said to the universe:
1294			"Sir I exist!"
1295			"However," replied the universe,
1296			"The fact has not created in me
1297	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1298			- Steven Crane
1299	root	1.431	%
1300			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1301
1302			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1303
1304			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1305
1306			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1307
1308			– Sanskrit Saying
1309			%
1310			[anonymised discussion]
1311			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1312			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1313			%
1314			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1315
1316	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1317	root	1.431
1318			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1319			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1320			appear.
1321			%
1322			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1323			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1324			- Douglas Adams
1325			%
1326			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1327			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1328			%
1329	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1330			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1331	root	1.431	%
1332			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1333			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1334			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1335			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1336			%
1337			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1338			%
1339			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1340			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1341			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1342			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1343			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1344			%
1345			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1346			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1347			or her career.
1348			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1349			%
1350			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1351			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1352			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1353			%
1354			I LOVE YOU
1355			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1356			%
1357			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1358			the air impeller.
1359
1360			Alan Cox
1361			%
1362			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1363			with a minimum computer science background."
1364			%
1365			From: Eric Sosman
1366			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1367			Subject: Re: about graphics
1368
1369			prince wrote:
1370			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1371
1372			#include <stdio.h>
1373			int main(void) {
1374			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1375			return 0;
1376			}
1377			%
1378			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1379			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1380			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1381			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1382			%
1383			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1384
1385	root	1.471	While the 2^128 step search [takes] a very long time indeed,
1386	root	1.431	it still is a constant-time attack.
1387			%
1388			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1389			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1390			%
1391			From: David Damerell
1392
1393			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1394			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1395			>caps to make it different.
1396
1397			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1398			painful but will take less typing.
1399			%
1400			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1401			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1402			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1403
1404			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1405			%
1406			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1407
1408			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1409			> free than the BSD.
1410			>
1411			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1412
1413			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1414			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1415			%
1416			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1417
1418			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1419			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1420			from incompatible pointer type
1421			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1422			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1423			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1424			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1425			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1426			%
1427			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1428			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1429			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1430			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1431			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1432			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1433
1434			[Chandon Seldon]
1435			%
1436			[Wikipedia]
1437			Differences between vi and Emacs
1438
1439			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1440			%
1441			[lost the reference]
1442			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1443			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1444			%
1445			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1446			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1447			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1448			%
1449			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1450
1451			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1452			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1453			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1454			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1455			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1456
1457			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1458			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1459			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1460			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1461			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1462			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1463			piss on your leg.
1464
1465			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1466			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1467			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1468
1469			[then, a day later]
1470
1471			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1472			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1473			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1474			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1475			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1476
1477			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1478			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1479			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1480			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1481			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1482			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1483			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1484			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1485			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1486
1487
1488			-----Original Message-----
1489			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1490			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1491			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1492			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1493
1494
1495
1496			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1497	root	1.432	>
1498	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1499
1500			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1501
1502			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1503			I hope you don't object :)
1504			%
1505			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1506			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1507
1508			You made my day
1509			%
1510			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1511
1512			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1513			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1514			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1515
1516			Linus
1517			%
1518			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1519
1520			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1521
1522			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 ...
1523
1524			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1525
1526			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1527			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1528			when sending emails to other people:
1529			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1530
1531			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1532
1533			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1534			%
1535			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1536			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1537			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1538			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1539			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1540			%
1541			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1542			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1543
1544			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1545			%
1546			[on italy]
1547
1548			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1549
1550			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1551			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1552			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1553			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1554
1555			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1556			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1557			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1558			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1559			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1560			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1561
1562			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1563
1564			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1565			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1566			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1567			from fascism period.
1568
1569			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1570			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1571			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1572			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1573			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1574			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1575			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1576			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1577			SIAE.
1578
1579			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1580			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1581			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1582			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1583			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1584			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1585			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1586			electronic ones
1587
1588			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1589
1590			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1591			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1592			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1593			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1594			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1595			western country.
1596
1597			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1598			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1599			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1600			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1601			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1602			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1603			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1604			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1605			also the governments of "center-left".
1606
1607			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1608
1609			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1610			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1611			without any restriction.
1612
1613			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1614			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1615			world.
1616
1617			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1618			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1619			Thank you for reading.
1620			%
1621			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1622			>
1623			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1624
1625			How very ironic.
1626			%
1627			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1628			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1629			takes religion."
1630
1631			--Steve Weinberg
1632			%
1633			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1634			%
1635			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1636			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1637			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1638
1639			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1640			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1641			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1642			%
1643			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1644			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1645			the right tool for me.
1646			%
1647			[deliantra]
1648			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1649			%
1650			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1651			%
1652			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1653			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1654			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1655			%
1656			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1657
1658			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1659			%
1660			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1661			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1662
1663			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1664			actually tells you it's American.
1665			%
1666			[better do not hire this programmer]
1667			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1668			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1669			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1670
1671			Hi
1672
1673			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1674			someone here can advise me.
1675
1676			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1677			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1678			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1679			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1680			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1681
1682			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1683			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1684			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1685			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1686			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1687			corresponding thing in C?
1688
1689			Thanks!
1690			%
1691			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1692
1693			// See bug 53763.
1694			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1695			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1696			if (shell) {
1697			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1698			%
1699			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1700			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1701
1702			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1703			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1704			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1705			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1706			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1707			%
1708			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1709			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1710			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1711			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1712	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1713	root	1.431
1714			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1715			%
1716			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1717
1718	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1719	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1720
1721			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1722
1723			x / y * z
1724
1725			and
1726
1727			x / y * z
1728
1729			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1730
1731			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1732			design decisions.)
1733			%
1734			endergt:
1735			> snoofle:
1736			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1737			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1738			> > you understand what you are doing...
1739			>
1740	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1741	root	1.431
1742	root	1.432	debug
1743	root	1.431	%
1744			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%.
1745
1746			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1747			%
1748			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1749			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1750			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1751
1752			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1753			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1754			6 Decompilation
1755
1756			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1757			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1758			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1759			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1760			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1761			conditions are met: [...]"
1762			%
1763			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1764			%
1765			Why Linux Sux ?
1766
1767			Easy .
1768			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1769			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1770			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 .
1771			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1772			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1773			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1774			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! ) .
1775			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 .
1776			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1777
1778			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1779			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1780			working ones . Screw linux users .
1781			%
1782			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1783			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1784			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1785			%
1786			> The Dell 30"...
1787
1788			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1789			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1790			%
1791	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1792	root	1.431
1793			> > 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".
1794	root	1.432	>
1795	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!
1796	root	1.432	>
1797	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1798	root	1.432
1799	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1800
1801			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1802			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.
1803			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1804	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.
1805	root	1.431	%
1806			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1807			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1808			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1809			%
1810			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1811
1812			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1813			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1814			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1815
1816			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1817			anderen betriebssystemen.
1818
1819			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1820			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1821
1822			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1823			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1824			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1825			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1826			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1827
1828			Frage?
1829			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1830			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1831			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1832
1833			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1834			%
1835			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1836			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1837			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1838			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1839			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1840			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1841			%
1842			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1843			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1844			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1845			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1846			%
1847			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1848			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1849
1850			God bless the re-inventers
1851
1852			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1853			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1854
1855	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1856	root	1.431
1857			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1858			one.
1859			%
1860			[rfc2665]
1861			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1862			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1863			useful in theory than in practice.
1864			%
1865			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1866	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1867	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1868			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1869			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1870			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1871			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1872			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1873	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1874	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1875			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1876	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1877	root	1.431	15:30
1878			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1879			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1880			%
1881			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1882			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1883			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1884			%
1885			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1886
1887			Strictly for beginners
1888
1889			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1890			[...]
1891			%
1892			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1893			%
1894			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1895			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1896			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1897			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1898			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1899			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1900			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1901			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1902			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1903			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1904			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1905			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1906			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1907			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1908			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1909			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1910			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1911			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1912			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1913			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1914			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1915			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1916			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1917			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1918			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1919			%
1920			[A Gentoo User]
1921			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1922			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1923			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1924			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1925			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1926			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1927			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1928			%
1929			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1930			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1931			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1932			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1933			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1934	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1935			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1936	root	1.431	can do
1937			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1938			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1939			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1940			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1941			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1942			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1943			%
1944			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1945	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1946			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1947			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1948	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1949			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
1950	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
1951			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
1952	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
1953			%
1954			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
1955			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
1956			%
1957			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
1958
1959			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
1960			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
1961			be slow in Windows 2000"
1962
1963			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
1964			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
1965			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
1966			%
1967			[so much for type-safety]
1968			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
1969			lst.add(null);
1970			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
1971			%
1972			[just for reference]
1973			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
1974			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
1975			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
1976			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
1977			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
1978			es nicht.
1979
1980			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
1981			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
1982			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
1983			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
1984			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
1985			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
1986
1987			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
1988			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
1989			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
1990			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
1991			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
1992			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
1993			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
1994			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
1995			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
1996			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
1997			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
1998			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
1999			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
2000			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
2001
2002			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
2003			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
2004			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
2005			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
2006			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
2007			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
2008			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
2009
2010			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
2011			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
2012			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
2013			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
2014			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
2015			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
2016			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
2017			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
2018			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
2019			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
2020			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
2021			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
2022			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
2023			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
2024			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
2025			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
2026			alternativ' Idioten!
2027
2028			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
2029			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
2030			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
2031			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
2032			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
2033			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
2034			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
2035			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
2036			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
2037			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
2038			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
2039			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
2040			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
2041			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
2042
2043			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
2044			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
2045			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
2046
2047			Ich will R A C H E !
2048
2049			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
2050			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
2051			Dinge zu sagen:
2052
2053			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
2054
2055			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
2056			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
2057			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
2058			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
2059			anfange.
2060
2061			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
2062			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
2063			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
2064			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
2065			dieser verdammten schule!
2066
2067			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
2068			die Welt zu bieten hat!
2069
2070			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
2071
2072			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
2073			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
2074			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
2075			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
2076			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
2077			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
2078			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
2079			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
2080			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
2081			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
2082
2083			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
2084			Einschulung.
2085
2086			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
2087			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
2088			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
2089			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
2090			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
2091			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
2092			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
2093			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
2094			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
2095			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
2096
2097			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
2098			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
2099
2100			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
2101			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
2102			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
2103			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
2104			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
2105			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
2106			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
2107			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
2108
2109			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
2110			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
2111			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
2112			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
2113			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
2114			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
2115			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
2116			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
2117
2118			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
2119			ihr dafür bezahlen!
2120
2121			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
2122			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
2123			Hand genommen.
2124
2125			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
2126			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
2127
2128			Ich bin weg...
2129			%
2130			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
2131			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
2132			%
2133	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
2134			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
2135			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
2136			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
2137	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
2138			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
2139			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
2140			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
2141			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
2142			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
2143			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
2144			%
2145			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
2146			%
2147			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
2148			[The reason I left Perl 6]
2149
2150			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
2151			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
2152			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
2153			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
2154			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
2155			%
2156			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
2157			%
2158			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
2159			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
2160			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
2161			%
2162			[very funny read]
2163			Hack-a-Bike
2164			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
2165			%
2166			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
2167			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
2168			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
2169			still can.
2170
2171			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
2172			%
2173	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
2174			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
2175	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
2176			%
2177			[without words]
2178			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
2179			%
2180			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
2181			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
2182			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
2183			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
2184			actual kid in an actual bath.
2185			%
2186			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
2187			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
2188			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
2189			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
2190			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
2191			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
2192			what happened to you.
2193			%
2194	root	1.472	--
2195	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
2196
2197			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
2198			Q: Why is top posting bad?
2199			%
2200			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
2201	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
2202			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
2203	root	1.431	> important difference.)
2204
2205			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
2206			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
2207			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
2208			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
2209			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
2210
2211			- Ted
2212			%
2213			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
2214			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
2215			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
2216			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
2217			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
2218			me, but we have the truth!"
2219			%
2220			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
2221			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
2222			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
2223			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
2224			%
2225			[nethack extinctionist faq]
2226			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
2227			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
2228			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
2229			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
2230			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
2231			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
2232			genociding every monster.
2233
2234			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
2235			genocide them for good measure!
2236			%%
2237			[nethack instadeath faq]
2238
2239			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
2240
2241			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
2242			%
2243			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
2244			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
2245	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
2246	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
2247			17:58 <Murch> lol
2248			%
2249			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
2250			%
2251			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
2252			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
2253			%
2254			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
2255			%
2256			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
2257
2258			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
2259			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
2260			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
2261			%
2262			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
2263
2264			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
2265			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
2266			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
2267			the Eastern Time Zone.
2268			[...]
2269			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
2270			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
2271			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
2272			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
2273			%
2274			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
2275
2276			_dl_profile_output
2277			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2278			%
2279			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2280			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2281			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2282			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2283			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2284			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2285			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2286
2287			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2288			%
2289			[famous last words]
2290			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2291			%
2292			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2293
2294			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2295
2296			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2297
2298			--
2299			Jay Hennigan
2300			%
2301			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2302			%
2303			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2304			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2305			of homeland security]
2306			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2307			%
2308			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2309	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2310	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2311			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2312			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2313			range of spyware available to us?"
2314
2315			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2316			%
2317			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2318			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2319			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2320			%
2321	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2322	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2323			%
2324			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2325			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2326			%
2327			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2328			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2329			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2330			shooter.
2331
2332			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2333			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2334			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2335			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2336			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2337			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2338
2339			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2340			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2341			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2342			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2343			way.
2344
2345			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2346			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2347			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2348
2349			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2350			%
2351			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2352			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2353			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2354			> above comment about Hitler).
2355
2356			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2357			mention Hitler loses.
2358			%
2359			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2360			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2361			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2362			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2363			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2364			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2365			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2366			including <windows.h>.
2367			[...]
2368			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2369			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2370			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2371			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2372			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2373			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2374			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2375			environments.
2376			%
2377			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2378			%
2379			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2380			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2381			%
2382			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2383			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2384			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2385			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2386			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2387			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2388			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2389			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2390			companies want to own your computer.
2391
2392			Some examples:
2393
2394			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2395			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2396			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2397			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2398			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2399			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2400			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2401			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2402			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2403	root	1.432
2404	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2405			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2406			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2407			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2408			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2409
2410			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2411			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2412			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2413			from Microsoft? You can't.
2414
2415			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2416			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2417			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2418			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2419			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2420			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2421			adversely affect its business partners.
2422
2423			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2424			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2425			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2426			about your behavior.
2427
2428			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2429			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2430			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2431			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2432			presumed infractions.
2433
2434			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2435			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2436			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2437
2438			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2439			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2440			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2441			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2442			user's device against him.
2443			[...]
2444			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2445			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2446			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2447			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2448			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2449			back-room marketing deals.
2450			%
2451			[John Carmack on Java]
2452			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2453			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2454			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2455			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2456			performance.
2457			%
2458			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2459
2460			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2461			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2462			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2463			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2464			%
2465			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2466			%
2467			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2468			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2469			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2470			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2471			%
2472			http://funroll-loops.org/
2473			%
2474			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2475			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2476			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2477			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2478			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2479			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2480			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2481			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2482			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2483			Fahrenheit documentation.
2484			%
2485			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2486			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2487			sure its much slower than CVS]
2488			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2489			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2490			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2491	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2492	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2493			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2494	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2495	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2496			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2497	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2498	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2499			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2500			%
2501	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2502
2503			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2504			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2505	root	1.431	%
2506	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2507
2508			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2509			> systems ?
2510
2511			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2512			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2513
2514			Jesper
2515			%
2516	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2517
2518			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2519			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2520
2521	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2522	root	1.429	%
2523	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2524			%
2525	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2526
2527			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2528			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2529			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2530			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2531			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2532			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2533			but that's the truth.
2534			%
2535	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2536
2537			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2538
2539	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2540			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2541			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2542			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2543	root	1.424
2544			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2545	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2546			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2547	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2548
2549			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2550			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2551	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2552	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2553			in Richtung Boden.
2554
2555			[...]
2556
2557	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2558	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2559	root	1.424
2560			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2561	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2562	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2563
2564			[...]
2565
2566			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2567	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2568	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2569	root	1.424
2570			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2571	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2572			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2573			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2574	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2575			sofort.
2576			%
2577	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2578			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2579			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2580			software from Microsoft.)
2581	root	1.424	%
2582	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2583	root	1.424	%
2584	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2585
2586			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2587			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2588			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2589			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2590	root	1.424	%
2591	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2592	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2593	root	1.424	%
2594	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2595			From: Rodrigo Severo
2596			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2597			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2598
2599			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2600
2601			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2602			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2603			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2604
2605			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2606			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2607			brazilian ;)
2608			Rodrigo Severo
2609	root	1.424	%
2610	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2611	root	1.417
2612			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2613	root	1.424	%
2614	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2615
2616			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2617
2618			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2619
2620			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2621			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2622
2623			sigh
2624	root	1.424	%
2625	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2626			By Bertrand Russell
2627
2628			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2629			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2630			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2631			might be set forth as follows:
2632
2633			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2634
2635			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2636			evidence is sure to come to light.
2637
2638			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2639
2640			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2641			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2642			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2643
2644			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2645			contrary authorities to be found.
2646
2647			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2648			do the opinions will suppress you.
2649
2650			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2651			was once eccentric.
2652
2653			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2654			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2655			agreement than the latter.
2656
2657			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2658			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2659
2660			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2661			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2662
2663			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2664			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2665	root	1.424	%
2666	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2667	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2668			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2669			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2670
2671			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2672			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2673			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2674			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2675			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2676			United States."
2677	root	1.413	---
2678			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2679			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2680			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2681	root	1.414	---
2682			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2683			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2684			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2685			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2686			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2687
2688			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2689			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2690	root	1.424	%
2691	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2692			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2693	root	1.424	%
2694	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2695
2696			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2697			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2698
2699			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2700			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2701
2702			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2703
2704			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2705			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2706	root	1.424	%
2707	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2708			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2709	root	1.424	%
2710	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2711			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2712			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2713			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2714			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2715			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2716	root	1.424	%
2717	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2718
2719			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2720			they care about it?"
2721			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2722	root	1.407
2723			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2724	root	1.424	%
2725	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2726			-- Gregory Chaitin
2727	root	1.424	%
2728	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2729	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2730			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2731			[...]
2732	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2733			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2734	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2735	root	1.424	%
2736	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2737			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2738			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2739			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2740			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2741			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2742	root	1.424	%
2743	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2744
2745			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2746	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2747			return 0;
2748	root	1.424	%
2749	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2750	root	1.401
2751			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2752			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2753			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2754			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2755			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2756			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2757			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2758			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2759			> transparent.
2760
2761			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2762			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2763			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2764			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2765	root	1.424	%
2766	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2767			aber falsche Lösungen.
2768	root	1.424	%
2769	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2770			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2771			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2772			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2773	root	1.424	%
2774	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2775			>
2776			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2777			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2778			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2779			> than useful to the user.
2780
2781			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2782
2783			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2784			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2785			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2786			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2787
2788			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2789
2790			Linus
2791	root	1.424	%
2792	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2793			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2794			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2795			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2796	root	1.424	%
2797	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2798			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2799
2800	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2801	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2802			--
2803			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2804
2805			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2806	root	1.424	%
2807	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2808			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2809
2810			Person: What do you do?
2811			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2812			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2813
2814			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2815			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2816			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2817	root	1.394
2818			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2819			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2820	root	1.424	%
2821	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2822			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2823			illegal downloaders."
2824
2825			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2826
2827			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2828			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2829			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2830			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2831			have to emerge."
2832
2833			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2834	root	1.424	%
2835	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2836	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2837
2838			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2839			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2840
2841			Bye, Andy
2842	root	1.424	%
2843	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2844	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2845	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2846	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2847	root	1.390
2848			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2849			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2850			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2851			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2852			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2853			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2854			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2855			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2856			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2857			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2858			alle Benutzer.
2859			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2860			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2861			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2862			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2863			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2864			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2865			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2866			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2867			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2868			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2869			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2870	root	1.424	%
2871	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2872
2873			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2874			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2875			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2876			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2877			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2878			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2879			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2880			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2881			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2882			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2883			unfinished operations, etc.
2884			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2885
2886			Valid options:
2887			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2888			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2889
2890			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2891	root	1.424	%
2892	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2893			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2894			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2895			to provide.
2896			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2897	root	1.424	%
2898	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2899
2900			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2901			alarm people more.
2902
2903			-Nate
2904
2905			[...]
2906
2907			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2908			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2909			image of the language that is created here.
2910
2911			Juerd
2912
2913			[...]
2914
2915			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2916			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2917			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2918
2919	root	1.432	--
2920	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2921	root	1.387	%
2922	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2923	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2924	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2925			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2926	root	1.387	%
2927	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2928			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2929	root	1.387	%
2930	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2931			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2932	root	1.387	%
2933	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2934			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2935			[...]
2936			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2937			"Windows is broken."
2938	root	1.387	%
2939	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2940			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2941			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2942	root	1.387	%
2943	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2944			on being able to kill their children legally]
2945			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2946	root	1.387	%
2947	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2948			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2949			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
2950	root	1.387	%
2951	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
2952			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
2953			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
2954			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
2955			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
2956			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
2957	root	1.378	--
2958			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
2959			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
2960			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
2961			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
2962			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
2963			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
2964			wasteful government spending."
2965	root	1.387	%
2966	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
2967			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
2968	root	1.387	%
2969	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
2970			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
2971	root	1.387	%
2972	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
2973			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
2974	root	1.387	%
2975	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
2976			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
2977	root	1.387	%
2978	root	1.374	[Copyright]
2979	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
2980	root	1.387	%
2981	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
2982			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
2983	root	1.387	%
2984	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
2985			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
2986	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
2987	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
2988			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
2989	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
2990	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
2991			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2992	root	1.387	%
2993	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
2994			http://www.counterpunch.org/
2995	root	1.387	%
2996	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
2997			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
2998			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
2999			their weapons over our heads."
3000			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
3001	root	1.387	%
3002	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
3003			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
3004	root	1.387	%
3005	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
3006			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
3007			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
3008			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
3009			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
3010	root	1.387	%
3011	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
3012	root	1.387	%
3013	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
3014			several requests for clarification.
3015
3016			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
3017			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
3018			unter TCG definitions.
3019	root	1.387	%
3020	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
3021			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
3022			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
3023			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
3024	root	1.387	%
3025	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
3026			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
3027			get people on board.
3028			%
3029	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
3030			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
3031			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
3032			DRM.
3033
3034			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
3035			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
3036	root	1.387	%
3037	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
3038			switch ($decade) {
3039			case "the 50's":
3040			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
3041			break;
3042			case "the 60's":
3043			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
3044			break;
3045			case "the 70's":
3046			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
3047			break;
3048			case "the 80's":
3049			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
3050			break;
3051			case "the 90's":
3052			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
3053			break;
3054			case "the 00's":
3055			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
3056			break;
3057			}
3058	root	1.387	%
3059	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
3060
3061			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
3062			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
3063			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
3064			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
3065
3066			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
3067			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
3068			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
3069
3070			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
3071			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
3072			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
3073			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
3074			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
3075			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
3076			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
3077			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
3078			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
3079			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
3080	root	1.387	%
3081	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
3082			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
3083			married or unmarried."
3084
3085			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
3086			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
3087			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
3088			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
3089			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
3090	root	1.387	%
3091	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
3092
3093			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
3094			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
3095			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
3096			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
3097			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
3098			conditioning.
3099
3100			[And this is religion at its best:]
3101			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
3102			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
3103			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
3104	root	1.387	%
3105	root	1.361	[Racism]
3106			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
3107	root	1.387	%
3108	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
3109			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
3110	root	1.387	%
3111	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
3112			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
3113
3114			I apologise for this.
3115
3116			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
3117			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
3118	root	1.387	%
3119	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
3120			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
3121			el says: ich kenn da wen
3122			el says: bei dem wars so
3123			[...]
3124			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
3125			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
3126			el says: gehirntumor auch
3127			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
3128	root	1.387	%
3129	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
3130	root	1.387	%
3131	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
3132			no sense in the kernel]
3133			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
3134
3135			[...]
3136
3137			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
3138			models.
3139
3140			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
3141			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
3142			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
3143	root	1.387	%
3144	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
3145			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
3146			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
3147			--
3148			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
3149	root	1.355	--
3150			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
3151			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
3152			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
3153			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
3154	root	1.387	%
3155	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
3156			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
3157			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
3158			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
3159			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
3160			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
3161			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
3162			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
3163	root	1.387	%
3164	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
3165			which you currently do not posess]
3166			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
3167	root	1.387	%
3168	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
3169			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
3170	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
3171	root	1.387	%
3172	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
3173	root	1.387	%
3174	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
3175			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
3176	root	1.387	%
3177	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
3178			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
3179			paragraphs.
3180	root	1.387	%
3181	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
3182			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
3183			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
3184	root	1.387	%
3185	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
3186			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
3187
3188			Most catholics aren't American.
3189	root	1.387	%
3190	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
3191
3192			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
3193			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
3194			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
3195			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
3196			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
3197
3198			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
3199			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
3200	root	1.387	%
3201	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
3202			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
3203			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
3204			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
3205			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
3206			criminals."
3207	root	1.387	%
3208	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
3209			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
3210	root	1.387	%
3211	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
3212			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
3213	root	1.387	%
3214	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
3215			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
3216	root	1.387	%
3217	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
3218			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
3219			card (They went up in flames).
3220	root	1.387	%
3221	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
3222			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
3223			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
3224			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
3225	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
3226	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
3227	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
3228	root	1.387	%
3229	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
3230			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
3231			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
3232
3233			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
3234
3235			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
3236	root	1.387	%
3237	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
3238			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
3239			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
3240			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
3241			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
3242			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
3243			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
3244			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
3245			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
3246			--
3247			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
3248			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
3249			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
3250			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
3251			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
3252			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
3253	root	1.387	%
3254	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
3255			The Obfuscated V contest
3256	root	1.387	%
3257	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
3258			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
3259			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
3260			cigarette lighters."
3261			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
3262	root	1.387	%
3263	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
3264			Does it run under Windows ?
3265			- Who cares?
3266	root	1.387	%
3267	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
3268	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
3269	root	1.387	%
3270	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
3271			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
3272			[...]
3273			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
3274			[...]
3275			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
3276			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3277			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3278	root	1.387	%
3279	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3280	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3281			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3282			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3283	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3284	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3285	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3286	root	1.330	> mehr!
3287			> richy.
3288
3289			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3290	root	1.387	%
3291	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3292	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3293			> zugetragen hat?
3294
3295			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3296			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3297	root	1.388	[später]
3298			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3299	root	1.329
3300			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3301			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3302			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3303			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3304			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3305
3306			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3307
3308			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3309			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3310			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3311	root	1.387	%
3312	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3313	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3314			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3315	root	1.387	%
3316	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3317			/* give the hook another try */
3318			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3319			break;
3320	root	1.387	%
3321	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3322	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3323	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3324			#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))
3325	root	1.387	%
3326	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3327	root	1.387	%
3328	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3329	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3330	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3331	root	1.432	>
3332			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3333			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3334	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3335	root	1.432	>
3336			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3337			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3338	root	1.324	> as TO).
3339	root	1.432	>
3340	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3341
3342			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3343			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3344			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3345			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3346			being discourteous to.
3347
3348			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3349			--
3350			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3351	root	1.387	%
3352	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3353	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3354	root	1.387	%
3355	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3356			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3357			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3358			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3359			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3360	root	1.387	%
3361	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3362			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3363			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3364			you don't have any'."
3365	root	1.323
3366			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3367			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3368			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3369			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3370	root	1.387	%
3371	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3372			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3373			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3374			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3375	root	1.387	%
3376	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3377			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3378			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3379			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3380			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3381			reason will not win many fans.
3382
3383			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3384			documents in the algorithm section]
3385	root	1.387	%
3386	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3387			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3388			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3389			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3390			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3391
3392			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3393	root	1.387	%
3394	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3395			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3396			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3397	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3398	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3399			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3400	root	1.387	%
3401	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3402	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3403	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3404	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3405			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3406	root	1.387	%
3407	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3408			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3409			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3410			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3411			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3412			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3413	root	1.387	%
3414	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3415			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3416	root	1.387	%
3417	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3418	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3419	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3420			* at their price list.
3421	root	1.387	%
3422	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3423			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3424			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3425			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3426			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3427			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3428			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3429	root	1.387	%
3430	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3431			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3432	root	1.387	%
3433	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3434			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3435			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3436			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3437	root	1.387	%
3438	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3439	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3440	root	1.387	%
3441	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3442			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3443	root	1.387	%
3444	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3445	root	1.387	%
3446	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3447			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3448			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3449			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3450			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3451			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3452			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3453			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3454	root	1.387	%
3455	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3456			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3457	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3458	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3459	root	1.387	%
3460	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3461	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3462	root	1.387	%
3463	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3464	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3465			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3466			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3467	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3468
3469			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3470
3471			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3472			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3473	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3474	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3475
3476			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3477
3478			[usw.]
3479
3480			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3481	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3482	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3483
3484			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3485			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3486			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3487			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3488			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3489	root	1.387	%
3490	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3491	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3492			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3493	root	1.387	%
3494	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3495			Which fanboy are you?
3496
3497			1. Windows
3498
3499			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3500			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3501			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3502			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3503			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3504			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3505			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3506			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3507			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3508
3509			2. Apple
3510
3511			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3512			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3513			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3514			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3515			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3516			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3517			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3518			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3519
3520			3. Linspire
3521
3522			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3523			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3524			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3525			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3526			installed Linspire on your machine.
3527
3528			4. Umbongo
3529
3530			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3531			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3532			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3533			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3534			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3535			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3536			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3537			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3538			themselves.
3539
3540			5. Gentoy
3541
3542			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3543			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3544			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3545			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3546			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3547			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3548			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3549			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3550
3551			6. Linux From Scratch
3552
3553			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3554			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3555			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3556			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3557			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3558			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3559			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3560	root	1.387	%
3561	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3562			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3563	root	1.387	%
3564	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3565
3566			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3567			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3568
3569			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3570	root	1.387	%
3571	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3572
3573			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3574	root	1.432	>
3575	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3576	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3577	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3578			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3579			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3580	root	1.432	>
3581			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3582	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3583	root	1.432	>
3584	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3585			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3586	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3587	root	1.387	%
3588	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3589	root	1.387	%
3590	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3591	root	1.387	%
3592	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3593	root	1.387	%
3594	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3595			show "Correspondent"]
3596	root	1.288
3597			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3598			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3599
3600			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3601			%
3602	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3603			cock sucking, blowjob
3604			=> fellatio, fellation
3605			=> oral sex, head
3606			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3607			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3608			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3609			=> organic process, biological process
3610			=> process
3611			=> phenomenon
3612	root	1.387	%
3613	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3614			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3615	root	1.387	%
3616	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3617			[slightly edited]
3618			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3619			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3620			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3621			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3622
3623			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3624			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3625			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3626
3627			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3628			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3629	root	1.387	%
3630	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3631			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3632	root	1.387	%
3633	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3634	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3635	root	1.387	%
3636	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3637	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3638			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3639	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3640	root	1.387	%
3641	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3642			- oesi
3643	root	1.387	%
3644	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3645			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3646	root	1.387	%
3647	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3648	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3649	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3650			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3651
3652			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3653			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3654			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3655			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3656			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3657			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3658			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3659			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3660			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3661			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3662			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3663			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3664			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3665			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3666			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3667			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3668			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3669			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3670			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3671			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3672			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3673			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3674			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3675			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3676
3677			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3678			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3679			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3680			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3681			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3682
3683			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3684			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3685			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3686			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3687			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3688			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3689			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3690			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3691			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3692			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3693			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3694
3695			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3696			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3697			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3698			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3699			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3700			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3701			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3702			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3703			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3704			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3705			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3706			sovereign nation.
3707
3708			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3709			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3710			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3711			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3712			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3713			CSPAN, don't post here.
3714
3715			-scott
3716	root	1.387	%
3717	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3718			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3719			capacity to feel pain.
3720
3721			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3722			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3723	root	1.387	%
3724	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3725			From: Sven Neumann
3726
3727			Hi,
3728
3729	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3730	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3731	root	1.273
3732			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3733			that
3734
3735			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3736
3737			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3738	root	1.387	%
3739	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3740	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3741			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3742			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3743	root	1.387	%
3744	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3745			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3746			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3747			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3748			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3749			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3750	root	1.387	%
3751	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3752	root	1.270	interesting read]
3753			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3754	root	1.387	%
3755	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3756			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3757			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3758	root	1.387	%
3759	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3760			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3761			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3762			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3763			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3764			locks can open the gate.
3765
3766			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3767			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3768			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3769	root	1.387	%
3770	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3771			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3772	root	1.387	%
3773	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3774
3775			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3776
3777			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3778			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3779			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3780			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3781			explanation of this.
3782
3783			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3784
3785			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3786			which explains why the hammer falls.
3787
3788			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3789			how a population's genome can change over time.
3790
3791	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3792			mathematical relationship between two values.
3793	root	1.265
3794			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3795			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3796
3797			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3798			acceleration.
3799
3800			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3801			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3802			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3803			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3804			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3805			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3806			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3807			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3808			false.
3809
3810			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3811	root	1.387	%
3812	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3813	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3814
3815			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3816			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3817	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3818			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3819			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3820	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3821
3822	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3823			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3824			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3825			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3826			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3827			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3828			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3829	root	1.264
3830			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3831	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3832			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3833			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3834			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3835	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3836	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3837	root	1.264	sportlich.
3838
3839	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3840			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3841			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3842			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3843			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3844	root	1.264
3845	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3846	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3847	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3848			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3849	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3850
3851			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3852			Forscher.
3853	root	1.387	%
3854	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3855			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3856			EULA-style license]
3857	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3858	root	1.387	%
3859	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3860			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3861			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3862			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3863			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3864			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3865			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3866	root	1.387	%
3867	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3868	root	1.387	%
3869	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3870			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3871			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3872			00:24 <schmorp> re
3873	root	1.387	%
3874	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3875	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3876			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3877	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3878			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3879	root	1.387	%
3880	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3881			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3882			proponents of such theories.]
3883			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3884			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3885			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3886			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3887			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3888			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3889			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3890			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3891			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3892			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3893			(below, right)."
3894	root	1.387	%
3895	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3896			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3897			[useful info...]
3898			http://www.snopes.com/
3899	root	1.387	%
3900	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3901			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3902	root	1.387	%
3903	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3904			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3905	root	1.387	%
3906	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3907	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3908			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3909	root	1.387	%
3910	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3911			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3912			#!/usr/bin/sh
3913			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3914			# All Rights Reserved
3915
3916			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3917			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3918			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3919
3920			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3921	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3922	root	1.387	%
3923	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3924			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3925			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3926	root	1.387	%
3927	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3928			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3929			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3930			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3931			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3932			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3933			#
3934			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3935	root	1.387	%
3936	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3937	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3938			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3939			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3940	root	1.387	%
3941	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3942	root	1.387	%
3943	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3944	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3945			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3946	root	1.387	%
3947	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3948			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3949			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
3950	root	1.387	%
3951	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
3952	root	1.387	%
3953	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
3954			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
3955			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
3956			that you have a problem.)
3957			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
3958	root	1.387	%
3959	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
3960			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3961	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
3962	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
3963
3964			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
3965			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
3966	root	1.387	%
3967	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
3968			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
3969
3970			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
3971			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
3972			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
3973			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
3974			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
3975			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
3976			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
3977			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
3978			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
3979			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
3980			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
3981			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
3982			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
3983			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
3984
3985			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
3986			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
3987			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
3988			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
3989			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
3990			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
3991			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
3992	root	1.387	%
3993	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
3994	root	1.239
3995			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
3996			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
3997			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
3998	root	1.387	%
3999	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
4000			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
4001			knows this, and it's true for software too.
4002	root	1.387	%
4003	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
4004
4005			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
4006			;)
4007	root	1.387	%
4008	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
4009			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
4010			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
4011			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
4012
4013			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
4014
4015	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
4016			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
4017	root	1.387	%
4018	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
4019			using so many abbreviations...]
4020
4021			Hi Volker -
4022
4023			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
4024	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
4025			spät ...
4026	root	1.234
4027			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
4028
4029			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
4030
4031	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
4032			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
4033	root	1.234
4034	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
4035	root	1.234
4036			tom
4037	root	1.247
4038	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
4039	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
4040	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
4041	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
4042	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
4043	root	1.387	%
4044	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
4045			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
4046			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
4047
4048			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
4049	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
4050			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
4051	root	1.233	> someone else?
4052
4053			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
4054			===================================================================
4055			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
4056			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
4057			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
4058			S: 79098 Freiburg
4059			S: Germany
4060
4061			+N: Hans Reiser
4062			+E: reiser@namesys.com
4063			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
4064			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
4065			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
4066			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
4067			+S: USA
4068			+
4069			N: Joerg Reuter
4070			E: jreuter@yaina.de
4071			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
4072	root	1.387	%
4073	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
4074			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
4075	root	1.387	%
4076	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
4077			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
4078	root	1.387	%
4079	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
4080			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
4081	root	1.387	%
4082	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
4083			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
4084			[...]
4085			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
4086			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
4087			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
4088			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
4089			[...]
4090			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
4091			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
4092			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
4093			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
4094	root	1.387	%
4095	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
4096			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
4097			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
4098			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
4099			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
4100			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
4101	root	1.387	%
4102	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
4103	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
4104			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
4105			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
4106			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
4107			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
4108			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
4109			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
4110			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
4111	root	1.387	%
4112	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
4113			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
4114	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
4115	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
4116	root	1.387	%
4117	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
4118			[yes, the whole thing]
4119	root	1.387	%
4120	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
4121	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
4122			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
4123			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
4124	root	1.221	>
4125			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
4126
4127			We'll use a larger wall.
4128	root	1.387	%
4129	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
4130			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
4131			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
4132			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
4133
4134			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
4135			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
4136
4137			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
4138			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
4139
4140			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
4141			cost.
4142			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
4143	root	1.387	%
4144	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
4145
4146	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
4147	root	1.219
4148			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
4149
4150	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
4151	root	1.387	%
4152	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
4153			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
4154	root	1.387	%
4155	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
4156			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
4157	root	1.387	%
4158	root	1.215	[translated]
4159			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
4160			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
4161			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
4162			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
4163			23:07 <schmorp> ...
4164			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
4165			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
4166			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
4167	root	1.387	%
4168	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
4169			-- Lord Balfour
4170	root	1.387	%
4171	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
4172	root	1.387	%
4173	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
4174			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
4175			him to forgive me.
4176	root	1.387	%
4177	root	1.211	[slashdot]
4178			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
4179
4180			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
4181	root	1.387	%
4182	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
4183			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
4184			get bored during the sex scenes.
4185	root	1.387	%
4186	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
4187			strangler is to the woman home alone.
4188			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
4189	root	1.387	%
4190	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
4191			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
4192			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
4193			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
4194			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
4195			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
4196	root	1.387	%
4197	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
4198			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
4199			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
4200			HP-UX customer. [...]
4201	root	1.387	%
4202	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
4203			>>
4204			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
4205			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
4206			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
4207			>>spelled it in UC.
4208	root	1.247	>
4209			>
4210	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
4211
4212			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
4213	root	1.387	%
4214	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
4215			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
4216
4217			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
4218			usage.
4219
4220			Richard
4221	root	1.387	%
4222	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
4223			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
4224			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
4225			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
4226			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
4227			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
4228	root	1.387	%
4229	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
4230			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
4231	root	1.387	%
4232	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
4233	root	1.387	%
4234	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
4235			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
4236			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
4237			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
4238			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
4239			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
4240			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
4241			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
4242			existence means and implies.
4243
4244			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
4245	root	1.387	%
4246	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
4247			>
4248			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
4249			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
4250			>
4251			> You're WRONG!
4252
4253	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
4254			and §7.20.3.1).
4255	root	1.387	%
4256	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
4257			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
4258			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
4259	root	1.387	%
4260	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
4261			A. It should be obvious.
4262			Q. How is it hard?
4263			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
4264			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
4265	root	1.387	%
4266	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
4267			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
4268
4269			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
4270			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
4271
4272			- works ok on linux
4273			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
4274
4275			Any clues why?
4276			I am new to the non windows world.
4277
4278			Thanks
4279	root	1.387	%
4280	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4281			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4282			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4283			> this ?
4284
4285			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4286			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4287	root	1.387	%
4288	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4289			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4290			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4291
4292			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4293	root	1.247	>
4294			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4295			>
4296	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4297	root	1.387	%
4298	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4299			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4300
4301			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4302	root	1.387	%
4303	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4304			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4305	root	1.387	%
4306	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4307	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4308	root	1.194
4309			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4310			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4311	root	1.387	%
4312	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4313			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4314	root	1.387	%
4315	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4316	root	1.387	%
4317	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4318			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4319	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4320	root	1.387	%
4321	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4322			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4323			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4324	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4325
4326	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4327	root	1.190
4328	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4329	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4330			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4331			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4332	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4333			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4334			schützen können.
4335	root	1.387	%
4336	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4337			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4338	root	1.387	%
4339	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4340			[...]
4341	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4342	root	1.188	[...]
4343	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4344			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4345			never get your message.
4346	root	1.387	%
4347	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4348			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4349			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4350	root	1.387	%
4351	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4352			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4353			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4354	root	1.387	%
4355	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4356			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4357			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4358			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4359			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4360			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4361			01:15 <schmorp> g
4362			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4363	root	1.387	%
4364	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4365			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4366			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4367			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4368			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4369			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4370			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4371			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4372	root	1.387	%
4373	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4374			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4375			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4376	root	1.387	%
4377	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4378			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4379			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4380			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4381			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4382			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4383			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4384	root	1.387	%
4385	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4386			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4387	root	1.387	%
4388	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4389			GNOME TERMINAL
4390			[...]
4391			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4392			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4393			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4394			[.. later]
4395			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4396			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4397			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4398	root	1.387	%
4399	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4400			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4401			/*
4402	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4403	root	1.179	*/
4404			void blip()
4405	root	1.247	{
4406	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4407			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4408			fflush(stderr);
4409	root	1.247	}
4410	root	1.387	%
4411	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4412			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4413
4414			Why not 666? :-).
4415	root	1.387	%
4416	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4417			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4418			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4419			users are clueless.
4420	root	1.387	%
4421	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4422			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4423	root	1.387	%
4424	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4425			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4426	root	1.387	%
4427	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4428			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4429	root	1.387	%
4430	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4431			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4432			and", and finally, ampersand.
4433	root	1.387	%
4434	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4435			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4436			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4437			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4438			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4439	root	1.387	%
4440	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4441			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4442			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4443			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4444			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4445	root	1.387	%
4446	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4447			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4448			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4449			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4450			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4451			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4452			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4453	root	1.387	%
4454	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4455	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4456			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4457	root	1.387	%
4458	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4459			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4460			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4461	root	1.387	%
4462	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4463	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4464	root	1.387	%
4465	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4466	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4467			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4468			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4469	root	1.167	%
4470	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4471	root	1.387	%
4472	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4473			<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
4474	root	1.387	%
4475	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4476			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4477	root	1.164	einfach :)
4478			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4479	root	1.387	%
4480	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4481			/*
4482			* Function compares two strings.
4483	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4484	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4485			*/
4486			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4487			{
4488			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4489			[...]
4490	root	1.387	%
4491	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4492	root	1.387	%
4493	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4494	root	1.387	%
4495	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4496			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4497			Get_Colours ();
4498	root	1.387	%
4499	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4500	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4501			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4502			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4503			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4504			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4505			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4506			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4507			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4508	root	1.161	[...]
4509			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4510			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4511			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4512			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4513			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4514	root	1.387	%
4515	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4516			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4517	root	1.387	%
4518	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4519			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4520	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4521	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4522			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4523			#endif
4524	root	1.387	%
4525	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4526			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4527			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4528	root	1.387	%
4529	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4530			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4531			>
4532			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4533
4534			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4535			--
4536			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4537	root	1.387	%
4538	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4539			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4540			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4541			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4542			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4543			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4544			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4545	root	1.387	%
4546	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4547			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4548	root	1.387	%
4549	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4550	root	1.387	%
4551	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4552			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4553			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4554			-- Robert Fisk
4555	root	1.387	%
4556	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4557			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4558	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4559			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4560	root	1.387	%
4561	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4562			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4563			high-violence culture"
4564			[...]
4565			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4566			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4567			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4568			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4569			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4570			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4571			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4572			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4573
4574			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4575			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4576	root	1.387	%
4577	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4578			Subject: Re: [...]
4579
4580			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4581
4582			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4583			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4584			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4585			> saved it :)
4586
4587			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4588			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4589			[...]
4590	root	1.387	%
4591	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4592			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4593			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4594			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4595			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4596
4597			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4598			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4599			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4600			[...]
4601	root	1.387	%
4602	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4603	root	1.387	%
4604	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4605	root	1.387	%
4606	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4607	root	1.387	%
4608	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4609			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4610			claim to have decades of java experience]
4611			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4612			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4613			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4614			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4615	root	1.387	%
4616	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4617	root	1.387	%
4618	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4619	root	1.387	%
4620	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4621	root	1.387	%
4622	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4623			[mail not to be delivered]
4624			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4625	root	1.247	>
4626	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4627
4628			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4629			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4630	root	1.387	%
4631	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4632
4633			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4634			>
4635			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4636			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4637			> >
4638			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4639			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4640			> > language which does support this?
4641			>
4642
4643			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4644
4645			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4646			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4647			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4648			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4649			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4650			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4651	root	1.387	%
4652	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4653			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4654			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4655	root	1.387	%
4656	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4657			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4658			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4659
4660			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4661			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4662			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4663			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4664			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4665
4666			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4667			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4668			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4669			and thwart them that way.
4670	root	1.387	%
4671	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4672			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4673			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4674			unfortunate decision.
4675	root	1.387	%
4676	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4677	root	1.146	fest ;)
4678	root	1.387	%
4679	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4680
4681			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4682	root	1.387	%
4683	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4684	root	1.387	%
4685	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4686			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4687	root	1.387	%
4688	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4689
4690			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4691			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4692			local object as a "he":
4693
4694			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4695			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4696			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4697			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4698			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4699			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4700			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4701			EX-PARROT!"
4702
4703			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4704	root	1.387	%
4705	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4706			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4707	root	1.387	%
4708	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4709			The police will shoot you.
4710
4711			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4712			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4713
4714	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4715	root	1.387	%
4716	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4717			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4718			reply.
4719
4720			pls. cc my email address
4721
4722			tia
4723			pd
4724
4725
4726	root	1.247	--
4727	root	1.141	^X^C
4728			q
4729			quit
4730			:q
4731			^C
4732			end
4733			x
4734			exit
4735			ZZ
4736			^D
4737			?
4738			help
4739			shit
4740			.
4741	root	1.387	%
4742	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4743	root	1.387	%
4744	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4745			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4746			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4747			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4748	root	1.387	%
4749	root	1.140	[I love it]
4750			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4751			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4752	root	1.387	%
4753	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4754			- Douglas Adams
4755	root	1.387	%
4756	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4757			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4758			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4759			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4760
4761	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4762			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4763			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4764			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4765			their software properly.
4766	root	1.138
4767			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4768			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4769			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4770			told the publication.
4771
4772	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4773			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4774			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4775			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4776			who want visibility and glory.
4777	root	1.387	%
4778	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4779
4780			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4781
4782			x Try not using it.
4783	root	1.387	%
4784	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4785			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4786			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4787			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4788			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4789			had given.
4790
4791			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4792			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4793			person as well."
4794	root	1.387	%
4795	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4796	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4797			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4798	root	1.387	%
4799	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4800	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4801	root	1.134
4802			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4803	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4804	root	1.135	[...]
4805	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4806	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4807	root	1.135	[...]
4808			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4809			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4810	root	1.387	%
4811	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4812	root	1.387	%
4813	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4814			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4815			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4816			-- Ulrich Drepper
4817	root	1.387	%
4818	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4819			-- Ulrich Drepper
4820	root	1.387	%
4821	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4822			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4823	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4824	root	1.387	%
4825	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4826			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4827			-- Ulrich Drepper
4828	root	1.387	%
4829	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4830			-- Ulrich Drepper
4831	root	1.387	%
4832	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4833	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4834			zuverlässiger
4835	root	1.387	%
4836	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4837			/*
4838			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4839			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4840			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4841			*/
4842	root	1.387	%
4843	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4844			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4845			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4846			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4847			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4848	root	1.387	%
4849	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4850			Pirating Movies
4851
4852			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4853			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4854			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4855	root	1.387	%
4856	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4857			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4858	root	1.387	%
4859	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4860			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4861	root	1.387	%
4862	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4863			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4864			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4865			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4866			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4867	root	1.387	%
4868	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4869			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4870			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4871			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4872			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4873
4874			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4875			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4876
4877			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4878			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4879			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4880			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4881			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4882			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4883			the first place!
4884	root	1.387	%
4885	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4886			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4887			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4888	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4889	root	1.387	%
4890	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4891			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4892	root	1.387	%
4893	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4894			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4895	root	1.387	%
4896	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4897			platform."
4898			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4899	root	1.387	%
4900	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4901			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4902			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4903			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4904			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4905	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4906	root	1.387	%
4907	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4908			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4909	root	1.387	%
4910	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4911			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4912			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4913			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4914			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4915			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4916			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4917			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4918			daily.
4919	root	1.387	%
4920	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4921	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4922			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4923	root	1.387	%
4924	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4925			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4926			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4927			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4928			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4929			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4930			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4931	root	1.387	%
4932	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4933	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4934	root	1.387	%
4935	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4936			[...so it must be good]
4937			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4938	root	1.387	%
4939	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4940			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4941			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4942	root	1.387	%
4943	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4944			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4945			No idea why I announce it here...
4946	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4947	root	1.387	%
4948	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4949			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
4950	root	1.387	%
4951	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
4952	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
4953	root	1.387	%
4954	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
4955			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
4956			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
4957			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
4958			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
4959
4960			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
4961			Sacha.
4962	root	1.387	%
4963	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
4964			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
4965			desk one morning:
4966
4967			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
4968
4969			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
4970
4971			Employee: 123456
4972
4973			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
4974			photograph of the employee.]
4975
4976			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
4977			identification which has your picture on it?
4978
4979			Employee: Why would you need that?
4980
4981			Security Guard: To match against our records.
4982
4983			Employee: A picture of my face?
4984
4985			Security Guard: Yes
4986
4987			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
4988
4989			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
4990			compare against this one.
4991	root	1.387	%
4992	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
4993			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
4994			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
4995	root	1.387	%
4996	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
4997			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
4998			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
4999
5000			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
5001			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
5002	root	1.387	%
5003	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
5004	root	1.387	%
5005	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
5006			"RV K-17"
5007	root	1.387	%
5008	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
5009			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
5010	root	1.387	%
5011	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
5012			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
5013			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
5014			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
5015	root	1.387	%
5016	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
5017			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
5018	root	1.387	%
5019	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
5020	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
5021			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
5022	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
5023	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
5024			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
5025	root	1.387	%
5026	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
5027	root	1.387	%
5028	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
5029			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
5030	root	1.387	%
5031	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
5032			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
5033			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5034			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5035	root	1.387	%
5036	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
5037			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
5038			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
5039			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
5040			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
5041			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
5042			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
5043			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
5044			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
5045			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
5046			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
5047			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
5048			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
5049			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
5050			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
5051			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
5052			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
5053			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
5054			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
5055	root	1.387	%
5056	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
5057			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
5058	root	1.387	%
5059	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
5060			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
5061	root	1.387	%
5062	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
5063			Lester Moore,
5064			Shot in the head with a .44.
5065			No Les, no more.
5066	root	1.387	%
5067	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
5068			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
5069
5070			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
5071			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
5072	root	1.387	%
5073	root	1.113	[Fallout]
5074			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
5075			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
5076	root	1.387	%
5077	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
5078			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
5079			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
5080			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
5081			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
5082	root	1.112	[...]
5083			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
5084			[...]
5085			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
5086			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
5087			the result with SHA.
5088	root	1.387	%
5089	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
5090	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
5091			> ist!
5092	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
5093			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
5094	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
5095	root	1.387	%
5096	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
5097			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
5098	root	1.387	%
5099	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
5100	root	1.387	%
5101	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
5102			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
5103			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
5104			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
5105			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
5106			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
5107	root	1.387	%
5108	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
5109			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
5110	root	1.387	%
5111	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
5112			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
5113	root	1.387	%
5114	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
5115			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
5116	root	1.387	%
5117	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
5118
5119			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
5120			* control history, is that we should at least
5121			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
5122			* "initialisation"? */
5123			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
5124	root	1.387	%
5125	root	1.105	[man pem]
5126			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
5127	root	1.387	%
5128	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
5129
5130			/* ``If you can't do it in
5131	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
5132	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
5133	root	1.387	%
5134	root	1.104	[subculture]
5135	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
5136			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
5137	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
5138
5139			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
5140	root	1.424	%
5141	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
5142			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
5143	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
5144	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
5145	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
5146	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
5147			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
5148	root	1.387	%
5149	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
5150	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
5151			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
5152			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
5153	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
5154	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
5155			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
5156			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
5157	root	1.387	%
5158	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
5159			aber wenig freude.
5160	root	1.387	%
5161	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
5162			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
5163			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
5164			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
5165			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
5166			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
5167			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
5168			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
5169			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
5170			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
5171	root	1.387	%
5172	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
5173			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
5174	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
5175			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
5176	root	1.387	%
5177	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
5178			don't work well in practise.
5179			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
5180	root	1.387	%
5181	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
5182			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
5183			"ready, fire, aim."
5184	root	1.387	%
5185	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
5186			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
5187			free countries like Germany [1].
5188			[...]
5189			Regards
5190			Henning
5191
5192			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
5193			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
5194			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
5195	root	1.387	%
5196	root	1.98	[...]
5197			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
5198			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
5199			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
5200			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
5201			itself give you none of these rights at all.
5202			[...]
5203			Wolfgang Walter
5204	root	1.387	%
5205	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
5206			burro: it seemed very clever
5207			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
5208			burro: it forgot to defend later..
5209			burro: oops
5210			burro: accidental poetry
5211	root	1.387	%
5212	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
5213			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
5214			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
5215	root	1.387	%
5216	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
5217			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
5218	root	1.387	%
5219	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
5220			-- Oscar Wilde
5221	root	1.387	%
5222	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
5223			"guilty until proven innocent"
5224			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
5225	root	1.387	%
5226	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
5227			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
5228			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
5229			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
5230			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
5231			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
5232			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
5233			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
5234			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
5235			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
5236			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
5237			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
5238			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
5239			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
5240			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
5241	root	1.387	%
5242	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
5243			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
5244			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
5245			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
5246			// suit particular needs.
5247			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
5248	root	1.387	%
5249	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
5250			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
5251			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
5252	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
5253	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
5254	root	1.387	%
5255	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
5256			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
5257	root	1.387	%
5258	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
5259			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
5260	root	1.387	%
5261	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
5262			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
5263			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
5264	root	1.387	%
5265	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
5266			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
5267	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
5268			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
5269	root	1.387	%
5270	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
5271
5272			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
5273			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
5274			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
5275			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
5276			is not [...]
5277	root	1.387	%
5278	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5279	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5280			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5281	root	1.387	%
5282	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5283			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5284
5285	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5286	root	1.94
5287			GUI
5288			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5289			Globale Variable
5290	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5291	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5292			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5293			strukturiert
5294			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5295			Multithreaded
5296	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5297	root	1.94	Windows 95
5298	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5299	root	1.94	Emacs
5300	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5301			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5302			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5303	root	1.94	IPv6
5304			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5305			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5306			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5307			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5308	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5309			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5310	root	1.247	PHP
5311	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5312	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5313	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5314			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5315	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5316	root	1.94	Bunt.
5317	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5318			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5319			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5320	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5321	root	1.387	%
5322	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5323			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5324	root	1.387	%
5325	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5326	root	1.387	%
5327	root	1.93	[nah]
5328			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5329			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5330			paint dry."
5331	root	1.387	%
5332	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5333			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5334			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5335	root	1.387	%
5336	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5337	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5338			importance.
5339	root	1.387	%
5340	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5341			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5342			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5343			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5344
5345			You have to trust Microsoft.
5346
5347			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5348			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5349			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5350			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5351			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5352			useless chrome.
5353
5354			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5355			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5356			I'd like to trust them with.
5357	root	1.93	[...]
5358	root	1.387	%
5359	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5360			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5361			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5362			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5363			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5364	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5365	root	1.91	--------------^
5366	root	1.387	%
5367	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5368			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5369			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5370			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5371			English grammar, I assure you.
5372	root	1.387	%
5373	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5374			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5375			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5376			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5377			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5378			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5379			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5380
5381			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5382			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5383			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5384			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5385			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5386			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5387			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5388			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5389			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5390			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5391
5392			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5393			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5394			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5395			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5396
5397			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5398			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5399	root	1.387	%
5400	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5401			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5402			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5403			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5404			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5405			work etc first:
5406
5407			#include <stdio.h>
5408
5409			int main (void) {
5410			while (1)
5411			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5412
5413			return 0;
5414			}
5415	root	1.387	%
5416	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5417			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5418	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5419	root	1.387	%
5420	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5421			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5422			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5423			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5424	root	1.387	%
5425	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5426			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5427			proprietary and patentend technology.
5428	root	1.387	%
5429	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5430	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5431	root	1.387	%
5432	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5433	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5434	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5435			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5436			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5437	root	1.387	%
5438	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5439			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5440	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5441	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5442			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5443	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5444	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5445	root	1.87
5446	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5447			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5448			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5449			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5450			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5451			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5452	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5453			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5454
5455	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5456			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5457			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5458			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5459			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5460			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5461			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5462			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5463			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5464			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5465	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5466	root	1.387	%
5467	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5468			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5469	root	1.387	%
5470	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5471			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5472			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5473	root	1.387	%
5474	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5475			"linux" thing will fail]
5476			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5477			[...]
5478	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5479	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5480			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5481			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5482
5483			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5484			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5485			life to the public good.
5486
5487			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5488			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5489			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5490			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5491			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5492
5493			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5494			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5495			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5496			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5497			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5498			software to work on the linux kernel!
5499
5500			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5501			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5502			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5503			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5504			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5505	root	1.387	%
5506	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5507	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5508			[...]
5509			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5510	root	1.387	%
5511	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5512			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5513			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5514			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5515	root	1.387	%
5516	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5517	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5518			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5519			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5520			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5521			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5522	root	1.387	%
5523	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5524			-- Leonard Brandwein
5525	root	1.387	%
5526	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5527	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5528			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5529			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5530			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5531			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5532			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5533			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5534			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5535			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5536			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5537			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5538	root	1.387	%
5539	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5540			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5541	root	1.387	%
5542	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5543			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5544			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5545			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5546			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5547			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5548			jurisprudence fun?
5549			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5550	root	1.387	%
5551	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5552			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5553			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5554	root	1.84	[...]
5555	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5556	root	1.387	%
5557	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5558			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5559			- Paul Ginsparg.
5560	root	1.387	%
5561	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5562			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5563			home.":))
5564			[erm...]
5565	root	1.387	%
5566	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5567
5568	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5569	root	1.387	%
5570	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5571	root	1.387	%
5572	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5573
5574			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5575			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5576			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5577			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5578	root	1.387	%
5579	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5580			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5581			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5582	root	1.387	%
5583	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5584	root	1.83
5585			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5586	root	1.82
5587			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5588			to use in future emails?
5589	root	1.387	%
5590	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5591			please?
5592
5593			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5594			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5595
5596	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5597	root	1.387	%
5598	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5599			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5600			last until February 16th 2003.
5601
5602			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5603			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5604			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5605			end.
5606
5607			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5608
5609			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5610			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5611			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5612			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5613			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5614			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5615			take place on October 27th.
5616
5617			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5618			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5619			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5620			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5621			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5622			the clock)...
5623	root	1.387	%
5624	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5625			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5626			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5627			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5628			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5629
5630			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5631			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5632			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5633			RedHat and SuSE).
5634
5635			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5636
5637			Pavel
5638	root	1.387	%
5639	root	1.81	Rik
5640	root	1.247	--
5641	root	1.81	A: No.
5642			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5643	root	1.387	%
5644	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5645	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5646			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5647	root	1.81
5648			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5649			no useful data.
5650
5651	root	1.247	--
5652	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5653	root	1.387	%
5654	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5655			there was a long do..while construct,
5656			which contained a switch statement,
5657			which contained an if clause,
5658			which contained a break,
5659			which was intended for the if clause,
5660			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5661
5662			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5663			network January 15, 1990
5664	root	1.387	%
5665	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5666
5667	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5668			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5669			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5670			violation of network policies.
5671	root	1.80
5672			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5673
5674			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5675			The format is as follows:
5676
5677			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5678	root	1.387	%
5679	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5680			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5681			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5682	root	1.387	%
5683	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5684			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5685			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5686			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5687			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5688			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5689			...
5690			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5691			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5692			the effort."
5693	root	1.387	%
5694	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5695	root	1.387	%
5696	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5697			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5698	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5699	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5700			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5701	root	1.387	%
5702	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5703	root	1.387	%
5704	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5705	root	1.387	%
5706	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5707			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5708			[Albert Cahalan]
5709	root	1.387	%
5710	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5711			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5712			least as bad, but lesser known.
5713	root	1.387	%
5714	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5715			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5716			different.
5717	root	1.387	%
5718	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.
5719	root	1.387	%
5720	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5721			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5722	root	1.387	%
5723	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5724			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5725			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5726			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5727			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5728			without a show.
5729	root	1.387	%
5730	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5731	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5732	root	1.387	%
5733	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5734	root	1.387	%
5735	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5736			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5737	root	1.387	%
5738	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5739			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5740			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5741	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5742	root	1.71	going on.
5743			[...]
5744	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5745			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5746			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5747	root	1.387	%
5748	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5749			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5750	root	1.387	%
5751	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5752	root	1.387	%
5753	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5754	root	1.387	%
5755	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5756			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5757			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5758	root	1.387	%
5759	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5760			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5761			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5762			returned data.
5763
5764	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5765			FindExInfoStandard
5766			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5767	root	1.387	%
5768	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5769	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5770			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5771	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5772	root	1.387	%
5773	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5774			it doesn't work:]
5775			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5776			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5777			this MIME type as the final determination.
5778	root	1.387	%
5779	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5780
5781			Recode 0.1.1
5782			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5783
5784			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5785			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5786
5787			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5788	root	1.387	%
5789	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5790	root	1.387	%
5791	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5792	root	1.387	%
5793	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5794
5795			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5796			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5797			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5798			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5799			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5800			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5801			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5802			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5803			century."
5804
5805			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5806			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5807			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5808			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5809			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5810			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5811			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5812			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5813			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5814			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5815			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5816			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5817			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5818			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5819
5820			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5821			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5822			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5823			hilarious in light of the above.
5824			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5825
5826			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5827			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5828			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5829			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5830			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5831			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5832			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5833
5834			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5835			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5836			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5837			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5838	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5839	root	1.387	%
5840	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5841	root	1.387	%
5842	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5843			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5844	root	1.387	%
5845	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5846			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5847			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5848
5849			Tony Hoare
5850	root	1.387	%
5851	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5852			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5853	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5854	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5855	root	1.387	%
5856	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5857
5858			[...]
5859			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5860			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5861			system. Basically its windows computer
5862	root	1.387	%
5863	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5864	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5865	root	1.387	%
5866	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5867
5868			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5869			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5870			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5871			> software developers...
5872
5873			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5874	root	1.387	%
5875	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5876			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5877			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5878			>
5879			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5880
5881			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5882			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5883
5884			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5885			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5886
5887			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5888			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5889			off by throwing away the patch.
5890
5891			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5892			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5893			patch any time soon.
5894
5895			--
5896			Daniel
5897	root	1.387	%
5898	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5899			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5900			[...]
5901			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5902			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5903			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5904	root	1.387	%
5905	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5906
5907			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5908			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5909			Is it realy needed?
5910	root	1.387	%
5911	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5912
5913			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5914
5915			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5916			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5917			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5918	root	1.387	%
5919	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5920			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5921			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5922			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5923			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5924			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5925			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5926	root	1.387	%
5927	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5928
5929			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5930			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5931			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5932			>
5933			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5934
5935			This is an ex-parrot
5936	root	1.387	%
5937	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5938
5939			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5940			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5941			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5942			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5943			>
5944			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5945			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5946
5947			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5948
5949			while (!sorted(data))
5950			;
5951	root	1.387	%
5952	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
5953			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5954
5955			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
5956
5957			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
5958			to computing
5959	root	1.387	%
5960	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
5961
5962			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
5963			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
5964
5965			Common sense, one would hope.
5966	root	1.387	%
5967	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
5968			[...]
5969
5970			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
5971			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
5972			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
5973
5974			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
5975
5976			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
5977			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
5978			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
5979			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
5980
5981			:-)
5982	root	1.387	%
5983	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
5984			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
5985			their C programs."
5986	root	1.60
5987			Robert Firth
5988	root	1.387	%
5989	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
5990	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
5991	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
5992			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
5993	root	1.387	%
5994	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
5995	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
5996	root	1.387	%
5997	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
5998			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
5999	root	1.387	%
6000	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
6001	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
6002	root	1.387	%
6003	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
6004	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
6005			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
6006	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
6007			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
6008	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
6009			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
6010
6011			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
6012
6013			\Gisbert
6014	root	1.387	%
6015	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
6016	root	1.387	%
6017	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
6018			world like English did. Er, as English did...
6019			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
6020	root	1.387	%
6021	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
6022			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
6023
6024			I don't have python. Any version of python.
6025			[...]
6026	root	1.387	%
6027	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
6028			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
6029			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
6030
6031			ok 1
6032			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
6033			not ok 2
6034			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
6035	root	1.387	%
6036	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
6037
6038			Cheers,
6039
6040			Andre Hedrick
6041			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
6042	root	1.387	%
6043	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
6044	root	1.247	>
6045	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
6046
6047			Or mutabloat :-(
6048	root	1.387	%
6049	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
6050			Outlook IS the solution.
6051	root	1.387	%
6052	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
6053	root	1.387	%
6054	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
6055
6056			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
6057			never bought anything from UUNet.
6058	root	1.387	%
6059	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
6060			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
6061			by delving below its surface meaning)
6062	root	1.387	%
6063	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
6064	root	1.387	%
6065	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
6066
6067			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
6068			> just go to court and say:
6069
6070			Oh glorious naivety.
6071
6072			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
6073			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
6074			> can do the work better than I).
6075
6076			You release the code
6077
6078			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
6079
6080			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
6081			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
6082			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
6083			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
6084
6085			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
6086			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
6087
6088			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
6089			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
6090
6091			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
6092
6093			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
6094			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
6095			or that the good guys win.
6096
6097			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
6098			US, and outside of most of the EU.
6099	root	1.387	%
6100	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
6101
6102			[...]
6103			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
6104			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
6105	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
6106	root	1.51	year to kill.
6107	root	1.387	%
6108	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
6109			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
6110
6111			[...]
6112			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
6113			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
6114			of for Windows desktop systems."
6115			[...]
6116			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
6117			months before Microsoft released its patch.
6118			[...]
6119			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
6120			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
6121			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
6122			turned on by default.
6123			[...]
6124			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
6125			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
6126			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
6127			[...]
6128			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
6129			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
6130			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
6131			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
6132			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
6133			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
6134			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
6135			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
6136			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
6137	root	1.387	%
6138	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
6139	root	1.387	%
6140	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
6141	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
6142	root	1.49
6143			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
6144
6145			Monday, 06. November 2000
6146	root	1.387	%
6147	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
6148			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
6149	root	1.387	%
6150	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
6151	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
6152			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
6153			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
6154	root	1.387	%
6155	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
6156			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
6157			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
6158			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
6159	root	1.387	%
6160	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
6161			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
6162
6163			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
6164			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
6165			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
6166	root	1.387	%
6167	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
6168			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
6169
6170			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
6171			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
6172			> dropped patches.
6173
6174			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
6175	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
6176	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
6177			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
6178			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
6179			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
6180	root	1.387	%
6181	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
6182			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
6183			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
6184	root	1.387	%
6185	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
6186
6187			From: Bill Huey
6188			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
6189
6190			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
6191
6192			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
6193	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
6194	root	1.45	themselves.
6195
6196			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
6197			certain.
6198	root	1.387	%
6199	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
6200			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
6201			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
6202
6203			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
6204			appropriate approach to a problem.
6205	root	1.387	%
6206	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
6207	root	1.44	^^^^
6208			[...]
6209			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
6210			[...]
6211			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
6212			-15 Nice winter day
6213			-10 Slightly warm winter day
6214			-5 Nice warm winter day
6215			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
6216	root	1.387	%
6217	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
6218			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
6219			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
6220			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
6221	root	1.387	%
6222	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6223			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
6224
6225			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
6226
6227			-ben
6228	root	1.387	%
6229	root	1.43	[...]
6230	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
6231			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
6232			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
6233			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
6234			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
6235			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
6236			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
6237			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
6238			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
6239			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
6240			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
6241	root	1.387	%
6242	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
6243			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
6244	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
6245	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
6246			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
6247			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
6248			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
6249			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
6250			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
6251	root	1.43	statt...
6252	root	1.387	%
6253	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
6254	root	1.387	%
6255	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
6256			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
6257			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
6258			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
6259			values." Who writes this stuff?
6260	root	1.387	%
6261	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
6262	root	1.387	%
6263	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
6264			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
6265			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
6266			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
6267			> "Macao".
6268			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
6269			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
6270	root	1.387	%
6271	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
6272	root	1.387	%
6273	root	1.40	Beitrag
6274	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
6275	root	1.40
6276			fucklinux
6277
6278			IP: 217.83.123.198
6279
6280			1. FUCK LINUX
6281
6282	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6283	root	1.40
6284			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6285	root	1.387	%
6286	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6287	root	1.40
6288			[...]
6289			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6290			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6291			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6292			read...
6293	root	1.387	%
6294	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6295			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6296			depends on the unreasonable man.
6297
6298			-George Bernard Shaw
6299	root	1.387	%
6300	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6301
6302			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6303	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6304	root	1.387	%
6305	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:
6306	root	1.387	%
6307	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
6308			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6309			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6310			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6311			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6312	root	1.387	%
6313	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6314			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6315	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6316	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6317			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6318	root	1.387	%
6319	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6320			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6321			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6322			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6323			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6324			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6325			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6326			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).
6327			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6328			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6329	root	1.387	%
6330	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6331			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6332			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6333			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6334			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6335			removed in Windows XP.
6336
6337			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6338			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6339			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6340			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6341	root	1.387	%
6342	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6343			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6344			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6345			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6346			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6347			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6348			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6349			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6350			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6351			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6352
6353			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6354			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6355			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6356			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6357			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6358			you have no details?
6359			[...]
6360			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6361			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6362			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6363			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6364			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6365			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6366			the industrial terrorists want."
6367	root	1.387	%
6368	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6369			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6370	root	1.387	%
6371	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6372	root	1.387	%
6373	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6374			of each 50 days
6375	root	1.387	%
6376	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6377
6378			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6379			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6380			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6381	root	1.387	%
6382	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6383			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6384			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6385	root	1.387	%
6386	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6387			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6388	root	1.247	>
6389	root	1.35	> <...>
6390			>
6391			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6392			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6393			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6394	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6395	root	1.387	%
6396	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6397			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6398			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6399	root	1.387	%
6400	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6401			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6402			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6403
6404	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6405			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6406			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6407			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6408			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6409			changing run level, interactive boot.
6410	root	1.35
6411			Alan
6412	root	1.387	%
6413	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6414
6415			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6416			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6417
6418			First they came for the Communists,
6419			and I didn't speak up,
6420			because I wasn't a Communist.
6421			Then they came for the Jews,
6422			and I didn't speak up,
6423			because I wasn't a Jew.
6424			Then they came for the Catholics,
6425			and I didn't speak up,
6426			because I was a Protestant.
6427			Then they came for me,
6428			and by that time there was no one
6429			left to speak up for me.
6430
6431			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6432	root	1.387	%
6433	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6434	root	1.387	%
6435	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6436			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6437	root	1.387	%
6438	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6439			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6440			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6441			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6442
6443			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6444	root	1.387	%
6445	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6446
6447			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6448			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6449			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6450			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6451			used databases!"
6452	root	1.387	%
6453	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6454
6455			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6456
6457			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6458			change that was not?
6459			[...]
6460	root	1.387	%
6461	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6462
6463			[...]
6464
6465	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6466	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6467			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6468
6469	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6470	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6471			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6472			them anywhere else").
6473
6474			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6475			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6476	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6477	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6478			order..
6479
6480	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6481	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6482	root	1.387	%
6483	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6484			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6485			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6486
6487			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6488	root	1.387	%
6489	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6490	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6491			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6492			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6493			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6494	root	1.387	%
6495	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6496			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6497
6498			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6499			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6500			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6501			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6502			series.
6503
6504			[...]
6505	root	1.387	%
6506	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6507	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6508	root	1.387	%
6509	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6510			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6511			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6512
6513			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6514			then save." g
6515
6516			/* Steinar */
6517	root	1.387	%
6518	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6519			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6520
6521			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6522			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6523			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6524			a bill...
6525	root	1.387	%
6526	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6527			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6528			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6529
6530			Sorry. Mea culpa
6531
6532			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6533			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6534			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6535			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6536			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6537			*/
6538			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6539			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6540			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6541			int fpu_exception;
6542	root	1.387	%
6543	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6544
6545			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6546
6547			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6548			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6549			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6550			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6551			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6552	root	1.387	%
6553	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6554
6555			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6556			people.
6557	root	1.387	%
6558	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6559			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6560
6561			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6562			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6563			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6564			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6565			the question.
6566			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6567	root	1.387	%
6568	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6569			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6570			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6571			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6572			(September)
6573	root	1.387	%
6574	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6575	root	1.387	%
6576	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6577			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6578			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6579			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6580			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6581	root	1.387	%
6582	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6583			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6584	root	1.387	%
6585	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6586			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6587			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6588			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6589			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6590	root	1.387	%
6591	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6592	root	1.387	%
6593	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6594	root	1.387	%
6595	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6596			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6597			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6598			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6599			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6600			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6601			you tell them.
6602	root	1.387	%
6603	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6604			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6605			alcohol.
6606
6607			Regards
6608			Henning
6609	root	1.387	%
6610	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6611			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6612			> on a desktop system.
6613
6614			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6615			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6616
6617			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6618			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6619
6620			Alan
6621	root	1.387	%
6622	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6623			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6624
6625			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6626			>
6627			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6628			> Use Welsh
6629
6630			Don't forget
6631
6632			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6633			Use Finnish
6634
6635			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6636
6637			And while we're at it,
6638
6639			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6640			Use German
6641
6642			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6643			Use English
6644
6645			MfG Kai
6646	root	1.387	%
6647	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6648
6649			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6650			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6651			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6652			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6653			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6654			there's no one thinking there.
6655			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6656	root	1.387	%
6657	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6658			scores the rules:
6659
6660			[*]
6661			Score:: =-9999
6662	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6663	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6664			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6665			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6666			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6667
6668			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6669			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6670			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6671			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6672			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6673
6674			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6675			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6676			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6677			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6678	root	1.387	%
6679	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6680			98 IIS servers online...
6681	root	1.387	%
6682	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6683			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6684			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6685			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6686
6687			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6688			it to be otherwise.
6689
6690			Abigail
6691	root	1.387	%
6692	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6693	root	1.387	%
6694	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6695	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6696	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6697	root	1.387	%
6698	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6699	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6700	root	1.387	%
6701	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6702			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6703			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6704			software people doing the same)
6705
6706			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6707			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6708			irrelevant
6709
6710			Alan
6711	root	1.387	%
6712	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6713			Comments may nest.
6714	root	1.387	%
6715	root	1.22	[from findas]
6716			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6717			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6718			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6719			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6720			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6721			# address distributino is... arin.
6722	root	1.387	%
6723	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6724			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6725	root	1.387	%
6726	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6727			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6728			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6729			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6730			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6731	root	1.247	>
6732	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6733
6734			$foot->insert($mouth);
6735
6736			# or is that
6737
6738			$mouth->insert($foot);
6739
6740			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6741			How utterly optimistic :-)
6742	root	1.387	%
6743	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6744			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6745			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6746			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6747			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6748			>can see why it happens)
6749			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6750
6751			Well, there's perl... :)
6752	root	1.387	%
6753	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6754			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6755			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6756			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6757			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6758	root	1.247	* boxes.
6759	root	1.387	%
6760	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6761			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6762			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6763	root	1.387	%
6764	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6765			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6766	root	1.387	%
6767	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6768			From: Juergen Christoffel
6769			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6770			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6771
6772			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6773
6774			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6775			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6776			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6777			schon;
6778
6779			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6780			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6781			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6782
6783			Danke, JC
6784	root	1.387	%
6785	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6786			#undef REASONABLE
6787	root	1.387	%
6788	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6789			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6790
6791			Alan
6792	root	1.387	%
6793	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6794			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6795			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6796			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6797	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6798	root	1.18	> anything.
6799
6800			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6801			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6802	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6803			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6804	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6805			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6806
6807			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6808			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6809			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6810			always a good idea.
6811	root	1.387	%
6812	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6813			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6814
6815	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6816	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6817	root	1.387	%
6818	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6819			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6820			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6821			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6822	root	1.387	%
6823	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6824	root	1.387	%
6825	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6826	root	1.18
6827			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6828			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6829	root	1.387	%
6830	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6831			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6832			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6833			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6834	root	1.387	%
6835	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6836	root	1.387	%
6837	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6838			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6839			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6840			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6841			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6842			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6843	root	1.387	%
6844	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6845
6846			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6847			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6848			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6849			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6850			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6851			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6852			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6853	root	1.387	%
6854	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6855			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6856			future. Bleeeh]
6857
6858			From: Larry McVoy
6859
6860	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6861	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6862			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6863			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6864			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6865			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6866			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6867			not for the exceptional case.
6868	root	1.387	%
6869	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6870			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6871			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6872			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6873			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6874			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6875			stack.
6876
6877			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6878			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6879			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6880
6881			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6882			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6883	root	1.387	%
6884	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6885
6886	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6887			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6888			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6889			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6890	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6891	root	1.247	>
6892	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6893			> on the CPU?
6894
6895			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6896	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6897	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6898			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6899
6900			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6901			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6902			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6903			the point again".
6904	root	1.387	%
6905	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6906
6907	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6908			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6909	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6910	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6911	root	1.247	>
6912	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6913			> scenario.
6914
6915			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6916	root	1.387	%
6917	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6918	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6919			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6920			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6921	root	1.387	%
6922	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6923			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6924			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6925			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6926			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6927			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6928			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6929			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6930			anything.
6931	root	1.387	%
6932	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6933	root	1.387	%
6934	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6935			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6936	root	1.387	%
6937	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6938			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6939			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6940			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6941			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6942
6943			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6944	root	1.387	%
6945	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6946
6947			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6948
6949			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
6950			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
6951			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
6952			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
6953			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
6954
6955			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
6956			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
6957			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
6958			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
6959			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
6960			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
6961			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
6962			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
6963			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
6964			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
6965			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
6966			to work through the learning curve.
6967	root	1.387	%
6968	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
6969	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
6970	root	1.387	%
6971	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
6972			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
6973	root	1.387	%
6974	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
6975			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
6976	root	1.387	%
6977	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
6978			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
6979	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
6980			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
6981	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
6982	root	1.387	%
6983	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
6984	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
6985	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
6986	root	1.387	%
6987	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
6988			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
6989	root	1.387	%
6990	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
6991			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
6992			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
6993			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
6994			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
6995			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
6996			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
6997			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
6998
6999	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
7000	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
7001	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
7002	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
7003			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
7004
7005			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
7006			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
7007			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
7008			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
7009			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
7010			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
7011			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
7012	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
7013	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
7014			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
7015			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
7016	root	1.387	%
7017	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
7018			/*---.
7019			\| ? \|
7020			`---*/
7021	root	1.387	%
7022	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
7023	root	1.387	%
7024	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
7025			From: Joe Buck
7026			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
7027			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
7028	root	1.387	%
7029	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
7030			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
7031	root	1.387	%
7032	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
7033	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
7034	root	1.387	%
7035	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
7036	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
7037	root	1.387	%
7038	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
7039	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
7040	root	1.4	...
7041			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
7042	root	1.387	%
7043	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
7044	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
7045			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
7046			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
7047
7048			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
7049
7050			Alan
7051	root	1.387	%
7052	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
7053	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
7054			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
7055			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
7056			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
7057	root	1.387	%
7058	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
7059	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
7060			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
7061			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
7062			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
7063			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
7064			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
7065	root	1.387	%
7066	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
7067			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
7068			will find an easier way to do it.
7069	root	1.387	%
7070	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
7071	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
7072			Paul wrote:
7073			>Marc wrote:
7074	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
7075			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
7076			> den richtigen.
7077	root	1.387	%
7078	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
7079			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
7080	root	1.387	%
7081	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
7082			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
7083	root	1.387	%
7084	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
7085			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
7086	root	1.387	%
7087	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
7088			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
7089			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7090			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7091			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7092	root	1.387	%
7093	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7094			[...]
7095
7096			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
7097
7098			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
7099	root	1.387	%
7100	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
7101			> constants.
7102
7103			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
7104	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
7105	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
7106	root	1.387	%
7107	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
7108	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
7109
7110			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
7111			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
7112			much to do with IRC.
7113	root	1.387	%
7114	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
7115			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
7116
7117			[...]
7118			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
7119
7120			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
7121			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
7122	root	1.387	%
7123	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
7124	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
7125	root	1.387	%
7126	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
7127
7128			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
7129			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
7130			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
7131
7132			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
7133			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
7134			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
7135			shows how much you know, pal.
7136
7137			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
7138	root	1.387	%
7139	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
7140			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7141			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7142	root	1.387	%
7143	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
7144			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
7145			y yzzyyccss;;##s
7146			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
7147	root	1.387	%
7148	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
7149			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
7150			Your version of perl sucks.
7151	root	1.387	%
7152	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
7153			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
7154			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
7155			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
7156			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
7157			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
7158			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
7159			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
7160	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
7161	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
7162			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
7163	root	1.387	%
7164	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
7165			before you can understand it :)
7166	root	1.387	%
7167	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
7168			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
7169			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
7170	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
7171	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
7172			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
7173			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
7174
7175			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
7176			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
7177			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
7178			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
7179			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
7180			be worth attempting).
7181
7182			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
7183			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
7184			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
7185
7186			Nick.
7187	root	1.387	%
7188	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
7189			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
7190			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
7191
7192	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
7193	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
7194			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
7195			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
7196			magic_bone@hotmail.com
7197	root	1.387	%
7198	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
7199			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
7200			> > > to work :-)
7201	root	1.247	> >
7202	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
7203	root	1.247	>
7204	root	1.1	> Eh?
7205	root	1.247	>
7206	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
7207			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
7208
7209			He didn't say it worked. :)
7210	root	1.387	%
7211	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7212
7213			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
7214			> I find it irksome that
7215	root	1.247	>
7216	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
7217
7218			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
7219	root	1.387	%
7220	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
7221			From: Simon Cozens
7222
7223			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
7224			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
7225			> Produces SIGSEGV.
7226
7227			Looks like a feature to me.
7228	root	1.387	%
7229	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
7230	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
7231	root	1.387	%
7232	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
7233			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
7234
7235			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
7236			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
7237			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
7238			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
7239
7240			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
7241			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
7242			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
7243			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
7244			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
7245			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
7246	root	1.387	%
7247	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
7248			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
7249			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
7250			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
7251			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
7252			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
7253			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
7254			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
7255			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
7256			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
7257			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
7258			accurate and not subject to tampering."
7259
7260			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
7261			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
7262			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
7263
7264			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
7265	root	1.387	%
7266	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
7267			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
7268			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
7269			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
7270			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
7271			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
7272			replication."
7273			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
7274	root	1.387	%
7275	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
7276			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7277
7278			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7279			shows.
7280
7281			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7282			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7283			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7284
7285			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7286			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7287			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7288			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7289			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7290
7291			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7292			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7293			up with a saner protocol.
7294	root	1.387	%
7295	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7296			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7297			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7298
7299			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7300			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7301			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7302	root	1.387	%
7303	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7304			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7305			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7306			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7307			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7308			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7309	root	1.387	%
7310	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7311			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7312	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7313			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7314			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7315			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7316	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7317	root	1.387	%
7318	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7319	root	1.387	%
7320	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7321			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7322	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7323	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7324	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7325	root	1.387	%
7326	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7327			"ist mir egal"
7328	root	1.387	%
7329	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7330			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7331
7332			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7333	root	1.387	%
7334	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7335			hallole
7336	root	1.387	%
7337	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7338			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7339			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7340	root	1.387	%
7341	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7342			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7343			1929 The pause that refreshes
7344			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7345			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7346			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7347			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7348			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7349			1939 Thirst stops here
7350			1942 It's the real thing
7351			1947 Have a Coke
7352			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7353			1963 Things go better with Coke
7354			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7355			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7356			1982 Coke is it!
7357			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7358	root	1.387	%
7359	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7360			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7361	root	1.387	%
7362	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7363			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7364	root	1.387	%
7365	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7366	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7367			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7368			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7369			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7370			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7371			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7372			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7373			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7374			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7375			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7376			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7377			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7378			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7379			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7380
7381			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7382			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7383	root	1.387	%
7384	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7385			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7386
7387			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7388			uncool thing to do. [...]
7389	root	1.387	%
7390	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7391			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7392			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7393	root	1.387	%
7394	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7395	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7396	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7397	root	1.1
7398	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7399			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7400			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7401			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7402	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7403			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7404	root	1.387	%
7405	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7406			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7407			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7408			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7409			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7410			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7411			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7412
7413			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7414			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7415			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7416	root	1.387	%
7417	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7418
7419			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7420	root	1.387	%
7421	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7422			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7423			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7424			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7425			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7426	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7427	root	1.387	%
7428	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7429			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7430			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7431
7432			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7433			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7434
7435			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7436	root	1.387	%
7437	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7438	root	1.387	%
7439	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7440			From: Alan Cox
7441			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7442			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7443	root	1.247	>
7444			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7445	root	1.1
7446	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7447	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7448	root	1.387	%
7449	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7450			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7451			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7452
7453			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7454			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7455			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7456			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7457
7458			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7459
7460			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7461	root	1.387	%
7462	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7463	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7464			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7465	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7466	root	1.387	%
7467	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7468	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7469			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7470	root	1.387	%
7471	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7472			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7473	root	1.387	%
7474	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7475	root	1.387	%
7476	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7477			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7478			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7479	root	1.387	%
7480	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7481			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7482			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7483			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7484			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7485	root	1.387	%
7486	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7487	root	1.387	%
7488	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7489			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7490			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7491			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7492			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7493			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7494			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7495	root	1.387	%
7496	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7497			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7498	root	1.387	%
7499	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7500			perl:]
7501
7502			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7503
7504			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7505			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7506			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7507			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7508			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7509			disable the message and pray it works"]
7510	root	1.387	%
7511	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7512			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7513			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7514			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7515
7516			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7517			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7518			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7519			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7520			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7521	root	1.387	%
7522	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7523			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7524			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7525	root	1.387	%
7526	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7527			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7528			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7529			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7530			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7531	root	1.387	%
7532	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7533			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7534			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7535	root	1.387	%
7536	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7537			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7538	root	1.387	%
7539	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7540			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7541	root	1.387	%
7542	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7543			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7544			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7545			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7546			> it's a hard requirement.
7547
7548			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7549			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7550			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7551			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7552			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7553			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7554			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7555			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7556	root	1.387	%
7557	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7558			> Netscape?"
7559	root	1.247
7560	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7561			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7562	root	1.387	%
7563	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7564			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7565			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7566			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7567			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7568			the specified task step-by-step.
7569	root	1.387	%
7570	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7571
7572			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7573			be damned hard to understand."
7574	root	1.387	%
7575	root	1.1	[Linus]
7576			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7577			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7578			wrong. It's that simple.
7579	root	1.387	%
7580	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7581	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7582	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7583			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7584			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7585	root	1.247	Undernet>
7586	root	1.387	%
7587	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7588			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7589			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7590			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7591
7592			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7593			document that contains an element or attribute named
7594	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7595	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7596			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7597			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7598			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7599			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7600			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7601	root	1.387	%
7602	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7603			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7604			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7605			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7606			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7607			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7608	root	1.387	%
7609	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7610			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7611			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7612			[... snip ...]
7613			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7614			tragedy...
7615	root	1.387	%
7616	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7617	root	1.247
7618	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7619			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7620			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7621			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7622			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7623			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7624			>message plus attorney's fees.
7625			[SNIP long sig]
7626	root	1.247
7627	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7628			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7629			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7630	root	1.247
7631	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7632			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7633			procmailable address.
7634	root	1.247
7635	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7636			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7637			just a waste of bandwidth.
7638	root	1.387	%
7639	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7640	root	1.387	%
7641	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7642			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7643	root	1.387	%
7644	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7645	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7646	root	1.387	%
7647	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7648	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7649			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7650			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7651	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7652	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7653			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7654			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7655			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7656	root	1.387	%
7657	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7658	root	1.387	%
7659	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7660	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7661	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7662	root	1.387	%
7663	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7664			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7665			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7666			immediately and not block the calling process.
7667
7668			the man pages are wrong
7669
7670			--cw
7671	root	1.387	%
7672	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7673			...
7674			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7675	root	1.387	%
7676	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7677			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7678	root	1.387	%
7679	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7680			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7681			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7682
7683			How fast does it oops?
7684	root	1.387	%
7685	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7686
7687			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7688			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7689			> touch is 2Gig.
7690
7691			In theory, yes.
7692			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7693			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7694	root	1.387	%
7695	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7696			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7697			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7698			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7699			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7700			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7701			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7702			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7703			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7704			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7705			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7706			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7707			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7708			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7709			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7710			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7711	root	1.387	%
7712	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7713	root	1.387	%
7714	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7715			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7716			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7717			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7718			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7719	root	1.387	%
7720	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7721			[Lukas Grunwald]
7722	root	1.387	%
7723	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7724			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7725			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7726			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7727
7728			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7729			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7730			> > prompt.
7731			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7732			> /proc/info/authors?
7733	root	1.247
7734	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7735			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7736			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7737			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7738			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7739			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7740	root	1.247
7741	root	1.1	NOT.
7742			[...]
7743	root	1.387	%
7744	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7745			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7746			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7747	root	1.247
7748	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7749			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7750			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7751			> an interesting experiment.
7752	root	1.247
7753	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7754			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7755			to disagree...
7756	root	1.387	%
7757	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7758			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7759			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7760			[und Lukas sagt:]
7761			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7762	root	1.387	%
7763	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7764			report:]
7765			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7766			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7767			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7768			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7769	root	1.387	%
7770	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7771			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7772	root	1.387	%
7773	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7774			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7775			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7776
7777			Alexander Viro wrote:
7778			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7779			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7780			>
7781			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7782			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7783			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7784			> UNIX.
7785
7786			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7787			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7788			docs... ew!
7789	root	1.387	%
7790	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7791			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7792			> protected mode?
7793
7794			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7795			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7796			registers loaded ;)
7797	root	1.387	%
7798	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7799			[...]
7800			> backports hurt forward progress.
7801
7802			beware of content free dogma
7803	root	1.387	%
7804	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7805			> wondering.
7806
7807			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7808			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7809			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7810			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7811			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7812			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7813			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7814
7815			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7816	root	1.387	%
7817	root	1.1	>Keith,
7818	root	1.247	>
7819	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7820			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7821			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7822
7823			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7824			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7825			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7826			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7827			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7828			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7829			do the right thing.
7830
7831			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7832			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7833			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7834			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7835			and they have to fix it.
7836	root	1.387	%
7837	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7838			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7839			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7840			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7841	root	1.387	%
7842	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7843			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7844	root	1.387	%
7845	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7846			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7847			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7848			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7849
7850			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7851			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7852	root	1.387	%
7853	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7854			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7855	root	1.387	%
7856	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7857			glibc-2.2 was released]
7858			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7859	root	1.387	%
7860	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7861	root	1.387	%
7862	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7863			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7864			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7865	root	1.387	%
7866	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7867			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7868			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7869	root	1.387	%
7870	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7871
7872			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7873			standards-compliant.
7874			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7875			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7876			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7877			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7878			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7879			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7880	root	1.387	%
7881	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7882			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7883			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7884
7885			That's your problem.
7886
7887			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7888
7889			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7890			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7891	root	1.387	%
7892	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7893			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7894			> > out there) in the foot?
7895
7896			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7897
7898			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7899			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7900			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7901	root	1.387	%
7902	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7903			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7904			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7905
7906			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7907			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7908			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7909			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7910			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7911			--
7912			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7913	root	1.387	%
7914	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7915
7916			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7917			>
7918			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7919			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7920			>
7921			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7922
7923			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7924	root	1.387	%
7925	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7926			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7927			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7928	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7929	root	1.387	%
7930	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7931			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7932			Bullschildt below ;)]
7933
7934			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7935			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7936	root	1.387	%
7937	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7938			>
7939			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7940			>
7941			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7942			>
7943			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7944	root	1.387	%
7945	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7946
7947			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7948			it did the same thing.
7949
7950			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
7951			a week ago. :(
7952
7953			--Jack
7954	root	1.387	%
7955	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
7956	root	1.387	%
7957	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
7958			-- K&R
7959	root	1.387	%
7960	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
7961	root	1.387	%
7962	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
7963			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
7964	root	1.387	%
7965	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
7966	root	1.387	%
7967	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
7968			$modules => { "" => "" };
7969	root	1.387	%
7970	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
7971	root	1.387	%
7972	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
7973	root	1.387	%
7974	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
7975			> --
7976			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
7977			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
7978	root	1.387	%
7979	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
7980			From: "David Schwartz"
7981
7982			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
7983			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
7984			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
7985			> pretty spiffy.
7986
7987			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
7988			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
7989			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
7990			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
7991	root	1.387	%
7992	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
7993	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
7994	root	1.387	%
7995	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
7996			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
7997			> of having bough one.
7998
7999			Not an uncommon thought :)
8000	root	1.387	%
8001	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
8002
8003			Hi Marc !
8004
8005			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
8006			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
8007			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
8008
8009			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
8010	root	1.387	%
8011	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
8012			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
8013			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
8014			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
8015
8016			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
8017			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
8018			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
8019
8020			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
8021			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
8022			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
8023			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
8024			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
8025			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
8026
8027			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
8028			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
8029
8030			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
8031			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
8032			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
8033			right to left.
8034
8035			>But no culture
8036			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
8037			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
8038			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
8039			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
8040			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
8041
8042			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
8043
8044			--Alex
8045	root	1.387	%
8046	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
8047			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
8048			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
8049
8050			[most of the reply snipped...]
8051
8052			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
8053			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
8054			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
8055
8056			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
8057
8058			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
8059			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
8060			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
8061			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
8062			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
8063
8064			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
8065			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
8066			try to claim that they do?)
8067	root	1.387	%
8068	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
8069
8070			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
8071			> {
8072			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
8073			> flush(load);
8074			> else
8075			> wear(load);
8076			> }
8077
8078			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
8079			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
8080
8081			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
8082			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
8083
8084			--
8085			dwmw2
8086	root	1.387	%
8087	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
8088			are are overturned.
8089	root	1.387	%
8090	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
8091	root	1.387	%
8092	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
8093			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
8094	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
8095			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
8096	root	1.387	%
8097	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
8098			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
8099			Marc gives some dumb comments.
8100			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
8101			Marc: Yeah.. and?
8102			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
8103			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
8104	root	1.387	%
8105	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
8106			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
8107			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
8108
8109			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
8110			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
8111			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
8112	root	1.387	%
8113	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
8114			Deadlock, n.:
8115			Deceased Rasterman.
8116	root	1.387	%
8117	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
8118			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
8119			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
8120			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
8121	root	1.387	%
8122	root	1.1	[some .signature]
8123			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
8124	root	1.387	%
8125	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
8126			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
8127	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
8128			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
8129			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
8130			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
8131	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
8132			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
8133	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
8134			Positionen für unwählbar.
8135	root	1.1
8136			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
8137	root	1.387	%
8138	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
8139			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
8140			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
8141
8142			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
8143
8144			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
8145			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
8146			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
8147			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
8148			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
8149
8150			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
8151			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
8152			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
8153			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
8154			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
8155			results simply because I make a mistake!
8156
8157			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
8158			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
8159			errors.
8160
8161			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
8162			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
8163			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
8164			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
8165	root	1.387	%
8166	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
8167			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
8168			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
8169			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
8170			>
8171			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
8172	root	1.387	%
8173	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
8174			of nothing."
8175	root	1.387	%
8176	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
8177			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
8178			>
8179			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
8180			> CPU?
8181
8182			Root password? :)
8183
8184			John.Fulmer
8185	root	1.387	%
8186	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
8187
8188			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
8189	root	1.387	%
8190	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
8191			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
8192			> which I prefer...
8193
8194			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
8195			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
8196			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
8197			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
8198			updater for the new SCSI controller.
8199			--
8200			Horst von Brand
8201	root	1.387	%
8202	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
8203
8204			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
8205
8206			[...]
8207
8208			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
8209	root	1.387	%
8210	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
8211			at your problem:]
8212
8213			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
8214			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
8215			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
8216	root	1.387	%
8217	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
8218			cp is inherently inefficient.
8219	root	1.387	%
8220	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
8221			>breaking seals on them.
8222
8223			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
8224			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
8225			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
8226
8227			...
8228
8229			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
8230			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
8231			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
8232			could be just an urban myth though.
8233
8234			Russell Coker
8235	root	1.387	%
8236	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
8237			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
8238
8239			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
8240	root	1.387	%
8241	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
8242			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
8243			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
8244			> > deleting.
8245			>
8246			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
8247
8248			Wrong. Yury does.
8249			:(
8250
8251			--
8252			Stefan
8253	root	1.387	%
8254	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
8255			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
8256			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
8257			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
8258			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
8259			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
8260			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
8261
8262			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
8263
8264			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
8265	root	1.387	%
8266	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
8267	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
8268	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
8269	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
8270			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
8271	root	1.387	%
8272	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
8273			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
8274			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
8275			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
8276			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8277			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8278			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8279			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8280			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8281			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8282	root	1.387	%
8283	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8284			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8285			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8286	root	1.1	aus!
8287	root	1.387	%
8288	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8289			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8290	root	1.387	%
8291	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8292			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8293			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8294			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8295	root	1.387	%
8296	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8297			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8298	root	1.387	%
8299	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8300			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8301			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8302			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8303
8304			--tom
8305	root	1.387	%
8306	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8307			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8308
8309			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8310			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8311			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8312			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8313			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8314	root	1.387	%
8315	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8316			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8317			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8318			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8319			solutions.
8320
8321			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8322
8323			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8324			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8325			the background]
8326	root	1.387	%
8327	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8328			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8329			Security Response Center:
8330
8331			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8332			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8333
8334			[and later]
8335			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8336
8337			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8338
8339			[Phil closes]
8340			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8341
8342			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8343			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8344	root	1.387	%
8345	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8346			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8347			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8348			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8349			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8350			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8351			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8352	root	1.387	%
8353	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8354			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8355			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8356			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8357
8358			[Trashey / Quasars]
8359	root	1.387	%
8360	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8361			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8362			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8363
8364			Irony potential in
8365
8366			man perlrtfm
8367
8368			is left to the reader.
8369
8370			Nat
8371	root	1.387	%
8372	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8373			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8374
8375			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8376			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8377	root	1.387	%
8378	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8379			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8380			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8381	root	1.387	%
8382	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8383			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8384			Paul Tomblin
8385	root	1.387	%
8386	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8387			>I am morally
8388			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8389
8390			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8391			possibility...
8392
8393			Dan
8394	root	1.387	%
8395	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8396	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8397	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 :)
8398			<Mr> zugabe
8399	root	1.387	%
8400	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8401			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8402	root	1.387	%
8403	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8404			[cobol, sigh]
8405	root	1.387	%
8406	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8407			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8408			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8409			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8410			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8411			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8412			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8413			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8414
8415			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8416	root	1.387	%
8417	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8418
8419			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8420			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8421			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8422			after they regain their composure."
8423
8424			-- Paul Rinaldo
8425			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8426	root	1.387	%
8427	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8428			>
8429			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8430			>
8431			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8432
8433			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8434
8435			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8436
8437			;-}
8438
8439			--
8440
8441			ciao -
8442			Stefan
8443
8444	root	1.387	%
8445	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8446			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8447
8448			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8449			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8450			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8451			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8452			one' type remarks.
8453			[Alan Cox]
8454	root	1.387	%
8455	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8456
8457			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8458			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8459
8460			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8461	root	1.387	%
8462	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8463
8464			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8465			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8466			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8467	root	1.387	%
8468	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8469			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8470			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8471			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8472	root	1.387	%
8473	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8474			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8475
8476			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8477			is to me ok.
8478	root	1.387	%
8479	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8480
8481			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8482	root	1.387	%
8483	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8484			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8485	root	1.387	%
8486	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8487			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8488	root	1.387	%
8489	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8490			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8491			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8492
8493			Ralf
8494	root	1.387	%
8495	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8496			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8497			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8498
8499			david parsons
8500	root	1.387	%
8501	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8502			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8503
8504			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8505			>so that trick is not portable.
8506
8507			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8508			127.0.0.1 localhost
8509
8510			--tom
8511	root	1.387	%
8512	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8513			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8514			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8515			> >the question is moot.
8516			>
8517			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8518
8519			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8520
8521			Ilya
8522	root	1.387	%
8523	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8524			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8525			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8526			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8527			> trying.
8528
8529			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8530			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8531	root	1.387	%
8532	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8533			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8534			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8535			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8536	root	1.387	%
8537	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8538			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8539			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8540	root	1.387	%
8541	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8542			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8543			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8544			> blocking :-)
8545
8546			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8547			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8548			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8549			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8550			reasons.
8551
8552			DS
8553	root	1.387	%
8554	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8555	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8556	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8557	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8558	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8559
8560			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8561	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8562	root	1.387	%
8563	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8564			[...]
8565			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8566			[...]
8567
8568			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8569			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8570			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8571			with each other on the same channel.
8572
8573			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8574			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8575
8576			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8577	root	1.387	%
8578	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8579			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8580	root	1.387	%
8581	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8582	root	1.387	%
8583	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8584			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8585			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8586			ok
8587	root	1.387	%
8588	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8589			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8590	root	1.387	%
8591	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8592			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8593			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8594			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8595			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8596			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8597			<Xach> burrito, focus
8598			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8599	root	1.387	%
8600	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8601			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8602			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8603			tested it." ...
8604	root	1.387	%
8605	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8606	root	1.387	%
8607	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8608
8609			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8610			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8611			>
8612			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8613			>
8614			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8615			>
8616			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8617			>
8618			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8619			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8620			>systems.
8621
8622
8623			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8624			had.
8625
8626			--
8627			Neal Bridges
8628	root	1.387	%
8629	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8630
8631			> Hi folks,
8632			> 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?
8633			> please reply to
8634			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8635			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8636
8637			Parse error.
8638
8639			---
8640			Alex
8641	root	1.387	%
8642	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8643
8644			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8645			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8646
8647			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8648			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8649			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8650
8651			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8652	root	1.387	%
8653	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8654	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8655	root	1.387	%
8656	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8657			ii = 44;
8658			p = &ii;
8659			p = ii/p;
8660			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8661			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8662	root	1.387	%
8663	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8664			> Linux time then.
8665
8666			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8667
8668			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8669			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8670
8671			Roger.
8672	root	1.387	%
8673	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8674	root	1.387	%
8675	root	1.1	auto accident;
8676			register voters;
8677			static electricity;
8678			struct by_lightning;
8679			void *where_prohibited;
8680			char broiled;
8681			short circuit;
8682			short changed;
8683			long johns;
8684			unsigned long letter;
8685			double entendre;
8686			double trouble;
8687			union organizer;
8688			float valve;
8689			short pants;
8690			union station;
8691			void check; unsigned check;
8692			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8693	root	1.387	%
8694	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8695			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8696			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8697	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8698	root	1.387	%
8699	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8700
8701			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8702			worstation.
8703	root	1.387	%
8704	root	1.1	I wrote
8705			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8706			$/
8707
8708			Damn shift key.
8709
8710
8711			Mike Guy
8712	root	1.387	%
8713	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8714			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8715			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8716			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8717			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8718			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8719			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8720			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8721			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8722	root	1.387	%
8723	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8724
8725			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8726
8727			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8728			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8729			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8730			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8731
8732			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8733	root	1.387	%
8734	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8735			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8736
8737			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8738			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8739			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8740			easy to bother.
8741
8742			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8743			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8744			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8745			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8746
8747			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8748
8749			Larry
8750	root	1.387	%
8751	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8752			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8753			Yeah. :-)
8754	root	1.387	%
8755	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8756			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8757			[...]
8758			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8759
8760			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8761			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8762			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8763			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8764
8765			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8766			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8767			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8768			receipts aren't used anymore.
8769	root	1.387	%
8770	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8771			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8772			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8773	root	1.387	%
8774	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8775			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8776			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8777			> versteht?"
8778	root	1.387	%
8779	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8780			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8781			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8782			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8783	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8784	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8785	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8786	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8787			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8788			ji!
8789	root	1.387	%
8790	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8791			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8792			[Larry Wall]
8793	root	1.387	%
8794	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8795			Altpreussen.
8796			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8797			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8798	root	1.387	%
8799	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8800			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8801			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8802			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8803			>
8804	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8805			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8806	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8807
8808	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8809	root	1.1	Norbert?
8810	root	1.387	%
8811	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8812	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8813			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8814	root	1.387	%
8815	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8816	root	1.387	%
8817	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8818	root	1.387	%
8819	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8820			From: "Steve"
8821			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8822			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8823			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8824
8825			[the following was a single line, of course]
8826			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8827			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8828			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8829			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8830			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8831
8832			Thanks,
8833
8834			Steve
8835	root	1.387	%
8836	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8837			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8838			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8839			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8840	root	1.387	%
8841	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8842			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8843			<tigert> ahem
8844	root	1.387	%
8845	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8846			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8847			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8848	root	1.387	%
8849	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8850			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8851			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8852			Subject: It's soup.
8853
8854			Okay, it's there.
8855
8856			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8857
8858			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8859
8860			Larry
8861	root	1.387	%
8862	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8863	root	1.387	%
8864	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8865			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8866			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8867			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8868			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8869	root	1.387	%
8870	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8871			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8872			>
8873			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8874			> And there's no mouse.
8875			>
8876			> Abigail
8877
8878			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8879
8880			Matt.
8881	root	1.387	%
8882	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8883			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8884
8885			- --tom
8886	root	1.387	%
8887	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8888			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8889
8890			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8891			>
8892			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8893			> 2.2.11 release?
8894
8895			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8896
8897			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8898
8899			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8900	root	1.387	%
8901	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8902	root	1.387	%
8903	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8904			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8905			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8906			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8907			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8908			> that much ;-)
8909
8910			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8911	root	1.387	%
8912	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8913			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8914	root	1.387	%
8915	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8916			<QUOTE>
8917			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8918
8919			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8920			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8921			</QUOTE>
8922	root	1.387	%
8923	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8924			and routes around it.
8925
8926			Roger Larsson
8927	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8928	root	1.387	%
8929	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8930			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8931	root	1.387	%
8932	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8933			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8934	root	1.387	%
8935	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8936
8937			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8938			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8939			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8940			on different JVMs.
8941
8942			[and later]
8943
8944			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8945			adventure gaming:
8946
8947			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8948			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8949	root	1.387	%
8950	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
8951			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
8952
8953			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
8954
8955			NK> ?? -> huh?
8956
8957			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
8958
8959			<chaim>
8960	root	1.387	%
8961	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
8962			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
8963			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
8964			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
8965			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
8966			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
8967	root	1.387	%
8968	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
8969	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
8970	root	1.387	%
8971	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
8972			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
8973			page]
8974			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
8975			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
8976			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
8977			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
8978			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
8979			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
8980			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
8981			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
8982			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
8983			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
8984	root	1.387	%
8985	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
8986			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
8987			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
8988			don't actually get anything DONE.
8989	root	1.387	%
8990	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
8991			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
8992			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
8993			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
8994	root	1.387	%
8995	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
8996			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
8997			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
8998			> get the serial number from the OS)?
8999
9000			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
9001	root	1.387	%
9002	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
9003			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
9004			they have continued that legacy to this day."
9005	root	1.387	%
9006	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
9007			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
9008			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
9009	root	1.387	%
9010	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
9011
9012			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
9013			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
9014			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
9015			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
9016			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
9017			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
9018			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
9019			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
9020			got the T-shirt.
9021	root	1.387	%
9022	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9023			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9024			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
9025			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
9026			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
9027			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9028			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
9029
9030			Linus writes, to Craig:
9031
9032			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
9033			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
9034			> thus choices than gcc.
9035
9036			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
9037			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
9038			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
9039			far more complex than the kernel.
9040
9041			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
9042			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
9043
9044			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
9045	root	1.387	%
9046	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9047			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
9048			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
9049
9050			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
9051			[...]
9052			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
9053			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
9054			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
9055			>let the user be in control.
9056
9057			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
9058			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
9059			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
9060			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
9061			compilers?
9062	root	1.387	%
9063	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9064			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9065
9066			Linus writes:
9067			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
9068			> gcc could do better?
9069
9070			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
9071			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
9072			before you had so many worshippers.
9073	root	1.387	%
9074	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9075			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
9076			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
9077			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9078			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
9079
9080			Linus Torvalds wrote:
9081
9082			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
9083			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
9084			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
9085			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
9086
9087			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
9088
9089			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
9090
9091			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
9092			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
9093
9094			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
9095
9096			>:->
9097
9098			Brane
9099
9100
9101			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
9102			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
9103			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
9104			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
9105			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
9106
9107
9108			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
9109	root	1.387	%
9110	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
9111	root	1.387	%
9112	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
9113			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
9114			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
9115	root	1.387	%
9116	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
9117			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
9118			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
9119	root	1.387	%
9120	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
9121
9122			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
9123
9124			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
9125	root	1.387	%
9126	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
9127			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
9128			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
9129			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
9130
9131			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
9132
9133			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
9134			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
9135			:
9136			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
9137			:
9138			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
9139			:
9140			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
9141	root	1.387	%
9142	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
9143	root	1.387	%
9144	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
9145			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
9146			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
9147			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
9148			>
9149			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
9150			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
9151
9152			The classic example:
9153
9154			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
9155			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
9156	root	1.387	%
9157	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
9158			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
9159
9160			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
9161			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
9162			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
9163
9164			What's next, a String class for Perl?
9165
9166			--tom
9167	root	1.387	%
9168	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
9169			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
9170			working on something for me
9171			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
9172			to me nutting concerning y ok
9173			piece
9174			russ
9175	root	1.387	%
9176	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
9177
9178			pico (text editor for beginners)
9179			vi (text editor for advanced users)
9180			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
9181			ed (text editor for beginners)
9182	root	1.387	%
9183	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
9184
9185			use Python;
9186
9187			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
9188			Except maybe faster. :-)
9189
9190			Larry
9191	root	1.387	%
9192	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
9193
9194			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
9195			2010.
9196
9197			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
9198	root	1.387	%
9199	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
9200			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
9201			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
9202			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
9203			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
9204			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
9205			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
9206			been created.
9207	root	1.387	%
9208	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
9209			>
9210			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
9211			> $3.99.
9212			>
9213			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
9214			>
9215			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
9216			>
9217			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
9218			>
9219			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
9220			>
9221			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
9222			>
9223			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
9224			> got integrated Coke!
9225			>
9226			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
9227			> to drink the Coke.
9228			>
9229			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
9230			>
9231			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
9232			>
9233			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
9234			> inseparable.
9235			>
9236			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
9237			>
9238			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
9239			>
9240			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
9241			>
9242			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
9243			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
9244			> continuous taste across all your foods.
9245	root	1.387	%
9246	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
9247			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
9248	root	1.40	Rob Pike
9249	root	1.387	%
9250	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
9251
9252			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
9253			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
9254			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
9255			for you to digest this book.
9256			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
9257			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
9258			Join The Trickle
9259			Python: more popular than Dylan!
9260			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
9261			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
9262	root	1.387	%
9263	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
9264			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
9265			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
9266			complete and utter vapourware.
9267
9268			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
9269	root	1.387	%
9270	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
9271
9272			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
9273			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
9274	root	1.387	%
9275	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
9276
9277			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9278			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9279			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9280			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9281			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9282			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9283			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9284			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9285			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9286			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9287			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9288			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9289			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9290			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9291			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9292			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9293			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9294			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9295			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9296			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9297			work.
9298			[...]
9299			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9300			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9301			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9302			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9303			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9304			search generically - then it has some potential.
9305			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9306			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9307			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9308			intellectual value whatsoever.
9309
9310			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9311			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9312			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9313	root	1.387	%
9314	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9315	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9316	root	1.387	%
9317	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9318			#!/usr/bin/sh
9319			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9320			# All Rights Reserved
9321
9322			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9323			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9324			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9325
9326			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9327			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9328	root	1.387	%
9329	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.
9330	root	1.387	%
9331	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9332			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9333			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9334	root	1.387	%
9335	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9336
9337			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9338			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9339
9340			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9341			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9342			machine]
9343
9344			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9345			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9346			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9347
9348			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9349	root	1.387	%
9350	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9351			spamming:]
9352
9353			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9354			>>
9355			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9356			>>------------------------------------------------------
9357			>>
9358			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9359			>>
9360			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9361
9362			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9363			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9364	root	1.387	%
9365	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9366			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9367	root	1.387	%
9368	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9369			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9370	root	1.387	%
9371	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9372			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9373
9374			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9375	root	1.387	%
9376	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9377
9378			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9379			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9380			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9381			he's full of.
9382
9383			Support BSD/Linux.
9384
9385			--tom
9386	root	1.387	%
9387	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9388	root	1.387	%
9389	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9390	root	1.387	%
9391	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9392			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9393
9394			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9395			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9396			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9397			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9398	root	1.387	%
9399	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9400
9401			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9402			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9403	root	1.387	%
9404	root	1.1	[the creation]
9405			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9406	root	1.387	%
9407	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9408
9409			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9410			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9411			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9412	root	1.387	%
9413	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9414			selbst schliesse.
9415			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9416			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9417	root	1.387	%
9418	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9419			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9420
9421			No:
9422
9423			use Borg;
9424			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9425
9426			--
9427			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9428	root	1.387	%
9429	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9430			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9431			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9432			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9433			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9434			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9435			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9436			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9437			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9438			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9439			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9440			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9441			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9442			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9443			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9444			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9445			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9446			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9447			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9448			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9449			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9450			dispensers."
9451
9452			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9453	root	1.387	%
9454	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9455			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9456			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9457			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9458	root	1.387	%
9459	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9460			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9461			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9462	root	1.387	%
9463	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9464	root	1.1
9465			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9466	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9467	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9468	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9469	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9470			Student: "..."
9471			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9472			Student: "..."
9473			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9474	root	1.387	%
9475	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9476
9477			> Just morbid curiosity,
9478			>
9479			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9480
9481			Yes. Broken ones.
9482
9483			dgris
9484	root	1.387	%
9485	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9486			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9487	root	1.387	%
9488	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9489			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9490	root	1.387	%
9491	root	1.1	...
9492
9493			<AOL>
9494
9495			Me too!
9496
9497			</AOL>
9498
9499			Tig
9500	root	1.387	%
9501	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9502	root	1.387	%
9503	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9504	root	1.387	%
9505	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9506
9507			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9508			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9509			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9510			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9511			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9512			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9513			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9514
9515			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9516
9517			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9518			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9519			get really really pissed.
9520
9521			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9522			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9523	root	1.387	%
9524	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9525			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9526			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9527			> period.
9528			>
9529			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9530			> Nic
9531			>
9532
9533			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9534
9535			-hpa
9536	root	1.387	%
9537	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9538	root	1.387	%
9539	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9540			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9541			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9542			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9543			happy."
9544			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9545	root	1.387	%
9546	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9547			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9548			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9549
9550			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9551			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9552			I also forwarded the offending code.
9553
9554			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9555			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9556			service.
9557
9558			Daniel
9559	root	1.387	%
9560	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9561			...
9562			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9563	root	1.387	%
9564	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9565			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9566			[RJL]
9567	root	1.387	%
9568	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9569			right.''
9570	root	1.387	%
9571	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9572
9573			Amazing--they actually listened.
9574	root	1.387	%
9575	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9576			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9577			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9578
9579			# less foo
9580			sh: command not found
9581			# more foo
9582			sh: command not found
9583			# emacs foo
9584			sh: command not found
9585			# ed foo
9586			0
9587			help
9588			?
9589			quit
9590			?
9591			exit
9592			?
9593			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9594			?
9595
9596			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9597	root	1.387	%
9598	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9599			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9600			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9601
9602			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9603
9604			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9605
9606			tim> would be most correct in style.
9607
9608			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9609			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9610	root	1.387	%
9611	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9612			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9613			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9614			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9615			too bad --- ]
9616	root	1.387	%
9617	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9618	root	1.387	%
9619	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9620
9621			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9622			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9623
9624			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9625			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9626	root	1.387	%
9627	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9628			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9629			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9630			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9631			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9632	root	1.387	%
9633	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9634
9635			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9636			include wrong #include files in their source.
9637	root	1.387	%
9638	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9639
9640			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9641			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9642			Consider it a rite of passage.
9643	root	1.387	%
9644	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9645			"Oops."
9646			-- MST3K
9647	root	1.387	%
9648	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9649			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9650			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9651
9652			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9653			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9654			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9655			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9656			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9657			it. ;)
9658	root	1.387	%
9659	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9660			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9661			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9662			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9663			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9664
9665			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9666			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9667			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9668			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9669
9670			--tom
9671	root	1.387	%
9672	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9673
9674			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9675
9676			>Why does it end ?
9677
9678			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9679
9680			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9681			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9682
9683			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9684	root	1.387	%
9685	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9686			-- Tom Christiansen
9687	root	1.387	%
9688	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9689
9690			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9691			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9692			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9693			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9694			of Sputnik.
9695	root	1.387	%
9696	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9697			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9698			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9699			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9700			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9701	root	1.387	%
9702	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9703			- Hanlons razor -
9704	root	1.387	%
9705	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9706			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9707	root	1.387	%
9708	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9709			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9710			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9711			> offered no significant advantages.
9712
9713			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9714	root	1.387	%
9715	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9716			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9717			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9718			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9719			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9720			in front of me says so."
9721
9722			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9723	root	1.387	%
9724	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9725			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9726			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9727			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9728			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9729			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9730			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9731			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9732			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9733			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9734			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9735	root	1.387	%
9736	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9737			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9738			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9739			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9740			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9741	root	1.387	%
9742	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9743	root	1.387	%
9744	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9745	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9746			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9747			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9748			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9749	root	1.387	%
9750	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9751			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9752			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9753			>
9754			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9755			> and/or screen.
9756
9757			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9758	root	1.387	%
9759	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9760			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9761
9762			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9763			> use pedantic;
9764			> use strict 'code';
9765			>
9766			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9767
9768			use syntax 'python';
9769
9770			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9771
9772	root	1.387	%
9773	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9774			>
9775			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9776			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9777			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9778			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9779			>
9780			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9781	root	1.387	%
9782	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9783			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9784	root	1.387	%
9785	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9786			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9787			> be time-consuming.
9788
9789			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9790	root	1.387	%
9791	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9792			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9793			however, they do not handle C++...
9794			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9795	root	1.387	%
9796	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9797			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9798
9799			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9800
9801			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9802
9803			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9804
9805			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9806			already of old time, which was before us.
9807			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9808			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9809
9810			Regards,
9811			Tigran.
9812	root	1.387	%
9813	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9814	root	1.387	%
9815	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9816			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9817			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9818			main(){
9819			extrn hw;
9820			putchar(0[hw]);
9821			hw=+1;
9822			putchar(0[hw]);
9823			}
9824	root	1.387	%
9825	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9826
9827			The egg. Always. By definition.
9828	root	1.387	%
9829	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9830			>
9831			> Better check your scsi cables.
9832	root	1.387	%
9833	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9834			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9835	root	1.387	%
9836	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9837			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9838			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9839			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9840
9841	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9842	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9843			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9844
9845	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9846	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9847	root	1.387	%
9848	root	1.1	>James :\
9849			>
9850			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9851
9852			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9853	root	1.387	%
9854	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9855			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9856			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9857	root	1.387	%
9858	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9859			> is just asking for a black eye.
9860
9861			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9862
9863			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9864			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9865			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9866
9867			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9868			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9869			area.
9870	root	1.387	%
9871	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9872			[Lukas Grunwald]
9873	root	1.387	%
9874	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9875
9876			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9877			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9878			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9879			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9880			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9881	root	1.387	%
9882	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9883			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9884
9885			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9886	root	1.387	%
9887	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9888			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9889			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9890
9891			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9892
9893			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9894
9895			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9896
9897			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9898			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9899	root	1.387	%
9900	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9901	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9902	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9903	root	1.387	%
9904	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9905			longer...
9906	root	1.387	%
9907	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9908			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9909			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9910	root	1.387	%
9911	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9912			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9913			> > world :) I just love it...
9914			>
9915			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9916			>
9917			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9918			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9919			practical...
9920			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9921			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9922			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9923			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9924			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9925
9926			Jan Hubicka
9927	root	1.387	%
9928	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9929			[...]
9930			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9931
9932			No, it is not. What you meant is
9933
9934			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9935	root	1.387	%
9936	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9937			> A) perl-5.00553
9938			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9939			> cc = cl.exe
9940			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9941
9942			[...]
9943
9944			Ilya
9945	root	1.387	%
9946	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9947
9948			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9949
9950			p.
9951	root	1.387	%
9952	root	1.1	[tomc]
9953			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
9954			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
9955
9956			+------------------------------------------+
9957			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
9958			+------------------------------------------+
9959
9960			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
9961			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
9962
9963			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
9964			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
9965			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
9966			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
9967			interesting way.
9968			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
9969			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
9970			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
9971			interesting things.
9972			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
9973			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
9974			things.
9975	root	1.387	%
9976	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
9977			--Dennis Ritchie
9978	root	1.387	%
9979	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
9980	root	1.387	%
9981	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
9982
9983			switch (x)
9984			default:
9985			if (prime(x))
9986			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
9987			process_prime(x);
9988			else
9989			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
9990			process_composite(x);
9991	root	1.387	%
9992	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
9993			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
9994			in megabytes, required for execution?
9995
9996			Craig Milo Rogers
9997	root	1.387	%
9998	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
9999			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
10000			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
10001
10002			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
10003			US (apparently in Canada too?).
10004
10005			Ilya
10006	root	1.387	%
10007	root	1.1	[from p5p]
10008			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
10009
10010			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
10011			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
10012			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
10013
10014			Nat
10015	root	1.387	%
10016	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
10017			much steroids for a while. =)
10018
10019			--Albert Dvornik
10020			<bert@genscan.com>
10021	root	1.387	%
10022	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
10023			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
10024			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
10025
10026			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
10027
10028			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
10029			or tcl crowd instead of here.
10030
10031			--tom
10032	root	1.387	%
10033	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
10034
10035			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
10036
10037			Linus
10038	root	1.387	%
10039	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
10040			devil added HTML mail...
10041	root	1.387	%
10042	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
10043			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
10044			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
10045	root	1.387	%
10046	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
10047			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
10048
10049			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
10050			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
10051			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
10052
10053			Arm the gnus!
10054	root	1.387	%
10055	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
10056
10057			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
10058			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
10059			gcc, so go away.
10060	root	1.387	%
10061	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
10062			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
10063
10064			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
10065
10066			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
10067			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
10068	root	1.387	%
10069	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10070			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
10071			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
10072			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
10073
10074			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
10075			was released today" madness.
10076	root	1.387	%
10077	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10078			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
10079			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
10080			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
10081			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
10082			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
10083			>
10084			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
10085			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
10086			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
10087			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
10088			> marketing name, anyway.
10089
10090			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
10091			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
10092			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
10093
10094			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
10095			violence..." :-)
10096	root	1.387	%
10097	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
10098			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
10099	root	1.387	%
10100	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
10101			> >poor drivers
10102			>
10103			> No it doesn't.
10104
10105			Indeed. Its down to
10106
10107			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
10108
10109			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
10110			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
10111			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
10112			or binaries.
10113	root	1.387	%
10114	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
10115	root	1.387	%
10116	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
10117	root	1.387	%
10118	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
10119
10120			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
10121			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
10122			\|>
10123			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
10124
10125			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
10126
10127			Andreas.
10128	root	1.387	%
10129	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10130			...
10131			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
10132
10133			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
10134			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
10135			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
10136			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
10137			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
10138			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
10139	root	1.387	%
10140	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10141
10142			Paul Eggert writes:
10143			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
10144
10145			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
10146			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
10147	root	1.387	%
10148	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
10149			however.
10150
10151			"We don't have the tools"
10152			"We can't support a non intel build"
10153			"We don't have that sort of machine"
10154			"Its not worth the time cost"
10155			"Whats an Alpha ?"
10156	root	1.387	%
10157	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
10158
10159			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
10160			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
10161			>
10162			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
10163			> <mailproc@fred>
10164			>
10165			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
10166			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10167			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10168			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
10169			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
10170	root	1.387	%
10171	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
10172			> No documented problem
10173			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
10174			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
10175			>
10176			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
10177	root	1.387	%
10178	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
10179			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
10180	root	1.387	%
10181	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
10182			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
10183
10184			dave
10185	root	1.387	%
10186	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10187			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
10188
10189			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
10190	root	1.387	%
10191	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10192
10193			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
10194			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
10195
10196			Paul Eggert writes:
10197			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
10198
10199			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
10200			1 month before 29 March?
10201
10202			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
10203
10204			1 month before 28 March?
10205
10206			28 February.
10207
10208			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
10209			_before_ 27 February?
10210
10211			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
10212	root	1.387	%
10213	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10214
10215			>Nils Goesche wrote:
10216			>> So make a security check first:
10217			>>
10218			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
10219			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
10220			>
10221			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
10222			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
10223			>
10224			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
10225			> = instead of == error*/
10226			> launch_full_counterstrike();
10227			>
10228			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
10229			>
10230			>--
10231			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
10232
10233			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
10234
10235			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
10236			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
10237	root	1.387	%
10238	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
10239			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
10240
10241			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
10242			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
10243			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
10244			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
10245			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
10246			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
10247			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
10248			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
10249
10250			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
10251			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
10252			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
10253			available for that hardware from any source.
10254			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
10255			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
10256			sniffing!
10257	root	1.387	%
10258	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
10259			technical support line that isn't"
10260	root	1.387	%
10261	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
10262			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
10263	root	1.387	%
10264	root	1.1	[...]
10265			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
10266			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
10267
10268			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
10269			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
10270			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
10271			"Nothing else"
10272			"Sorry"
10273			[Click]
10274
10275			Alan
10276	root	1.387	%
10277	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10278			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10279	root	1.387	%
10280	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10281			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10282			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10283			> users excepted, of course!).
10284
10285			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10286			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10287			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10288			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10289			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10290			is installed"
10291
10292			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10293	root	1.387	%
10294	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10295
10296			L. Harris wrote:
10297			>
10298			> Testing
10299
10300			you failed.
10301	root	1.387	%
10302	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10303			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10304	root	1.387	%
10305	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10306			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10307			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10308			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10309	root	1.387	%
10310	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10311			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10312			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10313
10314			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10315	root	1.387	%
10316	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10317			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10318			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10319			where else...
10320	root	1.387	%
10321	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10322			[...]
10323			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10324			: about a certain topic.
10325	root	1.387	%
10326	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10327			>
10328			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10329			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10330
10331			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10332			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10333
10334			void main (void)
10335			{
10336			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10337			printf ("\n");
10338			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10339			printf ("You have died.\n");
10340			printf ("\n");
10341			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10342			}
10343
10344			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10345
10346			--
10347			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10348	root	1.387	%
10349	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10350			mistake I ever made]
10351
10352			From: "Tom Miller"
10353			Subject: Can
10354			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10355
10356			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10357			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10358			my name is Tom Miller
10359
10360			From: "Tom Miller"
10361			Subject: Wait
10362			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10363
10364			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10365			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10366	root	1.387	%
10367	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10368
10369			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10370			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10371			so why bother? [...]
10372	root	1.387	%
10373	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10374	root	1.1
10375			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10376
10377			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10378			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10379			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10380			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10381			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10382			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10383			sich dann.
10384	root	1.387	%
10385	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10386			no fs
10387			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10388			Definitely hardware or software error.
10389
10390			Unix Version 7 Manual
10391	root	1.387	%
10392	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10393			>
10394			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10395			>
10396			> =for C
10397			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10398			> =end
10399			> =for C++
10400			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10401			> =end
10402			> =for Java
10403			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10404			> =end
10405			>
10406			> :-)
10407	root	1.387	%
10408	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10409	root	1.387	%
10410	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10411
10412			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10413			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10414			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10415			turn it on.
10416	root	1.387	%
10417	root	1.1	[...]
10418			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10419			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10420			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10421			[...]
10422	root	1.387	%
10423	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10424
10425			Chad C Giffin
10426	root	1.387	%
10427	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10428			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10429			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10430			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10431			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10432			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10433
10434			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10435			through the door.
10436			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10437			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10438			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10439			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10440			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10441			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10442			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10443			usually.)
10444
10445			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10446			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10447			your tire pressure..."
10448			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10449			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10450			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10451			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10452			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10453			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10454			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10455			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10456	root	1.387	%
10457	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10458
10459			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10460	root	1.387	%
10461	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10462
10463			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10464			:-(
10465	root	1.387	%
10466	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10467			>dies alles geschieht.
10468			>Und es verging nicht.
10469
10470			So what?
10471
10472			Ich dachte eher an:
10473
10474			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10475			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10476			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10477			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10478			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10479			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10480			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10481			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10482			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10483			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10484			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10485			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10486
10487			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10488
10489			Antje
10490	root	1.387	%
10491	root	1.1	[....]
10492
10493			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10494			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10495			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10496			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10497			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10498			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10499
10500			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10501
10502			Antje
10503	root	1.387	%
10504	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10505			lalala, I love you baby..."
10506			--
10507			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10508	root	1.387	%
10509	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10510			>
10511			> Kubys
10512
10513			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10514
10515			Linus
10516	root	1.387	%
10517	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10518
10519			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10520			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10521			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10522	root	1.387	%
10523	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10524
10525			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10526			out what it means.
10527			--
10528			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10529	root	1.387	%
10530	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10531			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10532	root	1.387	%
10533	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10534			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10535
10536			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10537
10538			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10539			> is being discussed.
10540
10541			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10542	root	1.387	%
10543	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10544
10545			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10546
10547			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10548
10549			[and the button reads]
10550
10551			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10552	root	1.387	%
10553	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10554
10555			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10556
10557			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10558			certain amount of redundancy.
10559	root	1.387	%
10560	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10561			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10562
10563			...
10564
10565			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10566	root	1.387	%
10567	root	1.1	>Hello,
10568			>
10569			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10570			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10571			>
10572
10573			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10574			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10575			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10576			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10577	root	1.387	%
10578	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10579			on the country as a whole.
10580			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10581			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10582			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10583	root	1.387	%
10584	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10585			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10586	root	1.387	%
10587	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10588	root	1.387	%
10589	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10590			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10591			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10592
10593			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10594
10595			--tom
10596			--
10597			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10598			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10599	root	1.387	%
10600	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10601			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10602	root	1.387	%
10603	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10604
10605			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10606			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10607			> NO CARRIER
10608			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10609	root	1.387	%
10610	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10611			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10612			> better.
10613
10614			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10615			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10616	root	1.387	%
10617	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10618			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10619	root	1.387	%
10620	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10621			\|>
10622			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10623			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10624			\|>
10625			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10626			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10627
10628			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10629			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10630			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10631			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10632			build Bison, and then cook it.
10633
10634			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10635	root	1.387	%
10636	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10637			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10638			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10639			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10640			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10641	root	1.387	%
10642	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10643			-- lbxproxy(1)
10644	root	1.387	%
10645	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10646
10647			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10648
10649			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10650			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10651	root	1.387	%
10652	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10653
10654			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10655	root	1.387	%
10656	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10657			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10658			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10659			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10660			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10661
10662			\|> What does this mean.
10663
10664			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10665			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10666	root	1.387	%
10667	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10668
10669			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10670			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10671
10672			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10673	root	1.387	%
10674	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10675			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10676			streams)."
10677			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10678	root	1.387	%
10679	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10680			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10681	root	1.387	%
10682	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10683
10684			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10685
10686			Klaro.
10687
10688			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10689			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10690			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10691			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10692
10693	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10694	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10695
10696			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10697			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10698			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10699			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10700			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10701			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10702			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10703
10704			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10705			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10706			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10707	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10708			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10709			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10710			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10711	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10712
10713			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10714	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10715			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10716			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10717			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10718			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10719			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10720			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10721	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10722			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10723
10724			cu in hell 2002
10725	root	1.387	%
10726	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10727	root	1.387	%
10728	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10729
10730			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10731			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10732			the man page for crypt(1).
10733
10734			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10735			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10736			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10737
10738			man -s3 crypt
10739
10740			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10741			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10742
10743			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10744			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10745			he can figure out to use the command
10746
10747			man -s3 Intro.3
10748
10749			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10750			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10751
10752			man -s3c crypt
10753
10754			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10755			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10756			any trouble.
10757			--
10758			Michael M Rubenstein
10759	root	1.387	%
10760	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10761
10762			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10763
10764			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10765
10766			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10767
10768			Regards,
10769			Tim Bunce.
10770
10771			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10772			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10773			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10774	root	1.387	%
10775	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10776
10777			...
10778
10779			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10780			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10781			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10782
10783			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10784			its unusable, believe me I do.
10785	root	1.387	%
10786	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10787
10788			Semour Cray
10789	root	1.387	%
10790	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10791
10792			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10793	root	1.387	%
10794	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10795			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10796
10797			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10798			it only supports parts of it
10799	root	1.387	%
10800	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10801			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10802	root	1.387	%
10803	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10804			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10805			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10806			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10807			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10808			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10809			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10810
10811			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10812			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10813			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10814			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10815			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10816			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10817			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10818			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10819			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10820			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10821
10822			tq vm, (burley)
10823	root	1.387	%
10824	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10825			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10826			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10827			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10828			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10829			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10830			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10831	root	1.387	%
10832	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10833			/*
10834			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10835			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10836			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10837			* files won't compile.
10838			*/
10839	root	1.387	%
10840	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10841			> great.
10842
10843			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10844
10845			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10846
10847			This rock is below water half of the time!
10848			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10849			on a regular basis! ;-)
10850	root	1.387	%
10851	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10852			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10853			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10854	root	1.387	%
10855	root	1.1	>
10856			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10857			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10858			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10859
10860			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10861	root	1.387	%
10862	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10863
10864			>Hello!
10865
10866			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10867			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10868			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10869
10870
10871			Perl.
10872
10873			regards
10874			jobst
10875	root	1.387	%
10876	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10877			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10878			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10879
10880			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10881			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10882
10883			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10884			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10885			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10886			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10887			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10888			the absolute pits.
10889	root	1.387	%
10890	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10891	root	1.387	%
10892	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10893			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10894
10895			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10896	root	1.387	%
10897	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10898			ketchup and mustard
10899	root	1.387	%
10900	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10901
10902			vimal gajjar wrote:
10903			>
10904			> Hi there,
10905			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10906			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10907			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10908			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10909			> 5% of cpu
10910			> 2 Mb of RAM
10911			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10912			>
10913			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10914
10915			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10916			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10917			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10918	root	1.387	%
10919	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10920			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10921			>
10922			> >s/usually/never/
10923			>
10924			> s/sometimes/never/
10925
10926			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10927	root	1.387	%
10928	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10929			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10930			:Perl, IMO.
10931
10932			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10933
10934			TC
10935	root	1.387	%
10936	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10937	root	1.387	%
10938	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10939
10940			Hi guys!
10941
10942			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10943	root	1.387	%
10944	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10945
10946			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10947			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10948			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10949			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10950			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
10951			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
10952	root	1.387	%
10953	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
10954			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
10955			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
10956
10957			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
10958			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
10959			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
10960			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
10961
10962			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
10963			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
10964			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
10965			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
10966
10967			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
10968
10969			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
10970
10971			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
10972			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
10973			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
10974
10975			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
10976			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
10977
10978			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
10979			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
10980
10981			Did I miss any? ;-)
10982
10983			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
10984			Laugh. Please.
10985
10986			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
10987			--Scott
10988	root	1.387	%
10989	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
10990
10991			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
10992			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
10993			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
10994			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
10995	root	1.387	%
10996	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
10997			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
10998
10999			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
11000
11001			This is not mail.
11002
11003			This is Usenet.
11004
11005			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
11006	root	1.387	%
11007	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
11008			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
11009			--- ide1: reset: success
11010			-----------> I like Linux !
11011	root	1.387	%
11012	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
11013			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
11014
11015			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
11016			do.
11017	root	1.387	%
11018	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
11019			++ PLONK.
11020	root	1.387	%
11021	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
11022			Re: Subraumfunk
11023
11024			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
11025			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
11026
11027			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
11028			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
11029			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
11030			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
11031			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
11032	root	1.387	%
11033	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
11034			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
11035			>
11036			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
11037
11038			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
11039	root	1.387	%
11040	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
11041			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
11042	root	1.387	%
11043	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
11044			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
11045
11046			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
11047			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
11048
11049			Bill Jones
11050	root	1.387	%
11051	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
11052
11053			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
11054			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
11055			#include <windows.h>
11056			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
11057			#endif
11058	root	1.387	%
11059	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
11060
11061			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
11062			is, invoking the URL
11063
11064			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
11065
11066			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
11067	root	1.387	%
11068	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
11069			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
11070			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
11071			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
11072			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
11073			"I am using CGI!"
11074
11075			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
11076	root	1.387	%
11077	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
11078			> > kennenlernen koennen?
11079			>
11080	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
11081	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
11082
11083			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
11084	root	1.387	%
11085	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
11086			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
11087	root	1.387	%
11088	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
11089			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
11090			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
11091			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
11092	root	1.387	%
11093	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
11094
11095			pcg@goof.com said:
11096			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
11097
11098			Hehe - I know the feeling.
11099
11100			"It's broken."
11101			"What's wrong with it?."
11102			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
11103			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
11104			"It just doesn't work."
11105			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
11106			"It gives an error message."
11107			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
11108			"It says.... something about there being an error."
11109			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
11110			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
11111			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
11112			letter for letter this time."
11113	root	1.387	%
11114	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
11115
11116			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
11117			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
11118			2.6, the mode was 04555.
11119
11120			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
11121			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
11122			perms.
11123
11124			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
11125	root	1.387	%
11126	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
11127			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
11128
11129			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
11130
11131			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
11132			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
11133			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
11134
11135			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
11136			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
11137	root	1.387	%
11138	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
11139			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
11140	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
11141
11142			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
11143			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
11144			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
11145			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
11146			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
11147			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
11148			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
11149			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
11150			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
11151			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
11152			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
11153
11154			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
11155
11156			normarz@aol.com
11157	root	1.387	%
11158	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
11159	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
11160	root	1.1	>Legion
11161			>schlagen?
11162
11163			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
11164
11165			Bye
11166			Andreas
11167	root	1.387	%
11168	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
11169
11170			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
11171			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
11172
11173			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
11174			companies.
11175
11176			Kind regards
11177			Henning
11178	root	1.387	%
11179	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
11180			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
11181			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
11182
11183			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
11184			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
11185			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
11186
11187			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
11188			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
11189			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
11190			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
11191			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
11192			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
11193			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
11194			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
11195			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
11196			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
11197	root	1.387	%
11198	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
11199			We might support that sometime next year.
11200			-=- Microsoft
11201			(But I doubt it.)
11202			-=- Me
11203			-=- James Mastros
11204	root	1.387	%
11205	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
11206			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
11207			> following methods, but the output was split into two
11208			>lines.
11209
11210			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
11211			put newlines in the middle of your string.
11212	root	1.387	%
11213	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
11214	root	1.387	%
11215	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
11216			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
11217			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
11218			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
11219	root	1.387	%
11220	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
11221
11222			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
11223			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
11224			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
11225			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
11226			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
11227			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
11228			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
11229			it's not all his fault.
11230
11231			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
11232			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
11233			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
11234			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
11235			content.
11236
11237			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
11238			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
11239			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
11240			learn (or pay for it;)
11241
11242			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
11243			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
11244			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
11245			just for fun or to get the op.
11246
11247			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
11248			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
11249			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
11250			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
11251
11252			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
11253
11254			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
11255			course, Linux and Linux people.
11256	root	1.387	%
11257	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
11258			then he rewrote it as WNT.
11259
11260			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
11261			--
11262			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
11263	root	1.387	%
11264	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
11265
11266			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
11267			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
11268			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
11269
11270			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
11271			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
11272			tradition.
11273	root	1.387	%
11274	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
11275			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
11276	root	1.387	%
11277	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11278			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11279	root	1.387	%
11280	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11281			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11282			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11283			Or GIRLS for short.
11284	root	1.387	%
11285	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11286	root	1.387	%
11287	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11288			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11289			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11290			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11291			5_004_03 to build!"
11292
11293			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11294			have no patience."
11295
11296			xoxo,
11297			Andy
11298	root	1.387	%
11299	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11300			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11301			We all have our cross to bear.
11302	root	1.387	%
11303	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11304
11305			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11306			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11307			Subject: Re: system() question
11308
11309			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11310			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11311			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11312			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11313			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11314			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11315			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11316			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11317			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11318			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11319			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11320			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11321			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11322			humiliating for me!)
11323
11324			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11325			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11326			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11327			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11328			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11329			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11330			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11331			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11332			really knows the answer.
11333
11334			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11335			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11336			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11337			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11338
11339			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11340			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11341			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11342			for that.
11343
11344			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11345			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11346			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11347			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11348			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11349			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11350			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11351
11352			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11353
11354			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11355			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11356			something for free.''
11357
11358			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11359
11360			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11361			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11362
11363			(Good question.)
11364
11365			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11366			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11367			once I have run it.''
11368			(Good question.)
11369
11370			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11371
11372			(Good question.)
11373
11374			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11375			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11376			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11377			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11378			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11379
11380			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11381			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11382			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11383			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11384			comp.lang.perl?
11385			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11386			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11387			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11388			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11389			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11390			in comp.lang.perl?
11391
11392			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11393			you my rate card.
11394
11395			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11396			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11397			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11398			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11399			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11400			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11401			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11402			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11403			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11404			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11405
11406			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11407			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11408			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11409			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11410			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11411			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11412			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11413			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11414			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11415			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11416			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11417			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11418			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11419			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11420			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11421			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11422
11423			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11424			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11425			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11426			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11427			someone will. Maybe I will.
11428
11429			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11430			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11431			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11432			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11433			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11434			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11435			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11436			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11437
11438			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11439			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11440			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11441			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11442			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11443			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11444			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11445			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11446			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11447			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11448			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11449			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11450			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11451			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11452
11453			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11454			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11455			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11456			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11457
11458			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11459
11460			`I want to accomplish X.
11461
11462			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11463
11464			...
11465
11466			But instead it does Y.
11467
11468			Why is that?''
11469
11470			This one is also pretty good:
11471
11472			`I want to accomplish X.
11473			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11474
11475			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11476			because of Z.
11477
11478			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11479
11480			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11481			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11482
11483
11484			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11485			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11486
11487			--
11488			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11489			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11490	root	1.387	%
11491	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11492			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11493
11494			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11495			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11496			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11497
11498			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11499
11500			bye, Georg
11501	root	1.387	%
11502	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11503			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11504			convince me.
11505
11506			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11507
11508			Linus
11509	root	1.387	%
11510	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11511			++
11512
11513			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11514			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11515
11516	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11517	root	1.1
11518			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11519			understanding the above line.
11520
11521			Abigail
11522	root	1.387	%
11523	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11524			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11525	root	1.387	%
11526	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11527			++ button?
11528			Yes.
11529
11530			++ 100 pictures or so?
11531			Yes.
11532
11533			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11534			Yes.
11535
11536			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11537			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11538
11539			Abigail
11540	root	1.387	%
11541	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11542
11543			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11544
11545			Martien
11546	root	1.387	%
11547	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11548			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11549			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11550			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11551	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11552	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11553			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11554			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11555			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11556	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11557	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11558			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11559	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11560			nicht. ;)
11561
11562	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11563			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11564			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11565	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11566			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11567	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11568	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11569
11570	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11571			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11572	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11573	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11574	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11575
11576	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11577	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11578	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11579			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11580	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11581	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11582	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11583			"unvorstellbar".
11584
11585			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11586	root	1.387	%
11587	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11588			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11589			^^^
11590			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11591	root	1.387	%
11592	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11593			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11594	root	1.387	%
11595	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11596			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11597	root	1.387	%
11598	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11599			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11600			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11601
11602			An artificial pile of rocks.
11603	root	1.387	%
11604	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11605			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11606			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11607			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11608			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11609			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11610
11611			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11612			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11613			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11614			grosser Flipperautomat.
11615
11616			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11617	root	1.387	%
11618	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11619			>
11620			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11621			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11622			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11623			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11624			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11625	root	1.387	%
11626	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11627			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11628	root	1.1
11629			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11630	root	1.387	%
11631	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11632
11633			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11634
11635			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11636			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11637			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11638			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11639			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11640			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11641			Unix environment.
11642	root	1.387	%
11643	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11644			between these:
11645
11646			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11647			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11648
11649			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11650			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11651			;#", and the print gets executed!
11652
11653			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11654			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11655			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11656			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11657
11658			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11659			'perl'".
11660
11661			--
11662			Randal L. Schwartz
11663	root	1.387	%
11664	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11665
11666			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11667			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11668			>
11669			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11670
11671			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11672
11673			--
11674			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11675	root	1.387	%
11676	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11677	root	1.387	%
11678	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11679			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11680	root	1.387	%
11681	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11682			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11683	root	1.387	%
11684	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11685			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11686			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11687			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11688			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11689			example.
11690	root	1.387	%
11691	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11692			resemble a nail.
11693	root	1.387	%
11694	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11695			> I did wrong.
11696
11697			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11698			newsgroup.
11699	root	1.387	%
11700	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11701	root	1.387	%
11702	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11703			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11704	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11705
11706			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11707	root	1.387	%
11708	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11709	root	1.1
11710	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11711	root	1.387	%
11712	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11713			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11714			expired instantly!!!
11715	root	1.387	%
11716	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11717			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11718
11719			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11720			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11721			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11722
11723			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11724			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11725			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11726			than double Linus's programming experience?
11727
11728			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11729			> pretty straight forward.
11730
11731			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11732			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11733	root	1.387	%
11734	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11735			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11736			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11737			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11738			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11739			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11740	root	1.387	%
11741	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11742	root	1.387	%
11743	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11744			Example:
11745			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11746	root	1.387	%
11747	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11748			Randal gets his hands on it
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11751	root	1.387	%
11752	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11753
11754			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11755			first if you get it working.
11756	root	1.387	%
11757	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11758			> Think different.
11759
11760			Think Again.
11761	root	1.387	%
11762	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11763	root	1.387	%
11764	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11765			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11766			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11767
11768			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11769	root	1.387	%
11770	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11771			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11772	root	1.387	%
11773	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11774			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11775			\| top.
11776	root	1.387	%
11777	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11778			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11779	root	1.387	%
11780	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11781			^^^^^^^^^
11782			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11783
11784			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11785	root	1.387	%
11786	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11787			>gehen soll?
11788
11789	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11790	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11791			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11792	root	1.387	%
11793	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11794	root	1.387	%
11795	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11796			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11797	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11798			>
11799			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11800
11801			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11802			Schuh aus!
11803	root	1.387	%
11804	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11805
11806	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11807	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11808	root	1.387	%
11809	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11810
11811
11812			First opportunity
11813			Approximate
11814			Orbit Internet
11815			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11816
11817			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11818			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11819			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11820			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11821
11822			Second opportunity
11823			Approximate
11824			Orbit Internet
11825			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11826
11827			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11828			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11829			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11830			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11831
11832			Third opportunity
11833			Approximate
11834			Orbit Internet
11835			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11836
11837			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11838			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11839			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11840			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11841
11842	root	1.387	%
11843	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11844	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11845			> >würden.
11846	root	1.1	>
11847			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11848			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11849			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11850			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11851			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11852			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11853			implizierst.
11854	root	1.387	%
11855	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11856			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11857	root	1.387	%
11858	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11859			Big improvement.
11860	root	1.387	%
11861	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11862			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11863			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11864			-- "Why that one?"
11865			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11866			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11867	root	1.387	%
11868	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11869			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11870			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11871	root	1.387	%
11872	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11873			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11874			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11875
11876			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11877
11878			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11879			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11880			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11881
11882			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11883
11884			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11885			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11886			> er eigentlich ist?
11887
11888	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11889	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11890	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11891	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11892	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11893	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11894	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11895	root	1.1	Ciao
11896			Stefan
11897	root	1.387	%
11898	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11899			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11900			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11901			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11902	root	1.387	%
11903	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11904			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11905			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11906			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11907			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11908			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11909			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11910			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11911			off.
11912	root	1.387	%
11913	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11914			Meet interesting people,
11915			Kill them.
11916	root	1.387	%
11917	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11918			> umwandelbar ist.
11919
11920			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11921	root	1.387	%
11922	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11923	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11924	root	1.387	%
11925	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11926			>
11927			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11928			> >> ruckartig.
11929			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11930			>
11931	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11932	root	1.1
11933			:-)
11934	root	1.387	%
11935	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11936	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11937			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11938	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11939			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11940			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11941			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11942
11943			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11944			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11945	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11946			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11947	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11948	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11949			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
11950			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
11951	root	1.1	Union.
11952
11953	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
11954			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
11955	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
11956	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
11957			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
11958			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
11959	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
11960	root	1.387	%
11961	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
11962			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
11963	root	1.387	%
11964	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
11965	root	1.388	>>Realität?
11966	root	1.1	>>
11967			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
11968	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
11969			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
11970	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
11971			>
11972			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
11973			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
11974	root	1.387	%
11975	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
11976	root	1.387	%
11977	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
11978			> into a random order???
11979			>
11980
11981			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
11982			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
11983
11984			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
11985			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
11986			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
11987			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
11988			number less than 42.
11989	root	1.387	%
11990	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
11991			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
11992			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
11993			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
11994			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
11995			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
11996			eventually invent Unix.
11997	root	1.387	%
11998	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
11999			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
12000			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
12001			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
12002			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
12003			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
12004			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
12005			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
12006			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
12007			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
12008			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
12009			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
12010			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
12011			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
12012			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
12013			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
12014	root	1.387	%
12015	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
12016			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
12017			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
12018	root	1.387	%
12019	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
12020			using a Perl CGI script?
12021	root	1.387	%
12022	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
12023
12024			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
12025			week.
12026	root	1.387	%
12027	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
12028			Brieweb> of PERL.
12029			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
12030			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
12031			[Randal Schwartz]
12032	root	1.387	%
12033	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
12034			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
12035			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
12036			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
12037	root	1.387	%
12038	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
12039			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
12040			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
12041			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
12042			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
12043			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
12044			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
12045			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
12046			system and restricting their options.
12047			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
12048	root	1.387	%
12049	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
12050			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
12051			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
12052	root	1.387	%
12053	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
12054			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
12055			Ernie Hai
12056			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
12057	root	1.387	%
12058	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
12059			: results" report from the users.
12060
12061			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
12062			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
12063			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
12064			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
12065	root	1.387	%
12066	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
12067			They are all owned by cats.
12068	root	1.387	%
12069	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
12070			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
12071			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
12072	root	1.387	%
12073	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
12074			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
12075
12076			Yesterday it worked
12077			Today it is not working
12078			Windows is like that
12079			- - -
12080			wind catches lily
12081			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
12082			segmentation fault
12083			- - -
12084			Three things are certain:
12085			Death, taxes, and lost data.
12086			Guess which has occurred.
12087			- - -
12088			A file that big?
12089			It might be very useful.
12090			But now it is gone.
12091			- - -
12092			Windows NT crashed.
12093			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
12094			No one hears your screams.
12095			- - -
12096			Errors have occurred.
12097			We won't tell you where or why.
12098			Lazy programmers.
12099			- - -
12100			Seeing my great fault
12101			Through darkening blue windows
12102			I begin again
12103			- - -
12104			The code was willing,
12105			It considered your request,
12106			But the chips were weak.
12107			- - -
12108			Printer not ready.
12109			Could be a fatal error.
12110			Have a pen handy?
12111			- - -
12112			Server's poor response
12113			Not quick enough for browser.
12114			Timed out, plum blossom.
12115			- - -
12116			Chaos reigns within.
12117			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
12118			Order shall return.
12119			- - -
12120			Login incorrect.
12121			Only perfect spellers may
12122			enter this system.
12123			- - -
12124			This site has been moved.
12125			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
12126			have to delete you.
12127			- - -
12128			ABORTED effort:
12129			Close all that you have.
12130			You ask way too much.
12131			- - -
12132			First snow, then silence.
12133			This thousand dollar screen dies
12134			so beautifully.
12135			- - -
12136			With searching comes loss
12137			and the presence of absence:
12138			"My Novel" not found.
12139			- - -
12140			The Tao that is seen
12141			Is not the true Tao, until
12142			You bring fresh toner.
12143			- - -
12144			The Web site you seek
12145			cannot be located but
12146			endless others exist
12147			- - -
12148			Stay the patient course
12149			Of little worth is your ire
12150			The network is down
12151			- - -
12152			A crash reduces
12153			your expensive computer
12154			to a simple stone.
12155			- - -
12156			There is a chasm
12157			of carbon and silicon
12158			the software can't bridge
12159			- - -
12160			To have no errors
12161			Would be life without meaning
12162			No struggle, no joy
12163			- - -
12164			You step in the stream,
12165			but the water has moved on.
12166			This page is not here.
12167			- - -
12168			No keyboard present
12169			Hit F1 to continue
12170			Zen engineering?
12171			- - -
12172			Hal, open the file
12173			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
12174			open it, please Hal
12175			- - -
12176			Out of memory.
12177			We wish to hold the whole sky,
12178			But we never will.
12179			- - -
12180			Having been erased,
12181			The document you're seeking
12182			Must now be retyped.
12183			- - -
12184			The ten thousand things
12185			How long do any persist?
12186			Netscape, too, has gone.
12187			- - -
12188			Rather than a beep
12189			Or a rude error message,
12190			These words: "File not found."
12191			- - -
12192			Serious error.
12193			All shortcuts have disappeared
12194			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
12195	root	1.387	%
12196	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
12197			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
12198	root	1.387	%
12199	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
12200			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
12201
12202			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
12203			early 1980s.
12204	root	1.387	%
12205	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
12206			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
12207			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
12208			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
12209
12210			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
12211			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
12212			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
12213			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
12214			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
12215			many new features that it just stops working.
12216
12217			This also applies to Microsoft products.
12218
12219			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
12220			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
12221
12222			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
12223			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
12224			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
12225
12226			Hope this explains what's going on
12227			Martien Verbruggen
12228	root	1.387	%
12229	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
12230	root	1.387	%
12231	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
12232	root	1.387	%
12233	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
12234	root	1.387	%
12235	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
12236			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
12237			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
12238	root	1.387	%
12239	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
12240			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
12241			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
12242			>
12243			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
12244
12245			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
12246			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
12247	root	1.387	%
12248	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
12249			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
12250			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
12251			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
12252	root	1.387	%
12253	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
12254			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
12255			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
12256			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
12257			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
12258			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
12259			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
12260			convienience store.")
12261	root	1.387	%
12262	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
12263			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
12264	root	1.387	%
12265	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
12266	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
12267	root	1.1
12268			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
12269			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
12270	root	1.387	%
12271	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
12272			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
12273			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
12274			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
12275	root	1.387	%
12276	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12277			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12278			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12279	root	1.387	%
12280	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12281			(A => B) => (B => A)
12282			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12283			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12284	root	1.387	%
12285	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12286	root	1.387	%
12287	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12288			-Barry Shein
12289	root	1.387	%
12290	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12291			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12292			read the manual.
12293	root	1.387	%
12294	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12295	root	1.387	%
12296	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12297			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12298			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12299			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12300			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12301			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12302			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12303			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12304			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12305	root	1.387	%
12306	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12307	root	1.387	%
12308	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12309			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12310			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12311	root	1.387	%
12312	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12313
12314			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12315			need.
12316	root	1.387	%
12317	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12318			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12319			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12320	root	1.387	%
12321	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12322			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12323			newsreaders. You know,
12324			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12325			back
12326			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12327			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12328			out what they're saying.
12329	root	1.387	%
12330	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12331			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12332	root	1.387	%
12333	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12334			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12335			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12336
12337			But the combination.... sutters
12338	root	1.387	%
12339	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12340			Darn it.
12341	root	1.387	%
12342	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12343	root	1.387	%
12344	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12345	root	1.387	%
12346	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12347			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12348			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12349			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12350			trying to use it.
12351	root	1.387	%
12352	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12353	root	1.387	%
12354	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12355			>
12356			> Is this group active?
12357			No.
12358
12359			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12360			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12361
12362			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12363			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12364	root	1.387	%
12365	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12366			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12367	root	1.387	%
12368	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12369			Press any key to continue..."
12370	root	1.387	%
12371	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12372			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12373			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12374	root	1.387	%
12375	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12376			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12377			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12378			adjust your travel plans.
12379	root	1.387	%
12380	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12381			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12382	root	1.387	%
12383	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12384			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12385
12386			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12387			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12388
12389			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12390
12391			tak 18 12 6
12392	root	1.387	%
12393	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12394			-- Bill Gates
12395			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12396			-- Bill Gates
12397			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12398			-- logical conclusion
12399	root	1.387	%
12400	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12401			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12402			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12403			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12404			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12405			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12406			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12407			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12408			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12409			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12410			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12411			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12412			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12413			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12414			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12415			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12416			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12417			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12418			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12419			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12420			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12421	root	1.387	%
12422	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12423			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12424			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12425			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12426	root	1.387	%
12427	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.